Wesley Corpus

MY DEAR SISTER, - I am in great hopes that the manner of your mother's death, together with her dying exhortations, will make a deep and lasting impression on some (at least) of her children. Brother Tunney [William Tunney, the second preacher in Oxfordshire, became an itinerant in 1774, and desisted from traveling in 1781.] did well to make a full use of so solemn an occasion. It is not improbable that from this very time a good work may commence, which, if you build a large and commodious chapel, will greatly and swiftly increase. I advise you whenever you build to build exactly on the model of our new chapel [City Road Chapel, London. A Mr. Jacques at Wycombe had frequently disturbed them by beating a drum during the whole hour of meeting. A site had been found, and Mr. Batting had subscribed handsomely and undertaken to superintend the erection of the chapel. See letter of Oct. 23.]; only reducing the dimensions, perhaps, from eighty by sixty to fifty or sixty by forty feet, according as your ground will allow. Surely He will withhold from us no manner of thing that is good. - I am, my dear sister, Your affectionate brother. To George Robinson LONDON, February 24, 1779. MY DEAR BROTHER, - I am glad you have a little work to do in our Lord's vineyard, and doubt not but you will do it faithfully. If it please God to prolong my life and health, I purpose visiting Lincolnshire about midsummer. [Wesley preached at Langham Row on July 5, and on June 1780, where he refers to ' onest George Robinson and his fourteen children.' For a noble letter from him to Wesley, see Arminian Mag., 1787, pp. 496-8.] It is well you wrote, or probably there would not have been a night to spare for Lungham Row. But I will now endeavor to bring it in. I did not think any of your daughters had remembered me. Peace be with you and yours! - I am Your affectionate brother. To Mr. Robinson, At Langham Row, Near Alford, Lincolnshire. To Samuel Bardsley BRISTOL, March 7, 1779.