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and is comforted by the soothing medicine of the physician. Go with Christian: he suffers fears within, and tribulations without, and then it is that the Psalms are to him what the soothing medicine is to the wounded soldier. The Gospel gives light and immortality by Jesus Christ; the Psalms give ease and comfort through His promises. Oh! how rich the blessings of God in these gifts to man; and how blind are they who will not receive what is so freely offered. Oh! that the Lord would heart my prayers and convert these my heart longs to see brought into the fold of Christ. My soul longeth for them even as a woman longeth in the hope of her firstborn. Save them, Oh! Lord, for Jesus' sake. Let them take hold of thy strength, that they may make place with thee. My poor boys, my Sabbath scholars, also over whom my soul has unclear these many months; what joy and happiness it would give me to see them safe in the arms of Jesus. How unfaithful to the charge I must be that not even one of these has been given to me for my hire. Raise up one, Oh! my Father, whom thou canst bless in their conversion. Monday, Dec. 16th. - Seated in my office to day alone and nervous for want of business; I took up the Bible and read the 21st.,