_To Mr. D――――._
_Dublin, June 1, 1751._
_My very dear Friend_,
I Fully proposed to have written to you from _Wales_, but was prevented
by travelling and preaching. In about three weeks, I rode perhaps above
five hundred miles, and preached generally twice a day. Congregations
were as large as usual, and I trust an unusual power accompanied the
word. After being about five days on the water, I arrived here the
24th ult. At first the greatness and hurry of the place surprized me;
but thanks be to the LORD of the harvest, here as well as elsewhere
the fields are white ready unto harvest. I have now preached about
fourteen times, and find great freedom in dealing out the bread of life.
Congregations are large, and hear as for eternity. Perhaps last LORD’s
day upwards of ten thousand attended. It much resembled a _Moor-fields_
auditory. Next _Monday_, GOD willing, I leave _Dublin_, and set out
on a circuit to _Limerick_, _Cork_, _Athlone_, _Waterford_, &c. I now
lodge at a banker’s, who purposes to come to _London_ shortly. He is
a follower of CHRIST, and will be glad of your acquaintance. I purpose
giving him a letter. Have you heard nothing of Captain _Grant_? I
long to hear of his arrival, because I would fain go over with him
to _America_. Pray give me the first intelligence concerning him. A
long journey is before me, but I would be at home every where, and
yet never at home, till I come to heaven. There, the wicked will cease
from troubling; there, the weary will be at rest. There, before men and
angels will I declare how kind, yea exceeding kind, you and yours have
been to, my very dear friend,
Yours most affectionately in our common LORD,
_G. W._