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here I feel as light as air, and go rejoicing all the day long. 

 By thus living, as it were, faster, life is probably shortened, and 

 by-and-bye I may feel the depressing and relaxing influence of 

 the climate upon the body as well as the mind. But to return 

 from my digressions to the favourite theme. As soon as she 

 arrives in the river, Mrs. Brown (a most sensible and zealous 

 woman) will go down 50 or 60 miles to bring her up, so that she 

 will not have the least trouble, and in ten or twelve days I can 

 be down from Dinapore. If all this be according to the Lord's 

 will, I shall be called down about this time twelve months; and 

 now as I pass along, I please myself with the idea of visiting 

 these places the next time in company with Lydia, and of walk- 

 ing with her morning and evening on these delightful banks. 

 "Ah"! you say, "thus we form schemes of terrestial bliss. 

 Is the uncertainty of life taken into your account ? " I do 

 desire to consider it and each (?) as forming part of my future 

 prospects of joy — and I am sure my dear Lydia much more so — 

 insomuch that if it shall please our God to withdraw one of us 

 from this world before we meet, the survivor will have grace to 

 look forward with real delight to a happier meeting on the 

 banks of the river of the water of life, proceeding out of the throne 

 of God and the Lamb. But I have need of much prayer at 

 this time to have my every thought brought into subjection to 

 the gospel of Christ. The fashion of this world passeth away, 

 and therefore what remaineth but (?) that they that have wives 

 be as they that have none. Marriage, with all its consolations, 

 opens new sources of care, and is reserving one or the other for 

 the severest of all temporal afflictions. While keeping these 

 sorrowful certainties in view, there will be less danger of our 

 expectations being excessive. 



(Csetera desunt). 



Letter 10 — (Commencement lost), 1806. 



In beginning my second sheet I shall follow cousin Thomas's 

 example, and extract from my Journal, (pp. 495-507). 



LorcVs Bmj, September 15. — Mr. Jelferies, to the great 

 satisfaction of all the serious people, began to read the 

 homilies at the Presidency Church, stating as his reason 



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