siderably, but even with the demands of government, prudently used, enough remains. Your benevolence being consecrated to the use of the poor, enables me to be a little more diffuse, and a very particular case engaging my attention, renders it acceptable. May the liberal things you have devised, add permanency to your standing on the foundation of Providence, and may the dear offspring arising from you, inherit a large blessing with which God has often seen fit to honor the parent's liberality. We are much refreshed and assisted in the journey of life, by the blessings of Providence. They are not our portion but only a part of it, and where it is withheld, it requires grace to submit to all the wants and cravings of nature without murmuring and repining.God can and does give grace, suited to that disconsolate station, and in it the crumb is precious, which in affluence is only considered proper for the dogs. The Lord sometimes raises the poor from the dust, and if their advancement be sanctified, they carry the estimate of the crumb, according to what their former wants rated it at, and are careful of it that it be not wasted, and with addition make it subservient to the comfort of the needy. Though extreme need has not been a part of

your experience, you have learned how to use properly, and liberally to dispose of property. May you always have a rich store from whence to do good and to communicate.

My kind regards accompany these to Mrs E-, to Mr. W, and Miss E-, to the whole number if they recollect me. My enfeebled and blind wife unites with me. She is greatly altered, but has stamina. How long we are to be together, or which is to precede the other into the state of blessedness, is only known to him who has his plan and purpose before him, to whom it becomes us to yield submission. To him I commend you and am increasingly,

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'My very dear sir,

"Painswick, "January 22, 1807."

"Your's, &c."

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