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[Christmas Worship Service Program, 1967]
No full textProgram for the Perkins Christmas Worship service in 1967
[John Wesley to Alexander Knox, 1784 September 26
No full textBristol
September 26, 1784
Dear Alleck,
Yours of the seventh instant found me out yesterday. You may direct your next to London. I am not afraid of your writing too often. I answer, in few or more words, as I have time.
So much may be said on both sides that I do not care to determine the question. I stand neuter; let the majority of the society do as they judge best. It is certain, very heavy encumbrances attend your keeping the present house. If you do sell it, take care none of the money be wasted, but every shilling of it reserved for the building of a new one. But I know not what house you could take for a pattern. The most tolerable one I know in the north of Ireland is that at Lisburn.
I am glad to hear that your preachers have formed a circuit about Londonderry, and have hopes that the work of God will now prosper. May it prosper in all your hearts! This is the constant prayer of, my dear Alleck,
Yours most affectionately,
J. WesleyLetter from John Wesley to Alexander Knox. This letter is one of fifty in a bound volume
[John Wesley to Alexander Knox, 1779 December 23]
No full textLondon
July 31, 1779
Dear Alleck,
Come when they will, whether I am more or less busy, your letters are always welcome.
If that is the disposition of poor Mr. [John] Abraham, if dreams or impulses are his rule of action, it is no wonder that he behaves as he does. Nothing better can be expected. In a late letter, Mr. [James] Creighton sends me word that Mr. Abraham was at the last love-feast. And from his adding no more, I conclude that there was nothing amiss in his behaviour. It may be, time, useful conversation, and freedom from care, may in great measure settle his mind.
If you had had firm and constant health, I do not see how you could have been saved. You would have been so admired, caressed, and applauded by your well-meaning relations, and perhaps by others, that it would have been next to impossible for you to have escaped the depth of pride and the height of vanity. But God was merciful to you, and sent this affliction to humble and prove you, and show you what was in your heart. In the meantime nothing is more sure than that all these things will work together for your good.
Far, far beyond thy thought
His counsel shall appear,
When fully he the work has wrought
Which caused thy needless fear!
Perhaps he may give you an earnest of it now. Does not a gleam of hope break into your soul? Can you help saying,
God is love! I know, I feel!
Jesus weeps, but loves me still?
I think, if you had any notice of it, electrifying would prevent a fit. And if you was daily electrified for a month, it would remove the whole disorder.
I am afraid my poor Sally has forgot me. Peace be with all your spirits! I am, dear Alleck,
Yours affectionately,
J. WesleyLetter from John Wesley to Alexander Knox. This letter is one of fifty in a bound volume
[John Wesley to Alexander Knox, 1780 January 28]
No full textnear London
January 28, 1780
Dear Alleck,
It will certainly be worth your while to make a trial of that mineral water. It is highly probable God will make it a means of lessening, if not removing, your bodily disorder. That this is in a considerable degree scorbutic, I cannot make any question—as one almost constant symptom of the scurvy is a great depression of the spirits. Another is eruptions, sometimes appearing then disappearing again. And mineral waters have frequently availed in these cases (as Dr. Rutty often observed ) after all other means prescribed by the most skilful physicians had been tried in vain. Come, who knows but the time of your deliverance draws nigh, even by a means which no one had thought of? It frequently pleases God to work by such methods as we never should have suspected.
Through every threatening cloud look up,
And wait for happy days.
And I cannot advise you in the meantime to shut yourself up at home. It is neither good for your body nor your mind. You cannot possibly have bodily health without daily exercise in the open air. And you have no reason to expect the spirit of an healthful mind unless you use the means that God has ordained. You well know faith cometh by hearing. I should therefore advise you to lose no opportunity of hearing—and trust God with the event. You are not likely to be in a more uncomfortable state than you are already. And which is the greater evil of the two, even supposing the worst? Certainly your having two fits is a less evil than your losing fifty precious opportunities! O break through that fear, which is a mere snare of the devil!
I commend you and yours to him that is ready to save you in soul and body; and am, dear Alleck,
Yours most affectionately,
J. WesleyLetter from John Wesley to Alexander Knox. This letter is one of fifty in a bound volume
[John Wesley to Alexander Knox, 1782 July 30]
No full textLondon
July 30, 1782
Dear Alleck,
There is no great danger that I should neglect to answer any letter which I receive from you. I do not remember to have received any letter from you when I was in Edinburgh. Neither have I received fifteen guineas, or any sum that I recollect, from any person of the name of Harvey; except five guineas which were given me by Miss Harvey of Hertfordshire, for a poor woman in London.
There is no doubt but there is a natural disorder in your body, which (for want of better language) we call weakness of nerves. And there is a disorder in your mind which is surely natural, namely unbelief. But without question there is something preternatural too, for Satan knows whereof you are made and will not fail to press every advantage which bodily weakness gives him.
I have known never two experiences more exactly resemble each other than yours and that of George Clark (now printing in the Arminian Magazine ). He was for many years thoroughly miserable. About twenty years ago he was perfected in love, and has been ever since one of the happiest of men. Such, I expect, will Alexander Knox be! What a miracle of mercy!
Let the Spirit now come down!
Let the blessing now take place!
Look up! Look up! The Lord is at hand! Let him take you all together!
I am,
Ever yours,
J. WesleyLetter from John Wesley to Alexander Knox. This letter is one of fifty in a bound volume
[Christmas Worship Service Program, 1969]
No full textProgram for the Perkins Christmas Worship service in 1969
[Christmas Worship Service Program, 2008]
No full textProgram for the Perkins Christmas Worship service in 2008
[Christmas Worship Service Program, 1993]
No full textProgram for the Perkins Christmas Worship service in 1993
[Christmas Worship Service Program, 2016]
No full textProgram for the Perkins Christmas Worship service in 2016
[Christmas Worship Service Program, 2011]
No full textProgram for the Perkins Christmas Worship service in 2011