Wesley Corpus

To Christopher Hopper Date: NEAR LONDON, February 1, 1777. MY DEAR BROTHER, James Kershaw is stark staring mad, more than ever John Reed was. See letters of March 3, 1776 (to Mrs. Woodhouse), and Feb. 15, 1777. He prophesies that 'all the Methodists are to go over to America in the belly of a whale.' Take this as a specimen. We shall not begin our building here before April. Probably I shall take a short journey (to Leeds or Newcastle or Dublin) once a month; but I must never be absent long at a time. See letter of Feb. 14. How we shall be able to raise the money I know not. But ' the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.' I am Your affectionate friend and brother.