Wesley Corpus

I mentioned this to Peter Bohler. But he told me, " The:e is no such state on earth. Sin will and must always remain in the soul. The old man will remain till death. The old nature is like an old tooth: you may break off one bit, and another, and another ; but you can never get it all away: the stump of it will stay as long as you live; und sometimes will ache too." At the pressing instanee of my brother, I left London, and the next evening met him at. Bristol. I was a little surprised when I came into the room, just after he had ended his sermon. Some wept aloud; some clapped their hands , some shouted: and the rest sang praise; with whom (having svon recovered themselves) the whole congregation joined. So I trust, Ae hae June, 1741. REV. J. WESLEY'S JOURNAL. 21, it ever God were pleased that we should suffer for the truth's sake, alt other sounds would soon be swallowed up in the voice of praise and thanksgiving. I spent most of the morning in speaking with the new members of the society. In the afternoon I saw the sick; but not one - in fear, neither repining against God. In the evening I published the great decree of God, eternal, unchangeable, (so miserably misunderstood and misrepresented by vain men that would be wise,) " He that believeth shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned." At a meeting of the stewards of the society, (who receive and expend what is contributed weekly,) it was found needful to retrench the expenses; the contributions not answering thereto. And it was accordingly agreed to discharge two of the schoolmasters at Bristol; the present fund being barely sufficient to keep two masters and a mistress here, and one master and a mistress at Kingswood.