. . God bless you in your new
work and make you a blessing to others as you have been to me.

[1] He had been offered work in South Africa.

[2] 'Be not afraid, only believe.'

[Transcriber's note: The Greek phrases in the above paragraph were
transliterated as follows: _me_--mu, eta; _phobou_--phi, omicron, beta,
omicron, upsilon; _monon_--mu, omicron, nu, omicron, nu; _pisteue_--pi,
iota, sigma, tau, epsilon, upsilon, epsilon]

_To J. K._

_St. Thomas's Home, St. Thomas's Hospital: August 28, 1903._

. . . I am most grateful for your kind words, though I know full well
how little it is that I have done for you. We clergymen so often seem to
be working in the dark. There are no clear results to show, as _e.g._ a
doctor can comfort himself with, when he has visibly cured a patient.
And I for one am too easily inclined to despair, and to wonder whether
the work is not in vain. But 'trust is truer than our fears.' Yet it
does me good when I feel I have done anything, however tiny, for a man.
After all, results are best left in God's hand. He gives us enough to
help us the next step onward, but not enough to exalt us, and to make us
think we can do anything without His assistance. Work 'in the Lord'
cannot be in vain.

I am glad you have been reading Bishop Westcott's life. He was a man of
God, and his life is an inspiration, and a prophecy of what our life
may--nay, some day--will be. . . . I like that passage {187} when he
goes to see his old schoolmaster, Bishop Prince Lee, who tells him with
tears in his eyes that to his mind the whole Gospel message is summed up
in the words '_me phobou, monon pisteue_.'

[Transcriber's note: see the previous letter for transliteration notes on
the above Greek phrase.]

_To a friend who had been an international athlete._

St. Thomas's Home: September 5, 1903.

We had a fairly good 'Long' in spite of the miserable weather.
Congratulate me. I won my first athletic distinction last 'Long'--a
ten-shilling prize. I am thinking of chucking work and becoming a
professional. It was a second prize in a tennis tournament. I had (I
must own) the best player in College as my partner. I want to get a very
conspicuous object as prize. What do you suggest?

_To C. T. W._

St. Thomas's Hospital: September 1903.

I am getting on first-rate, and I hope to be up early next week. I
believe you are right. We should do well if we had more regularity and
self