to lodge at their house; and one day one of the preachers said to me, “Would you like to go to Kingswood School?” I replied, “Yes.” So the preacher wrote to Mr. Wesley on the subject, and afterwards he, Adam Clarke, received a letter from Mr. Wesley, stating that he might go to Kingswood School, and that his letter would be his introduction to the Governor of the School. Having considered the matter about leaving his parents, he went to his mother and told her that he was going to leave her. His mother asked him where he was going; he told her to Kingswood School. His mother thought he was only joking, and asked him how he would get there. He then shewed her Mr. Wesley's letter, which seemed to surprise his mother, and she said to him, “You have always been a dutiful son; but remember if you go you will positively break the 5th commandment, and the curse of God will follow you wherever you go.” After hearing the reasonings of his mother, he did not know what to do, whether to go or to remain at home; he prayed to the Lord about it, and then he would feel that it was his duty to go, but when he would look at his mother's remonstrance, he would think that he ought to remain at home. But Kingswood School was all the time in his mind, and he could not rest till he gathered up his little budget of clothes, and having found a vessel sailing to Holyhead, he engaged with the Captain for his passage. Before he left his father's, he was in great trouble about how to pay for his passage and expenses to Bristol; he had only enough money to take him across to Holyhead. He however made known his wants to some of his friends, who contributed their mite towards his expenses.
So be went on board of the vessel, and on the passage he talked to some of the passengers about Jesus, which led one of the gentlemen to enter into a long discussion on the subject of the Roman Catholic religion, which the gentleman endeavoured to
