Wesley Corpus

Your affectionate friend and brother. To Mr. John Taylor, At Gomersal, near Leeds. To Rachel Jones BRISTOL, March 4, 1789. MY DEAR SISTER, -- As you desired it, I cannot but send you a line, although I have not a moment to spare. You have exceeding reason to praise God, who has dealt so mercifully with you. You have reason to praise Him likewise for hearing your prayer and hearing for those of your household. Now be a pattern for all that are around about you. Be a pattern of meekness and lowliness in particular. Be the least of all and the servant of all. Be a companion of them, and them only, that worship in spirit and in truth. Read again and again the 13th chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians. Then shall your light shine more and more unto the perfect day. -- I am, dear sister, Your affectionate brother. To Miss Rachel Jones, Of Barton-le-Willows, Near York. To Adam Clarke, [14] BRISTOL, March 9, 1789. DEAR ADAM, -- If I should live to see you another Conference, I should be glad to have Sister Clarke and you here rather than at most other places, because I spend more time here myself than at any other place except London. I am glad to hear that God has raised up so able a preacher from the islands [On July 15 Adam Clarke says: John De Queteville, ' who has now all the meekness, gentleness and simplicity of the gospel, united with that burning zeal before which mountains shrink into molehills, and aided by that faith to which all things are possible.'' See Dunn's Life, 70.]; but certainly you should spare no pains in teaching him to read and write English by reading with and explaining to him first the Christian [Library] and then the Instructions to Children. And I do not doubt but if he learned with a single eye, he would be largely strengthened by the blessed Spirit. I suppose the cyder would come to London almost as soon as I left it, which was on the first Sunday of the year. It would be a reason for being very wary in choosing names for our children if that old remark were true: That our first tempers from example flow And borrow that example from our names.