notwithstanding I know that
while we are present with the body we are absent from the Lord;
notwithstanding I have no taste, no relish left for anything the world
calls pleasure, yet I do not long to go home, as in reason I ought to
do. This often shocks me. Pray for me that God would make me better, and
take me at the best."

The Georgian mission of her sons having ended, to her joy, in their
return home, a great work immediately opened for them in England. It now
became apparent, in their consultations with their mother, that the
views of Divine truth and even of the mode of propagating the Gospel,
which were taking possession of their minds, had to her been long and
deeply familiar as the desire of her heart. Her testimony was all the
more valuable that it was given with much caution.

Samuel wrote to her complaining of the new ideas of his brothers John
and Charles, and appealing confidently to her verdict in the matter. He
found that she mainly coincided with the returned missionaries in those
convictions regarding the Gospel doctrines of faith and instantaneous
conversion that were so soon to move the world.

At the same time she shared his apprehensions regarding certain things
in the work that bore an aspect of extravagance. "I should think that
the reviving these pretentious to dreams, visions, etc., is not only
vain and frivolous as to the matter of them, but also of dangerous
consequence to the weaker sort of Christians. As far as I can see, they
plead that these visions, etc., are given to assure some particular
persons of their adoption and salvation. But this end is abundantly
provided for in the Holy Scripture's, wherein all may find the rules by
which we must live here and be judged hereafter. And if, upon a serious
review of our state, we find that in the tenour of our lives we have or
do now sincerely desire and endeavour to perform the conditions of the
Gospel covenant required on our parts, then we may discern that the Holy
Spirit hath laid in our minds a good foundation of a strong, reasonable,
and lively hope of God's mercy through Christ."

To the communications of John and Charles regarding the fresh baptism of
the Spirit that had come upon them, she wrote expressing her
thankfulness for the glad tidings, only remarking to Charles that she
thought he had surely fallen into an "odd way of thinking," in stating
that till within a few months he had no spiritual life nor any
justifying faith. "Bl