A tea meeting was held in the Wesleyan Chapel, Geelong on Monday evening, 29 May 1848 on the occasion of the re-opening of the building after having undergone very extensive improvements.

On this night the chapel really presented a very pleasing appearance. The whole of it has been plastered and so contrived that the walls are made to appear as if built of cut stone, while a very neat and ornamental gallery has been erected for the accommodation of a large and increasing congregation.

It is unnecessary to pass any comments upon the arrangements for the entertainment, further than to state that every possible attention had been paid to the convenience, accommodation and comfort of the company.

About one hundred and fifty persons were present, among whom the juvenile members formed no small moiety. Of the aggregate perhaps the females preponderated in point of numbers over the males.

After grace had been sung the company seated themselves, and in all innocent mirth and cheerfulness disposed of the good things provided, exhibiting at once the most perfect unanimity and good feeling to each other, in a manner that showed all were bent upon pleasing and willing to receive pleasure in return.

But what could not fail to delight and interest the observer and the philanthropist was to remark about the congregated together of the clergy of the different denominations. At missionary meetings, bible societies, charitable institutions, and other special purposes, we have been accustomed to witness clergymen and adherents of ever sect 'assemble and meet together;' but here where the occasion was a common and indifferent one, simply the opening of a chapel that had been closed for a short period for repairs, to see assembled men, differing in opinion, creed and form of worship, sinking all distinctions and merging into a feeling of love and common fellowship to each and to all, was an invocation strikingly novel and delightful.

On the spot set apart for the speakers were the Rev. Ebenezer Collins, Rev. William Lowe, Rev. Andrew Love and Rev. William Cox Currey, as were also Messrs. Thomas Forster, George Wright, and Dr. John Auchterlonie Creelman, all of whom addressed the company in turn.

Before closing this brief notice, we cannot omit mentioning the superiority the Wesleyans display in their psalmody. In this they undoubtedly excel all other religious denominations; and it can only be accounted for by the fact that they are the only sect where the congregation make this beautiful service a study and a frequent practice.