Wesley Corpus

To Adam Clarke, Date: BRISTOL, March 9, 1789. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1789) Author: John Wesley --- DEAR ADAM, -- If I should live to see you another Conference, I should be glad to have Sister Clarke and you here rather than at most other places, because I spend more time here myself than at any other place except London. I am glad to hear that God has raised up so able a preacher from the islands [On July 15 Adam Clarke says: John De Queteville, ' who has now all the meekness, gentleness and simplicity of the gospel, united with that burning zeal before which mountains shrink into molehills, and aided by that faith to which all things are possible.'' See Dunn's Life, 70.]; but certainly you should spare no pains in teaching him to read and write English by reading with and explaining to him first the Christian [Library] and then the Instructions to Children. And I do not doubt but if he learned with a single eye, he would be largely strengthened by the blessed Spirit. I suppose the cyder would come to London almost as soon as I left it, which was on the first Sunday of the year. It would be a reason for being very wary in choosing names for our children if that old remark were true: That our first tempers from example flow And borrow that example from our names. Peace be with you and yours! -- I am, dear Adam, Your affectionate friend and brother.