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To that which is so revolting and horrible, that no one dare utter it in words. Oh! oh, oh!

His mind is now exhausted, and unfit for present soothing; attempts to appease and console him must come hereafter; there is time enough for that. (To, with tenderness.) But thy time is short; I would prepare thee for an awful change. Unless thou be altogether hostile to thoughts of religion and grace, which I can never believe thee to be.

O no, no! that were a dreadful hostility; and thou, even thou, the good and enlightened Rutherford, my long-tried monitor and friend, can express a doubt whether I am so fearfully perverted. Alas! death is terrible when it comes with disgrace,—with the execration of Christian fellow-creatures! O pray to God for me! pray to God fervently, that I be not overwhelmed with despair.