blessings, (More to others)
I write a few lines to thank you for your kind solicitude about
me,
when you yourself were probably suffering so much
more. Mrs. R. T. confirms the
account of your very oppressive cold, Which I hope /will be
removd by/
the blessing of God on this fine change in the weather,
for it is now raining green pease and goosebery Tarts: and our
grass, which on Sunday was as brown as a Mat is now as green as an
Emerald.
I thank God my fever has given way and I am again much
better,
tho I had an ague fit the night before last, as I generally
have on every change of weather.
I heartily rejoyce at
the improvd account of
Mr.
T.
Lady Waldegrave
who spent a long day
here Yesterday
(which prevented my writing)
thinks he looks tolerably. In addition to her heavy sorrows,2 she
is now involv’d in two or three /law/ suits which are this moment
trying at Our Assizes, and in which, as her Antagonist (her late
Steward) a friend of
Mr. Bere’s3
a deep designing Man has made a party against her, I fear she will
be cast. Every thing however which relates to money is a trifle
compared with her other causes of sorrow.4
I think your three Rules for
your London residence
were framed with great wisdom, and observed with great fidelity.
Health as well as higher things have been promoted by this measure
I hear there are many Candidates for the favour of your dearest
daughter.
May Divine Providence direct her in her selection! It is an
object of unspeakable importance not only to herself but to
many.
We must pray that she may be rightly guided, and I know
she prays for herself. I wish the opportunity could occur for
discussing some of those points which are too delicate for any
thing but personal communication. She is so superior to others in
/all/ the good points, even among the best; so superior in the
cultivation of her mind as well as her principles, to the
foremost, that she has a higher standard to act up /to/ and I
trust a higher destination to fill. At the same time her
attractions of a worldly and popular kind, makes her situation
require all the prudence and discrimination and piety of her wise
and tender Mother. Her example will be looked up to, and
the conduct of many may be determined by hers. I confidently trust
her high tone will never be lowered to theirs; but that by her
influence she may lead theirs to be raised to hers.
I would sympathize with you on the rough treatment you experienced
from the
Calomel* but I believe the preparation was judicious.
May God give his blessing to the
Water!
May God bless you my dearest Madam! may his holy
Spirit guide, direct and sanctify all your actions to
his glory and your own eternal happiness is the cordial
prayer
of dear
Lady Olivia Your faithful
and obliged H More
Adieu my dearest Lady Olivia –
May you and yours experience all the blessings and consolations
(which I trow are as good as the compliments) of this hallowed
and gracious Season. May God bless you and your dear children
and carry you thro’ the important work of their education to
their own eternal benefit, and his glory! –
Most faithfully and affectionately
Yours
H More
I commend you my dear Lady Olivia to the protection and
blessing of Him* whose you are and whom you
serve. May he smooth your path thro' this rugged world as much
as is consistent with the security of your eternal pr[os]pects!
[tear] May your dear children be comforts to you here, and your
crown of rejoycing hereafter is the fervent and frequent prayer
of dearest Madam
I inclose this to our excellent friend at [
Ivar]. It will I hope make one among the many greetings you will meet
on your arrival in
town.
May it please God to conduct you /while/ there, by his holy
spirit, to remove your difficulties and to strengthen /you/ ,
and not only to bless you in yourself, but to make you a
blessing to others.
My poor prayers shall be presented for you and your dear Children.
-
Tho this sickness has separated me from
my Apostle,
I shall conclude in his words by recommending you and yours
to God and the word of his Grace.
I am with true affection ever my dearest Lady O –
faithfully
yours
HM
How can
I write to you or how can I forbear to write? I have however
postponed it, well knowing that you want no such consolations as
I can suggest .
My sincere sympathy and my fervent prayers are all I have to
offer you. My grief is softened by the knowledge of many
merciful circumstances; one is that you are surrounded by so
many enlightened and truly Christian friends; another and the
principal one, is the cheering report they all give of the
deeply submissive and resigned spirit with which you bow to this
most trying dispensation. In the midst of my sorrow
I bless God that he has enabled you to give this evidence of
your faith in him, and of the truth of Christianity itself,
which can afford such supports under such
trials.
Still my dear friend, allow me to say I fear for you – I do not
fear that your resignation will diminish, or your fortitude
forsake you – I trust that the same divine grace will continue to
support your soul; but I fear for your body, I
fear that the very elevation of your feelings will be obtained,
at the price of your health sinking under your Efforts . I am afraid you will think me but a worldly counsellor when I
say, I wish you not too much to restrain your
tears, or to labour to suppress emotions which Nature dictates and
which grace does not forbid. Your life is now of increased
importance, your value to your dear children is doubled. The
duties of two parents instead of one are now devolved upon you. I
know these sort of arguments are frequently made use of to
stop the signs and outward expressions of grief, but I
know the make of your mind so well that I employ them with a view
to induce you not to put a /too/ violent restraint on your natural
sensibilities fearing the pent up sorrow may prey more inwardly on
the heart and the health.
Tho I have nothing /to say,/ and am not well enough to say it
if I had, I cannot forbear writing a line
to unite in sympathy with you, on the, I fear hopeless, state
of our dear invaluable Henry Thornton *, a letter from
Mr. Wilberforce * and
another from the
Macaulays last night, leaves us little or
nothing to hope. Oh! what a chasm will his death make in the
world! It will not only be irreparable to
his broken hearted wife , and poor
children*, but to multitudes of the poor and the
pious.
May God comfort us all, especially his own family, and
sanctify to us this heavy loss, by quickening us in our
preparation for our own great change!
For my own part, my hopes have been long very faint, tho in
opposition to the declaration of his eminent Medical
Attendants* I shall always think /
entre nous/ that corroding grief for
his unfortunate brother preyed on his
vitals, and laid his weak constitution open to any disease which
might attack it:
I dread that every post may bring us the final issue of this
long disease !
Patty who is poorly desires her
affectionate respects . – My kindest regards to
your fair companion , never forgetting
Mr. Obins , of whom I rejoyce to hear such good report.
May he go on unto perfection.
I wish he may be brought to love reading. I have invited them to
come when they please, and hope I shall be better, and of course
not so dull. – He is a fine elegant youth.
May God bless him! When you write
to H. do not mention any of the particulars I have named, as it
might make him shy in his communications, and I should not like to
seem to take upon me; but I will lose no occasion of pressing my
enquiries, and my poor counsel, which is not much worth.
Conceiving that you will be glad to hear from time to time a
word from me respecting
your Son,
I resolve to scribble a line, tho yesterday was a peculiarly
bad day .
Mr. Sparrow his Tutor and
Mr. Hensman spent a long day
here lately.
I took Mr.
H. as usual into my room; we had a very long discussion, and I
required an explicit account of their goings on, which he very
minutely gave me. I have the satisfaction of reporting that every
thing seems very promising; if the improvements are not rapid they
are at least progressive. At my request he has begun to attempt
composition. He reads
Watts’s Logic*and Mr.
H. makes observations on their joint perusal both of that and
whatever else they read together. As the days lengthen he
rises earlier which gives him more time for the
Greek Testament
before breakfast. He is translating some passages from
Demosthenes* which will help to form his Style. I suggested that
here after he should learn and recite some fine passages in
Burke’s Speeches.*
He reads by himself more than he did, and I lent for that
purpose
Plutarch’s Lives ;* and
Travels thro Germany .* I have also
presented
sent him
with
the Saint Paul of Barley Wood ,* which he has promised to read; I told him that
being written by one who had the honour to be his Mother’s friend,
it might interest him more. Mr.
H. says that tho he cannot say he sees as yet any
decided piety, yet he has great pleasure in seeing that
he [has] not the slightest prejudice against religion or religious
people. This is /a/ great point for ‘a
Harrow
fellow’.* But what I rejoyced at as the most gratifying
circumstance, was that he told me he possessed great purity of
mind. This is a blessed thing at an age when boys have commonly
their minds tainted.
May God’s blessing preserve it to him!
I think
Clifton
a very fortunate situation for him. I think now he is getting a
step towards manhood he would hardly endure the dullness &
total want of society of an obscure Village, where he woud
probably be too solitary, or led into inferior company. Now at
Clifton their little social intercourse is entirely among
religious, and well mannered people, and his Sunday’s Instruction
sound and good. It was Providential for poor distressed Hensman to
get Hudson to fill at once the Niche so fortunately
vacated by
Cowan,* or he might have forced himself into it again at
his return. There appears to subsist a pleasant affection and
confidence between the Tutor and Pupil and Hensman says the latter
has easy access to his house where he often calls, and
where he will get nothing but good. I have said so much about this
interesting youth that I have left myself no room for other
Subjects.
May God have you in his holy keeps,
prays and ever pray Your faithful
H More.
I was indeed surprised at this sudden journey to
Ireland: but the motive was too good not to be approved. I take a warm
interest in your account of
Lady Gosford. If ‘
this vile body’* some times presses down the Soul, it does also some
times exalt and ennoble it, and leads its immediate companion to
look down with more indifference on whatever is perishable. My
judgment of Lady G. was always a favourable one, her strong sense,
her willingness to read awakening, and heart-searching books; her
sincerity in fearing [deletion] to be thought better than she was,
and therefore affecting to make light of things which I at the
very time believed she was seriously weighing – altogether led me
draw conclusions which her present turn of mind fully justifys
I heartily bless God for a state so decidedly pious as you give
me reason to believe is the case.
I hope it may please the Almighty to grant the restoration of
her health, for the sake of her children ; and I trust she may become a powerful instrument in a still
more extended Sphere by employing the influence which her rank
and /fine/ understanding give her, in bringing others to see the
same great truths in the same clear light. May God strengthen,
comfort, direct, sanctify her!
I have delayed writing from day to day till it should please
our gracious father to determine the fate of our beloved
Mrs. Thornton .
That afflicting event has now taken place near a week, and yet I have not had the heart to write. * You doubtless have been informed by
the same kind hand
with myself, of the fatal progress and final termination! God’s
will be done! This we must not only say but submissively
assent to under dispensations the most trying.
And surely the removal of our dear friend is a very trying as
well as Mysterious dispensation.
To herself the charge is most blessed. To her children the loss is
most irreparable.
Poor dear Orphans! little did we think a year ago of
this double bereavement! but let us bless the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ
that he enabled this suffering friend to bear her dying
testimony to his faithfulness and truth. Never was a sweeter death than that so feelingly painted by
Mr.
Wilberforce How strong must have been that faith which not only
lifted her so much above all worldly considerations /but/ which
enabled /her/ to commit her beloved children, about whom her
anxiety had been so excessive, to the father of the fatherless. It
has pleased God to raise them, among many friends,
Mr.
and
Mrs. Inglis
to whose care she consigned, and who have generously accepted the
charge. They are peculiarly fitted for the purpose, sensible,
pious, amiable, strongly attached to the Thorntons and without
children of their own. Thus is the saying illustrated that
the Seed of the Righteous shall never be forsaken.*
My opinion is that Mrs. T is dead of suppressed
grief.
She reminds me of part of an Epitaph I have seen, only changing
the word day for Year
I was prepared for your truly afflicting intelligence by a
preparatory letter from
Mr. Macaulay , our most kind and considerate friend in
both the calamitous events of the present sad year.* It would be difficult to say whether I mourn most
deeply over the state of the body, or rejoyce most
triumphantly over that of the mind of my
ever beloved and faithful friend . I will not add to your sorrows by dwelling on my own, but I
will say that no one out of her own family can feel deeper sorrow
than myself. I know I ought not to dwell on this distressful side
of the question, but keep my eyes more intently fixed on that
bright side to which your piety points my attention.
May God’s holy name be praised that in this second conflict she
is enabled by his grace so to glorify her Redeemer.
My prayers for her are fervent and frequent. She is much on my
mind in my long nightly vigils. But I feel that I stand more in
need of her prayers than she of mine; Her purified spirit is
ascending to her God and Saviour She must be lifted by a mighty
faith, to manifest such serenity and resignation under
circumstances so peculiarly trying to her affectionate maternal
heart. Some months ago, before her illness,
Mrs. R. Thornton
(from whom I have not since heard) put me in mind of an expression
of mine on my first acquaintance with your dear Mother nineteen
Years ago – ‘that she would make a good Martyr.’ I did not think I
had so much penetra /tion/
Your letter affords so little hope of the continuance of
her
earthly existence that
I think there is more true kindness in writing to you, as are
without any expectation as to this world, than to labour to
administer false comfort ; to do this would not be doing justice to your strength of
character and to the lessons of wisdom you have been so long
imbibing. Who knows but your obvious submission to the Divine hand
which has inflicted these heavy strokes may not help to confirm
these principles of Christian piety /with/ which
Mr
Penington’s * mind seems penetrated.
God grant that the convictions of this estimable Man may end in
a sound conversion!
What joy would this give, not only to the Angels in heaven but to
the two happy Spirits who may soon be united to that blessed
Society. I do love this Penington. I cannot say what a
gratification it would be to me to be with you. It is for my own
sake I wish it, that I might learn how to die.
But my own infirm health, and still more that of
Patty would make us a burthen instead of
a comfort.
With such comforts indeed you are far more richly provided. I
cordially rejoyce that you are inclosed with such a circle of such
friends, and that those amiable and excellent
Inglis’s
are about to be added. My affectionate love to the patient
Sufferer. I am more disposed to ask comfort from her than
to offer it to her.
Your account of
Lady Gosford
is truly gratifying
May it please her heavenly Father to bless her with all peace
and joy in believing! May she find more and more of the internal
support of that blessed principle which none but real Christians
can either feel, or believe, or understand! May
her amiable Lord
follow her steps!
What you tell me of their family worship is quite exhilarating.
Lady G, now her fine sense has found its best and noblest object
will make no common Christian.
Tho our souls are sorrowful yet let them be thankful also. I
rejoyce to hear from this best of human Authorities how you my
dear young friend are supported under this heavy, very heavy blow:
that
tho your father and Mother have forsaken you yet the Lord
taketh you up .*
He will bless you all with the best of his blessings, for you
are the children of many prayers.
It is not the least of his Mercies that you are surrounded with so
many friends; and what friends! It will I trust be a
wonderful support to your mind, but you have a still higher
support; yet one blessing of the friends with which you are so
richly provided is, that they will be leading you both by their
conversation and example to look to that
sustaining hand all here deeply sympathize with you. For
my own part I am wanting the comfort I am attempting to give for
my own loss is great.
We have lately had a visit from
Mr. Wm. Parnell ,*
a most sensible and I believe pious Man ; he seems to have taken a deep interests in the improvement of
Ireland, and to be thoroughly acquainted with the existing state of
things. I am expecting him again before he returns. He speaks most
highly, that is more justly, of our friend
Daly. I hope e’re this you have made your visit to
Dublin
and the Environs. I want you much to see my very interesting
friends in that district. Pray my kindest remembrances to
Mr. Dunn
when you encounter him either by pen or person.
My poor Sister Sarah we fear is far gone
in a dropsy!
the others poor invalids.
I think I am rather the best of a bad bunch.
Love to dear
Millicent.
I commend you to God and the word of his grace
the Apostolic benediction.*
How my heart thanks you for your considerate kindness, (under such
accumulated anxieties) in remembering me and causing me so
frequently to hear of your goings on. I received
Mr. Hodson ’s letter from
Falmouth
very soon after that from
Miss Sparrow
dated
Gibraltar. But tho to hear of you was a great comfort to me, I lament that
no account of comfort to yourself has reached me.
Mr. Hodson’s report indeed of dearest Millicents
Attack was a fresh source of regret and sorrow.
Most heartily do I beseech our Merciful Father that the occasion
of this additional affliction may be totally removed, /&/
that you may not as the Apostle says, have
sorrow upon sorrow.* To the all Wise Dispenser of our sufferings as well
as our blessings, I am however deeply thankful that ‘
your Soul prospers and is in health.’*
May the Holy Spirit the Blessed, indeed the only Substantial
Comforter, continue to support, console, and strengthen
you.
These troubles tho not joyous but grievous, will I trust multiply
upon you the peaceable fruits of Righteousness.
In the mean time your health is the Object of my extreme
solicitude. Be as careful of it as you can, for you have much
more to do in this world.
Did I mention in my last that our dear friend
Lewis Way, with
Mr. Marsh and two converted
Jews spent a day here lately on their road to
Petersburgh where this noble, romantic,
heroic being is going on a Jewish Mission with the above named
Companion * The Polish Jew had been ordained the day before by
our beloved
Bishop of G–
the other Jew a German, the next day sent me a very pretty English
Sonnet, correct and rather elegant.* Way proposes
shutting up these Converts for six Months to study the Russian and
other Northern languages that they may preach in those frozen
climates.
Mrs. Way
generously consents to this Crusade. Before we parted Marsh
concluded the visit with a very fine affecting prayer.
May God bless them and their enterprize!
The amiable Enthusiast has heard of some little /white/ stone
Church in
the Crimea
in which he has set his heart on preaching.
Adieu my dearest Lady Olivia,
I commend you in the Apostolic words to God and the word of his
grace. If
Lady Gosford
is with you assure of her best regards I am ever
Your faithful and affectionate
H. More
I think you would be pleased with
Buchanan’s Life.*
I have the satisfaction to hope that
Patty is a little better. She is a
decided Invalid, but I am thankful for any improvement.
The Harfords have been to us since their
return, overflowing with accounts of His Holiness, and
their friends the Cardinals &c.
I hope they will now after two years wandering sit down quietly
and become a blessing to their neighbours, to the rich by their
example and to the poor by their bounty.* Not a day of
so uncertain a thing as life is to be lost.
May the Holy Spirit quicken us all in our respective duties,
support us under our respective trials, and direct us to look
for peace and rest where alone it is to be found.
You my dearest lady have been deeply exercised; God gives to you
the same tokens of his love in a /great/ degree which he gave to
the Saints of old, exercises of patience, submission and holy
acquiescence in his Will. Kindest love to your dear Companions
Tho I have written so much to
your excellent companion, in answer to his
kind letter, yet I cannot dispatch it without a few lines to
yourself.
Accept my heartfelt sympathy and cordial prayers; poor as they
are they are at all times offered up for you and yours and
especially at this hallowed and gracious Season; may all the
blessings it was meant to convey be yours, and those of your
dear party, even the blessings of redemption and the
consolations of God’s Holy Spirit.
Oh that I had wings like a dove, that I might fly to take a peep
at you in your Conventual retreat, sleep in one of your Cells, and
take a walk with you in the delicious Garden at which Mr.
Obins’s description makes my Mouth water.
Patty, who I thank God is not worse , joins me in the warmest wishes for your health, peace and
comfort.
May the Almighty be your guard your /guide,/ the strength of
your heart and your portion for ever!
How one feels the impotence of human friendship! to desire so much
and to be able to do so little, to do nothing!
I have just had a letter from
the most amiable and most calumniated of Bishops . His bitterest enemies can bring no charge against him but that
he preaches too often and works too hard. – Surely he may say with
Saint Paul
'forgive me this wrong'.
His health and Spirits are better, and he goes on to labour
with the zeal of an Apostle.
His assailan[t] [unclear] is likely to meet with great
promotion!!* His success will teach other worldly
clergy the way to preferment and no doubt it will be sedulously
followed up.
May God protect our Church! she is in no danger but from
herself. The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against, but her
own unworthy Sons may.
I hope as the attachment of these two amiable young people seems
formed on solid grounds,
that they may prove a blessing to each other, and to the parish
in which the Providence of Him who orders the bounds of our
habitation and our whole /lot/ in life, shall place /them. /
There is no character more exalted or more useful than that of an
amiable Clergyman who faithfully preaches the doctrines of the New
Testament, and who gives the best evidences
that he himself believes /them/ by living as he preaches; and who
makes his week day practice the powerful illustration of his
Sunday exhortations. Nor has the Wife of such a Man a slight
character to sustain; she will best prove her affection for her
husband by seconding to the utmost of her power his endeavours to
do good both to the souls and bodies of his people. To the poor
she will be a pattern of kindness, to the affluent an example of
prudence sobermindedness and piety. Her husband’s public lessons
will produce a double effect on his domestic companion. Will dear
Felicia forgive all this? I am tempted to it by the serious strain
of your letter which pleased me the more as I thought I saw in it
a visible growth in the state of y[our] [tear] own mind.
I pray God to increase in you more and more his grace, without
which all other advantages tempting as they may seem to the
worldly and the superficial, have no solid worth. When you see dear
Mrs.
Horne
assure her of my most affectionate respects.
My
Sister, who as usual is a great sufferer
joins me in kind regards to Miss Horne and to your fair daughter.
Mr.
Welby I am sure stands in no need of such advice respecting books
as I can give him Among the ancient Divines, I prefer
Archbishop Leighton ,*
Hopkins,*
Reynalds,*
Taylor* among modern Sermons, ,
Venns*
Cooper’s*
Daniel Wilson,*
Gallaudet,*
Bradley,*
Gisborne*
Porteus* I think
Milner’s Church History* a most excellent /work/
Thanks for your very kind and interesting letter.
We were all deeply affected with
Henry Venn
and all the circumstances which accompanied his introduction into
his sacred Office.*
May he, in living and preaching be the exact representative of
his excellent
Father’s.
Such fathers as his and
yours
have left a high Standard to which I trust it will be the study
and the delight of the children of both families to act up. It is
a great thing even where we cannot say we have altogether
attained to be always pressing forward. I doubt not I
shall admire
Mr. Dealtry’s
Sermon* as I do every thing that comes from his pen, his
head, and his heart. I should be sorry if they had diluted it. I
do not approve of that prudence which is apt to put
‘trop d’eau dans le vins de peres.’ * In my poor judgment it is not easy to be too strong
on the delinquencies of the present times – When we adopt
excessive moderation to the few we are guilty of cruelty to the
many – I should prefer the Sermon glowing and animated as you
heard it, to the more lowered cautious production, after it had
passed thro the hands of the nibbling and lapping critics.
God bless you my very dear Marianne
prays your truly affectionate
H More
May our gracious God, my dearest Lady Olivia, bless direct and
guide you both
is the heartfelt prayer of your Ladyships truly
grateful & affectionate
H More
I rejoyce with you on the comfort you must derive from seeing your
dear Children so happily settled, and about to be
settled.
I pray God to grant them his blessing, without which nothing is
strong, nothing is holy; and that blessing is abundantly granted
to all who live in his faith and fear, and who seek to promote
his glory. My love to your amiable
daughter
and to your dear excellent
Mother, who I hope has not forgotten me. As to
Mrs. Kennicott
All the accounts I receive of that old and excellent friend are
discouraging, as to any hope of improvement. I am willing to
hope however that she suffers little pain, so her neighbour
Mr.
Hallam
lately assured me. *
How many delightful days and Months have we spent together during
a friendship of 46 years!*
May we spend a blessed eternity together; and then we shall
think our earthly sufferings were less than nothing!
That every blessing may attend you, and that after this short
life (mine must be very short) we may meet in a World where
there will be neither sin sorrow or separation is the fervent
prayer of
My dearest Lady Olivia
Your very faithful
and affectionate
H More
Adieu my dear Marianne
May God bless you and all at your home with the best of his
blessings
Prays your very affectionate
[Signature cut out]
What a chain of Providences, especially when one considers every
connecting link, may be traced from the conversion of the Vice
Consul at Villa France, to the erection of the Church by that dear
glorious, rational, Enthusiast, (if I may couple
Epithets never meant to meet) to your bestowing on the fine little
boy an English Christian education.
May the Almighty confirm the important work, of which the
consecutive events are so striking!
He who has graciously overrated your bitter trials in
that Popish land, will not fail to bless a scheme so calculated to promote
his glory.*
Allow me now dear Madam to assure you of the warm interest I have
taken in the late family events. If I have been disappointed on
the one side I have been much gratified on the
other.
May it please our generous Father to bless you with an increase
of health and of his grace, that you may be blessed yourself,
and be made a blessing to others.
Tho’ after a bad night I am hardly able to hold a pen, I
cannot let the post go without a line
. Would that my most cordial Sympathy could be any comfort to you
and dear
Henry. You do not however want human consolation, you both deserve it
from a higher Source. What a comfort to your dear brother to feel
that he has in no degree contributed to the misfortunes by which
he is so severe a sufferer.*
May he may derive [sic] no small comfort from that goodness of
God which enables him to act with such pure integrity and to
submit with such Christian resignation to events which he could
neither prevent nor correct.
I shall most gladly receive you both, the change will do you
good . I am glad you talk of a fortnight hence,
as I am to have a set of holiday folks, whom I have promised
and cannot put aside . On the 27 I shall be most happy to receive you both with your
merry young One – I hope this may suit you – Do write again – You
are in my heart and in my prayers –
God bless you all
Yours ever
H More
I bless God for your favourable report of dear
Lady Mandeville. How I should delight to see her sweet babes!*
I pray God to bless them
We had looked forward with the hope of your being in this quarter
during
the Jew Week at
Bristol .
The Revd Mr. Way
opens his commission next tuesday by a Sermon, he will be followed
by Simeon, Hawtrey, Wilson &c in the course of the week.*
I know all this would have been an entertainment to your heart’s
desire. But we must submit to overruling circumstances.
May it please the Father mercies and God of all consolations
speedily to remove this trial and to sanctify it to your
spiritual good.
Adieu my dearest Lady O.
I commend you to the protection and blessing of God
Yours ever
most faithfully
HM.
Mr. S. and
Mr. Hodson dined here not long
since.
I heartily hope that any little
disagrémens
may be got over. I hope to see them soon again, with a
confirmation of the favourable appearance things then were which
Mr.
H. hoped would be permanent. May your prayers for this amiable
young Man be heard!, and
may he escape the pollutions of a World which will be throwing
/out/ all it [sic] baits to allure him into the broad way. To
his dear Sister
I send my best love.
P.
(who desires all that is kind) and I mourn over poor
Mr. Obins ’s solitude How he must miss you!
God bless you both and keep you under his holy protection
H More
If I scribble on I may lose the Post
– so
God bless you all with the best of his blessings, grace and
peace.
And now let me thank you cordially for the pleasure I received
from your interesting letter. Those little domestic details are
quite to my taste, when I love the detailer and the persons who
make the subject of the Narrative.
Frequently do I thank the great disposer of events who after the
heavy and successive /storms/ which have passed over your head and
half broken your heart, has mercifully placed you in such a state
of comfort and repose, /&/ has, by an extraordinary
interposition of his Providence raised you up such stedfast,
zealous efficient friends, as in the common course even of
favourable events could not be reckoned upon. Such losses as you
have sustained can never be repaired, but surely never were such
losses so softened, so mitigated.* I long to see your
delightful Establishment, and
Mrs.
Inglis
presiding in her department, a situation which brings her talents
into full action. When she was acquiring her various
accomplishments she little suspected what would be the objects
which should call them into exercise.
May God reward her generous exertions and bless her little
pupils with his best blessings!
