_To Mr. M――――._
_Savannah, June 11, 1740._
_Dear Mr. M――――_,
I Am not uneasy, but rather joyful, to find GOD lets you see more
and more into the misery of your depraved nature. I pray GOD, these
convictions may still increase, and that you may not fall short of a
saving union with JESUS CHRIST. I am concerned to find you have lost
a sense of your first love.――Take heed, my dear friend, and wrestle
with your dear LORD, till he lets you see the root of bitterness that
must certainly be in some corner of your heart. Perhaps you have not
renounced the world and your own righteousness, and then no wonder our
LORD doth not manifest himself to your soul. Sometimes, indeed, GOD
withdraws on purpose to wean us from sensible devotion, and to take
us off from seeking any self-complacence in our duties. If this be the
case of you and your friends, you are patiently to tarry the LORD’s
leisure, and to continue striving with all your might till he is
pleased to lift up the light of his blessed countenance upon you. You
must seek JESUS though it be sorrowing, and then, after three days,
you will find him; for the LORD will not always be chiding, neither
keepeth he his anger for ever. That GOD may daily renew you in the
spirit of your mind, is the hearty prayer of, dear Sir,
Your assured friend and servant in CHRIST,
_G. W._