Wesley Corpus

and an awful sense of his presence; that he frequently went to prayers by himself, and prayed for his father, and many others by name ; that he had an exceeding great tenderness of conscience, being sensible of the least sin, and crying and refusing to be comforted, when he thought he had in any thing displeased God; that a few days since, he broke. out into prayer aloud, and then said, “ Mamma, I shall go to heaven soon, and be with the little angels. And you will go there too, and my papa ; but you will not go so soon.” That the day before, he went to _ a little girl in the house and said, “ Polly, you and I must go to prayers. Don’t mind your doll: kneel down now: I must go to prayers: God bids me.” When the Holy Ghost teaches, is there any delay in learning! This child was then just three years old! A year or two after he died in peace. Wed. July 2.--I received the following letter from that amiable man, who is now with God :-- Northampton, July 29, 1746. “Rev. anp DEAR Sir,--I am truly glad that the long letter I last sent you was agreeable to you. [ bless God that my prejudices against the writers of the Mstablishment were so early removed and conquered. And { greatly rejoice when I see in those whom, upon other accounts, I must highly esteem as the excellent of the earth, that their prejudices against ‘their brethren of any denomination are likewise subsided, and that we are ‘coming nearer to the harmony in which I hope we shall ever be one in ‘Christ Jesus.