Wesley Corpus

At five in the morning the congregation was exceeding large. That in the evening seemed so deeply affected, that I hope Norwich will again lift up its head. At nine we took coach; and before eleven, on Tuesday, 5, reached Colchester. Dec. 1782. JOURNAL. 24l In order to strengthen this poor feeble society, I stayed with them till Friday, preaching morning and evening, and visiting in the day as many as I could, sick or well. I divided the classes anew, which had been strangely and irregularly jum bled together; appointed Stewards; regulated temporal as well as spiritual things; and left them in a better way than they had been for several years. Monday, 11, and the following days, I visited the societies in and about London. I preached at St. Clement's in the Strand, (the largest church I ever preached in at London, except, perhaps, St. Sepulchre's,) to an immense congregation. I fully dis charged my own soul, and afterwards took coach for North amptonshire. On Monday, 25, I preached at Towcester; on Tuesday, at Whittlebury, so called; but the true name of the town is Whittle; on Wednesday, at Northampton; and on Thursday I returned to London. Friday, 29. I preached at Highgate, in the palace built in the last century by that wretched Duke of Lauderdale; now one of the most elegant boarding-houses in England. But, alas ! it is not Publow ! Mon. DECEMBER. 2.-I preached at St. Neot's, in Hunting donshire; Tuesday, 3, at Bugden about one ; and in the even ing at Huntingdon. Two Clergymen were there, with one of whom I had much serious conversation. Wednesday, 4. I preached with great enlargement of spirit, to my old congrega tion at Bedford. Thursday, 5. With some difficulty I crossed the country to Hinxworth, and preached to fifty or sixty plain people, who seemed very willing to learn. In the afternoon, it being impossible to drive a chaise straight round to Luton, I was obliged to go many miles about, and so did not reach it till after six o'clock; so I went directly to the preaching-house, and began without delay enforcing those solemn words, "To day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." I could procure no other conveyance to St.