Page:Memorials of Capt. Hedley Vicars, Ninety-seventh Regiment by Marsh, Catherine, 1818-1912.djvu/138

Rh gone, for he was with me at all hours of the day.

"Obert is the Captain of the Company which has just left: he was very ill, but thank God! he is recovering, dear fellow.

"I am so grateful to hear that we are remembered in prayer by those blessed Christians at Huntly Lodge. The Lord reward them!"

"Our Scripture-reading and Prayer-meeting at the hospital are still well attended. I always feel refreshed and strengthened myself, whilst talking of Jesus to others. Surely there is no subject so delightful to a sinner as 'Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.' God grant that his love may lead many — all in my regiment — to take up their Cross, and follow Him. I daily find Him to be more lovely and precious to my own soul. What I want now, whilst I have the opportunity, is, to make others as happy as myself; for well I know, from long and bitter experience, that until the blood of the Cross speaks peace to the soul, man is, for the most part, but discontented and miserable. And if this is the case when we are strong and healthy, how much more so, when sick or dying! Men often talk with unconcern of a dying bed, when they think it distant, and refuse to 'give way to weakness,' as they call it, by thinking of it in time; but it is seldom the dream continues to the end; and when the reality flashes upon them, it is sometimes too late! Although even at the very last, Jesus is ready to save, yet not a few give up all as lost, and die in despair.

"But we will hope better things, dearest friend, for the men of my poor regiment, and continue to pray that the Dayspring from on high, which hath visited us, by the free grace and mercy of God, may be shed abroad over them all, 'to give light to them that sit