To us who have walked long together, there is another cheering word on separation, when most happily the new guide, with every hopeful commendation, is at hand and ready to succeed.
There is but one word more, one which cannot be amplified, for it contains the sum of every good wish, every grateful sense and recollection of past kindnesses—there remains but the little, yet significant and comprehensive word—farewell; “and this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more, in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere, and without offence until the day of Christ.”
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