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desire to look into a mystery so fraught with the wisdom 

 and goodness of Deity. 



' Permit me again, my dear William, to recommend 

 to you Jesus Christ as the only Saviour. Open all your 

 heart to Him, for He is man and can sympathize in all 

 its affections ; trust yourself implicitly in Him, for He 

 is God, omnipotent to aid and unable to deceive. Faith 

 can realize His presence, and there \ is happiness to be 

 found in His society, when the full heart pours itself out 

 before Him, of which the world can form no conception. 

 In life or in death, in health or in sickness, it is well to 

 be able to lean oneself on Him, as John did at the last 

 supper, and to feel as it were the heart of His humanity 

 beating under the broad buckler of His power. What- 

 ever it maybe your fate to encounter, whether protracted, 

 spirit-subduing indisposition, or that solemn and awful 

 change so big with interest to the human heart, and so 

 fitted to awaken its hopes and its fears, or whether you 

 are to be again restored to the lesser cares and narrower 

 prospects of the present life, in whatever circumstances 

 placed, or by whatever objects surrounded, you will find 

 Him to be an all-sufficient Saviour, and the friend that 

 sticketh closer than a brother. Would that I were more 

 worthy to recommend Him to you, more like Himself ; 

 but I know you will forgive me the freedom with 

 which I write, and that you will not associate with His 

 infinite wisdom and purity any of the folly or the evil 

 which attaches to, my dear William, your sincere and 

 affectionate friend, Hugh Miller/ 



