JOHN NELSON
11 St Ives. All that time Mr Wesley and I lay on the floor; he had my great-coat for his pillow, and I had Burkitt's "Notes on the New Testament" for mine. After being here near three weeks, one morning, about three o'clock, Mr Wesley turned over, and finding me awake, clapped me on the side, saying, "Brother Nelson, let us be of good cheer: I have one whole side yet, for the skin is off but on one side." We usually preached on the commons, and it was but seldom anyone asked us to eat and drink. One day on St Hilary Downs, after preaching, Mr Wesley stopped his horse to pick blackberries, saying, " Brother Nelson, we ought to be thankful that there are plenty of blackberries, for this is the best country I ever saw for getting a stomach, but the worst I ever saw for getting food."
When I left Captain Hitchin's, I was benighted on the twelve mile common, and was wet to the skin. I came to the house where I had called in going down. The woman knew my voice, and said, " The Lord bless you t Come in ! " They pulled off my wet clothes, and put me on dry ones, and got me something warm for supper. The next morning, the man alarmed that and another village; by seven o'clock, I had about three hundred to preach to.