Wesley Corpus

preached in our Room about ten, on, " I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ." May God deliver us from this evil disease, which eats out all the heart of religion ! In the evening I preached in the Town-Hall, at Cardiff: But the congregation was almost wholly new. The far greater part of the old society, Ann Jenkins, Thomas Glascot, Arthur Price, Jane Haswell, Nancy Newell, and a long train, are gone hence, and are no more seen. And how few are followers of them, as they were ofChrist ! Before I reached Monmouth, one met and informed me, that Mr. C., a Justice of the Peace, one of the greatest men in the town, desired I would take a bed at his house. Of consequence, all the rabble of the town were as quiet as lambs ; and we had acomfortable opportunity both night and morning. Surely this is the Lord's doing ! -We went through miserable roads to Worcester. Wednesday, 16. About ten I preached in the large meeting at May, 1781. Kidderminster, to a numerous congregation. With much diffi- culty we reached Salop in the evening, and found the people waiting. There has been no tumult since the new House was built. So far God has helped us. I preached at Whitchurch and Nantwich ; Fri- day, 18, at eleven, in the chapel near Northwich ; and in the evening at Manchester. Sunday, 20. I found much enlarge- ment in applying to a numerous congregation the lovely account given by St. James of " pure religion and undefiled." In the afternoon, I preached a funeral sermon for Mary Charlton, an Israelite indeed. From the hour that she first knew the par- doning love of God, she never lost sight of it for a moment. Eleven years ago, she believed that God had cleansed her from all sin ; and she showed that she had not believed in vain, by her holy and unblamable conversation. I went over to Warrington, and preached in the evening. Fearing many of the congregation rested in a false peace, I endeavoured to undeceive them, by closely applying those words, " Ye shall know them by their fruits." Tuesday, 22. About eleven, I preached at Chowbent, and in the evening at Bolton ; where the people seemed to be on the wing, just