deeply attentive congregation. It was a solemn and
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they have lost their glorying: they talked, the moment service was done, as if they had been in London.
In the evening the Octagon was well filled; and I applied, with all possible plainness, "God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
Wesley at 81 Mon. June 28 (Epworth).—To-day I entered on my eighty-second year, and found myself just as strong to labour, and as fit for any exercise of body or mind, as I was forty years ago.
Ido not impute this to second causes, but to the Sovereign Lord of all.
It is He who bids the sun of life stand still, so long as it pleaseth him.
I am as strong at eighty-one, as I was at twenty-one ; but abundantly more healthy, being a stranger to the head-ache, tooth-ache, and other bodily disorders which attended me in my youth.
We can only say, '*The Lord reigneth!"
While we live, let us live to him!
In the afternoon I went to Gainsborough, and willingly accepted the offer of Mr. Dean's chapel.
The audience was large and seemed much affected: possibly some good may be done even at Gainsborough!
Tuesday, 29.
I preached in the street at Scotter, to a large and deeply attentive congregation.
It was a solemn and comfortable season.
In the evening I read prayers and preached in Owstone church ; and again in the morning.
Wednesday, 30. In the evening I preached at Epworth.
In the residue of the week, I preached morning and evening in several of the neighbouring towns.
Wed. Aug. 18.—I went to Admiral Vaughan's, at _ Tracoon, one of the pleasantest seats in Great Britain.
The house is embosomed in lofty woods, and does not appear till you drop down upon it.
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governs his family, as he did in his ship, with the utmost punctuality.
The bell rings, and all attend without delay, whether at meals, or at morning and evening prayer.
I preached at seven, on Phil. iii.
8; and spent the evening in serious conversation.
Tues. 31.—Dr. Coke, Mr. Whatcoat, and Mr. Vasey, came down from London, in order to embark for America.
Wed. Sep. 1.—Being now clear in my own mind, I took a step which I had long weighed in my mind, and appointed Mr. Whatcoat and Mr. Vasey to go and serve the desolate sheep in America.
Thursday, 2. I added to them three more; which, I verily believe, will be much to the glory of God.
Sun, 12.—Dr. Coke read prayers, and I preached, in the new room.
Afterward I hastened to Kingswood, and preached under the shade of that double row of trees which I planted about forty years ago.
Howlittle did any one then think that they would answer such an intention!
The sun shone as hot as it used to do even in Georgia; but his rays could not pierce our canopy ; and our Lord, meantime, shone upon many souls, and refreshed them that were weary.
Burglary at Wesley's House Sat. Nov. 20 (London).—At three in the morning two or three men broke into our house, through the kitchen window.
'Thence they came up into the parlour, and broke open Mr. Moore's bureau, where they found two or three pounds: the night before I had prevented his leaving there seventy pounds, which he had just received.
They next broke open the cupboard, and took away some silver spoons.
Just at this time the alarum, which Mr. Moore, by mistake, had set for half-past three