_To Lady H――――._
_Glasgow, July 12, 1751._
_Ever-honoured Madam_,
I Think it long ere I send your Ladyship another letter.――My last was from _Belfast_, where I preached twice on yesterday sevennight, and immediately after took shipping and arrived the next evening at _Erwin_. On _Wednesday_ morning, at the desire of the magistrates, I preached to a great congregation, and ever since have been preaching twice every day in this city. Thousands attend every morning and evening. They seem never to be weary, and I am more followed than ever. Though I preached near eighty times in _Ireland_, and GOD was pleased to bless his word, yet _Scotland_ seems to be a new world to me. To see the people bring so many bibles, turn to every passage, when I am expounding, and hang as it were upon me to hear every word, is very encouraging. I feel uncommon freedom of heart here, and talking with the winter, as well as summer saints, feeds and delights my heart. My body is kept pretty healthy, and my voice greatly strengthened, so that I think GOD is preparing me for more work, or that some trial is at hand. This I suppose will find your Ladyship yet in the furnace, but CHRIST is in the midst of the bush, and in the fiery furnace too; he will quench the violence of the flames, or cause the fire of his love to burn higher. I could enlarge, but am straitened. Some ministers wait for me. Your Ladyship would be delighted with our morning and evening auditories. This day in the church we have had a blessed feast. To-morrow I take my leave, and then for _Edinburgh_. There I expect to stay near a fortnight. Glad shall I be to hear of your Ladyship’s welfare. You have always my poor prayers, and my poor, but hearty thanks; being, ever-honoured Madam,
Your Ladyship’s most dutiful, obliged, and ready servant, for CHRIST’s sake, _G. W._