Wesley Corpus

(6.) Try ten or twelve other English herbs. (7.) Try foltron, a mixture of herbs to be had at many grocers’, far healthier, as well as cheaper, than tea. (8.) Try cocoa. If, after having tried each of these for a week or ten days, you find none of them will agree with your constitution, then use (weak green) tea again; but at the same time know, that your having used it so long has brought you near the chambers of death. 17. II. “I do not know,” says another, “but tea may hurt me; but there is nothing saved by leaving it off; for I am sure other things cost full as much.” I pray, what other things? Sack-and-sugar costs more; and so do ragouts, or pheasants, or ortolans. But what is this to the point? We do not say, All things are cheaper: But any of the things above mentioned are; at least, if prudently managed. Therefore, if you really desire to save what you can, you will drink tea no more. 18. “Well, I do not design to buy any more myself; but where others drink it, there is nothing saved by my abstaining.” I answer, First, Yes, something is saved, though but little; especially if you tell them before, “I shall not drink tea.” And many a little you know, put together, will make a great sum. Secondly, If the whole saved were ever so little, if it were but two mites, when you save this for God, and your brethren’s sake, it is much. Thirdly, Your example in saving a little now, may occasion the saving of more by and by. Fourthly, It is not a little advantage which you may reap, even now, to your own soul; by habituating yourself not to be ashamed of being singular in a good thing; by taking up your cross, and denying yourself even in so small an instance, and by accustoming yourself to act on rational grounds, whether in a little matter or a great. 19. “But what is saved will be no better employed.” Do you say this with regard to yourself, or others? If with regard to yourself, it will be your fault if you do not employ it better.