“I have just received a letter from Lord Buchan, in which he says, ‘Pray for me, that I also may be found faithful when our Master calls for me, and that I may live a martyr to redeeming love, and die a trophy and a monument of the reality of the despised influences of the Holy Ghost.’ It is a singular honour to belong to so excellent a nobleman. Oh! how far below his grace is his nobility! I feel a strong desire to pray that he may be kept from the fickleness of youth[146] and the baits of ambition. I share in the happiness of Lady Buchan and Lady Anne Erskine upon the occasion. May God make them, together with your ladyship, a fourfold cord to draw sinners unto Jesus.”[147] Footnote 146: The new earl was only twenty-four years of age. Footnote 147: “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii., p. 19. Fletcher evidently was pleased with his appointment. The emoluments of his new office probably were small, perhaps _nil_; but, by means of it, he became associated with one of the most pious and exemplary noblemen of the day. To recur to Fletcher’s former letter to the Countess of Huntingdon. He nominated James Glazebrook as a fitting candidate to be examined for admission into Lady Huntingdon’s intended college. As already stated, Glazebrook was a poor, hardworking collier. He was without money and without learning; but he had two of the three things by which Wesley tested the Divine call of his itinerants to preach; namely, “_grace_” and “_gifts_;” and Fletcher had no doubt that when the opportunity arrived, he would have the third—“_fruit_.” Wesley’s own definitions of these three words were:— “_Grace_: a knowledge of God as a pardoning God; the love of God abiding in them; desiring and seeking nothing but God; and the being holy in all manner of conversation. _Gifts_: in some tolerable degree a clear, sound understanding; a right judgment in the things of God; a just conception of salvation by faith; and a degree of utterance so as to be able to speak justly, readily, clearly. _Fruit_: are any truly convinced of sin and converted to God by their preaching? As long as these three marks concur in any, we believe he is called of God to preach.”