in to repentance."
Does it not seem clear that what is described cannot be the case of
one who has the repentant heart? I think so decidedly, and that
passage has no bearing on the sinner who repents.... No one will
come to harm who commits himself to His keeping. And no one will
lack leading who has God for his guide. If I could only hear of or
from the friends I pray for, that they had given themselves over to
God's keeping, I would be at rest and thankful. You are trusting in
Him. You will not be ashamed. He will take care to supply every
needed blessing at the right time and in the right way.

'Some day, I believe we shall stand in Eternity and look back on
Time. How ashamed we then shall be of any want of trust and of any
unfaithfulness! May He help us to look at things now in _that_
light, and how to do as we then shall wish we had done!...

'I would be glad if you would send me half a dozen copies of the
_Wordless Book_. Two copies fell into the hands of robbers and were
thus lost....

'I shall be glad to have the _Life of Faith_. You might mark any
passages that strike you.'

In a letter to the Rev. J. Paterson, dated April 1, he writes:--

'It helps me much out here to get the best consecrated literature,
and to get it early. Men in the most difficult and dangerous fields
should be the best armed and equipped. Some of these books open up
new treasures to me in God's Word. I do not use them in place of
God's Word, but as openers to the treasures.'

In almost the last letter from him received by his brother Alexander and
dated April 24, 1891, the following passage occurs:--

'_The Practice of the Presence of God_, being conversations and
letters of Brother Lawrence. Please send a copy to yourself, John,
Matthew, Paterson, Miss Gowan, and ten copies to me, charging all
costs to me, of course. It is by a Roman Catholic: don't imitate
his Roman Catholicism, but his practice of the presence of God.'

In April Mr. Gilmour journeyed to Tientsin, and was unanimously elected
to preside over the annual meeting of the North China District Committee
of the London Missionary Society as chairman. His last communication to
the home Society, with the exception of one brief note upon a matter of
committee business, was a post-card, dated April 20, 1891, received in
London some weeks