waiting, watching, and longing for my halting, as in _Jeremiah_, xx. 10th verse.—“For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side.—Report, say they, and we shall report it; all my enemies watched for my halting, saying, peradventure, he will be enticed, and we will prevail against him.” But who are they? Perhaps _some_ pious, mistaken, good-meaning people, to whom I have been misrepresented—_some_ envious, pharisaic preachers and professors, who in heart hate the truth, as it is in Jesus, and long for an opportunity to degrade it, by the bad conduct of some who profess it. _Some_, hypocrites, who are secretly living in diabolical sins; these are anxious to catch hold of some fault, on purpose to harden their own hearts in sin, and ripen themselves for hell.—_Some_, worldlings, either to furnish themselves with matter for ridicule against religion—or to gain something by it, as many have gained many pounds by coming forth to curse Israel. But enough of this. A little more than four years rolled away, while the enemy took breath. We were so quiet, that my name did not, for a long time, occur in the daily papers; yea, they had forgotten me in the “Sunday News.” I was as a dead man, almost out of mind: but this did not last long. As God had new mercies in store for me, so he had also new trials and new deliverances. Yours, J. C. Of his deliverance I will boast, Till all who are distrest, From my example comfort take, And charm their griefs to rest. LETTER XXIV. “He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? The morning cometh, and also the night.” To —