CHAP. X.] MILFORD, HANTS. 311 



Lewis read prayers and lessons very well and distinctly, 

 and Chester preached on James i. 15. Sin when it is 

 finished bringeth forth death. He showed up sin as the 

 universal poison, and showed how it might be seen working- 

 death in several instances, and also in all, good and bad, in 

 this life, and then turned to the next, and finally indicated 

 the remedy, though not so clearly as Paul in Eom. viii. 2, 

 which he should have read. 



In the afternoon Chester read prayers and Lewis 

 preached on " Ye must be born again," showing how respect- 

 able a man it was addressed to, and how much he, and all 

 the Jews, and all the world, and ourselves, needed to be 

 born from above (for that is the most correct version of the 

 word translated again). Then he described the changes on 

 a man new-born, and his state and privileges. I think he 

 has got a good hold of the people, and will do them good 

 and great good. 



To THE SAME. 



10th May 1858. 



Eph. iii. 19. Paul can express no more, but read the 

 last two verses and you will see this is not the crown, but 

 only what can be asked or thought. What a field for ambi- 

 tion there is, for climbing up, or rather, being drawn up, 

 into Christ's love, and receiving into our little selves all the 

 fulness of God. Let us bless God even now for what He has 

 made us capable of, and try not to shut out His spirit from 

 working freely. 



To THE SAME. 



13th May 1858. 



I have been reading again with you Eph. vi. Here is 

 more about family relations. There are things which have 

 meanings so deep that if we follow on to know them we 

 shall be led into great mysteries of divinity. If we despise 

 these relations of marriage, of parents and children, of master 

 and servant, everything will go wrong, and there will be 

 confusion as bad as in Lear's case. But if we reverence them, 

 we shall even see beyond their first aspect a spiritual mean- 

 ing, for God speaks to us more plainly in these bonds of 



