Tuesday, August 25.—I preached in the market place at Kinsale. The next morning, at
eight, I walked to the fort. On the hill above it we found a large, deep hollow, capable of
containing two or three thousand people. On one side of this, the soldiers soon cut a place
with their swords for me to stand, where I was screened both from the wind and sun, while
the congregation sat on the grass before me. Many eminent sinners were present, particularly
of the army; and I believe God gave them a loud call to repentance.
Saturday, September 23.—We reached Cork. Sunday, 24. In the evening I proposed to the society the building a preaching-house. The next day ten persons subscribed a hundred pounds; another hundred was subscribed in three or four days, and a piece of ground taken. I saw a double providence now in our not sailing last week. If we had, probably this house had never been built, and it is most likely we should have been cast away. Above thirty ships, we were informed, have been lost on these coasts in the late storm.
The Journal of John Wesley
Saturday, September 23.—We reached Cork. Sunday, 24. In the evening I proposed to the society the building a preaching-house. The next day ten persons subscribed a hundred pounds; another hundred was subscribed in three or four days, and a piece of ground taken. I saw a double providence now in our not sailing last week. If we had, probably this house had never been built, and it is most likely we should have been cast away. Above thirty ships, we were informed, have been lost on these coasts in the late storm.
The Journal of John Wesley
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