Fletcher had been only a few weeks at home, when Wesley opened the Annual Conference of his Itinerant Preachers. This took place in London, on August 7, 1770. The twenty-eighth question of that Conference was, “What can be done to revive the work of God where it is decayed?” In answering this, it was resolved, 1. That there must be more visitation from house to house; 2. That the books Wesley had printed should be more widely dispersed; 3. That there should be more field-preaching; 4. That there should be preaching at five o’clock in the morning wherever twenty hearers could be obtained; 5. That evils in congregational singing should be corrected; 6. That four fast-days should be observed every year; 7. That the Methodists must be taught to seek and expect, not only _gradual_, but “instantaneous sanctification”; 8. That every Itinerant Preacher, “in every large town, should spend an hour with the children” of the Methodists every week; 9. That no itinerant preacher should be so appointed to preach on Sundays, as to keep him “from church above two Sundays in four.” The last answer to the question is the only one that concerns the Life of Fletcher, and must be given verbatim. Continuing to instruct and direct his preachers, Wesley observed, lastly,— “Take heed to your doctrine. “We said, in 1744, ‘We have leaned too much toward Calvinism.’ Wherein? “1. With regard to _man’s faithfulness_. Our Lord Himself taught us to use the expression, and we ought never to be ashamed of it. We ought steadily to assert, on His authority, that if a man is not ‘faithful in the unrighteous mammon,’ God will not give him ‘_the true riches_.’ “2. With regard to _working for life_. This also our Lord has expressly commanded us. ‘Labour,’ εργαζεσθε, literally, ‘work for the meat that endureth to everlasting life.’ And, in fact, every believer, till he comes to glory, works for as well as _from_ life. “3. We have received it as a maxim, that ‘a man is to do nothing in order to justification.’ Nothing can be more false. Whoever desires to find favour with God should ‘cease from evil, and learn to do well.’ Whoever repents should do ‘works meet for repentance.’ And if this is not _in order_ to find favour, what does he do them for? “Review the whole affair. “1. Who of us is _now_ accepted of God? “He that now believes in Christ with a loving and obedient heart. “2. But who among those who never heard of Christ? “He that feareth God, and worketh righteousness according to the light he has. “3. Is this the same with ‘he that is sincere’? “Nearly, if not quite. “4. Is not this ‘salvation by works’? “Not by the _merit_ of works, but by works as a _condition_. “5. What have we then been disputing about for these thirty years? “I am afraid, _about words_.