_To Mr. B――――._
_Bristol, May 24, 1758._
_My dear Mr. B――――_,
DO not take my seeming long silence ill. Indeed it was unavoidable.
Ever since the receipt of your kind letter, I have been so exceedingly
and yet I trust profitably busied at _London_, that till I left
it last week, I had not one moment to spare. However, your affair
was not quite neglected. I communicated it to the physician of the
_Foundling-Hospital_, who is my constant hearer, and he wrote me the
enclosed letter, and sent me also the enclosed paper. I heartily wish
your design may take effect at _Edinburgh_. Glad should I be to do
any thing in my power to promote it, but I have little expectation of
seeing _Scotland_ this year. The _English_ work is so extensive, and
the blessed prospect of abundant success at _London_, hath kept me so
long there, that I shall be much straitned in time;――but if friends
pray, who knows what may be done. LORD JESUS, direct my goings in thy
way! On _Sunday_ we opened the summer campaign in _Gloucestershire_.
Yesterday I came hither. In both places the fields are white ready unto
harvest. Fresh labourers are raised up in _Bedfordshire_. A flamer (a
learned clergyman) is broke forth, and almost a whole parish, (I think
in _Buckinghamshire_) is lately brought to enquire after JESUS. I know
you will say, may it spread far and near! I must conclude. Excuse my
not writing to all my dear, never to be forgotten friends, and beg them
to continue to pray for, dear Mr. _B――――_,
Theirs and yours, &c.
_G. W._