good to think that, in Christ, we are perfect, that He makes up all. 'Parker and I read _Holy of Holies_, when together. It is a good book. Meantime, he and I are three days' journey separate, and may be so for a month to come yet. I hope he likes it. It is a little hard on him, but I had to come here on mission business, and, if needed, will return to him at any time. Looking again at Heb. vi. 4-6.' His correspondent had asked him about this passage. 'It is said--it is impossible to "renew them again to repentance." Does it not seem clear that what is described cannot be the case of one who has the repentant heart? I think so decidedly, and that passage has no bearing on the sinner who repents.... No one will come to harm who commits himself to His keeping. And no one will lack leading who has God for his guide. If I could only hear of or from the friends I pray for, that they had given themselves over to God's keeping, I would be at rest and thankful. You are trusting in Him. You will not be ashamed. He will take care to supply every needed blessing at the right time and in the right way. 'Some day, I believe we shall stand in Eternity and look back on Time. How ashamed we then shall be of any want of trust and of any unfaithfulness! May He help us to look at things now in _that_ light, and how to do as we then shall wish we had done!... 'I would be glad if you would send me half a dozen copies of the _Wordless Book_. Two copies fell into the hands of robbers and were thus lost.... 'I shall be glad to have the _Life of Faith_. You might mark any passages that strike you.' In a letter to the Rev. J. Paterson, dated April 1, he writes:-- 'It helps me much out here to get the best consecrated literature, and to get it early. Men in the most difficult and dangerous fields should be the best armed and equipped. Some of these books open up new treasures to me in God's Word. I do not use them in place of God's Word, but as openers to the treasures.' In almost the last letter from him received by his brother Alexander and dated April 24, 1891, the following passage occurs:-- '_The Practice of the Presence of God_, being conversations and letters of Brother Lawrence. Please send a copy to yourself, John, Matthew, Paterson, Miss Gowan, and ten copies to me, charging all costs to me, of course. It is by a Roman Catholic: don't imitate his Roman Catholicism, but his practice of the presence of God.'