Wesley Corpus

(Being Trinity Sunday.) I began officiating at the chapel in West-street, near the Seven Dials, of which (by a strange chain of providences) we have a lease for several years. I preached on the Gospel for the day, part of the third chapter of St. John; and afterward administered the Lord's Supper to some hundreds of communicants. I -was a little afraid at first, that my strength would not suffice for the business of the day, when a service of five hours (for it lasted from ten to three) was added to my usual employment. But God looked to that: so I must think ; and they that will call it enthusiasm may. I preached at the Great Gardens, at five, to an immense congregation, on, " Ye must be born again." Then the leaders met; (who filled all the time that I was not speaking in public ;) and after them, the bands. At ten at night I was less weary than at six inthe morning. The following week I spent in visiting the society. On Sunday, June 5, the service of the chapel lasted till near four in the afternoon; so that'I found it needful, for the time to come, to divide the communicants into three parts, that we might not have above six hundred at once. I ended my course of visiting ; throughout which I found great cause to bless God ; so very few having drawn back to perdition out of nineteen hundred and fifty souls. I received a full account of the terrible riots which had been in Staffordshire. I was not surprised at all: neither should I have wondered if, after the advices they had so often received from the pulpit, as well as from the episcopal chair, the zealous high churchmen had rose, and cut all that were Methodists in pieces. Resolving to assist them as far as I could, I set out early inthe morning ; and after preaching at Wycomb about noon, in the evening came to Oxford. Tuesday, 21. We rode to Birmingham ; and in the morning, Wednesday, 22, to Francis Ward's, at Wednesbury.