My dear Miss Jacob I am afraid you will be vexing yourself at having written to me, but indeed there is no cause, I was quite able to read and thank for it. The sad decay of the recent months makes me thankful that the painful struggle is ended, and the thread has been rather slowly untwisted than rent violently out of my life.

Your aunt’s sufferings have been far more acute, but Rest has come to ... continue reading

My dear Edith I have thought much of you, you may be sure, in the great sorrow and loss that has come to you - in your Soldier of the Cross having passed the narrow stream

What a grand and beautiful thing it is that the needs and the down treading of the Church should have the power to awaken the latent power and heroism in men's souls. How little anything but a Divine faith could ... continue reading