used to read a sermon aloud to his family and visitors. On the Sunday of which I am telling you, when he had finished the sermon he was reading, all at once John Wesley stood up, and told them all he had something to say to them. It was this: he said, "I have to tell you that I was never really a christian till five days ago. I am sure that this is true. If you, too, wish to be christians, not in name only, but in truth, there is but one way. It is to confess that you are nothing but lost sinners, and believe in Christ only as the Saviour." Mr. Hutton was astonished and displeased at John's speech. He said that Mr. Wesley had been baptized long ago, and had often gone to the Lord's Supper. How, then, could he dare to say that he had never been a christian till five days ago?

Mrs. Hutton, too, was much displeased. In vain John told them that nobody was a christian, except in name, until he gave up all trust in baptism, in the Lord's Supper, or in any works whatever, as able to save him, and till he trusted in Christ, and Christ only.

Mr. and Mrs. Hutton only became more angry, and at last Mrs. Hutton settled it in her mind that her friend John was becoming mad, and she wrote to his brother

Samuel to tell him that both John and Charles had become so wild and strange she knew not what harm they might not do. She told Samuel she believed they both meant to pay him a visit, and that then, if he could not persuade them how wrong and foolish they were, the best plan would be to shut them up in a lunatic asylum. Samuel quite agreed with Mrs. Hutton, and said, “What Jack means I cannot understand. He was baptized long ago, and how then can he say he has only just become a christian? I pleased myself with the expectation of seeing Jack, but now that is over, and I am afraid of it."

John, however, did not go to pay Samuel a visit. He had other plans, of which I will tell you further on. In the meantime he found that other old friends besides Mr. and Mrs. Hutton had turned against him. Amongst these was Mr. William Law. John had written to him to tell him that he had now, and only now, become a true believer in the Lord Jesus, and that it was through the teaching of Peter Böhler that he had learnt the blessed truth that we are saved by Christ only, and not by our own works in any degree. "And now, sir," he added, "suffer me to ask, how will you answer it to our common Lord that you never gave me this advice? Why

did I scarcely ever hear you name the name of Christ

never so as to ground anything upon faith in His

sir, to consider whether the true reason of your never pressing this upon me (that it is by faith we are saved) was not this, that you had it not yourself?" He then warned Mr. Law of the danger of remaining without true faith in the Lord Jesus.

To this letter Mr. Law replied that he had taught John the truth about faith in Christ, and so had Thomas à Kempis. It was plain, therefore, that Mr. Law did not so much as understand what John meant. In fact, amongst all his old friends, scarcely any seemed now to agree with him, except his brother Charles and Mr. Ingham, who had once belonged to the Holy Club.

CHAPTER XIII.

JOHN'S new plan was to go to Germany and see Count Zinzendorf, and the Moravians at Herrnhuth. He thought he might learn more from them than from anyone in England. He went first to Salisbury, to say good-bye to his mother, who was still living there with Patty and her husband. John and Charles had both told their mother of the great change that had happened to them. Mrs. Wesley thought they spoke very oddly, but as she did not quite understand what they meant, she told John she was glad he was now so happy in the knowledge of Christ. And when John read her a paper in which he had written what he now believed, she said she agreed with it. She did not, however, really understand it, for when Samuel shewed her the same paper after John was gone to Germany, and explained to her that it was quite wrong, she believed what Samuel said, and became unhappy about John and Charles, thinking them much. mistaken. Mr. Ingham went with John to Germany. Charles stayed in England, as he had become curate to a good man in Islington, and he found that great

numbers of people came to hear the gospel preached. One reason why so many people were ready to listen was that George Whitefield had been preaching in London before he sailed for America, and many had become anxious to be saved.

We see how God orders all the plans of His servants. He sowed the seed by George Whitefield, and now He sent Charles Wesley to reap the harvest.

You will like to hear what happened to John in Germany. On the 15th of June, 1738, he and Mr. Ingham landed at Rotterdam. The next day they arrived at Ysselstein, where they were taken in by a friend of Count Zinzendorf's, Baron Frederick Watteville.

Baron Frederick had seemed when he was a boy at school to have a desire to love and serve God. He was at that time a friend and companion of Count Zinzendorf, who was about his own age. But when he grew older and went into the world he became careless and ungodly. He was led, through the means of his old friend Count Zinzendorf, to think of his soul, and was brought to repentance and to faith in Christ. He was now a very earnest servant of God. Wesley spent a very pleasant day with Baron Frederick and a number