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me with this very affliction, since it
has opened to me more clearly the
pathway to glory." After making
an affecting comparison between his
own distress, and the far greater
and meritorious sufferings of his
Saviour, he adds: "I know he loves
me and I love him sincerely, but
not as I ought. I can never love
him here as I ought for what he has
done for me." The change of residence
to the shore of the lake which was
made at his request in May, seemed
at first to revive him, but it became
gradually more and more evident,
that it was not the Lord's will to
lengthen his life here, but to take him
soon from tribulation here below, to
the pleasures for even more at his right
hand. About the middle of Sept. he
returned to his resting place in Grace-
hill, there in patience to await the
Lord's good time to call him
In the visits which the laborers
of the Congregation paid him in these last weeks,
he