MAY 6
Your preaching frequently will be no hindrance, but rather a furtherance (to your health), provided you have the resolution always to observe the Methodist rule of concluding the Service within the hour.
to R. C. Brackenbury, 1781
Be not at everyone’s call. … Never continue the Service above an hour at once, singing, preaching, prayer and all. You are not to judge by your own feelings, but by the word of God. Never scream. Never speak above the natural pitch of your voice; it is disgustful to the hearers. It gives them pain, not pleasure. And it is destroying yourself.
to Sarah Mallett, 1789
Let us work while the day is.
Letter, 7th March, 1779
