“Mutual Christian love will not permit you, and those in connection with you, to forget a willing pilgrim, going now across the Atlantic for the thirteenth time. At present, I am kept from staggering; being fully persuaded, that the voyage will be for the Redeemer’s glory, and the welfare of precious and immortal souls. Oh to be kept from flagging in the latter stages of our road! _Ipse, Deo volente, sequar, etsi non passibus æquis._ Cordial love and respect await your brother, and all that are so kind as to inquire after, and be concerned for, “Reverend and very dear sir, “Less than the least of all, “GEORGE WHITEFIELD.”[51] Thus the old friends parted, not to meet again, till they met in heaven. Twelve months afterwards, the great orator was dead. Wesley spent the month of January in meeting the London classes, and in a visit to Sheerness and Chatham. In February, he made a tour to Norfolk; and, on the 6th of March, set out for Ireland, and arrived in Dublin on the 22nd. Here we pause, to insert two of his letters to two of his female correspondents. The first was addressed to Lady Maxwell, and refers to a subject of some interest, though one on which opinions will differ. “LONDON, _March 3, 1769_. “MY DEAR LADY,--I have heard my mother say, ‘I have frequently been as fully assured, that my father’s spirit was with me, as if I had seen him with my eyes.’ But she did not explain herself any further. I have myself many times found, on a sudden, so lively an apprehension of a deceased friend, that I have sometimes turned about to look; at the same time, I have felt an uncommon affection for them. But I never had anything of this kind with regard to any but those that died in faith. In dreams, I have had exceeding lively conversations with them; and I doubt not but they were then very near. “I am, my dear lady, your ever affectionate servant, “JOHN WESLEY.”[52] The next was addressed to Sarah Crosby, the female preacher. “CHESTER, _March 18, 1769_. “MY DEAR SISTER,--The westerly winds detain me here. When I am in Ireland, you have only to direct to Dublin, and the letter will find me. “I advise you, as I did Grace Walton formerly--1. Pray in private or public as much as you can. 2. Even in public, you may properly enough intermix short exhortations with prayer; but keep as far from what is called preaching as you can; therefore, never take a text; never speak in a continued discourse, without some break, above four or five minutes. Tell the people, ‘We shall have another prayermeeting at such a time and place.’ If Hannah Harrison had followed these few directions, she might have been as useful now as ever.