Wesley Corpus

I am glad you have got an house in Marlborough Street. [On Feb. 19 Wesley refers to the opening of the Marlborough Street Room.] I have appointed a class to meet there. It must needs give much offense. However, give as little as possible. Behave to them with all possible tenderness and courtesy. And do nothing that you foresee will give offense, unless it be a matter of duty. It is exceeding well that you have made a beginning at Castle Road. I wonder all the villages round Dublin have not been tried before now. My best love attends my dear Nancy.--I am, dear Henry (and Becky [See letter of Feb.] too), Your affectionate friend and brother. To Thomas Roberts LONDON, January 18, 1788. MY DEAR BROTHER, --As the matter is now decided, I hope you are able to say, 'Lord, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.' I commend you for entirely giving up the matter when you found her parents were absolutely against it. [See letters of Dec. 22, 1787, and Feb. 12, 1789.] I hope you will think of it no more, but will be now more unreservedly devoted to God than ever! -- I am, dear Tommy, Your affectionate friend and brother. I do not see that you [should] quit the circuit. To William Simpson LONDON, January 18, 1788. DEAR BILLY, -- You did exceeding well to enlarge the number of prayer-meetings and to fix them in various parts of those [places]. I do not know that any means of grace whatever has been more owned of God than this. It is not now but at the time of Conference that children are received into Kingswood School. I am glad Sister Moon [Mrs. Emma Moon, his old correspondent at Yarm, where Simpson was Assistant. See letter of Nov. 5, 1762; and for Mrs. Middleton, Feb. 22, 1786.] has not forgotten me. I hope Sister Middleton too thinks of me sometimes. You are welcome to the four volumes of Sermons.--I am, with kind love to Sister Simpson, dear Billy, Your affectionate friend and brother. To Mr. Will. Simpson, At the Preaching-house, Stockton-upon-Tees. To Robert Dull. [1] LONDON, February 11, 1788. DEAR ROBERT, -- I allow you to build at Dumfries, providing anyone will lend a hundred guineas on interest. I hope to see you, God willing, in May. -- I am, &c.