_To Lady H――――._
_Gloucester, March 4, 1749._
_Honoured Madam_,
HAVING been moving this week from place to place, I could not write to your Ladyship as usual, and even now my body is so fatigued, that I cannot say much. However, I would beg leave to inform your Ladyship that the glorious _Emmanuel_ continues to smile upon my poor labours, and that about the middle of the week, by his leave, I purpose waiting upon your Ladyship in _North Audley-street_. I doubt not but I shall find your Ladyship riper for heaven, than when I left _London_. There you will be always thronged with company, and yet free from the least distraction. On earth it is otherwise. However, as we advance in the divine life, we shall be more and more conformed to those ministring spirits, who, though waiting on us below, do always behold the face of our heavenly Father above. This divine lesson, honoured madam, GOD has begun to teach you. May you daily make a proficiency therein, so that your progress may be made known unto all men! I will follow as fast as I can, though alas! with too slow a pace. I must now add no more, but my usual prayers for your Ladyship’s temporal and eternal welfare, and hasten to subscribe myself, honoured madam,
Your Ladyship’s most dutiful though unworthy humble servant, _G. W._