for God more completely now than ever before, and that
you will be a fuller blessing to your people. You have my prayers.
{114} I want you to make your ideals higher and higher. Then, when you
have gained one height, you will find that what you took for the summit
from the plain was not really so: there were further peaks beyond.

It is the beginning of an endless life. If God Himself be the centre
of all, the nearer we are to Him, the nearer we are to one another. I
_am_ glad that your wife is one who shares in your ideals, who lives
for the highest. What a life in store for you here! And there--

Before the judgment seat,
Though changed and glorified each face,
Not unremembered you will meet
For endless ages to embrace.

You will be nearer the centre then, and nearer to one another.

May God Himself bless you, dear old fellow! Forgive this poor attempt
at a letter. I share in your joy, although I am not actually with you.
I never remember any wedding outside my own family which has given me
greater pleasure. It was good of you to ask me to be present--very
good.

B----, I _am_ glad. You must thank God and ask Him to tell you what it
all means, and for her sake live as good a life as you possibly can.

With best love I am your friend,

FORBES.

_To a Friend after hearing of his intended ordination._

Durban: August 1899.

Your ordination will be like my own over again. It is unutterably good
of God . . . to put it into {115} your heart to live the life which I
had prayed might be yours. _Meizoteran touton ouk charin, hina akouo
ta ema tekna en te aletheia peripatounta_ . . .

[Transcriber's note: The Greek phrases in the above paragraph were
transliterated as follows: _Meizoteran_--Mu, epsilon, iota, zeta,
omicron, tau, epsilon, rho, alpha, nu; _touton_--tau, omicron, upsilon,
tau, omega, nu; _ouk_--omicron, upsilon, kappa; _charin_--chi, alpha,
rho, iota, nu; _hina_--(rough breathing mark) iota, nu, alpha;
_akouo_--alpha, kappa, omicron, upsilon, omega; _ta_--tau, alpha;
_ema_--epsilon, mu, alpha; _tekna_--tau, epsilon, kappa, nu, alpha;
_en_--epsilon, nu; _te_--tau, eta; _aletheia_--alpha, lambda, eta,
theta, epsilon, iota, alpha; _peripatounta_--pi, epsilon, rho, iota,
pi, alpha, tau, omicron, upsilon, nu, tau, alpha]

. . . If your temptations are great it is because your nature is rich
and noble; and when it is disciplined you will have tremendous power.
I shal