WEBLEY IN SCOTLAND,

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 2

WEBLEY IN SCOTLAND,

NOTES m HIS JOUBNAL. Soma mtoros'ting 'glimp:jos "of' John ,\Vt!3'ifly in Scotland are .given in'llip new vohnno of the Standard Edition of Wesle.y'.s Joui'iial. iiist-piiblislmd under ■tho cclitoreliip.of Her. Nehemiith. Ciirneck. 'John Wesi'oy, on Siinday,. May 29,. 1.7(13,..w«b ; in Kdinbnrgli. Ho writes 'li liis "Journal" :— . .. "1 pronclivd ;it seven in iho Higli Scbool yard st Kdinburgli. It being Win tiine (if tdio Uaneral Assembly", which droTs' together, .not tlw ininistors only, hni abumla'nc? of the nobility and ■gentry, many of both sorts were present.; liut abundantly more at five in tho afteriiomi. I spoko as plain as-ever I did .in niy lifo, bnfc I nexor ]>:n»w anyin Scotland offonded at plain dealing. In tliis respwt, tlip Britons are a prtttern to all mankind." Ho was at liivernrsa and Nairn on Monday, June 11., 1764. "After Glasftow, and AboKkon, I tfeinfc Inverness is tlio laf--town J have sesn in Scotlnnd. Tho main streets iir.n broad ?.nd strnljrht; Hip houses niostiy old. but. not'very : b-nd nor very gooil It stands iii a ■ peasant and fruitful country, nnd li.is ■all -tliiiisrs Wilful for life and wclliiif;s?. Tlip fjportlp in frtwral spoak rc- : markilily'Koofl Enflisli, (iiul art of a ocmrtcfti.is boliavinur. ; "Al>mit olcvon 'wo took lini-w. IVhilo. n-f, Jining at Nairn tho imilsfcner s'niij, 'Sir. tlip fpiitlflrnpn of ihe. teini liavc road Ihp little bonk you mo on Saturday and would bo glad if you would pfcass to give them n sprsioii.' T'pn'n , ray coiisentini; the belt v.'ns iniffiodintpiy nine;, suul thn coliccreftation wa? qiisclc--5v in tj\o kirk. Ob., what n. <liffpfpnw tliprc is isntweM South and North Britain! Ereryonc 'here, at least loves to hoar tlie Word of God, and'none take." it into his li«a<3 to speak one uncivil v."ord to anyone oiidoavoarinj; to siivo their soiiU.' , .Mr. Curnock isas this interestms;note on Wesley's influence on Scotland:— "Tlie reception jl«thnclisia met with in Ireland and Scot-land is. an interesting study. Across the Tweed it might seeja to hare comparatively faiiejl. Scotland Aid not approve Amiinian dootrioc or Methodist itinerancy, A. wife outlook loads, however, to an opposite conclusion. In «o part of tho ICnipiw Was its success ftore wmafkalile, but it differed in cbsrsiter. It flirl for- <he Chui'fh in Scotland that which AVosley hop'i'O for in tbp. Giiurch of Kiiglsnd; it tnavenod the thvee raeasures of meal, on ti;« testimany of impartial witnesses, 'until the whole wur leavcwd.' "It never attacked Prosbyteriftsiisui, but, troatins it -s-ith hi«h courtosv, wontrinlly kiiullbtl its coldness into firo. Oun of the earliest and most striking rpsults was seeti in America, wlier" Sfiotch and Irish hailed Irish Rnd English Methodists as spiritual kinsmen aii;l cr<»nt*>cl flip 'mm> mcctins. . In Scotland itself tlie movement liccapic to ii consirloraMe pstpnt a roliskms movement' 'within' tlie Scottish Church."