sufficient tenderness, knowing not then experimentally the helplessness of
the creature. After it had pleased the Lord to show me the truth more
clearly, in the summer of 1829, I wrote in a different way; but in the
commencement of the year 1833 I felt pressed in spirit once more, most
fully, not so much as a son, but as a servant of Christ, to write, and to
point out to him minutely his state, showing him the danger of his soul,
the grounds of which I fully laid before him. When this, as formerly,
greatly displeased him, I ceased to speak any more in this way, and from
that time I aimed and still aim more and more to show him love in action,
as it becomes a believing son, telling him only how happy I am--how I am
supported under such and such trials--how I am not caring about certain
things as formerly I did--in what an awful state I was once living, and how
God brought me out of it; and how any sinner, by forsaking his evil ways,
and believing on the Lord Jesus, may be brought to the same joy and
happiness, and what a delight it would be to me to meet my father at last
in heaven, &c. Since I have corresponded with him in this way, things have
been very comfortable, though I have brought as much truth before him as
formerly, and though I have never sent a letter without speaking,
comparatively, much about these things. On the same ground I have not on
this visit spoken directly to my father about the state of his soul,
though he has more than ever heard the truth from my lips. God has indeed
been with me, and I believe that I have been led by Him to pursue this
course. Different, however, has been the way in which I have dealt with my
unconverted brother; for the relationship in which I stand to him is a
different one. For this afternoon, I not only pointed out to him his
danger, but spoke also respecting his sins, and have done so in my
letters, and intend to do so still, if the Lord permit.

This afternoon brother Knabe called on me. He told me that he had already
experienced a trial on account of his intention to pay the money, as his
wife tried to keep him from it, by endeavouring to persuade him that God
does not require him to do such a thing, as he has taken two orphan
children into his house. He nevertheless is determined to do it. He saw,
however, another difficulty, which was, that, when he looked over the
papers containing the names of his creditors, it was found that all but
three, out of about thirty, were