The Lord bestow it ttihen and how he pleaseth ! I thank
God, I feel myself in a good degree dead to praise and
dispraise : I hope at least that it is so ; because I do not
feel that the one lifts me up, or that the other dejects
me. I want to see a pentecostal Christian Church, and if
it be not to be seen at this time upon earth, I am willing
to go and see this glorious wonder in heaven. How is



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it with you! Are you ready to seize the crown in the
name of the Redeemer reigning in your heart? "We
run a race toward, the-grave. John is likely to outrun
you, unless you have a swift foot. The Lord grant we
may sink deeper into the Redeemer's grave^ and there
live and die, and gently glide into our own.
" Let us pray that God wduld renew our youth as that
of the eagle, that we may bear fruit in our old age. The
Lord strengthen you to the last ! I hope I shall see you
again before my death ; if not, let us rejoice at the
thought of meeting in heaven. Give my kind love to
Mrs. Wesley, to my god-daughter, and to her brothers,
who all, I hope, remember their Creator in the days of
their youth. Adieu. I am, &c., J. F."

17. Although the circumstance has not been noticed
by any of those who have published memoirs of Mr.
Fletcher, yet it appears, from the date of several of his
letters, that he spent a part at least of the summer
of this year at Bristol, for the sake of trying the Hot-
well water.
