Wesley Corpus

But how odd also is this affair of Miss Freeman! [See letters of April 4 and May 2 to his brother.] Since I left her at Sir Philip Gibbes’s preparing for her journey to Bath, I have not had so much as one line from her. Yesterday I had a letter from Miss Gibbes and another from her sister; but she is not even mentioned either in one or the other. Do you know what is become of her Is she ill Surely she is not slipped back to Paris! All is quiet here. God has made our enemies to be at peace with us. In about ten days I hope to be at Chester. Peace be with you and yours! To Rev. Mr. C. Wesley, No. 1 in Chester- field Street, Marybone. To Mrs. Christian (Ellen Gretton) DUBLIN, April 25, 1783. MY DEAR SISTER, -- In the new sphere of action to which Providence has called you, [She had just been married. See letter of Feb. 16.] I trust you will find new zeal for God and new vigor in pursuing every measure which may tend to the furtherance of His kingdom. In one of my mother’s letters you may observe something resembling your case. [See his mother’s letters in Stevenson’s Wesley Family, pp. 194-7.] She began only with permitting two or three of her neighbors to come to the family prayers on Sunday evening. But they increased to an hundred, yea above an hundred and fifty. Go humbly and steadily on, consulting the Assistant in all points, and pressing on to perfection. -- I am, with love to Brother Christian, my dear sister, Your affectionate brother. To John Watson DUBLIN, April 25, 1783. MY DEAR BROTHER, -- Yesterday I received yours from Perth; but I do not know how to answer it. If Brother McLean has been able to do good at Perth or Dunkeld, it would be worth while to take a room. But truly I think, if the Highlanders will not pay for their own room, they are not worthy of the preaching. To labor and pay for our own labor is not right before God or man. Are you able to undertake a circuit You may direct your next to London. -- I am Your affectionate brother. To Joseph Taylor DUBLIN, April 26, 1783.