To Mr James M'Donald.

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DCCCLIV. — To Mr. James M’Donald,

MY DEAR BROTHER, LONDON, October 23, 1790.

YOU have great reason to praise God for his late glorious work at and near Newry; and I make no doubt but it will continue, yea, and increase, if the subjects of it continue to walk humbly and closely with God. Exhort all our brethren steadily to wait upon God in the appointed means of fasting and prayer; the former of which has been almost universally neglected by the Methodists, both in England and Ireland.

But it is a true remark of Kempis: “The more thou deniest thyself, the more thou wilt grow in grace.”

I am

Your affectionate friend and brother.