meet you when we shall have done with the conflicts of the Church Militant, allow me to relate an anecdote of good and large hearted John Wesley: "It is said that once, in the visions of the night, he found himself at the gates of Paradise, and asked who were within. "Any Wesleyans here" "No" was the answer. "Any Presbyterians" "No" "Any Church of England men" "No" "Any Roman Catholics" "No" "Whom have you, then, here" he asked in astonishment. "we know nothing here" was the reply, "of any of those names that you have mentioned; the only name of which we know anything is Christian; we are all Christians here, and of these we have a great multitude which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues."
To that great multitude may you and I, sir, be added in the day of our Lord's appearing.
I am, Rev. Sir, your obedient servant,
R. Mansfield
Hanley Ville, Parramatta,
September 6, 1870
To this letter a rejoinder appeared in the Cumberland Times of Saturday last, the 17th instant. I have not seen it, nor do I intend to see it; but I am informed by many persons that for malevolence and vulgarity it excels its predecessors. The mildest epithet I have heard applied to it is that it is "shameful!"
R.M