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Thus he endeared himself, more and more, to the 

 heart of his father in Ciirist, and to the people of 

 St. John's. 



[from JOHN G. SCHWARTZ.] 



" The cheering intelligence has just reached us that 

 you are out of danger. 



" I would not attempt to descrihe my feelings of 

 sorrow during the past week, or of joy at the present 

 moment. You cannot easily conceive in what an 

 awful state of suspense we were placed by the an- 

 nouncement of your extreme illness. 



"The tidings reached us on Sunday morning, 26th 

 of August. The congregation were assembling, but 

 Mrs. Bachman had not readied the church. It was 

 decided that it would not do to permit lier to find 

 us in such distress ; it was agreed, therefore, that I 

 .should dismiss the congregation and communicate 

 the intelligence to her, if possible, before she left 

 home. From that time until the present, I have 

 remained almost constantly with her, endeavoring 

 to sustain and cheer her. To add to our distress, 

 the mails were continually failing — now we look 

 upon it as providential, as the tidings in the letters 

 would only have served to extinguish the least 

 glimmering of ho[)e. Dr. Wilson, Mr. K. and my- 

 :?elf, were always at the Postofhce when the mjiil 

 arrived. Through the kindness of Mr. Bacot, the 

 Postmaster, we received our mail before the rest 

 were assorted lor delivery; with Mrs. B.'s permis- 



