[394]. Letters, 1791, p. 23; and Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1846, p. 141.
[395]. Letters, 1791, p. 239.
[396]. Letters, 1791, p. 240.
[397]. Berridge, of Everton, also came to Fletcher at Stoke Newington.
“They[“They] met and parted in the spirit of Christian love; and I believe saw each other no more in the body.” (The Works of the Rev. John Berridge, A.M.; with a Memoir of his Life, by Rev. R. Whittingham, p. 63.)
Another, who visited him, was Dr. Price, who, afterwards, said, “I was introduced to the company of a man, whose air and countenance bespoke him fitted rather for the society of angels, than for the conversation of men.” (Cox’s “Life of Fletcher,” p. 114.)
[398]. Letters, 1791, p. 242.
[399]. The chapel was enlarged a short time before Fletcher’s death in 1785. On the morning of the day when his friends began to hew the stones for the enlargement, he went to the quarry, and said, “First of all, let us pray.” The workers knelt upon the rock; Fletcher prayed in a way that few besides himself could pray; and then, till duty called him elsewhere, assisted in shaping the stones for the extension of the building. (Crowther’s “Portraiture of Methodism,” p. 96.)
[400]. MS. in Fletcher’s own handwriting.
[401]. Letters, 1791, p. 24.