One of early Methodism’s most well-regarded early preachers, Mary Bosanquet, kept a journal in which she recounted her spiritual journey. Here she speaks of an experience of grace during the sacrament of Holy Communion:
Towards the end of the following winter, there was a confirmation at Saint Paul’s; and my father desired I should be confirmed. This was a very rousing ordinance to me; for some time before, I had felt how unworthy I was of it: how unfit thus solemnly to devote myself to God, my renewing that covenant I had so often broken I read the order of confirmation, with the ministration of baptism, over and over, and besought my God to give me power to keep the charge of the Lord faithfully. For some months after, every time I approached the Lord’s table, I had a very peculiar sense of his presence, and sometimes I felt as if the Lord Jesus did from his own hand give me the sacred emblems of his body and blood.
~ Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (The Life of Mrs. Mary Fletcher, 24)
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