"But in the awakening which took place under your labors here, and
in awakenings that have been given us since, the cases of young
people have been as entirely satisfactory as any cases we have had.
If conversion be God's work, in which the Holy Spirit reveals
Christ to the soul, surely His work can take place in children as
really as in the old; for it is the young soul meeting with Christ
in the one case and the adult in the other.

"One day, about the time, or perhaps after the time, you were among
us, in the vestry of my church, an old Christian woman, who had
watched the work going on, came to me and said, 'Sir, you will find
many people speaking lightly of the young who come to Christ, as if
there was nothing but feeling in their case; but never mind what
these people say. I was converted in the days of Dr. Kidd, of
Aberdeen, when I was but a child, and two others of my age were
converted at the same time; and we have all three gone on to this
day, following the Lamb.'

"The Lord blesses you amazingly. Surely you will need to 'walk
circumspectly,' 'sober, vigilant,' for Satan will not fail to watch
you, and seek to injure you, that he may injure God's work through
you. If the way be opened for your revisiting Scotland, many among
us shall rejoice.

"Meanwhile, we pray for you, and will not cease. Pray for us still,
dear brother.

"Yours truly, in Him 'Whose we are and whom we serve,'

"ANDREW A. BONAR."

[5] The Conversion of Children, by Dr. A. A. Bonar.

But what makes us to differ from each other? Surely it is simply the
presence and power of the Holy Spirit in our heart. It is all of free
sovereign grace and mercy, as Paul says, to the Church at Corinth:

"By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed
upon me was not found vain: but I labored more abundantly than they
all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Whether then it
be I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed."

CHAPTER XXXV.

ASLEEP IN JESUS.[6]

Asleep in Jesus; blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep,
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."--Philippians i. 21.

One week ago to-day, and at this hour, we stood in this historic church
over the precious remains of our dear, departed Eld