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enjoy and to value the intercourse of friendship. 

 To be connected, and to have intercourse, with a 

 warm and disinterested friend, who is able, and 

 will be faithful, to point out our faults, and to di- 

 rect us by his good counsel, is surely a great bles- 

 sing. Such a friend, I have, in my nearest neigh- 

 bour, Mr. Stuart. For some time past, he has 

 frequently written to me long, entertaining and in- 

 structive letters, which are a cordial to my spir- 

 its, too often dejected, by the loneliness of my 

 situation, and more frequently, by reflections on 

 my past life of folly and of sin. Mr. James M c 

 Dougall, also, another gentleman in this depart- 

 ment, is equally dear to me. His distance from 

 me, renders intercourse less practicable ; but 

 when we meet, we endeavour to make up in 

 conversation, for our long separation. 



Friday^ August 4. The holy scriptures con- 

 tain the most abundant instruction, in regard to 

 the duties which we owe to God, and to our 

 fellow creatures. To aid me in keeping these 

 instructions, habitually and distinctly in view, that 

 my life may thereby be more exemplary, I think 

 proper to form the following resolutions, which 

 I hope, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to be 

 enabled to observe, during my life. 



Resolved, that the scoffs of the wicked, di- 

 rected against serious religion, shall never have 



