Note 399 — Chapter XX · PUBLICATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE IN 1777.
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The chapel was enlarged a short time before Fletcher’s death in 1785. On the morning of the day when his friends began to hew the stones for the enlargement, he went to the quarry, and said, “First of all, let us pray.” The workers knelt upon the rock; Fletcher prayed in a way that few besides himself could pray; and then, till duty called him elsewhere, assisted in shaping the stones for the extension of the building. (Crowther’s “Portraiture of Methodism,” p. 96.)