_A._ By putting an absolute stop to all building for the ensuing year. Let no new house be built, no addition or alteration made in any old one, unless the proposers thereof can and will defray the whole expence of it. _Q._ 74. What can be done in order to pay the old debt? _A._ 1. Give a note to each assistant, specifying the debts, toward which the money collected in each circuit next year is to be paid. 2. Let each assistant encourage the people in each place, like those in _Birmingham_, to make a push toward paying off their own debt. 3. Let whatever is contributed in any single place, which is in debt, pay that as far as it will go. But even this method being found ineffectual, it was agreed at the conference in 1771. To change the yearly subscription into a weekly one. _Q._ 75. What is the safest way of leaving a legacy for any charitable purpose? _A._ To leave it absolutely to a person they can confide in. _Q._ 76. What is the method wherein we usually proceed in our conferences? _A._ We inquire 1. What preachers are _admitted_? Who _remain_ on trial? Who are _admitted_ on trial? And Who _desist_ from travelling? 2. Who act as _assistants_ this year? 3. Are there any objections to any of the preachers? (who are named one by one.) 4. How are the preachers stationed this year? 5. What numbers are in the society? 6. What is the _Kingswood_ collection? 7. What is contributed towards the debt? 8. How was this expended? 9. What is contributed toward the preachers fund? 10. What demands are there upon it? 11. How many preachers wives are to be provided for? 12. By what societies? 13. Where and when may our next conference begin? * _Q._ 77. What _power_ is it which _you_ exercise over both preachers and people? _A._ Count _Zinzendorff_ loved to keep all things _close_. I love to do all things _openly_. I will therefore tell you all I know of the matter, taking it from the very beginning. 1. In _November 1738_, two or three persons, who desired _to flee from the wrath to come_, and then seven or eight more came to me in _London_, and desired me to advise and pray with them. I said, “If you will meet on _Thursday_ night, I will help you as well as I can.” More and more then desired to meet with them, till they were increased to many hundreds. The case was afterwards the same at _Bristol_, _Kingswood_, _Newcastle_, and many other parts of _England_, _Scotland_, and _Ireland_. It may be observed the desire was on _their_ part, not _mine_. My desire was to live and die in retirement. But I did not see that I could refuse them my help, and be guiltless before God.