_To Mr. S――――._
_Oct. 6, 1747._
_My dear Mr. S――――_,
LET who will be omitted when I am writing to _New-England_, I think, I
am under many obligations not to forget you. Blessed be GOD for making
you a christian merchant, and teaching you the holy art of trafficking
for the LORD. You trade upon a safe bottom. Your all is insured, and
you shall receive your own with good usury at the great day. Go on,
my dear man, spend and be spent for CHRIST’s people; it is a glorious
employ. I would not but be thus engaged for millions of worlds. It is
true, I am decaying daily; but resolved in the strength of JESUS to
die fighting. At present I am engaged in _North-Carolina_, and hope ere
long to send you good news from this ungospelized wilderness. In about
a month I expect to see _Charles-Town_. The LORD direct me where to go
in the Spring. Several ways present. I am willing to see more of the
north before I return to my native country. But alas! why write I thus?
How many important hours will intervene? O that every minute may be
employed for GOD, even a GOD in CHRIST. Indeed he is a good master.
He wounds, but he heals also. He brings down, but raises up again.
He humbles, but it is only in order to exalt his dear children. This
you and I shall find, as we have found already, times without number,
perfectly true, by happy experience. But I cannot enlarge. You will
deliver the enclosed. I hope my last to the dear Messrs. _M――――’s_ came
safe. I will write to more as business, opportunity, and health permit.
In the mean while, accept our joint most cordial love to all dear, very
dear friends. Accept the same to you and yours. I am, dear Sir,
Yours eternally in the everlasting I AM,
_G. W._