the soul would sink under sin: to know that for Christ's sake
we are pardoned. Yea, though we have played the harlot with
many lovers, the Lord has restored us, and decked us for his
bride against the day of his espousals. Oh what a day, the day
of the marriage supper of the Lamb will be, may our hearts be
waiting for it, with holy expectation. Pray for me that my
faith fail not, nor my Lord's love even appear little in my
eyes; but that I may always be enabled to say, "Though he slay
me yet will I trust in him." If it be, that all my hopes
finish, may his holy blessed will be done. I often wonder how
he keeps up my hope as he does; but still I do hope even
against hope: and I would call upon you, and all my dear
friends, brethren, and sisters in Christ, to rejoice with me at
the prospect of that blessed day which is dawning upon us, when
we shall see our beloved as he is, and dwell with him for ever,
when our vile bodies will be changed and made like unto his
glorious body, when the whole number of his elect family will
be completed, and we shall reign with him in glory.

_Jan. 16, 1832._--My dear little boy, Frank, is just laid down
in a fever, so I cannot now go to Aleppo. Thus the Lord
frustrates all our plans and purposes.

THE END.

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