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 LETTER DXL.

To Mrs. D.

Dear Madam,     Biddeford, Nov. 11, 1743.

I Thank you for your kind caution to spare myself; but evangelizing is certainly my province. Every where effectual doors are opened, and great freedom is given to me both in public preaching and private conversation. Many are blessed by both. The Rev. Mr. J N, rector of St. Gennis, Cornwall, is here. willing, I'll go with him on Saturday. Here is also another clergyman about eighty years of age, but not above one year old in the school and knowledge of. He lately preached three times and rode forty miles the same day. The dissenting minister and his wife were very hearty, and perhaps here is one of the most settled female christian societies in the kingdom. I cannot well describe with what power the word was attended. Yesterday in the afternoon, and in the evening, it was just like as at Edinburgh. The old clergyman was much broken. A young Oxonian, who came with him, and many others, were most deeply affected. I suppose there were upwards of two thousand in the evening in the Meeting-house. Dear Mr. Hy, one of our first Methodists at Oxford, and who was lately a curate here, had laid the blessed foundation. So far therefore from thinking of nestling at London, that I am more and more convinced that I should go from place to place, and therefore question if I shall see London for some time. If not too angry with me for prosecuting this rambling way of life, be pleased to pray for, dear madam,

Yours, &c. G. W.

Postscript. Seven at night. To-day hath been as yesterday, and much more abundant. I am here, as in Scotland and New-Englond. Praise to free grace! Here is work enough for some months. The weather is very favourable; range, therefore, I must and will.