I have one word to press upon you before going away, "Be ye steadfast, unmoveable." If our hearts are not close to Christ, we are apt to get weary in the way.
There is not a single thing in which we have served Christ which shall be forgotten. Lazy, alas! we all are in service, but all shall come out that is real, and what is real is Christ in us, and Christ only. The appearance now may •be very little, not much even in a religious view, but what is real abides. Our hearts clinging closely to Christ, we shall sustain one another in the body of Christ. The love of Christ shall hold the whole together. Christ being everything, and we content to be nothing, helping one another, praying one for the other. I ask not the prayers of saints, I reckon on them.
The Lord keep us going on in simplicity, fulfilling as an hireling our day, till Christ shall come, "and then shall every man have praise of God"—"Praise of God"! Be that our object, and may God knit all our hearts together thoroughly and eternally.