[King's Letter to Muller, 8th November (Forster, i.

379).] Towards which issue, as Chaplain Muller reports, the Crown-Prince is visibly gravitating, with all his weight and will.

The very GNADENWAHL is settled; the young soul (truly a lover of Truth, your Majesty) taps on his ceiling, my floor being overhead, before the winter sun rises, as a signal that I must come down to him; so eager to have error and darkness purged away.

Believes himself, as I believe him, ready to undertake that Oath; desires, however, to see it first, that he may maturely study every clause of it .-- Say you verily so?
answers Majesty.
And MAY my ursine heart flow out again, and blubber gratefully over a sinner saved, a poor Son plucked as brand from the burning ?"God, the Most High, give His blessing on it, then!" concludes the paternal Majesty: "And as He often, by wondrous guidances, strange paths and thorny steps, will bring men into the Kingdom of Christ, so may our Divine Redeemer help that this prodigal son be brought into His communion.

That his godless heart be beaten till it is softened and changed; and so he be snatched from the claws of Satan.