London, September 8, 1795

MY DEAR SIR,

YOUR friend, Mr. E***, breakfasted with me this morning. As he brought a testimonial from you, I told him I should be glad to see him again and again while he staid. I thank you for your two letters by him. I wrote to you last week, and therefore shall not undertake to pay my new debts as yet. By the taste I had of Mr. E*** I like him well. Mr. J***, the Antiburgher minister, brought him to me, with a Mr. M***, who, I suppose, is a brother of his own denomination. If they love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, I care not what they are called.

It is now my turn to recommend, and I do it with great pleasure. This is to introduce my respected friend M*** to your acquaintance and good offices. He was governor of Sierra Leone, when the French visited them, and heroically destroyed all their pigs and poultry with fire-arms, and without resistance. Mr. M*** will be a welcome visitant to you, for he will bring you good news from a far country. The fields there are ripe for harvest, and he will be glad of your assistance to procure more labourers to go with him into the black vineyards

Mr. B***’s papers are with the bishop; and I expect he will be ordained the 20th instant. He will then commence my curate. I have waited for him four years,-which is longer than I expect to keep him, if I should live so long myself. He is, &c. * * * * *, and from the Lord’s wonderful leadings of him, I apprehend he has designed him for important services. I hope I shall be willing to part with him at the Lord’s call; but should he be permitted to supply my lack of service, for I may expect soon to be laid aside, if I am not taken away, I|shall have cause to be thankful, as he is one in whom I may fully depend.

Perhaps I shall have time to add no more, when I have repeated my wishes for your welfare in every sense, in which Miss C*** joins — and assured you once more, that I am, Dear Sir, Your very affectionate friend,

* P. Mi J. N.