Saturday, July 30, 2011

Colliers, who drank in every word

Sat. 30 July 1774. I went on to Madeley and in the evening preached under a sycamore tree in Madeley Wood to a large congregation, good part of them colliers, who drank in every word. Surely never were places more alike than Madeley Wood, Gateshead Fell, and Kingswood!