Wesley Corpus

Charles and you behave as I want you to do; but you cannot or will not preach where I desire. Others can and will preach where I desire; but they do not behave as I want them to do. I have a fine time between the one and the other. [And again in a third:] I think both Charles and you have in the general a right sense of what it is to serve as sons in the gospel; and if all our helpers had had the same, the work of God would have prospered better both in England and Ireland. [About a fortnight afterwards he writes thus on the same subject:] You put the thing right. I have not one preacher with me, and not six in England, whose wills are broken enough to serve me as sons in the gospel. Come on, now. you have broken the ice, and tell me the other half of your mind. I always blamed you for speaking too little, not too much. When you spoke most freely, as at Whitehaven, [In Sept. 1749 (Journal, iii 430.)] it was best for us both. I did not always disbelieve when I said nothing. But I would not attempt a thing till I could carry it. Tu qued scis, nescis is an useful rule, till I can remedy what I know. As you observe many things are remedied already; and many more will be. But you consider I have none to second me. They who should do it start aside as a broken bow. [For the letter of June 8,1750, to the Rev. John Baily, of Kilcully, Cork, see pp. 272-294.] To John Baily [11] LIMERICK, June 8, 1750.