Your very affectionate friend, and servant for Jesus sake,
G. W.
P. S. My tender tender love to all enquiring friends; my dear yoke-fellow joins heartily: we are happy in Jesus, and happy in one another.
LETTER DLXXIX.
Bethesda, Dec. 24, 1746.
My dear Brother,
I Must not let your kind letter which I received a few days ago lie long unanswered. And now what shall I say? why that I would have you comfort yourself with this promise, “That all things shall work (nay do work) for good to those that love God.”—Blessed be God for that little, that great word ALL.—Could we always act faith upon that, nothing could move us.—It is this promise that makes me now to rejoice in the midst of all the tribulations that has befallen my dear Tabernacle friends.—For ere long you shall sing,
————O happy Rod!
That brought us nearer to our God!