To Mrs. Crosby Date: CHESTER, March 18, 1769. MY DEAR SISTER, The westerly winds detain me here, I care not how long: good is the will of the Lord. When I am in Ireland, you have only to direct to Dublin and the letter will find me. I advise you, as I did Grace Walton See letter of Sept. 8, 1761, to her. formerly, (1) Pray in private or public as much as you can. (2) Even in public you may properly enough intermix short exhortations with prayer; but keep as far from what is called preaching as you can: therefore never take a text; never speak in a continued discourse without some break, about four or five minutes. Tell the people, 'We shall have another prayer-meeting at such a time and place.' If Hannah Harrison See letters of Nov. 26, 1768, and March 31, 1781 (to Lancelot Harrison). had followed these few directions, she might have been as useful now as ever. As soon as you have time, write more particularly and circumstantially; and let Sister Bosanquet do the same. There is now no hindrance in the way; nothing to hinder your speaking as freely as you please His wife was not near to open his letters. to, dear Sally, Your affectionate brother.