June 19, [1789] — to Thomas Morrell
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A letter to Morrell soon after the 1789 conference adjourned. Asbury’s directions to Morrell were explicit to go ahead, evidently in spite of opposition. The singing must have been very bad. RHINEBECK N.Y.
June 19, [1789]1
[TO THOMAS MORRELL]
My dear Brother:
If you can only erect and cover, with seats, windows, and doors, the new church by the first of December, all will be well, I hope. O brother, piety, patience, courage, zeal, and industry will carry you through. I am in faith, hope, and prayer that God will revive his work in [New] York. Do, brother, strive and reform the singing a little in our Church. I am thine in much esteem,
FRANCIS ASBURY
J.B. Wakeley, Lost Chapters Recovered from the Early History of American Methodism, 347-48
Notes (1)
- This letter clearly follows the preceding letter to Morrell. ↩