"It is right," said Richard Bell, the watchcase maker, "it is all right. It is the truth. To this we must all come, or we never can come to Christ."
"I believe," broke in Bray, the brazier, "our brother Bell did not hear what you read, or did not rightly understand."
"Yes! I heard every word," said Bell, "and I understand it well. I say it is the truth; it is the very truth; it is the inward truth."
"I used the ordinances twenty years," said George Bowers, the Dissenter, of George Yard, Little Britain, "yet I found not Christ. But I left them off for only a few weeks and I found Him then. And I am now as close united to Him as my arm is to my body."
The dispute was coming to a crisis. The discussion lasted till eleven o'clock. Some said that Wesley might preach in Fetter Lane.
"No," said others, "this place is taken for the Germans."
Some argued that Wesley had often put an end to confusions in the Society.
"Confusion!" snapped others, "What do you mean? We never were in any confusion at all."
Next Sunday evening Wesley appeared again {July 20th, 1740.}. He was resolved what to do.
"I find you," he said, "more and more confirmed in the error of your ways. Nothing now remains but that I should give you up to God. You that are of the same opinion follow me."