coming temptations and establishing a new course of life. "But I know it must be done, and in God's strength it shall be," is ever the conclusion.
Newton's "Cardiphonia" was a book which at this time afforded him much help and consolation:
"Do send for it, if you have never yet read it. I get great comfort from his letters, for they show that every believer is exposed to the same temptations and trials, in a greater or less degree, and that his life is one of continual warfare. Does not even St. Paul tell us that he had a constant conflict of conscience against inclination, of the desire to do right against the promptings of evil? I feel with Newton how poor, and weak, and simple I am, but that Jesus is wise, and strong, and abounding in grace. He has given me a desire to trust my all in his hands, and he will not disappoint the expectation which He has himself raised.
To rend my soul from thee, my God.
But everlasting is thy love,
And Jesus seals it with his blood."
A letter written by Dr. Twining to Captain Vicars' eldest sister, upon receiving the intelligence of his death, may find its place most appropriately here, as it gives a sketch of this period of his life:
"Halifax, May 21, 1855.
"My Dear Lady Rayleigh—I felt impelled to write to you so soon as I had learned that the Lord had been pleased, in the inscrutable dispensation of his providence, to call my dear and highly-valued friend from his service on earth to the fulness of joy at his right hand for ever.
"I thank you very much for your letter, written at a time when your heart must be wrung with sorrow.
