_To Mrs. C――――._
_London, June 13, 1755._
_Dear Mrs. C――――_,
I WROTE to you amidst a great throng of business, a few days ago,
by a _Carolina_ ship. I am now retired to Mr. _C――――_’s, in order to
send you a few lines more. Matters about Mr. ―――― and his wife, have
happened as might be expected; it is my lot to be a pelican. But all
will be well at last; I know who will stand on my side. Thanks be to
GOD for JESUS CHRIST! He upholds me, and daily succeeds my feeble, but
I trust honest labours, and that to me is all in all. I hope you will
write often. What your brother hath written, I know not. I believe you
are where GOD would have you to be, and I pray him night and day to
make you more and more a mother in _Israel_. Ere this comes to hand,
I hope you will have received the things from the northward. However
it fares with me at home, fain would I care for my dear friends and
family abroad. GOD will provide! This is my comfort. Much depends on
your success in the silk, but more on my family’s increasing in the
knowledge of JESUS. O that this may be their happy case! O that the
LORD of all Lords may feed you in that wilderness! He is good to us
here. We have golden seasons at the tabernacle, and several ministers
preach CHRIST in the churches. This makes my call abroad still more
clear. Though I have not yet entered upon my country range, methinks
I could set out for _America_ to-morrow. What is time, relations,
and even the enjoyment of GOD’s people, compared with the unmixed,
uninterrupted joys of an happy eternity! Here I could enlarge, and on
this dwell, but must away. Ere long I hope to write to you again, and
in the mean while beg leave to subscribe myself, dear Mrs. _C――――_,
Your most assured friend, and willing servant,
for CHRIST’s sake,
_G. W._