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whatever earthly blessings are within our reach. Let us 

 cultivate and increase our human friendship and affections, 

 and believe that although sin has made this world a world 

 of sorrow, yet that there is much true happiness at the 

 command of the children of God, among whom I earnestly 

 pray my own may ever be. When I sat down to write to 

 yon, my beloved daughter, it was not my intention to write 

 you a little sermon, though, perhaps, it ought to have been. 

 If I speak but seldom to you of sacred things, believe it 

 is not that they are absent from my mind, but that the 

 equally strong affection, and much greater knowledge and 

 capacity of your beloved mother made my services less 

 essential, and that still, by the goodness of God, you 



enjoy the instructions of your dear H . But yet I 



say to you, now and always, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus 

 Christ, and thou sbalt be saved.' " 



In 1839. the scene of a little trip was London, and his 

 first letter w r as to his son. Its tone is abundantly sprightly, 

 as befits the subject and his youthful correspondent, then 

 a school-boy at the Academy. 



2 Stashope Place, Hyde Park, London, 

 ISth July 1839. 



"I have been twice to the Zoological Gardens. The 

 live Camel eopardsj three in number, are, of course, the 



