p387 [H H McCarthy] MY DEAR BROTHER, - I have had extra work with replying on the Bible to Free Church professional infidelity in Scotland. I only wish I could do it better. I have had pleasure in doing it, but wish I could do it better. Faith in the word is the operation of God's Spirit giving it power, and I find it - with the deepest conviction of the whole, as a whole, being of God, and stamped with this character in the most marvellous way - difficult to bring the proofs out to many minds; but it comforts and strengthens those who have eyes to see, and God can open the eyes of others. I have sent some rapid papers to -, and have some more in hand. Meanwhile I have been writing on James for the Italians, and this I could profit by myself.

New York, 1877.

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