“Let me hear thy consoling voice, compassionate Saviour.  ’Let not your heart be troubled:  ye believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.  I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also,’ John 14:1-3.  O seal this upon my heart, and it is enough.  To be where thou art, is heaven enough to me.  To be where thou art, to see thee as thou art, and to be made like thee, the last sinful motion for ever past—­no more opposition, no more weariness, listlessness, dryness, deadness; but conformed to my blessed Head, every way capacitated to serve him, and to enjoy him—­this is heaven.

“’Jesus said, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no man cometh to the Father, but by me.’  Blessed Comforter, do thine office; take these things of Christ and show them unto me; lead me in this way, feed me with this truth, and animate me with this life:  ’Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If ye ask any thing in my name, I will do it.’  Blessed Comforter, here also do thine office:  I know not what to ask for as I ought; help mine infirmities as thou hast said; suggest the prayer, be in me the spirit of prayer and supplication, and especially in that hour of need, when sickness saps the clay tabernacle, discomposing the spirit, and confusing perhaps the ideas:  still, still let my thoughts rise to my God.  Oh, let no unhallowed subject get hold of me in that hour, but keep my Saviour’s name in my heart, and on my lips.  Is not this according to thy will? watch over it then, and keep the avenues of my soul from every vain idea.

“’If ye love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him; but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him; and we will come and make our abode with him.  The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you:  let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.’  In that last warfare, when nothing on earth can give peace; when the world recedes, and disappears; when friends must stand aloof and leave me to the combat alone; Oh, blessed and promised Comforter, bring to my remembrance, and impress on my weary spirit these sweet words of my Saviour.  But it has often occurred to me, and may in that hour, that though