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Rh coming temptations and establishing a new course of life. "But I know it must be done, and in God's strength it shall be," is ever the conclusion.

Newton's "Cardiphonia" was a book which at this time afforded him much help and consolation:

"Do send for it, if you have never yet read it. I get great comfort from his letters, for they show that every believer is exposed to the same temptations and trials, in a greater or less degree, and that his life is one of continual warfare. Does not even St. Paul tell us that he had a constant conflict of conscience against inclination, of the desire to do right against the promptings of evil? I feel with Newton how poor, and weak, and simple I am, but that Jesus is wise, and strong, and abounding in grace. He has given me a desire to trust my all in his hands, and he will not disappoint the expectation which He has himself raised.

A letter written by Dr. Twining to Captain Vicars' eldest sister, upon receiving the intelligence of his death, may find its place most appropriately here, as it gives a sketch of this period of his life:

"—I felt impelled to write to you so soon as I had learned that the Lord had been pleased, in the inscrutable dispensation of his providence, to call my dear and highly-valued friend from his service on earth to the fulness of joy at his right hand for ever.

"I thank you very much for your letter, written at a time when your heart must be wrung with sorrow.