LETTERS. 253 



1 Muses quite suspended in the clang of arms, or do they yet 

 sing, though unheeded ? All literary information will be 

 to me quite new and interesting ; but do not suppose I 

 hope to intrude on your more valuable time with these 

 things. When you shall have leisure, I hope to hear 

 from you ; and whatever you say, coming from you, it 

 cannot fail to interest. 



Believe me, dear Sir, 



Very sincerely yours, 



H. K. White. 



TO MR K. SWANN. 



Winteringham, 16tli March 1805. 

 Dear Kirke, 



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I I was affected by the death of young B . He 



' once called upon me, with Mr H , when I was very 



ill, and on that occasion Mr H said to us both, 



j " Young men, I ivould have you both jyacJc off to Lisbon. 



[for you ivon't last long if you stay here." Mr was 



then about to set out for Hamburgh ; and he told me 

 afterwards, that he never expected to see me again, for 

 that he thought I was more desperately gone in con- 

 sumption than B . Yet you see how the good pro- 

 vidence of God has spared me, and I am yet living, as I 

 trust, to serve him with all my strength. Had I died 

 then, I should have perished for ever ; but I have now 

 hope, through the Lord Jesus, that I shall see the day of 

 death with joy, and possibly be the means of rescuing 

 others from a similar situation. I certainly thought of 

 the ministry at first with improper motives, and my 

 views of Christianity were for a long time very obscure ; 

 but I have, I trust, gradually been growing out of dark- 

 ness into light, and I feel a well-grounded hope, that 

 God has sanctified my heart for great and valuable pur- 

 poses. Woe be unto me if I frustrate his designs. 



