distributed among those that wanted most.
WESLEY'S JOURNAL
May 1741 went with me) put him in mind of the promise he had made but a few days before, that, whatever his private opinion was, he would never publicly preach against us.
He said, that promise was only an effect of human weakness, and he was now of another mind.
Mon. April 6.—I had a long conversation with Peter Bohler.
I marvel how I refrain from joining these men.
I scarce ever see any of them but my heart burns within me.
I long to be with them; and yet I am kept from them.
Thur. May 7.—I reminded the United Society that many of our brethren and sisters had not needful food; many were destitute of convenient clothing; many were out of business, and that without their own fault; and many sick and ready to perish: that I had done what in me lay to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to employ the poor, and to visit the sick; but was not, alone, sufficient for these things; and therefore desired all whose hearts were as my heart:
1. To bring what clothes each could spare to be distributed among those that wanted most.
2. To give weekly a penny, or what they could afford, for the relief of the poor and sick.
My design, I told them, is to employ for the present all the women who are out of business, and desire it, in knitting.
To these we will first give the common price for what work they do; and then add, according as they need.
Twelve persons are appointed to inspect these, and to visit and provide things needful for the sick.
Each of these is to visit all the sick within their district every other day; and to meet on Tuesday evening, to give an account of what they have done, and consult what can be done farther,