Wednesday, May 7, 2014

When we build

If you do build, take care to have windows enough and two broad doors; and do not build a scarecrow of a house.

  --To John Bredin, 1789

A preaching-house can't be too light or too airy? Therefore your windows must be large. And let them be sashes, opening downward; otherwise the air coming in would give the people cold... and see that whatever is done be done neat and strong.

  -- To Edward Boulton, 1769

You must not undertake any building till two-thirds of the money it will cost are subscribed.

  -- To Robert Costerdine, 1769

Letters of The Rev. John Wesley, A.M.

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