Wesley Corpus

gation was exceeding well dressed, but exceeding careless and ill-behaved. At six I preached in the church at Mount-Mellick, exceedingly crowded with hearers of quite another kind: They were all attention; and in the morning filled the preaching- house. Friday, 24. The church at Maryborough was far larger, and one of the most elegant that I have seen in the kingdom. It was throughly filled in the evening, although many of the hearers looked as if theyhad not been in a church before. But in half an hour they were serious as death; andinthemorning, Saturday, 25, the lower part of the church was well filled. Surely many will remember that day. In the evening I preached in our preaching-house at Carlow ; where, that I might not overshoot the congregation, I preached on, " So teach us to number our days, that we mayapply our hearts unto wisdom." I preached in the morning, and at five in the evening. The people were very civil, and many ofthem atten- tive ; but I think the time of Carlow is not yet come. Monday, 27. I reached Enniscorthy about noon ; andpresently after, as it had continued to rain, I preached in the place prepared for me, which was a large, though not very elegant, cow-house. How- ever, God was there ; as likewise in the assembly-room, at Wexford, where I preached to a large congregation in the evening. -About noon we reached the ferry, on the west side of which Mrs. Deaves was waiting. She pressed me much May, 1789. to go with her in the chaise, and, at least, to dine at her house; saying, Mr. Deaves was willing to settle the House in anyway that I desired ! The samething he said to me himself ; so I hoped all things would endwell. In the evening I preached to a numerous congregation, on Mark iii. 35. The God of peace and love was in the midst of us, and seemed to affect the whole assembly. We had a large congregation in the morning. At breakfast and at tea, on these two days, I met all the society ; (eight or ten excepted ; ) and we greatly confirmed our love to each other. In the evening I preached to a larger congregation