Monday, 13--l proclaimed the love of Christ to sinners, in the market place at Morpeth.
Thence we rode to Placey. The society of colliers here may be a pattern to all the societies
in England. No person ever misses his band or class; they have no jar of any kind among
them but with one heart and one mind "provoke one another to love and to good works."
After preaching I met the society in a room as warm as any in Georgia; this, with the
scorching heat of the sun when we rode on, quite exhausted my strength. But after we came
to Newcastle I soon recovered and preached with as much ease as in the morning.
Thursday, 16.--In the evening I preached at Sunderland. I then met the society and told them plainly that none could stay with us unless he would part with all sin; particularly, robbing the King, selling or buying run goods, which I could no more suffer than robbing on the highway. This I enforced on every member the next day. A few would not promise to refrain, so these I was forced to cut off. About two hundred and fifty were of a better mind.
Wednesday, 22.--In the evening and the following morning I preached at Chester-on-the-Strate. Observing some very fine, but not very modest, pictures in the parlor where we supped, I desired my companion, when the company was gone, to put them where they could do no hurt. He piled them on a heap in a corner of the room, and they have not appeared since.
The Journal of John Wesley
Thursday, 16.--In the evening I preached at Sunderland. I then met the society and told them plainly that none could stay with us unless he would part with all sin; particularly, robbing the King, selling or buying run goods, which I could no more suffer than robbing on the highway. This I enforced on every member the next day. A few would not promise to refrain, so these I was forced to cut off. About two hundred and fifty were of a better mind.
Wednesday, 22.--In the evening and the following morning I preached at Chester-on-the-Strate. Observing some very fine, but not very modest, pictures in the parlor where we supped, I desired my companion, when the company was gone, to put them where they could do no hurt. He piled them on a heap in a corner of the room, and they have not appeared since.
The Journal of John Wesley
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