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 letters, and I trust it will yet prove an useful seminary for both white and black persons. I wait to see this great salvation, O ! To-morrow, willing, I shall dine with Mr. L, and on Friday morning if possible will endeavour to wait upon you. My hands are full of work, and I hear every day of fresh persons awakened; but I can do so little, and what I do is done so badly, that I fear sometimes my will throw me aside like a broken vessel.—Very dear and honoured Sir, for 's sake do you and your worthy collegue continue to pray for me; surely it is an act of the greatest charity. Less than the least of all, shall be my motto still. My heart is full; forgive me. I am now beginning to enter upon my thirty-ninth year. quicken my tardy pace! I can no more. But hoping to see you on Friday, and to be furthered in my work and way by your fatherly counsel and instruction, I subscribe myself, very dear and honoured Sir, Your most affectionate, obliged son, and ready servant in our glorious Head, G. W.     LETTER DCCCCLVIII. To Lady Hn.

London, Jan. 13, 1753.

Ever-honoured Madam,

YOUR Ladyship's very kind and christian letter, I have read over and over again. It drew my heart towards the Redeemer, and caused me to pray, that your present retirement, may be a glorious preparative for further, and yet more public usefulness in his mystical body. To have one's hands or tongue tied from acting or speaking for, is, to a new and heaven-born soul, one of the greatest pieces of self-denial in the world. But this hath been the lot of many of the most choice and holy souls under heaven. It is a mercy, that where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to that which a man hath, and not according to that which he hath not. I beg that your Ladyship would not have the least thought about my concerns, otherwise than at a throne of grace. Your Ladyship wants a bridle, rather than a spur. My highest ambition is to spend and be spent for, and