_Eversham, Sept. 28, 1750._
_Dear Miss B――――_,
I Thank you for your kind letter, and thank our heavenly Father for
blessing the seed sown to any of my hearers. Not unto me O LORD, not
unto me, but unto thy free unmerited mercy, be all the glory!
_If thou excuse, then work thy will,_
_By so unfit an instrument;_
_It will at once thy grace display,_
_And prove thy power omnipotent._
Hitherto our LORD continues to help me. Since my return from _Scotland_,
I have been brought very low; but as my day is, so is my strength.
At _London_, _Portsmouth_, _Chatham_, and lately in _Gloucestershire_
we have had many pleasant seasons. I am now going to _Birmingham_,
_Coventry_, &c. GOD only knows when I shall see my beloved _Scotland_
again. Gladly could I live and die with my dear friends there. It is
my comfort, that those who are friends to JESUS, shall live eternally
together hereafter. I know several of late that went off triumphantly.
O that we may be kept from being cumbered! O that nothing may draw us
from the feet of JESUS! There, and there alone is solid peace to be
found. Every thing is good that drives us thither. That this may be
always your abiding place, is the earnest prayer of, dear Miss _B――――_,
Your affectionate friend, and ready servant
for CHRIST’s sake,
_G. W._