Wesley Corpus

To Mrs. Rogers Date: May 28, 1788. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1788) Author: John Wesley --- MY DEAR HETTY, -- My not hearing from you for so long a time would have given me concern, but I knew it was not from want of affection. I am glad to hear you prosper in your soul; rest in nothing you have attained, but press on till you are filled with all the fullness of God. In this day of God's power I hope many of the backsliders in Cork will be brought back; there are great numbers of them in and about the city, and many are of the. genteeler sort. It seems you have a particular mission to these; perhaps they will hear none but you. I hope you have already found out Mrs. Forbes (Captain Forbes's wife), and that now she is more than almost persuaded to be a Christian. The pearl on my eye is but just discernible, and dulls the sight a little, but not much. As it grows no worse, I do not much regard it. [See letter of April 6.] Mr. Smyth's society, I verily believe, will do us no harm [At Bethesda, Dublin. The controversy about Methodist services in church hours. See previous letter and that of June 7 to Henry Moore.]: and every one may speak of me as he will. I am just flying away as a shadow. It more than makes me amends that James and you still love and pray for, my dear Hetty, Your most affectionate.