236 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. IX. 



of his nature, and of the spirituality which through grace he 

 had attained, than the following quotation from a letter 

 which he wrote after hearing read some memoranda which 

 had been made by a faithful attendant of poor Lucy, of 

 sayings well worthy to be remembered." 



"May 1 6, 1859. 



" I was deeply touched by the memorials of dear, gentle, 

 blessed Lucy, you read me to-day, but had not the courage 

 to ask you for a copy. To-night, however, on trying to 

 recall her words, I find I can do so very imperfectly, and I 

 would feel deeply grateful if you granted me a transcript. 

 It should be very sacred in my eyes. Lucy is to me so 

 truly an object of affection, and now, in addition, so much 

 an example of the blessed Saviour's special love, that I 

 would very highly prize what I ask. Unless you have a 

 great objection, do grant this desire of my heart. 



" I deeply sympathize with you both in the anguish which 

 such a trial must beget ; but with a happy issue out of her 

 great affliction so certainly, and, please God, so unremotely 

 awaiting dear Lucy, I do not wonder that you bow in unre- 

 pining submission to Him who doeth all things well. * 



"And when we consider that each of us, in the depth 

 of even natural sleep, is as helpless as your silent sufferer 

 when in the grasp of her malady ; and further, that there is 

 certainly much less physical agony than from the move- 

 ments of the limbs we infer there must be, we may surely 

 think that to be with Christ as Lucy, spite of her bonds, even 

 now is, is 'far better' than to enjoy the soundest unblessed 

 slumbers, which shut out not only the world, but the very 

 sense of God, from hundreds who never suffered a brief 

 pang. 



"We may yet find that He who has told us that. the first 



