Page:Memorials of Capt. Hedley Vicars, Ninety-seventh Regiment by Marsh, Catherine, 1818-1912.djvu/79

Rh "I shall have much pleasure in calling on Major Halkett as soon as I am at Canterbury. The manuscript account of Dr. Keeve's illness and death I will leave at Miss Leycestor's as I pass through London. It has deeply interested me. May you have many such crowns of rejoicing in the day 'when the Lord Jesus shall come to make up his jewels.'

Give my affectionate and grateful regards to Dr. Marsh. What a bright and noble specimen is he of the Christian soldier — the veteran of the Cross; and what an encouragement is it to those who are only 'beginners,' to see such a proof of the reality of religion, and its transforming power hi the heart and life. Give my Christian love to all, and remember me to the sick man whom I went to see. Tell him that I pray for him, and trust that his fears and doubts may soon be dispelled, and that he may be enabled to rejoice in God his Saviour, 'Looking unto Jesus' is the secret of peace.

"In bringing this long letter to a close, might I ask you to pray for me ! God bless you, and make your efforts abundantly successful in bringing sinners to a Saviour, shall be the humble prayer of your grateful and sincere friend,

During the illness of my sister in January, 1854, we felt the full value of his Christian sympathy. Earnestly did he pray for her recovery, and thankfully rejoiced with us in the answer which God gave to our prayers.

Before our anxiety was over, he was seeking kindred help from us. A severe attack of illness under which his mother was suffering weighed heavily on his heart, though it did not shackle the freeness and almost daily communication of his Christian sympathies.

"Earnestly have I prayed, dearest, best of mothers,