_To Mrs. H――――ge._
_On board the Friendship, September 6, 1769._
_Dear Mrs. H――――ge_,
REPEATED labours of love demand repeated acknowledgments. GOD bless and
reward you and your daughter! I hope you both returned home laden with
the grapes of the _New-Jerusalem_. _Gravesend Bethels_, I trust, will
not easily be forgotten. I am sure you do not forget to pray for a very
worthless worm: a worm, and no man! And yet, (O amazing love!) JESUS,
a never-failing, ever-loving, altogether-lovely JESUS, careth for and
comforts him on every side. Hitherto it seems like my first voyage.
Grace! grace! What hath GOD wrought? With all thy mercies, glorious
_Emmanuel_, deny not the mercy of a thankful heart! Had I more humility,
I should be more thankful to GOD and man. But I once more bid you and
yours farewel. Salute all dear friends as they come in your way, and
tell them their prayers are and will be heard in behalf of, my dear Mrs.
_H――――e_,
Less than the least of all,
_G. W._