next morning (Monday) Mr. Wesley, and the friend who was with him,
left Manchester and went on to Knutsford. Here, too, the people listened
attentively, while they preached the gospel of Jesus Christ. They
visited other towns, and then Mr. Wesley returned to Oxford.

He had not been long there when he heard that his brother Charles was
very ill in London, and went at once to see him. Charles Wesley had been
living and working there with some German Christians, or Moravians, as
they were called, and before long he found that these people had
something in their lives that he did not possess. Like the Germans he
met in Georgia, their religion gave them peace and joy on week-days as
well as on Sundays.

When he was ill, one of these Moravians, named Peter Boehler, came to see
him. During the little talk they had, the visitor said:

"What makes you hope you are saved?"

"Because I have done my best to serve God," answered Mr. Charles.

You see, he was trusting in all the good deeds he had done, and not on
Jesus Christ's suffering and death for him.

Mr. Boehler shook his head, and did not say any more then. But he left
Charles Wesley longing for the something he had not got.

When he was a little better, he was carried to the house of a poor
working-man named Bray. He was not clever, indeed, he hardly knew how to
read, but he was a happy believer in Jesus; and he explained to Mr.
Charles that _doing_ was not enough, that we must believe that Jesus
Christ died on the cross for us, and that it is only through Him that we
can pray to God, and only by His death that we can hope to go to heaven.

Then a poor woman came in, and she made him understand better than any
one; and at last Mr. Charles saw where he had been in the wrong, and
instead of trusting in his own goodness and in all the kind things he
had done, he just gave up his faith in these, and trusted alone in the
dying love of his Saviour, and ours.

I expect all my readers have classes in the schools they go to. Some of
you are at the top of your class, some of you are in the middle, and
some of you are--well--near the bottom. I think this is very much the
way in Christ's school, the only difference is that in your class at
school there can only be _one_ at the top. In Christ's school there can
be any number at the top. There are a great number of Christians who are
only half-way up in the class, and I am afraid there are a still greater
number at the bottom.