“Answer. By a yearly subscription, to be proposed by every assistant
when he visits the classes at Christmas, and to be received at the
visitation following.”
To this end, the assistant was to enlarge on the following hints.
(1) That the debts on the chapels of the Connexion amounted to about
£4000. (2) That God had raised up preachers, and that they were greatly
needed; but could not be employed for want of money to find them food.
(3) That, in order to quell riotous mobs, it was necessary to have
recourse to the King’s Bench, and that a suit there usually cost £50 or
£60, which must be met by a general contribution.[547]