_To Mrs. C――――._
_Bohemia (Maryland). December 27, 1754._
_Dear Madam_,
I HAVE just now taken leave of the northern provinces, where I have
been travelling and preaching for near these five months. I suppose in
all, I may have rode near two thousand miles, and preached about two
hundred and thirty times; but to how many thousand souls cannot well be
told. O what days of the Son of man have I seen! GOD be merciful to me
an ungrateful sinner! I am now forty years of age, and would business
permit, would gladly spend the day in retirement and deep humiliation
before that JESUS for whom I have done so little, notwithstanding
he hath done and suffered so much for me. Well! to-morrow, O blessed
JESUS, through thy divine assistance, will I begin, and travel for thee
again! LORD, is the call to _Virginia_? Who knows but an infinitely
condescending GOD may improve me there! About _February_ I hope to
reach _Georgia_, and at Spring to embark for _England_. There, dear
Madam, I expect to see you once more in this land of the dying. If not,
ere long I shall meet you in the land of the living indeed, and thank
you before men and angels, for all favours conferred on, Madam,
Your most obliged and ready servant for CHRIST’s sake,
_G. W._