George-Whitefield-Field-Preacher

WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODISM 205
(April, 1743). Judging from the amount of business done,
its members were gifted with some capacity for work. White-
field opened the Association at noon, on the day after his
arrival, with a ' close and solemn discourse upon walking with
God ; ' then they betook themselves to business, and despatched
several important things, among which was his appointment to
the moderatorship whenever he was in England. There was
an interval from seven till ten o'clock, from which hour they
worked till two in the morning. The next day they sat till
four in the afternoon ; a little refreshment followed and ' some
warm talk about the things of God,' and then Whitefield
preached to them a sermon upon the believer's rest. These
—the refreshment for the
soul— prepared them for
body and the refreshment for the
another sitting, which lasted until
midnight, when the whole business of the Association was
finished, and feeling that God had been with them in all that
they had done, they did not forget to bless Him for His help
before parting.
Wales did honour to her visitor. At Carmarthen, which
Whitefield describes as ' one of the greatest and most polite
places in Wales,' the justices, who were assembled at the great
sessions, desired him to stay till they rose, and they would
come to hear him at the cross. They came, and many
thousands with them, including several persons of quality.
On another day, when he was crossing Carmarthen Bay in the
ferry, several ships hoisted their flags, and one fired a salute.
Yet such attentions never turned him from his great purpose
of seeking all the lost, and between the days when justices and
sailors honoured him, he mentions with satisfaction that at
Jefferson he preached to a Kingswood congregation, and at
Llassivran to a Moorfields one. As soon as London was
reached he wrote to his friend Ingham in Yorkshire,
announcing his intention to stay there for a month, and