_To the Rev. Mr. H――――._
_Philadelphia, Sept. 9, 1747._
_My very dear Mr. H――――_,
I Thank our gracious GOD for all the good news contained in your kind
letter. It ♦gladdened my heart, and gave me reason to hope, that the
_Indian_ land would be a christian land indeed. When I received your
letter, I was just returned from an eleven hundred miles journey
northward, in which the rock of ages was pleased to let much of his
glory pass before his dear people. I was enabled to preach about 30
times in _New-England_, and am now coming forward towards you, and hope
to see you in _November_. My dear yoke-fellow would answer Mrs. _H――――_,
but she is gone to _Bohemia_. Accept thanks and love in her name. I
have been frequently at the gates of death within these few months,
and thought to have reached my desired port; but it seems I must put
out to sea again. My heavenly Father’s will be done. I have good news
from _England_. I have some thoughts of seeing it next year. JESUS will
direct me. Captain _Grant_ is sailed from _Jamaica_. Ere long I hope
to owe no man any thing but love. Something considerable hath been done
since I left _Charles-Town_. The LORD will never fail those that put
their trust in him. I have remembered the book with the hymn tunes. I
hope we shall not differ about an earthly matter. We are brethren; let
us dwell in unity, and the GOD of love and peace will dwell amongst us.
O that his divine love may be shed abroad abundantly in our hearts by
the Holy Ghost! How shall we then bear with, and forbear one another?
I hope all around you are well, and watered with spiritual as well as
natural rain. I salute all most tenderly; and hoping to see you shortly,
I subscribe myself, very dear Mr. _H――――_,
Yours most affectionately in CHRIST,
_G. W._
♦ “gladened” replaced with “gladdened”