As my daughter Ruth brought your kind respects to me, and your request of an interest in my poor prayers, which I hope God will hear in your behalf, I thought that if I sent you a line it would not be disagreeable or unacceptable to you. I am not unacquainted with temporal troubles, nor with soul distress; I was long the quintessence of misery, a poor, burthened, forlorn outcast, that none sought after or cared for; but in answer to a few poor feeble petitions, put up to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God in truth and love, the Lord delivered me. He is the miserable sinner's only friend, the sick soul's great physician, and the lost sheep's only shepherd; an able, a willing, an all-sufficient Saviour, suitable to the sinner's case, exactly agreeable to his wish, having all fulness in him, and infinite satisfaction for all that trust in his holy name.
He tells us to call upon him in the time of trouble, and that he will deliver us, and we shall glorify him; and whosoever cometh unto him he will in no wise cast them out, for he came to call sinners to repentance, and to seek and save that which was lost, and I am a living witness of his faithfulness and truth. I was weary and heavy laden enough, God knows, but I found rest in him for my soul; and he will be found of them that seek him, for he has promised that they who call upon him shall be saved, and that he will be near to them that haply feel after him. His precious blood cleanseth us from all sin, his grace is sufficient to support and comfort us under every loss, trouble, or disappointment; and it is to his honour and our comfort that we let our request be made known unto him, that we cast all our burthens and our cares upon him, for he careth for us. Hannah poured out her soul before him at Shiloh, and went away with her countenance no more sad. Rahab and Ruth fled to him for shelter and protection, and both found it. A friend of the friendless, a husband to the widow, and a father of the fatherless, is the Lord in his holy habitation.
And as for thy son, God is the God of the seas as well as the land; he appeared to the disciples in a. storm, to Moses in a bush, to Paul on the plains of Damascus, and to me in a garden. Commit thy son to the Lord, that is the only way to preserve him; do as Jacob did to his sons, God give you favour in the sight of the man, that he may send away your brother Benjamin; and the next news was that Benjamin was returned, and that Joseph was alive, and surely Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Dear Madam, farewell, grace and peace be with thee. So prays,
Thy willing servant in Christ Jesus,
W. HUNTINGTON.
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