The following letter was sent to Peace, and by him handed over to his family on Monday. The original had the signature of the writer in full:—
“Saturday morning, ½ past 1 o’clock.
“My Dear Friend,—You will I trust Pardon Me for Breaking in and Intruding upon you Now at this Most Awfull and Most Solemn time—Most awfull Because you and Me are about to Leave—I may if it be the Will of God Leave this Earthly Tabernacle off before you (this Perishing world for Ever—Luke 21.33), But we Must Both Stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ Dear Friend Your position is fearful Here—But what will it be then. How Shall we appear Before the Judgement Seat of Christ—For I too Dear Friend have a fellow Creatures Life then to answere for and it may be More than One—my Life and yours here as indeed been a Life of Sin and crime O that it had been Otherwise—But We Can Do Nothing—or Recall the Past—But Blessed be God He Has Shewed both you and Me a Way of Escaping all Bitter torments for the future—Yes only one Way John 14 ch 6 v 3 ch 14 to 18 verses Isaiah 1-18 57 ch 15 v 66 ch 2 verse Matthew 11.23 Psalm 146.3 verse Matthew 10.23—Ah My Dear Friend Many there are that Shew a Cold Shoulder to us Now May God have Compassion and Shew them Mercy for Jesus Christ’s Sake—Yes our friends or Most of them in the time of trouble Desert us—But there is a friend that Sticketh Closer than a Brother Proverbs 18.24 and He that Best of all Friends has told me and you to call upon Him in the time of trouble and He will Deliver us—I beg of you Dear Friend to Listen to the Chaplin May God Reward and Bless his Endeavours to bring you to understand your Position—these few Remaining Days I beseach you to Spend in Prayer—and in the Reading of Gods Most Holy Ward—I have indeed found very Great Comfort by Reading that Sacred Volume after asking our Heavenly Fathers forgiveness of the Past—and to open My Eyes to the Blessed truths Contained therein—and I have found in times Past in a Prison Cell that Peace which the World Cannot Give—twenty five years of My Past Life have I spent in Prison—But to be with you Now Dear Friend I would very Gladly Spend five years more—Shall I tell you why Dear Friend Because you and Me are by ourselves Lost—But Jesus Christ Says I came to Seek and to Save that which was Lost—only trust Him He will Save you—Have faith in God. May the Almighty and Merciful God forgive all Our Sins and Grant You and Me a Place in his Kingdom at the Right Hand of Jesus Christ our only Mediator and Advocate is the Ernest Prayer of Your Friend
“W. O.
“Mile End Road London.
“Farewell Dear Friend I do so much want to Me you in Heaven. Do Come Mercys Door is open for us and Gods hand is Stretched out Still.”
FROM A LITTLE GIRL.
The following is a copy of another letter sent to Peace, and on it he wrote, “this was sent to me bye a little girl”:—
“Jesus Christ says He came ‘to seek and to save that which was lost.’ ‘I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.’ When he was dying he prayed for those who killed Him. ‘Father forgive them, for they know not what they do,’ and now Jesus, Our Lord is in Heaven praying to God for you. He died on the cross for you, because he loves you and ‘wills not the death of a sinner but rather that all should come unto him and have Everlasting Life.
“Oh, don’t think you are too great a sinner for Jesus to save. He is ready and willing ‘to save to the uttermost all who come to him.’ He is longing for you now to believe in Him, and be safe for ever. He has promised ‘Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out,’ and all you have to do is to repent and ask God to forgive your sins for Christ’s sake. We have no need of doing that; we have all sinned and grieved our loving Saviour many times.
“Then think of what follows after this life. Everlasting bliss and happiness with Jesus. But if you refuse to come and be washed in the Blood of the Lamb it is awful to think of what follows—an everlasting pain in hell with devils and damned spirits where ‘the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.’