About five in the evening I preached at Kilrail. No house would contain the congregation; so I preached in the open air. The wind was piercing cold; but the people regarded it not. Afterward I administered the Lord’s Supper to about a hundred of them, and then slept in peace.    

 

JUNE 2, Sat.-It was with difficulty we reached Strabane; my new horse quite failing. I had no thought of preaching there, till word was sent that the town-hall was at my service: I then went to it without delay, and had a genteel yet serious congregation. In the afternoon my horse failed again; but one of the preachers tried his, and he drew as if he had been bred to it. Our house at Londonderry[1] not being ready, I preached at six in the town-hall, a beautiful and spacious room, to a deeply serious congregation.

 

Sun. 3.-It was more numerous in the morning, and equally serious; so was the great congregation in the evening. Surely we shall see more fruit in this city; but first we shall have need of patience.

 

Mon. 4.-Mr. Broadbent preached at five, and at eleven, and he in the evening.   

 

JUNE 1, Friday[2]

 

4 Prayed, read narrative, tea; 7.15 chaise; 9.15 Newtown St[ewart] tea, within; 10.15 Prov. iii. 17, visited, chaise; 245 Kilrail, dinner, conversed; 4.30 Jo. iv. 24; 6 communion, walk; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 10.

 

Saturday 2

 

4 Prayed, conversed, prayer; 5.45 chaise, tea, chaise; 10 Strabane, tea, I Cor. i. 24! 12 chaise; 3.30 Londond[erry], on business; 4 dinner, conversed; 5 on business, prayed, writ narrative, tea; 7 Mark iv. 3! supper, conversed, prayer, on business; 10.

 

Trinity Sunday

 

4 Prayed, letters, tea; 8 I Jo. v. 7, letters; 12 prayers; 2.30 dinner, conversed; 4 sleep, prayed; 6 I Jo. v. II! society; 8 supper, conversed,            prayer; 10.

 

Monday 4

 

4 Prayed, texts, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, letters; 11 Heb. ii. 14! walk; 2 letter; 2.30 dinner, conversed; 4 letters, prayed; 5.15 tea, conversed, prayed; 6.30 2 Tim. iii. 5! communion; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer! 10.15.

 

He did the same on Tuesday the 5^th. At noon we took a walk in the Bishop’s[3]  garden, and saw his delightful summer-house; a room fifty feet long, finished with the utmost elegance, and situated on the point of a hill that commands the river and all the country. But his lordship has utterly forsaken it, for it is no longer new.

 

Wed. 6.[4]-I took leave of my dear friends at Londonderry and drove to Newtownlimavady. I had no design to preach there; but while we were at breakfast the people were gathered so fast that I could not deny them. The house was soon filled from end to end. I explained to them the fellowship believers have with God. Thence I went on to Coleraine, and preached at six (as I did two years ago)[5]  in the barrack-yard. The wind was high and sharp enough; but the people here are good old soldiers. Many attended at five in the morning, and a huge congregation about six in the evening; most of whom, I believe, tasted the good word, for God was with us of a truth.

 

Tuesday 5

 

4.45 Prayed, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, letters; 11 I Cor. x. 12! walk, visited; 2.30 dinner, conversed, prayer; 4 prayed, tea, conversed;    6.30 Eph. iii. 14, walk; 8.30 supper; 9 conversed, prayer; 10.30.

 

Wednesday 6

 

4 Prayed, letter; 5 Lu. xx. 34, tea, conversed, prayer; 7 chaise, Newtown­[limavady], tea; I Jo. i. 3! 11.30 chaise; 2.30 Coleraine, letter, Diary; 3 dinner, conversed; 4 prayed, tea, conversed; 6 Mat. vii. 24, lovefeast, supper, together, prayer; 9.30.

 

Thursday 7

 

4 Prayed; 5 Lu. i. 68, the leaders, within; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, the preachers, in talk, prayer; 1.30 walk; 2 dinner, conversed; 4 prayed, tea, conversed, prayer; 6 I Jo. v. 3! communion, [-]; 9 supper, conversed, prayer; 10.

 

Fri. 8.-I could willingly have stayed a little longer with his steady, affectionate people; but I broke from them between six and seven, and went forward as well as the heavy rain and a tired horse would permit. About two we reached Ballymena, here we have a small and poor but well-established society. The Presbyterian minister offering his meeting-house, I willingly accepted his offer, and explained to a large congregation, ‘God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.’ And

 

I believe His word fell on many ‘as the rain, and as the dew upon the tender herb.’

 

Sat. 9.-We went through a lovely country to Antrim. Here likewise the Presbyterian minister offered me the use of a large and commodious house.[6] The Bible in the pulpit lying open, I chose for the subject of my discourse the words which first met my eye, namely, ‘When they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.’ The greatest part of the country from hence to Belfast[7]  is likewise exceeding pleasant. At six I preached in the linen-hall to a numerous and seriously attentive congregation. A gentleman invited me to lodge at his house, and showed me the new Presbyterian meeting-house.[8] It is nearly seventy-two feet by fifty, and is far the most beautiful of any I have seen in Ireland; but I doubt whether it equals Dr. Taylor’s in Norwich: that is the most elegant I ever saw.[9]

 

Friday 8

 

 4.15 Prayed, Rev. xiv. I, etc., tea, prayer; 7 chaise, Ballimunny, chaise; 11 Inn; 12.30 chaise;

 

2 Ballimena, letter, tea, prayed, within; 6.30 2 Cor. v. 19, etc., communion, supper, within, 

 

        Prayer; 9.45.

 

Saturday 9

 

4 Prayed, Heb. vi. 1; 6.30 chaise; 9 Antrim, tea, Lu. vii. 42; 10 chaise; 2 Belfast, at Mr. Col[-]; 3.30 

 

        dinner; 4 on business, prayed; 5.15 tea; 6 Mark iii. 35! communion, supper, within, prayer, on 

 

         business; 10.30.

 

 [Sun. 10.]-I preached at ten in the linen-hall to double the congregation that attended in the evening; and the power of God came wonderfully upon them, melting their hearts and breaking the rocks in pieces. In the afternoon I preached in the linen-hall at Lisburn to a still more numerous congregation; I think the largest that I have seen since we left England: and all, excepting a few giddy children, behaved as men that heard for life.

 

Mon. 11.-It being the Quarterly Meeting, I preached at eleven in the Presbyterian meeting-house, a large and handsome building, freely offered both by the minister and his elders; and it then contained the congregation. But in the evening the multitude of people constrained me to return to my old stand in the linen-hall; and I have hardly had so solemn an oppor­tunity since we came into the kingdom.

 

Tues. 12.-We came through a most beautiful country to Downpatrick,[10] a much larger town than I imagined; I think not much inferior to Sligo. The evening was uncommonly mild and bright, there not being a cloud in the sky. The tall firs shaded us on every side, and the fruitful fields were spread all around. The people were, I think, half as many more as were at Lisburn even on Sunday evening; on whom I enforced those important words, ‘Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.’

 

Sunday 10

 

5 Prayed, letters; 8.30 tea, conversed, letter; 10 Isai. Iv. 6, 7! society; 12 chaise; 1.30 Lambeg,[11] conversed, dinner, sleep, chaise; 3.30 at Jo. Johnson’s, letter; 5 2 Cor. viii. 9; 6 tea, conversed, communion, letter; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 11

 

4 Prayed, Journal; 8 tea, conversed, letters; 11 Lu. xx. 34! lovefeast; 2 writ narrative; 2.30 dinner, conversed, the Stewards; 5 tea, con­versed, prayed; 6.30 Mark iv. 3! Journal; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 12

 

4 Prayed, I Pet. i. 24, tea; 6.30 chaise; 8.30 tea; 9.30 chaise; 1.30 Down[patrick], Journal; 1.45 dinner, writ Conf[erence]; 5 tea, prayed; 6 Job xxi. 22! communion; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Wed. 13.-Being informed we had only six-and-twenty miles to go, we did not set out till between six and seven. The country was uncommonly pleasant, running between two high ridges of mountains; but it was up hill and down all the way, So that we did not reach Rathfryland till near noon. Mr. Barber, the Presbyterian minister (a princely personage, I believe six feet and a half high), offering me his new spacious preaching­ house, the congregation quickly gathered together. I began without delay to open arid enforce ‘Now God commandeth all men everywhere to repent.’ I took chaise the instant I had done; but, the road being still up hill and down, we were two hours going what they called six miles. I then quitted the chaise and rode forward. But even then four miles, so called, took an hour and a half riding; so that I did not reach Dr.Leslie’s at Tanderagee till half an hour past four. About six I stood upon the steps at Mr. Godly’s door and preached on ‘This is not your rest’ to a larger congregation, by a third, than even that at Downpatrick. I scarce remember to have seen a larger, unless in London, Yorkshire, or Cornwall.

 

Thur. 14.-Mr. Broadbent and I walked round Dr. Leslie’s domain.[12] I have not seen anything of the size in England that is equal to it. The house stands in the midst of a fruitful hill, which is part beneath and part above it. In approaching it you see no walls, nothing but green trees and shrubs of various kinds. Enter the courtyard and gate; and you still see no stone walls, but on either hand­-

 

            The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprings[13];

 

and that summer and winter, consisting wholly of evergreens, that bloom all the year round.

 

Wednesday 13

 

4.30 Prayed, Rom. i. 16, tea; 6.30 chaise; 8.30 tea; 9.30 chaise; 11.30 Rathfriland, Acts xvii. 30! I 

 

         chaise; 3 read; 4.30 at Dr. Leslie; 5 dinner, together; 6 Mic. ii. 10! tea, walk; 8.30 supper; 10.

 

Thursday 14

 

4.15 Prayed; 6 I Cor vii. 29! Mag.; 8.30 tea, together; 9 Mag.; 10 letter, within, Journal, walk; 

 

             1.30 dinner, conversed, Journal; 4 prayed; 4.30 tea; 5.30 I Sam. xxi. 8! letter, visited; 8  

 

            conversed, supper, conversed; 10.15.

 

On the upper side of the house the gently rising hill yields the loveliest scene that can be Conceived; such a mixture of shady walks and lawns sprinkled with trees; at the top of which is a natural rock, under which you may sit and command a most beautiful and extensive pros­pect: and all this variety has arisen from a rough, furzy heath by the industry of Dr. Leslie, in thirty years.[14]  

 

I expected the congregation would not be so large this evening as it was the last; but it was far larger, and, if possible more attentive. I have scarce ever seen a more pleasing sight: We were covered round with tall, shady trees; only an opening on one side afforded a view of the wide-extended country. The people were as motionless as the trees; for the power of God was upon them, and I believe few of them will forget that hour till their spirits return to God.

 

Fri. 15.-About eight I preached at Richhill, to a deeply serious congregation. At eleven I preached in the castle-yard at Charlemont,[15] to a large congregation gathered from all parts, it being the Quarterly Meeting. Immediately followed the love­feast. But the preaching-house would not contain one half of the people; so we borrowed the Green in the Fort,[16] and let the people through the wicket one by one. They then sat down on the grass, being full as private as in the house; and many spoke their experience quite freely. But the rain obliged us to break off our meeting sooner than we intended. It began in the even­ing, before I had finished the hymn, but stopped in two or three minutes, and left us a fair and tolerably pleasant evening.

 

Friday 15

 

5 Prayed, conversed; 5.45 chaise; 7.30 Rich Hill, tea; 8 Gal. iii. 22! 9 chaise; 10.30 Charlem[ont]; 11 I Pet. i. 18! lovefeast, within; 2 dinner, conversed; 3 sleep, within, prayed, tea; 6 2 Cor. vi. I, within, prayer, supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Sat. 16.[17]- I went on to Dungannon; but the town seemed to be in an uproar. One would have thought Bedlam had broke loose. The cause was this: a cock-fight was at hand. A gentleman asked the Presbyterian minister for the use of his meeting-house; but he gave a reason for his denial, namely, that Mr. Hall,[18] one of the society, had said he had played at cards all night (which, it seems, was true), and therefore he could not allow him to come into his meeting-house. So we removed all the benches out of our own, and it contained most of the congregation. I preached there again in the evening, and then held a lovefeast, at which many were greatly comforted.

 

Sun. 17.-We knew not what to do at Armagh. The rain would not suffer us to preach in the avenue; and our house would not contain half of the congregation, many of whom came from afar. The best shift we could make was to squeeze into the House as many as possible, and keep both the windows and doors open; by which means many more could hear.

 

In the evening the Seceders (who would think it?) freely gave me the use of their large meeting-house.[19] It was filled from end to end. But a wise young gentleman observed that I had quite mistook my subject, my sermon being calculated for the vulgar, not for gentlefolks.

 

Saturday 16

 

4 Prayed, conversed, letter; 8 tea, conversed, letters; 9.30 chaise; 10.45 Dungannon; 11 Ps cxlvi.; 12 Journal; 1.30 dinner, within to many, Journal, prayed, tea; 6 Heb. ii. 3; lovefeast, prayed; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30 on business.

 

Sunday 17

 

4.15 Prayed, writ narrative; 6 chaise; 7 at brother Ro[ -], tea, conversed, prayer; 8 chaise; 9 Armagh. within; 9.30 Lu. xiv. 17, within; 11 prayers; 1.30 dinner, conversed, sleep, writ narrative, prayed, tea; 5 Lu. xiv. 21, society; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

I permitted as many as our house would contain to stay at the meeting of the society; and gave them a plain account of the Methodists, both as to their rise, principles, and practice.

 

Mon. 18.[20]-Many seemed not a little moved, while I enforced the words of Eliphaz (it seems, the eldest and most honourab1e of Job’s three friends). ‘Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.’ Afterwards we took a view of the Primate’s[21]  lodge and chapel, elegant in the highest degree; and of the domain surrounding them, which is laid out and planted in the most beautiful manner. And what hath the owner there­of? Not so much as the beholding thereof with his eyes. Probably he will behold it no more. He is fully taken up in building a large seat near Dublin, at above eighty years of age![22]

 

Tu secanda marmora

 

Locas sub ipsum funus, et sepulchri 

 

    Immemor struis domos![23]

 

In the evening I preached once more in Mr. M’Geough’s avenue, and a listening multitude seriously attended. Surely there will be a harvest here also by and by, although hitherto we see but little fruit.

 

Tues. 19.-We went on through horrible roads to Newry. I wonder any should be so stupid as to prefer the Irish roads to the English. The huge unbroken stones of which they are generally made are enough to break any carriage in pieces.

 

Monday 18

 

4 Prayed, Mag.; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, Mag., Job. xxii. 21! walk! 1.30 writ narrative: 2 dinner, within; 3.30 prayed: 4.30 visited: 5.30 Jo. iv. 24, communion, visited; 8 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 19

 

4 Prayed, I Cor. xv. 58, tea, conversed, prayer; 6.45 chaise, tea, chaise; 11.30 Newry: 12 letters: 1.30 dinner, letters; 4 prayed, tea, conversed: 6 2 Cor. v. 19, etc.! within, supper; 8 within, prayer; 9.30.

 

No, there is nothing equal to good English gravel, both for horses, carriages, and travellers.[24]

 

In the evening I preached to a numerous congregation in the large meeting-house. I believe many felt the edge of the word sharper than a two-edged sword; one consequence of which was, that our new room would not contain the congre­gation even at five in the morning, but many were constrained to stand without. Between nine and ten I preached in the market-house at Dundalk. We expected a tumult; but there was none at all. A very large congregation of rich and poor behaved with the utmost decency while I enforced ‘Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.’ At six in the evening I preached in the court-house at Drogheda, to a crowded congregation, on. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.’ Even in this turbulent town all were quiet, and seemed to feel that God was there.

 

Thur. 21.-Several of our friends from Dublin met us at the Man-of-War,[25] with whom we went on to Swords, a town famous from time immemorial for all manner of wickedness. However, finding a congregation waiting, I began without delay; and all were still as night: so salvation is come to the sinners of Swords also. In the afternoon it pleased God to bring us safe to Dublin,[26] a when we had been absent a little above two months.

 

Wednesday 20

 

4 Prayed, Isa. v. 4! tea, chaise; 9 Dundalk, tea, 2 Cor. vi. 2! Chaise; 3 Drogheda, dinner, walk, tea, prayed; 6 Rev. xx. 12! supper, within ; 9 prayer; 9.30.

 

Thursday 21

 

4 Prayed, Prov. iii. 17! tea; 4.30 chaise; 8.45 Man of War, many; 9 tea, conversed; 10 coach, Swords, Acts xvi. 31, coach; 2.30 Dublin, dinner; 3.30 on business, prayed, tea, conversed, prayer; 6.30 I J[o]. iv. 19, select society, supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Fri. 22.-I began visiting the classes, which employed me to the Thursday following. We found it necessary to exclude one hundred and twelve members; there remained eleven hundred and thirty-six.

 

Sun. 24.-At seven I preached in the room; at eleven the service began at Bethesda.[27] I found uncommon liberty there even among the rich and great. I think some of them felt our Lord present, both to wound and to heal. In the evening I preached at the new room, and it was just as much as I could do without weariness.

 

Tues. 26.-We were agreeably surprised with the arrival of Dr. Coke, who came from Philadelphia in nine-and-twenty days, and gave us a pleasing account of the work of God in America.

 

Friday 22

 

4 Prayed, I Jo. iii. 1, 2, class; 8 sermon; 10 class; 2 dinner, within; 4 prayed; 5 tea, conversed, prayer; 6.30 I Jo. iii. 3, coach, at             A. Keen[e]’s, sermon, supper, within, prayer; 9.30.

 

Saturday 23

 

4.30 Prayed, sermon; 8 tea, conversed, sermon; 2.30 dinner, conversed,           sermon; 4.30 tea, conversed; 6 Matt. xiii. 33; 7 at Mr. Smyth’s, sermon; 8 supper, conversed, prayer, on business; 9.45.

 

Sunday 24

 

4 Prayed, sermon, coach; 7 I Jo. iii. I, 2, tea, sermon; 11 Bethesda, prayers, Lu. xv. 7! 1 communion; 2.30 dinner, sleep, sermon, tea, prayed; 5.30 Prov. xxii. 6, society, supper, prayer; 9.30.

 

Monday 25

 

4 Prayed, I Jo. iii. 3, 4, class, tea, class; 1 sermon, on business; 2 dinner, conversed, prayer; 4 class, tea; 6.30 Psa. lxxxiv. I! sermon, supper, conversed, prayer; 9.30.

 

Tuesday 26

 

Prayed, sermon; 6 class, tea, class, Dr. Coke; 1 within to A. S.! 2 dinner; 3 within to Dr. Coke; 5 tea, conversed, prayed; 6.30 Jo.vi.28! the bands! supper, conversed, prayer; 9.45.

 

Wednesday 27

 

4 Prayed, writ narrative; 6 class; 8 tea, conversed, class, writ narrative, class; 1 within to Dr. Coke; 2 dinner; 3.30 sleep, letter, prayed; 5 tea, conversed, prayer; 6.30 I Jo. iii. 8! the leaders; 8.30 supper, conversed, prayer; 9.45.

 

­

 

Thur. 28.-I had the pleasure of a conversation with Mr. Howard,[28] I think one of the greatest men in Europe. Nothing but the mighty power of God can enable him to go through his difficult and dangerous employments. But what can hurt us, if God is on our side?

 

Sat. 30.-I desired all our preachers to meet me, and consider the state of our brethren in America, who have been terribly frightened at their own shadow, as if the English preachers were just going to enslave them. I believe that fear is now over, and they are more aware of Satan’s devices.

 

Thursday 28

 

4 Prayed, Psa. cxvi. 12! class, tea, conversed, prayer; 9.30 read letters, conversed, Mr. Howard; 2.15 dinner, conversed; 4 prayed, tea, conversed; 6.30 Jo. vi. 38! select society; 8 supper, prayer; 10 [cipher]*.

 

Friday 29

 

4 Prayed, sleep; 6 letters; 2 dinner, conversed; conversed; 6.30 Isai. v. 4! 8.30 the singers; 9 supper, conversed, prayer; 10

 

Saturday 30

 

4.15 Prayed, letters; 8 tea, conversed, prayer, Dr. Coke, etc., within; 1 in talk, coach; 2 dinner, conversed, prayer; 4.30 tea, conversed, prayer, visited; 6 I Pet. i. 18! at Mr. Smith’s; 8 supper, within, prayer, on business; 10.15.

 

Jo. vi. 58.

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[1] The large chapel in Magazine Street had been sold to pay the heavy debt that remained on it, and the new building in Linen Hall Street not being completed, the town-hall was engaged (Crookshank’s Meth. in Ireland, vol. i. P.433).

 

[2] In June he wrote from ‘London’ to Miss Taylor (Wesley Banner, vol. i. p. 230).

 

[3] The Hon. F. A. Hervey, who in 1779 had succeeded to the Earldom of Bristol. He died in 1803. See above, vol. v. p. 510; vol. vi. p. 65; als0 Abbey’s English Church and its Bishops, PP. 350-3.

 

[4] On June 5 he wrote from Londonderry to Rev. Peard Dickinson, chiefly concerning Mr. Heath—‘This I am determined on; he shall not want, as long as I have either money or credit’ (Works, vol. xii. p. 459).

 

[5] See above, p. 88.

 

[6] Now ‘occupied by the Unitarians.’ The friendliness of the Presbyterian ministers is much in evidence. See Crookshank’s Meth. in Ireland, vol. i. p. 434 n. 

 

[7] The Methodist services in Belfast at this time were usually held in the loft of a house, situated in a lane leading down to Smithfield, to reach which the members of the congregation had to ascend by a ladder (Irish Christian Advocate, 1883, p. 294). The first chapel was erected in Fountain Lane, at the rear of Donegal Place, shortly after this date. It could accommodate three or four hundred people.

 

[8] In Rosemary Street; now also Unitarian. Many of the Unitarian churches are still called Presbyterian.

 

[9] See above, vol. iv. p. 244.

 

[10] See above, vol. vi. p. 198.

 

[11] Lambeg is a populous village only a couple of miles away from Lisburn. No doubt the 5 p.m. preaching was at Lisburn.

 

[12] See above, vol. vi. p. 201.

 

[13] Altered from Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV. line 143, where the verb is in the past tense (W.H.S. vol. v. p. 157). 

 

[14] See above, vol. vi. pp. 200 n, 201. 

 

[15] Amongst those present was a lad named Thomas Wilson; and not only did the venerable preacher, his clear voice, his method of marking time with his hand, and his almost angelic appear­ance, impress the mind of the boy, but also the word preached reached his heart, and thus he was led to take the first step in what proved a godly and useful career (W.H.S. vol. ii. p. 142).

 

[16] See above, vol. v. p. 312. In June, 1778, he lodged here with Captain Tottenham, the commanding officer; also on June 1, 1785.

 

[17] Whilst at Charlemont he wrote a letter to his late host at Tanderagee, Dr. Leslie. ‘We did not begin and close the meal in the same manner you did ten years ago.’ In the Works (vol. xii. p. 367) the letter is misdated. It is quoted in the W.M. Mag. 1847, p. 332; also in Moore’s Life of Wesley), Vol. ii. P. 349, and Crookshank’s Meth. in Ire­land, vol. i. P. 435.

 

[18] Hercules Hall, from Castlecaulfield, a devoted leader and local preacher (Prim. Wes. Meth. Mag. 1839, pp. 201­-13, quoted by Crookshank).

 

[19] But he afterwards gave permission to Dr. Coke.

 

[20] On the question, ‘Why do not the clergy either in England or Ireland avail themselves of the Methodist preachers?’ he wrote from Armagh, in default of leisure for a treatise, a short tract (Works, vol. xiii. p. 261).

 

[21] See above, p. 85; vol. v. p. 511 vol. vi. p. 200.

 

[22]             His monument is in the cathedral.

 

[23]             See above, p. 86.

 

[24] For the story of the shoemaker’s awl and waxed thread given to Wesley see Tyerman’s Wesley, vol. iii p. 494. 

 

[25] A village near Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.

 

[26] See the story of Henry Moore’s open­ air service in Lower Abbey Street, in Crookshank’s Meth. in Ireland, vol. i. P.437.

 

[27] The Rev. Edward Smyth’s chapel. See above, p. 258.

 

[28] The philanthropist. In a conver­sation with Alexander Knox, Howard referred with great satisfaction to his interview with Wesley in Dublin. Howard called at Wesley’s house in City Road early in 1789 to present a book to him, and take leave of his friend before starting on another journey of mercy; but Wesley had gone to Ireland. The philanthropist talked with some of the preachers, and told them how he remembered Wesley’s sermon on Eccles. ix. 10, at his seat in Bedfordshire. See the admirable account of the interview in City Road, given in Coke and Moore’s Life of Wesley; also Moore’s Life of Wesley, vol. ii. pp. 434-6; W.M. Mag. 1903, p. 439; Wesley Studies, p. 185; and (more compressed) Tyerman, vol. iii. p. 495. See also Etheridge’s Life of Coke, p. 226.