Mt DEAR Brother: — I wrote you simply be-
cause I felt I must express the deep interest in you and



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the warm sympathy with what God has been mani-
festly doing for you and hy you for a long time. It
seemed impossible but that the trials of your position
must have been many, and it appeared to me to be a
duty impressed on those whose hearts were with you
to say so, for your encouragement and comfort. . ..
This has struck me in reading your discourses, and
it gives them a special charm, that you seem all the
while to be evolving a theology from experience,
rather than aiming to reach an experience by theology,
i. e. as reasoned out by the logical intellect. As in-
wardly guided, you explore the field of reUgious truth,
and at once recognize and verify the Christian doc-
trines, by a divine Ught and spiritual appreciation.
When the Holy Spirit in the soul " takes the things of
Christ and shows them " to the attentive and waiting
understanding, with what a self-witnessing power
they come! . ..
I thank you for what you say so kindly of the hymn.
It is always grateful to me to hear that it aids the
worship of Christ's people. The trvih which it em-
bodies will suflBciently explain the fact that it has
found a place in the hearts of living and dying
saints.
I hope to be in Massachusetts in February and will
certainly come to see you, and if you have an hour to
spare we will talk as fast as we can.
Believe me fraternally and afiFectionately yours,

Rat Palmer.
