April 14th, 1871.
My Dear Sisters in the Lord,-I doubt not you have both and all prayed for me. So you should know how abundant in grace and mercy the Lord has been. Not in an uncommon way, as though He had found either a vessel or wants which gave Him an opportunity to show how He could go beyond everything in ordinary cases. No; that would risk puffing any one up; but by every-day truth. Surely the Christ who satisfied, to such overflowing, the heart and mind of a Paul, a Stephen, of all the tried members of the household of faith, can fill to fullness my heart. (Eph. 3:14-21.) The work must now suffice me for the little while.
Most affectionate love to both, and to all saints.
G. V. W.