“Red Lodge House, Bristol,
“March 27th, 1877.
“Dear Miss Cobbe,
“There are some things of which the most clear and unanswerable reasoning could not convince me! One of these is, that a wise, all powerful and loving Father can create an immortal spirit for eternal misery. Perhaps you are wiser than I and more accessible to arguments (though I doubt this), and I send you the enclosed, which I do not want back. Gógurth’s answer to such people is the best I ever heard—‘If you are child of Devil—good; but I am child of God!’
“I was very glad to get a glimpse of you; I do not trouble you with my doings, knowing that you have enough of your own. You may like to see an abstract of my experience.
“Yours affectionately,
“M. C.”
And here is a Poem which she gave me in MS. the day she wrote it. I do not think it has seen the light.
CHRISTMAS DAY PRAYER.
Dec. 25th, 1858.