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dollars a year) and my dear brothers, my sense seems to 
dictate to me that it is best I should stay here and await 
the end of all this before I take any further steps. I 
know my countrymen well enough to be sure that it is 
advisable for me to be careful. I assure you that if they 
withdraw themselves from me in this affair, it will be 
all the worse for them. 
" You have the sympathy of all my friends, from the 
governor to the trades-people, particularly Mr. Blankson, 
Mr. Grant, Mr. Cleaver, and your brethren, the mis- 
sionaries. 
" But I prize most the sympathy of our Lord for His 
people. (Isaiah xlix. 14-16, Ixiii. 9). Wherefore take 
courage, my brethren, do not despair, for 
* Of every sorrow which our hearts can move. 
Half is supported in God's heart of love.' 
The Lord is with His own people ! Look alone to Him, 
and your release is certain ! 
"I have been privately informed that the Prussians 
think of you with as much earnest anxiety as the British 
felt for the poor prisoners in Abyssinia. A certain prince 
Bismarck is particularly interested in you. The Lord is 
working for you, and who can hinder Him ? O trust in 
Him and you will be safe I I entreat poor Mrs. R-. to 
take courage, she has the deepest sympathy from every 
one. 
" I am sorry to tell you that Paris is in flames ; all is 
dreadful there, the streets swimming in blood ; the whole 
town with its splendid palaces is destroyed. France lies 
in ruins, more from civil war and their own dissensions 
than from the Prussians. I will try to send you a few 
newspapers. 
" As some compensation for this sad news, I am pleased 
to hear from Mr. Schrenk that your house in Anum is 
not destroyed ; some of your teachers and pupils came 
