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Title	Letter to [Ebenezer Blackwell]
Post Date	April 26, 1760
Author	Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Recipient	Blackwell, Ebenezer
Date	1760-04-26
Physical Description	2 pgs total; 2 pgs text
Dimensions	20 x 16 cm
Address From	Newry
Country From	Ireland
Collection (Provenance)	Leete Manuscript Collection
Transcriber	Wanda Smith
Plain Text Transcription	[To Ebenezer Blackwell] Newry, April 26, 1760 Dear sir I hope your lameness is now at an end but not the benefit you have reaped from it. May we not in every trial, great or small, observe the hand of God? And does he send any sooner than we want it or longer than we want it? I found the inflammation which I had in my eyes last month came just in the right time. The danger is that anything of this kind should pass over before the design of it is answered. Whether Miss Freeman should make use of Lough Neagh or Lough Leighs (forty miles nearer Dublin) I suppose she is not yet able to determine till I can send her some farther information. And that I cannot do to my own satisfaction till I am upon the spot. For though Lough Neagh is scarce fifteen miles from hence, yet I can hardly find any one here who knows any more of the circumstances of it than if it lay in the East Indies. Hitherto I have had an extremely prosperous journey. And all the fields are white to the harvest. But that the labourers are few is not the only hindrance to the gathering it in effectually. Of those few, some are careless, some heavy and dull, scarce one of the spirit of T. Walsh. The nearest to it is Mr Morgan. But his body too sinks under him and probably will not last long. In a few days I expect to be at Carrickfergus and to have from those on whose word I can depend a full account of that celebrated campaign. I believe it will be of use to the whole kingdom. Probably the government will at last awake and be a little better prepared against the next encounter. When you have half an hour to spare, I hope you will give it me under your own hand. That Mrs Blackwell and you are not only in good health but labouring more than ever after an healthful mind and trampling the world and the devil under your feet, I am, dear sir, Your ever affectionate servant John Wesley The week after next I shall spend mostly at Sligo.
Published Transcription	John Telford, ed. The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, IV. January 16, 1758, to February 28, 1766. (London: Epworth Press, 1931), pp. 94-5.
Catalog link	http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=195727
Unique Identifier	JWesley 04261760
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2003
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4037 pixels in height or width.
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library.
Decade	1760-1769