Wesley Corpus

Do all the good you can to our poor brethren in Ireland while you stay among them.~I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother. To Ann Bolton BRISTOL, March 11, 1781. MY DEAR NANCY, -- As it is not convenient for you to meet me here, I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you at Stroud on the 19th instant. I expect to be there between one and two in the afternoon. May God give us an happy meeting! -- I am, my dear friend, Yours most affectionately. To Miss Bolton, In Witney, Oxfordshire. To Elizabeth Morgan [3] BRISTOL, March 13, 1781. MY DEAR MISS MORGAN, -- I wonder at you; I am surprised at your steadiness. How is it possible that you should retain any regard for me when your lot is so frequently cast among them who think they do God service by saying all manner of evil of me I do not impute this to natural generosity (little good is owing to nature), but to His grace who has kept you from your infancy, and who now upholds you in the slippery paths of youth. I trust He will still enable you to be Against example singularly good. [Paradise Lost, xi. 809: ‘against example good.’] By a prudent mixture of reading, meditation, prayer, and conversation you may improve your present retirement. But you must add every day more or less exercise (as your strength permits) in the open air. And why should you not add that truly Christian diversion, visiting the poor, whether sick or well Who knows but our Lord sent you to Wotton on purpose to save some souls alive A letter which I lately received from Yorkshire informs me, ‘Our friends think Miss Ritchie is in a dying condition.’ If she continue so till I come to Manchester, I shall step over to see her. I should never think much of going an hundred miles to see either her or you. A line from you will always be acceptable to, my dear Miss Morgan, Your affectionate servant. To Miss Morgan, Rev. Rowland Hill, Wotton-under-Edge. To Mrs. Knapp BIRMINGHAM, March 25, 1781.