Wesley Corpus

MY DEAR HETTY, -- My not hearing from you for so long a time would have given me concern, but I knew it was not from want of affection. I am glad to hear you prosper in your soul; rest in nothing you have attained, but press on till you are filled with all the fullness of God. In this day of God's power I hope many of the backsliders in Cork will be brought back; there are great numbers of them in and about the city, and many are of the. genteeler sort. It seems you have a particular mission to these; perhaps they will hear none but you. I hope you have already found out Mrs. Forbes (Captain Forbes's wife), and that now she is more than almost persuaded to be a Christian. The pearl on my eye is but just discernible, and dulls the sight a little, but not much. As it grows no worse, I do not much regard it. [See letter of April 6.] Mr. Smyth's society, I verily believe, will do us no harm [At Bethesda, Dublin. The controversy about Methodist services in church hours. See previous letter and that of June 7 to Henry Moore.]: and every one may speak of me as he will. I am just flying away as a shadow. It more than makes me amends that James and you still love and pray for, my dear Hetty, Your most affectionate. To Jasper Winscorn NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, May 28, 1788. DEAR JASPER, -- It seems to me the most proper Assistant for the Sarum Circuit (only do not talk of it yet) will be Jasper Winscom. [He was received on trial at the Conference, and appointed to the Sarum Circuit, but not as Assistant. See letter of Oct. 20, 1775, to him.] I am convinced the person whom I had intended for it is not the proper person. It is exceeding well that the warning was given me before the Conference. We have found it so difficult to drive Calvinism out from among us that we shall not readily let it in again. -- I am, dear Jasper, Yours affectionately. To his Niece Sarah Wesley NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, May 29, 1788.