Copy of a Post Card.
AN old pilgrim writes this on nearing the shore of your island to let you know of his return. Mercies have been many since he left, and all even of the trials had to come out of the bosom of Him who overrules all in mercy, and so all has been well
Copied from the fly-leaf of one of his Bibles.
BE it that, you have little qualification, less gift, and no office whatsoever; yet, as an individual member of Christ, child of God, and inheritor of the kingdom of heaven, you must, as partaker of the blessing, and dwelt in by the Spirit, desire the honor of God and the glory of Christ. While waiting for his Son, the Savior from heaven, serve the living and true God then.
The Spirit is at work to get Christ's members out of the world, and from under the power of the flesh and the devil. Labor thereunto in God, and be the servant down here in every way, of the interest, honor, and glory of Christ in His members. οῦ γὰρ ὑμεῖς ἐστε οἱ λαλοῦωτες, ἀλλὰ τὸ πρεῦμα τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν, τό λαλοπυω ἐν ὑμῖν. (It is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.)