“The box which your christian generosity has sent, has excited universal joy in the hearts of all our friends in this district.  Immediately after they learned the agreeable news, they flocked to see me, and to have the happiness and advantage of procuring the Testament of our Redeemer; and in less than five days the box was emptied.  I gave copies of the Gospel of St. Matthew to those who had not the satisfaction and consolation to procure a complete copy of the Testament.  The whole was so soon distributed that many could have nothing; and there are also many who do not yet know of the arrival of the second box.  I intend to lend the copy of the Bible, and of the books which I have reserved for myself, among our friends in the neighbourhood, in order that the books we have may be as useful as possible.

“As I hope you will do me the honour and the christian kindness to acknowledge the receipt of this, I request you to inform me how I can remit you sixty francs, which I have received for fifteen of the New Testaments.  As our brethren and sisters in Jesus Christ, who, through his grace altogether free and unmerited, look for his second coming to salvation, are delighted and edified by the truly Christian salutation which you have sent through me, they desire me to express their gratitude, and to request you to accept theirs in the same spirit.  I unite with them in beseeching you and your respectable friend ——­, and all your friends, not to forget us in your prayers to the Father of Lights, that he may give us grace to persevere in the same sentiments, and grant us all the mercy to join the general assembly, the heavenly Jerusalem.  Amen.  Expecting that happy day, I entreat you to believe me your very humble servant and friend in Jesus Christ,”

“The Widow ——.”

It may well be supposed that the reception of this interesting letter produced an effect on the mind of M. ——­, as well as on the minds of many of his Christian friends at Paris, of the happiest kind.  M. ——­ informed the widow of the great satisfaction with which he had learned the eagerness of the villagers to obtain the word of God, and that he had directed his friend, the publisher of the New Testament of De Sacy, to send her fifty copies more; at the same time promising her a fresh supply, if they should be needed.  He also expressed to her the hope, that, as he expected his business would, within a few months, call him again to S——­, he should be able, Providence permitting, to avail himself of that opportunity and enjoy the happiness of another visit at her residence.  To this communication she some time afterwards returned the following reply: 

“Dear sir, and brother in our Lord Jesus Christ,—­May the grace and unmerited mercy of our Divine Saviour be our single and only hope in our pilgrimage here below.  I beseech you and your dear friends to pray for us, that the celestial Comforter promised in the Scriptures, would vouchsafe to visit our hearts and warm them with his love; for without the aid of this Divine Light, even though we should commit to memory the Old and New Testament, it would avail us nothing; but rather tend to our greater condemnation in the sight of our Sovereign Judge.