244 HENRY KTP.KE WHITE's REMAINS. 



when I want the means of procuring these, I shall think 

 it my dutj to tell you so. 



TO HIS BROTHER JAMES. 



Midway between Winteringliam and Hull, 

 11th Jan. 1805. 

 Dear James, 



You will not be surprised at the style of this letter, 

 when I tell you it is written in the Winteringham 

 Packet, on a heap of flour bags, and surrounded by a 

 drove of fourteen pigs, who raise the most hideous roar 

 every time the boat rolls. I write with a silver pen, 

 and with a good deal of shaking, so you may expect very 

 bad scribbling. I am now going to Hull, where I have 

 a parcel to send to my mother, and I would not lose tlie 

 opportunity of writing. 



I am extremely glad that you are attentive to matters 

 of such moment as are those of religion ; and I hope you 

 do not relax in your seriousness, but continue to pray 

 that God will enable you to walk in the paths of right- 

 eousness, which alone lead to peace. He alone, my dear 

 James, is able to give you a heart to delight in his service, 

 and to set at nought the temptations of the world. It 

 may seem to you, in the first beginning of your Christian 

 progress, tliat religion wears a very unpromising aspect, 

 and that the gaieties of the world are indeed very 

 delicious ; but I assure you, from what I have myself 

 experienced, that the pleasures of piety are infinitely 

 more exquisite than those of fashion and of sensual 

 pursuits. It is true, they are not so violent or so intoxi- 

 cating (for they consist in one even tenor of mind, a 

 lightness of heart, and sober cheerfulness, which none 

 but those who have experienced can conceive) ; but they 

 leave no sting behind them ; they give pleasure on re- 

 flection, and will soothe the mind in the distant prospect. 

 And who can say this of the world or its enjoyments ? 



Even those who seem to enter with the most spirit 

 into the riotous and gaudy diversions of the world, are 



