_To Mr. D――――._
_Dublin, June 1, 1751._
_My very dear Friend_,
I Fully proposed to have written to you from _Wales_, but was prevented by travelling and preaching. In about three weeks, I rode perhaps above five hundred miles, and preached generally twice a day. Congregations were as large as usual, and I trust an unusual power accompanied the word. After being about five days on the water, I arrived here the 24th ult. At first the greatness and hurry of the place surprized me; but thanks be to the LORD of the harvest, here as well as elsewhere the fields are white ready unto harvest. I have now preached about fourteen times, and find great freedom in dealing out the bread of life. Congregations are large, and hear as for eternity. Perhaps last LORD’s day upwards of ten thousand attended. It much resembled a _Moor-fields_ auditory. Next _Monday_, GOD willing, I leave _Dublin_, and set out on a circuit to _Limerick_, _Cork_, _Athlone_, _Waterford_, &c. I now lodge at a banker’s, who purposes to come to _London_ shortly. He is a follower of CHRIST, and will be glad of your acquaintance. I purpose giving him a letter. Have you heard nothing of Captain _Grant_? I long to hear of his arrival, because I would fain go over with him to _America_. Pray give me the first intelligence concerning him. A long journey is before me, but I would be at home every where, and yet never at home, till I come to heaven. There, the wicked will cease from troubling; there, the weary will be at rest. There, before men and angels will I declare how kind, yea exceeding kind, you and yours have been to, my very dear friend,
Yours most affectionately in our common LORD, _G. W._