l be forever united in him. I hope, in the goodness of God, to be
present with you in heart and spirit, at the time of your departure,
and to receive with you, the divine Master who is waiting for you. Be
my ambassador in the courts above, and say to him I love him.

UNION OF SOULS IN GOD.

The assurance you give me of the union of your soul with mine, is a
great consolation. It is a union to which my heart fully responds, not
in a way of emotional transport, but in the depths of peace; there is
nothing of nature in it. It is a union in Jesus Christ. We are one in
a sense of our lost condition, and one in self-abandonment. Oh!
blessed oneness with Christ, where all evils perish; and there remains
only the casualties inseparable from the state of humanity. How
wonderful is this operation--the sacred mingling of a poor creature
with its God, where all the evils of our fallen nature, are removed
from the depths of the soul, and the soul, in its elemental being is
lost in its original! There all the little ones are united in
Him,--these little drops of water reassembled in the divine ocean! How
swiftly do the streams embrace each other, and flow into one channel,
when the obstructions are removed! When souls become pure in Jesus
Christ, they flow into one another with the same rapidity. Purity of
soul consists in an entire separation from self, and re-union with God.
The soul _can_ return to self; it has the power, and therefore is not
infallible.

Our union, my dear friend, is independent of the relish or disrelish of
all created things and events. You could not be separated from me
without being separated from God; for it seems to me, that I am one
with him, and inseparable, and you are the same; and thus, we are one
in Him, and one with each other.

Ever yours, in the heart of Jesus.

SECRET OPERATIONS OF GRACE.

My heart has been tenderly united to you, during all my bodily
sufferings. In proportion as the outward man has been reduced, God
seems to be more the life of my soul. Although the operations of God
upon your soul may be less marked than formerly, they are no less real.
There is a secret fire in your heart, which burns continually, although
imperceptibly. This keen and continual operation enfeebles you,
because it consumes so rapidly the more sensible and marked operations
of the soul. This is, I apprehend, your ordinary state; with
occasionally the unction of the oil of grace