308 HENRY KTRKE WHITE's REilAINS. 



religious life, how sweetly will the evening of your days 

 shine upon your head, as you behold them treading in 

 those ways which you know, by experience, to be ways 

 of pleasantness and peace ! I need not press this subject. 

 I know you feel all that I say, and more than I can ex- 

 press. I only fear that the bustle of family cares, as 

 well as many anxieties of mind on other accounts, should 

 too much divert you from these important objects. Let 

 me only remind you, that the prayers of the afflicted 

 are particularly acceptable to God. The sigh of the 

 penitent is not too light to reach his ear. The eye of 

 God is fixed as intently upon your soul, at all times, as 

 it is upon the revolution of the heavenly bodies, and the 

 regulation of systems. God surveys all things, and he 

 contemplates them with perfect attention ; and, con- 

 sequently, he is as intently conversant about the smallest 

 as about the greatest things. For if he were not as 

 perfectly intent on the soul of an individual being, as he 

 is about the general concerns of the universe, then he 

 would do one thing less perfectly than another : which 

 is impossible in God. 



TO HIS BROTHER NEVILLE. 



St John's, 30tli June 1806. 

 Dear Ntcville, 



T received your letter yesteri^ay ; and I hope you will 

 not think my past silence at all in need of apology, when 

 you know that our examination only closed on Saturday. 



I have the satisfaction of informing you that, after a 

 week's scrutiny, I was deemed to be the first man. I 

 had very little hopes of arriving at so distinguishing a 

 station, on account of my many checks and interruptions. 

 It gave me great pleasure to observe how all the men 

 rejoiced in my success. It was on Monday that the 

 classes were published. I am a prize-man both in the 

 mathematical and logical, or general examination, and 

 in Latin composition. 



