Asbury’s letters and related documents · Record 288

[ — 1810] — to Nathan Bangs

Signed in the source: Francis Asbury.

ASB_VOL3.PDF, PDF page 553

This letter has no date or place. It seems to be in connection with some trouble Nathan Bangs had in New York City.

[ — 1810]

[TO NATHAN BANGS]¹

My dear Son:

God be gracious to you and remember you, like David, in all his troubles. I am sorry, seriously sorry, I have not written to you, if I have not written. I am almost sure I had your name upon the docket; but I run, I flee, I forget. I feel for you, my dear, in a tumultuous city, a numerous society, and strange mixtures of people. And we have our work; I suppose I have at least near a thousand letters and papers put into my hands a year, all calling for some responsibility. From the first day I saw and read you I loved you with peculiar affection. I love Brother C.:² I love you all; you have been my good, obedient, suffering children.³

[F. ASBURY]

Abel Stevens, Life and Times of Nathan Bangs, D.D., 187

Notes (3)

See letter to Bangs, page 459. ↩
Probably Joseph Crawford, presiding elder on the New York District. Formerly he was a traveling companion of Asbury. ↩
Probably more to this letter, but not preserved by Stevens. ↩

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