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Rh 'There is no lawful calling in life that absolutely excludes spiritual-mindedness from them engaged in it; nor is there any that doth necessarily include it. Men may be in the meanest employments, and be possessed of the grace, and others may be in the best and highest, and nevertheless be destitute thereof.'

'He that can bring into this treasure only the mites of broken desires and ejaculated prayers, so they be hit shall not come behind them who cast into it out of their greater abundance of skill and ability.'

'When the soul labours for communion with God, but rushes into confused thoughts, yet if the Christian look God for relief, his mourning will be accepted.'

'Unskilful men may cast away rough, unwrought diamond not knowing to what a polishing would bring them, so men unskilful in the mysteries of godliness, do not perceive there can be any glory in rough, unwrought grace, ignorant of that lustre and beauty which the polishing of the Heavenly hand will give unto it.'

It will be remembered that spiritual-mindedness formed a particular part of the teaching which as a youth at Cambridge he had received from Simeon.

He started early in September for Bareilly, accompanied by Bessie, but James remained behind at Agra on duty. This place La the capital of Rohilkhand, on the other side of the Ganges from Agra, and distant less than 150 miles. By the travelling of