It is with much satisfaction that I hear this great cityinquiring day by day after these my papers, andreceiving my morning lectures with a becomingseriousness and attention. My publisher tells me thatthere are already three thousand of them distributedevery day. So that if I allow twenty readers to everypaper, which I look upon as a modest computation, Imay reckon about three-score thousand (60,000)disciples in London and Westminster, whom I hopewill take care to distinguish themselves from thethoughtless herd of their ignorant and unattentivebrethren. Since I have raised to myself so great anaudience, I shall spare no pains to make theirinstruction agreeable, and their diversion useful.