Wesley Corpus

While I was declaring at Baptist Mills, «He was wounded for our transgressions," a middle-aged man began violently beating his breast, and crying to Him, "by whose stripes we are healed." During our prayer God put a new song in his mouth. Some mocked, and others owned the hand of God: particularly a woman of Baptist Mills, who was now convinced of her own want of an Advocate with God, and went home full of anguish ; but was in a few hours filled with joy, knowing he had "blotted out" all her " transgressions." The scripture which came in turn at Newgate to-day, was the seventh of St. John. The words which I chiefly insisted on as applicable to every minister of Christ, who in any wise follows the steps of his Master, were these: " The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil. 'There was a murmuring, therefore, concerning him among the multitude ; for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay, but he deceiveth the people." After sermon I was informed the sheriffs had ordered, I should preach here, for the future, but once a week. Yea, and this is once too often, if "he deceiveth the people :" but if otherwise, why not once a day? At Weaver's Hall, a woman first, and then a boy about fourteen years of age, was overwhelmed with sin, and sorrrow, and fear. But we cried to God, and their souls were delivered. Seeing many of the rich at Clifton church, my heart was much pained for them, and I was earnestly desirous that some even of them might 'enter into the kingdom of heaven." But full as I was, I knew not where to begin in warning them to flee from the wrath to come, till my Testament opened on these words: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance:" In applying which, my soul was so enlarged, that methought I could have cried out, (in another sense than poor vain Archimedes,) 'Give me where to stand, and I will shake the earth." God's sending forth lightning with the rain, did not hinder about fifteen hundred from staying at Rose Green. Our