Undated

All spiritual blessings be on my dear friend! Whatever the tender heart or the almighty arm of the loving Jesus has to bestow, may it be all yours! You made me promise to inform you of my motions, which I now fulfill.

God willing, I shall be next Sunday at

Mr. C.’s; on Monday morning in Y;

from thence I shall make the best of my way

to T, and, if I hear nothing of you

there, I shall proceed to A. My time

is short, so that I can but just stay to take my leave of my friends. “What a life is this! hurry, hurry, hurry, from place to place, from this object to that; weary with seeking, but never finding rest. Happy Christian who is fixed to a point! Go where he will, ONE object is his all. The crucified Saviour is his happiness; his perfect, everlasting happiness; and this heaven he carries about with him. No time, no place, no circumstances, make any change. He has one Lord, one faith, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Come pain, sickness, poverty, death, the Saviour’s love and power bear him up. Come temptations of all kinds, I will be with thee in the hour of temptation? says the Lord God. Where he is, nothing need be feared, because nothing can hurt. Oh, my friend, the true knowledge of Jesus Christ is an infallible cure for all the miseries which come into the world by sin. There is no evil of mind or body, temporal or eternal, but our precious dear Lord is by office engaged to remove it. And shall not you and I value and love him? What can we set our hearts upon; what can bid so high for them as this adorable Saviour? May he enable us to give them to Him, and then he will sanctify all their inferior loves; will let us love them as flowing from his grace; so that this love will make us love him more. This love is Heaven! All joy and glory is in it. And, as for the happiness of his redeemed people, we shall never know how great it is till we join the Church above. It will be a glorious meeting, Jesus bless you!

Amen, amen! I am, for his sake, your
faithful friend, W. R.