Letters 1782A
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | letter |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-letters-1782a-024 |
| Words | 380 |
If twenty people pledge themselves for Mr. Walker, [John Walker was now at Gloucester, and next Conference ‘desists from traveling.’] they may. But I have nothing more to do with him. I will give him one more guinea, and that is all. -- I am
Your affectionate brother.
To Charles Attoore [19]
ALNWICK, May 28, 1782.
DEAR CHARLES, -- Agues this year spread all over the kingdom, and they are far more stubborn than usual. If you have not tried Dr. Sander's pills, you should (after taking a little vomit). They are entirely safe, as has been proved in a thousand instances. Take, -- Castile soap, two scruples; arsenicum album, two grains. Mix thoroughly, and make into' eight pills. Take one every four hours between the fits. It very seldom fads. I am considered at present an invalid too; yet I trust we shall both recover our strength. -- I am, dear Charles,
Your affectionate brother.
To his Brother Charles [20]
ALNWICK, May 28, 1782.
DEAR BROTHER, -- The history of the matter is this: When I was at Dawgreen, near Birstall, the trustees for Birstall house brought me a deed, which they read over and desired me to sign. We disputed upon it about an hour. I then gave them a positive answer that ‘I would not sign it’; and, leaving them abruptly, went up to my room.
About noon I preached at Horbury. In the evening I preached and met the Society at Wakefield. [He was at Wakefield on April 10, 1780.] At night, a little before I went to bed, the trustees came again, got round, and worried me down. But I think they cannot worry you. May not you very properly write to Mr. Valton - ‘If the trustees will settle the Birstall house on the Methodist plan, I will sign their deed with all my heart; but if they build an house for a Presbyterian meeting-house, I will not, I dare not, have anything to do with it.’ I never yet sent a letter of attorney on such an occasion, nor wrote in any other form than this, ‘Its receipt shall be your discharge.’ If the executor says, ‘I will not pay it on such a receipt,’ then I will send a letter of attorney.