To Mr. Abraham Orchard

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DCXLVI. — To Mr. Abraham Orchard, of Bath.

DEAR BROTHER, 1783.

YOU have reason to be thankful to God for enabling you to set out in his good way; and, if you would go on therein, remember that you cannot walk alone. Therefore, your wisdom is, not to think much of shame, or the fear of any temporal matter, to connect yourself in the closest manner you can with those you believe to be the children of God. A form of prayer used in private may be of considerable use; only now and then, at the beginning, or middle, or end of it, you may break out a little, and speak a few words, just according to the present temper of your mind. When your sins are forgiven, you will surely be sensible of it; and “every one that seeketh, findeth.” But it will be given you without money and without price; you know not how soon! Perhaps now!

I am

Yours affectionately.