Wesley Corpus

To George James Stonehouse Date: COOKHAM, November 27 1750. You seem to admire the Moravians much. I love them, but cannot admire them (although I did once, perhaps more than you do now); and that for the following reasons : First. I do not admire the names they assume to themselves. They commonly style themselves 'The Brethren' or 'The Moravian Church.' Now, the former of these, 'The Brethren,' either implies that they are the only Christians in the world (as they were who were so styled in the days of the Apostles), or at least that they are the best Christians in the world, and therefore deserve to be emphatically so called. But is not even this a very high encomium upon themselves I should, therefore, more admire a more modest appellation.