Wesley Corpus

To Mrs. Christian (Ellen Gretton) Date: DUBLIN, April 25, 1783. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1783) Author: John Wesley --- MY DEAR SISTER, -- In the new sphere of action to which Providence has called you, [She had just been married. See letter of Feb. 16.] I trust you will find new zeal for God and new vigor in pursuing every measure which may tend to the furtherance of His kingdom. In one of my mother’s letters you may observe something resembling your case. [See his mother’s letters in Stevenson’s Wesley Family, pp. 194-7.] She began only with permitting two or three of her neighbors to come to the family prayers on Sunday evening. But they increased to an hundred, yea above an hundred and fifty. Go humbly and steadily on, consulting the Assistant in all points, and pressing on to perfection. -- I am, with love to Brother Christian, my dear sister, Your affectionate brother.