Wesley Corpus

To Zachariah Yemdall Date: SEVENOAKS, October 21, 1782. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1782) Author: John Wesley --- MY DEAR BROTHER, -- Undoubtedly you are to act as Assistant; and if you carefully read the great Minutes of the Conference and keep close to them in every point, assuredly you will see the fruit of your labor. But whom can you get to help you I know none, unless you can persuade Brother Rutherford to spare you Andrew Blair, and to take a poor invalid, John Mayly (who is now at Dublin), in his stead. [See letters of Oct. 19 (to Thomas Rutherford) and Nov.] You know, we have no preachers to spare; every one is employed: and we can neither make preachers nor purchase them. God alone can thrust them out into His harvest. All you can do until H. Grave comes is to divide yourself between Cork and Bandon. -- I am Your affectionate friend and brother.