IN the early period of Methodism, some of Mr. Wesley’s opponents, in the excess of their zeal against enthusiasm, took up a wagon load of Methodists, and carried them before a justice. When they were asked what these persons had done, there was a backward silence; at last one of the accusers said: “Why, they pretend to do better than other people; and besides, they prayed from morning till night.” The magistrate asked if they had done anything else? “Yes, sir,” said an old man, “an’t please your worship, they converted my wife. Till she went among them, she had such a tongue! and now she is quiet as a lamb.” “Carry them back, carry them back,” said the magistrate, “and let them convert all the scolds in town.”