CHAP. XL] LETTERS. 329 



14th April 1860. 



Let us read about charity, that love which is so perfect 

 that it remains when that which is in part shall be done 

 away. May God purify our love, and make it fit for eter- 

 nity, by grafting upon it the love of Himself, that so both 

 the human root and the engrafted branches and the divine 

 fruit may be holy to Him ! 



FROM C. J. MONRO, Esq. 



Hadley, Barnet, N. 



23d October 1861. 



Thank you much for the papers. That about vortices 

 I had skimmed already in the magazine. I shall now be 

 able to do more than skim it. The coincidence between 

 the observed velocity of light and your calculated velocity 

 of a tranverse vibration in your medium seems a brilliant 

 result. But I must say I think a few such results are 

 wanted before you can get people to think that, every time 

 an electric current is produced, a little file of particles is 

 squeezed along between rows of wheels. But the instances 

 of bodily transfer of matter in the phenomena of galvanism 

 look like it already, and I admit that the possibility of 

 convincing the public is not the question. 



To H. E. DROOP, Esq. (of the Equity Bar). 



Glenlair, Dalbeattie, N.B., 28th December 1861. 

 I enclose a short statement of the scheme of endowing 

 the chapel which was built near us in 1838 for this district, 

 which is very far from any parish church. If we can raise 

 1000, there is a fund already raised which will contribute 

 2000, so as to give a salary of 120 to the minister per- 

 manently, and as the people are too poor to support the 

 minister themselves, we hope to make the chapel independent 

 of chance contributions in this way. Great part of the 

 funds for building the church were subscribed in London by 

 all kinds of people who were friends of an English gentleman 

 who then had property here ; but we have no longer any 

 such means of drawing on the metropolis. 



