Thursday, 30--l preached at the Tabernacle in Norwich to a large, rude, noisy congregation. I took knowledge, what manner of teachers they had been accustomed to and determined to mend them or end them. Accordingly, the next evening after sermon I reminded
them of two things: the one, that it was not decent to begin talking aloud as soon as service
was ended, and hurrying to and fro, as in a bear garden. The other, that it was a bad custom
to gather in knots just after sermon and turn a place of worship into a coffee house. I
therefore desired that none would talk under that roof, but go quietly and silently away.
And on Sunday, September 2, I had the pleasure to observe that all went as quietly away as
if he had been accustomed to it for many years.
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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