n and sisters, so long as we are in the flesh,
will always afford a sweet consolation.

I feel that Jesus meant his Church to be a body, not isolated
members. We have each a little ministry essential to the
happiness and building up of the mystical body--that there
should be no schism, but that all the members might love and
care one for the other.

This place has been governed by Georgians, Apostate Christians,
just as the Memelukes, another race of Apostate Christians,
formerly governed Egypt. The Sultan has extirpated the first,
and now the second, and the Janissaries who had a somewhat
similar origin, have, at Stamboul, experienced a similar fate.
Those of the Georgians who have had their lives spared will be
sent to Stamboul. It is certainly the design of Ali Pasha and
the Sultan, to make many changes here, and I wait to see the
Lord's goings. It appears to me probable that most important
openings may be afforded by these changes to our operations in
these quarters: but I have seen such things these last twelve
months, that my soul rests only upon God, to see how he will
move. His ways are so deep, so out of sight, that what we think
likely, He, in a month, brings to nothing, and yet in his own
good time, will bring the most wonderful and unexpected things
to pass. I have never ceased to bless God for the sweet
assurance of his unchanging love, for the sake of Him who is
our life, our dear and blessed Jesus. He has supplied me, I
know not how, in the midst of famine, pestilence, and war; and
though I have heard from none in England for more than a year,
especially from those that supply my wants, the Lord has not
suffered me to want, or to be in debt, and though the
necessaries of life have amounted to almost twenty times their
value during our late trials, he has not suffered me personally
to be much affected by it. His loving-kindness and care have
been wonderful.

Of all the political and religious agitations of England, I
have heard only whispers; but I am very anxious to receive a
full account. For many months all communication has been
entirely cut off; not a message has come though the road has
now been open a month.

The Lord has graciously allowed me to see the signs of
spiritual life in three souls of late,