“I am sure you will often feel dull and lonely so far from those you love — but remember that you are not where you are unknown to God. I can sympathies with you in your position, “for I know the heart of a stranger;” and so would cheer you with what has sustained and refreshed myself; Revelation 2:13 has been a great comfort to me. “I know,” says Jesus, “where thou dwellest.” O, is not that enough; He has sent me here to learn something I could not learn elsewhere, or to serve Him as I could not do elsewhere.
O my dear —, do seek to be a witness for Christ; you cannot possibly be this unless you are in constant fellowship with the blessed Bible, O the sweet words of Jesus! Is it not fearful that anything should make us disrelish the precious words of Jesus. Keep on reading till your heart burns, for burn it will, if you have a spark of affection for the Saviour.
Another verse that has been a joy to me is the last of the fortieth Psalm: — “I am poor and needy, but the Lord thinketh on me.” O what a well-spring of consolation; the Lord thinketh on me. Yes, on me I others may forget me, but the Lord thinketh on me — and why should He think on me? Just because He loves me; and whom He loves, He loves to the end. John 13:1. Keep a good conscience; beware of little sins, as men speak; and confess at once to Jesus and get forgiveness when you are overtaken in a hasty word or an unseemly action. Be an “epistle of Christ.”