FEBRUARY 14
Do not encourage young raw men to exhort among you. It does little good either to you or them. Rather in every Society, where you have not an experienced preacher, let one of the leaders read the Notes upon the New Testament or the Christian Library. By this, the wisest among you may profit much, a thousand times more than by listening to forward youths who neither speak English or common sense.
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Whoever misses his class thrice together thereby excludes himself, and the preacher that comes next ought to put out his name. … Meet the brethren or leave them. It is not honest to profess yourself of a Society and not observe the rules of it.
to the societies at Bristol, 1764
Disappoint those who wait for your halting.
Letter, 5th September, 1785
