Wesley Corpus

I desired as many of our brethren as could, to observe Wednesday, the 10th, as a day of fasting and prayer. Just as we were praying for him, (we were afterward informed,) he left off raving, and broke out, " Lord, how long? Wilt thou hide thy face for ever? All my bones are broken. 'Thy wrath lieth heavy upon me: I am in the lowest darkness, and in the deep. But the Lord will hear: he will rebuke thee, thou unclean spirit: he will deliver me out of thy hands." Many such expressions he uttered for about half an hour, and then raved again. He was more outrageous than ever. But while we were praying for him in the evening, he sunk down into a sound sleep, which continued for ten hours; nor was he furious any more, although the time of deliverance was not come. I preached once more at St. Just, on the first stone of their new society house. In the evening, as we rode to Camborne, John Pearce, of Redruth, was mentioning a remarkable incident : While he lived at Helstone, as their class was meeting one evening, one of them cried, with an uncommon tone, '" We will not stay here : we will go to" such a house, which was in a quite different part of the town. They all rose immediately, and went; though neither they nor she knew why. Presently after they were gone, a spark fell into a barrel of gunpowder, which was in the next room, and blew up the house. So did God preserve those who trusted in him, and prevent the blasphemy of the multitude.