“Answer. Lemonade; candied orange peel; or a little soft, warm ale.
But egg and wine is downright poison. And so are late suppers.”[540]
14. Preachers on probation were “not to ramble up and down, but to go
where the assistant directed, and there only.”[541]
15. No one was to exhort in any of the societies without a note of
recommendation from the assistant, which was to be renewed yearly.[542]
16. To make the Methodists sensible of the excellency of Kingswood
school, every assistant was to read an account of it yearly; to exhort
parents, who were able, to send their children thither; to answer all
their objections, and refute all the lies they had heard about it; and
to make a collection for it, at Midsummer, in every preaching house
throughout England.[543]