SARAH CROSBY

(1729 – 1804)

Sarah Crosby has already been mentioned as one of Mary Fletcher’s assistants; she also was a correspondent of Wesley, and one of his most esteemed female co-laborers, addressing meetings, not only in houses but in the fields, holding a service almost daily at five o’clock in the morning, (as was customary among the Methodists,) as well as in the afternoon and evening. Wesley guided her in these labors, and maintained an intimate Christian correspondence with her. “It comforts me,” he wrote, “to hear that your love does not decrease; I want it to increase daily. Is there not height and depth in Him with Whom you have to do, for your love to rise infinitely higher, and to sink infinitely deeper, into Him than ever it has done yet? Are you fully employed for Him? And yet so as to have some time, daily, for reading and other private exercises? If you should grow cold, it would afflict me much. Rather let me always rejoice over you.”

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