From Rebecca Longmore in Oswestry to Mary Tooth. As troubled as she is, it is a comfort to know that she is not without Christian friends. Longmore has been brought very low.
Spiritual matters are discussed in detail.
Longmore has just been in the shop to an old lady among the Independents – she has been kindly circulating Longmore’s name [and business] among her co-religionists. Spiritual matters are discussed.
She had thought to have destroyed the enclosed but does not have the spirit as present. She has been considerably weaker this last day or two than for some months, although she is able to go in and out of the shop. Tomorrow is market day and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday there is unpacking of goods. Longmore must therefore send Tooth these [unreadable word] by Mr Ward who is expected at Mr Cooper’s in a day or two. Longmore trusts that Tooth will comply with her request by destroying them.
November 5th
Mr Ward is now expected on Tuesday next.
Their [circuit] superintendent [Charles] Janion visited them on Sunday last for the second time. He held a band meeting in the afternoon and a prayer meeting after preaching that night. It will give Tooth pleasure to be informed that there finally seems to be ‘something like a shaking of dry bones’ even in Oswestry. Longmore has always disliked noisy meetings and she has always been disposed to think that they do more harm than good, but in the present case she does not dare to think anything about it but to leave it in the hands of God. Spiritual matters are discussed in detail.