p456 [To the same.] Mrs. F G Browne, Thank you very much for the notes as to dear Mr.- I was very glad to get the more detailed account of his later hours: first, because it clearly shews where his heart was; and, secondly, because it is itself very instructive. It must be a comfort to you to have so clear a testimony as to Christ being all to him, though of that I never doubted; still there is instruction and warning for all to keep close by the Lord while all seems straight. His state of mind brought it all out with more excitement, but the same thing would have been there substantially, if he had been ever so quiet. And now the mental feebleness is all past for ever: our minds, though in many things the expression of the inner man, yet after all are only the shell, not the kernel, and pass with this poor body as such; and Christ is all in the simplicity of eternal blessing. And there our dear brother is now till he has a glorious body to suit what he has to enjoy: then all will be perfect, like Him, seeing Him as He is.

The Lord, dear Mrs.-, will, I doubt not, order your steps, and prepare your way before you.

Yours sincerely in the Lord.

Andelfingen, Canton Zurich, 1878.

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