"To the loving Father who watches over us all, to the sympathizing

Saviour who endured temptation and want that He might know how to

help us, to the gracious Spirit, who is ready to lead us into every

good way, I then committed them, and we separated.

"I forgot to tell you that I was persuaded in the course of the

evening to sing a comic song, which I learned while in New York.

Of course this 'brought down the house.' How would my dear little

Ethel have looked could she have seen me?"

In another letter he said:—