time came he hadn't enough money to take him to London, and as
he was already in debt he could not borrow any more. It was a bitter
disappointment; but when his mother got back home again after her visit
to London, she wrote one of her bright, loving, encouraging letters,
which did something towards comforting the heart of this "mother's boy."
This was the letter:

"DEAR JACK,

"I am uneasy because I have not heard from you.
Don't just write letter for letter, but let me
hear from you often, and tell me if you are well,
and how much you are still in debt.

"Dear Jack, don't be discouraged; do your duty;
keep close to your studies, and hope for better
days. Perhaps we may be able to send you a few
pounds before the end of the year.

"Dear Jacky, I pray Almighty God to bless thee!

"Your mother,
"SUSANNA WESLEY."

When boys get to be fourteen or sixteen, they begin to think and wonder
what they will be when they are men. Very little boys generally mean to
be either cab-drivers or engine-drivers; and I did hear of one who meant
to have a wild beast show when he grew up. Jack reached the age of
twenty-one, and had not decided what he would be.

At last the time came when he must make up his mind. After thinking
about it very seriously, he thought he would like to be a minister like
his father. So he wrote home and told them his decision.

His father who had been ill and was unable to use his right hand
properly, wrote to him that he must be quite sure that God had called
him to this work before he undertook it. "At present," he said, "I think
you are too young." Then, referring to his illness, he said: "You see
that time has shaken me by the hand; and death is but a little behind
him. My eyes and heart are almost all I have left, and I bless God for
them."

Mrs. Wesley was very glad when she heard that her boy wished to be a
minister. "God Almighty direct and bless you," she wrote to him.

A few months afterwards, Jack's father wrote, and told him that he had
changed his mind about his being too young, and that he would like him
to "take Orders," that is, to become a minister, the following summer.
"But in the first place," he said, "if you love yourself or me, pray
very earnestly about it."

To choose to be Christ's minister, a