p216 [W Moore] MY DEAR BROTHER, - You can hardly compare mercy and grace thus.* Grace refers more to the source and character of the sentiment, mercy to the state of the person who is its object. Grace may give me glory, but mercy contemplates some need in me. Mercy is great in the greatness of the need, grace in the thought of the person exercising it.
{*Mercy, 'the day spring in God's own being,' 'sovereign and absolute,' reached 'when the divine outflow of grace had been abused,' 'which presupposes this condition of things,' 'confounded with grace to the soul's great loss indeed.' 'When the grace in which all were set has been abused, outraged, nothing remains but absolute and sovereign mercy for all.'}

Affectionately yours in the Lord.

London, February, 1882.

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