LETTERS TO A FRIEND 



"The Hollow," January 21, 1866. 



YOUR last, written in the delicious quiet of a 

 Sabbath in the country, has been received and 

 read a good many times. I was interested with 

 the description you draw of your sermon. You 

 speak of such services like one who appreciated 

 and relished them. But although the page of 

 Nature is so replete with divine truth, it is 

 silent concerning the fall of man and the won 

 ders of Redeeming Love. Might she not have 

 been made to speak as clearly and eloquently 

 of these things as she now does of the character 

 and attributes of God ? It may be a bad symp 

 tom, but I will confess that I take more intense 

 delight from reading the power and goodness of 

 God from "the things which are made" than 

 from the Bible. The two books, however, har 

 monize beautifully, and contain enough of di 

 vine truth for the study of all eternity. It is so 



