Wesley Corpus

DEAR ALLECK, - It will certainly be worth your while to make a trial of that mineral water; it is highly probable God will make it a means of lessening if not removing your bodily disorder. That this is in a considerable degree scorbutic I cannot make any question; as one almost constant symptom of the scurvy is a great depression of the spirits.... I cannot advise you in the meantime to shut yourself up at home; it is neither good for your body nor your mind. You cannot possibly have bodily health without daily exercise in the open air; and you have no reason to expect the spirit of an healthful mind unless you use the means that God has ordained. You well know faith cometh by hearing; I should therefore advise you to lose no opportunity of hearing, and trust God with the event. You are not likely to be in a more uncomfortable state than you are already. And which is the greater evil of the two, even supposing the worst Certainly your having two fits is a less evil than your losing fifty precious opportunities. O break through that fear, which is a mere snare of the devil. I commend you and yours to Him that is ready to save you in soul and body; and am, dear Alleck, Yours affectionately. To William Tunney LONDON, January 29, 1780. DEAR BILLY, - You have done well with regard to the Hymn-Book. But in the meantime do not forget the Magazine. [See letter of Jan. 16 to Lancelot Harrison.] Take every opportunity of strongly recommending this both in public and in private. All we can do is, we will have no smugglers in our Societies [See letter of March 21, 1784.]; and I think Brother Condy will convince many of them of the advantage of meeting in band. [William Tunney (who desisted from traveling in 1781) and Richard Condy were colleagues in Cornwall East.] O watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation! - I am, dear Billy, Yours affectionately. To Samuel Bardsley LONDON, January 30, 1780.