Wesley Corpus

To Mrs. Christian Date: LONDON, July 17, 1785. MY DEAR SISTER, - I sailed from Dublin Bay on Monday morning, came into Holyhead Bay about noon, and on Friday in the afternoon (stopping only a few hours at Chester) was brought safe to London. After the Conference (at which I should be glad to see Mr. Pugh or Mr. Dodwell, or both Mrs. Christian was a friend of William Dodwell and John Pugh, for whom see letter of Aug. 14, 1782,) I shall with God's help visit the West of England. The gravel may be easily prevented by eating a small crust of bread the size of a walnut every morning, fasting. But your nervous disorders will not be removed without-constant exercise. If you can have no other, you should daily ride a wooden horse, which is only a double plank nine or ten feet long, properly placed upon two tressels. This has removed many distempers and saved abundance of lives. See letters of March 13, 1788 and Aug. 18, 1790. I should advise you likewise to use nettle tea (six or eight leaves) instead of foreign tea for a month, and probably you will see a great change. No person will hereafter be present at any Conference but whom I invite by name to come and confer with me. So we will have no more contention there. The contention seems to have been due to the omission of certain names from the Deed of Declaration. See letter of July 8 to Thomas Wride. - I am, with love to Brother Christian, my dear sister, Your affectionate brother. Our Conference begins on Tuesday the 26th instant; but the first two days only traveling preachers are present.