‘I have very much enjoyed Professor Edward Caird’s _Hegel_. It is 3s. 6d., published by Blackwood. I am not quite sure it would help you, but think it would. I want you to get deeper, and to be very patient until God shows you more light. He is showing it to you, only until you and I are able to see more clearly He must wait. You have not suffered so much for nothing, but I trust you may one day help others. If you get Westcott on the Resurrection, read the end first on Positivism, there is much in it that is so Christian, and much in what is called Christianity which St. Paul would have called carnal. All that about the Lord’s glorified Body in St. John and St. Paul speak to us of a spirit glorified and no longer bound in any space, but a life-giving power, real, substantial.... ‘Poor George Eliot. She had a passionate nature, and she came into circumstances so sad. Her life is a great sorrow to those who feel that her teaching was in some way noble, though in others it was really weakening. He who knows all will judge her: “Whose mercy endureth for ever.” She was a long way above Lewes. If you come across Hutton’s Essays you ought to read them. I always get a good bit of reading in the holidays that demands thought....’ To the same:— ‘_May 1883._ ‘I am glad you find the work comforting again, and that God has sent you help through some one else. Don’t fret and look forward to next holidays, you don’t know yet how full of blessing they may be. Just remember it is a command, “Be not anxious for to-morrow,” and so we can obey. I remember once that thought that I must stay seemed the only thing to save me from breaking down, and so failing to do as I ought the work God had given me. See that it is a sin to fret and be anxious about your father’s health, or your future relations to home, or anything. We have to do our best, and then trust to Him “who ordereth all things according to the counsel of His Will.”