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 still persist in field-preaching. Others are strangers to our call. I know infinite good hath been done by it already, and greater good will yet be done thereby every day: but we must be judged of our brethren. May bless you more and more every day, and cause you to triumph in every place. Next Monday, willing, I go to Charles-Town. My family is well regulated; but I want some more gracious assistants. I have near an hundred and thirty to maintain daily, without any fund. The gives me a full undisturbed confidence in his power and goodness. Dear Sir, adieu. I can write no more; my heart is full. I want to be a little child. O continue to pray for Your most unworthy, but affectionate brother and servant in our dear,  G. W.     LETTER CC. To Mr. J H.

Dearest J     Savannah, June 25, 1740.

EVERY letter you write, knits my heart more and more to you in the bowels of. Your last I received on Saturday. had been preparing me for it, by a week's intimation upon my heart, and by an inexpressible agony in my soul just before it came to hand. Blessed be that our friends preach up poverty of spirit, for that is the only foundation whereon to build solid abiding comfort. The stony ground received the word with joy; but how did those hearers stand in a day of temptation? They fell away; for it is very possible that the heart may have much joy floating on the top of it, and yet be as hard as the nether millstone. Hence it is that so many, who boast of rest in their flashes of joy, are self-*willed, impatient of reproof, despisers of others in a mourning state, and wise in their own conceits: whereas the believer, that hath been with his in the wilderness, and has a truly broken and contrite heart, though his joy may not be so extravagant, yet it is substantial. Such a soul hangs upon for what the will say to him, by the small still voice of his spirit. This is the state I want all our friends to arrive at.
 * thinks before he speaks; and is continually hearkening