Reflection 91

On the gift of Sunday... 

In the tumult of popular applause which waited on his canvass,* “I look forward,” he tells Mr. Hey,** “with pleasure to the prospect of a quiet Sunday with you, and rejoice that half the week is gone by; yet I am daily, hourly experiencing the never-failing mercies of Heaven.” “I have often told you,” he writes from Mr. Hey’s to Mrs. Wilberforce, “that I never enjoy this blessed day so much as during a time of peculiar bustle and turmoil. It seems as if God graciously vouchsafed a present reward for our giving up to Him a liberal measure of that time and attention, which worldly men would deem necessary to the success of their worldly plans.”

*during the 1807 contest for Yorkshire

**William Hey (1736-1819), surgeon and civic leader 

Date: Early May 1807

Volume 3: Pages 317-318

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