in the edition of last year[12] had commanded my highest respect as a public benefactor and a brave soul.
I thank you, my dear Sir, most cordially, and I shall always prize the words you have inscribed in this delightful volume, very, very highly .-- Yours faithfully and obliged, CHARLES DICKENS.
Dr.GUTHRIE to DEAN RAMSAY.
1 Salisbury Road, 30th October 1872.
My dear Mr.Dean--My honoured and beloved friend, I have received many sweet, tender, and Christian letters touching my late serious illness, but among them all none I value more, or almost so much, as your own.
May the Lord bless you for the solace and happiness it gave to me and mine! How perfect the harmony in our views as to the petty distinctions around which--sad and shame to think of it--such fierce controversies have raged! I thank God that I, like yourself, have never attached much importance to these externals, and have had the fortune to be regarded as rather loose on such matters.

We have just, by God's grace, anticipated the views and aspects they present on a deathbed.
I must tell you how you helped us to pass many a weary, restless hour.

After the Bible had been read to me in a low monotone--when I was seeking sleep and could not find it--a volume of my published sermons was tried, and sometimes very successfully, as a soporific.

I was familiar with them, and yet they presented as much novelty as to divert my mind from my troubles.

And what if this failed?
then came the _Reminiscences_ to entertain me, and while away the long hours when all hope of getting sleep's sweet oblivion was given up! So your book was one of my many mercies.