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Letter dated 2nd June 1812, sent from Reverend Stewart of Dingwall to Reverend Dickenson

Handwritten letter dated 2nd June 1812, sent from Reverend Stewart of Dingwall to Reverend Dickenson. Within the letter: - Was going to reply to Dickenson’s bother’s letter but he recalled that he had yet to reply to Dickenson who wrote earlier - Comments on Dickenson’s mother’s distress has now ended with her death and that she has “entered into her rest with all the insignia of her salvation”, and that surely her surviving relatives would join the saved in heaven in singing a Te Deum as she was rejoicing in her previous suffering’s purifying quality. Stewart sympathises with Dickenson’s father and the whole family. - Thanks the Lord that he survived a journey to Edinburgh to consult a physician. He had several days in an open carriage through bitter cold stormy weather. This consultation went well. Nothing seriously wrong and being in Edinburgh allowed contact with friends including mutual friend Dr Buchanan. - Encourages Dickenson to visit north of the Tweed, now that his necessary care of his mother was at an end, in good weather and even travel to Ross-Shire. He, his family and other friends would be delighted if he could. - Stewart and his wife have a new daughter, as of the 27th of May, and mother and child are well. Stewart asks for prayers for his child, so she will be a “lamb in Christ’s flock”. - Stewart unable to write something for the Cottage Magazine because he is too busy with a Gaelic spelling book for the Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge. He had transferred the task to his siter in Glasgow. Insure whether she could do it. - Mention of The Christian Guardian as an “excellent journal”. Mentions writing of Mr Scott of Hull and Mr Vaughan Litchfield with approval. He has lost something by Jenny Hickering and requests another copy together with “On the work of the Holy Spirit”. - Greetings to all brethren in Staffordshire and Shropshire, and Dickenson’s brother and partner, and various others. - Final greeting to Dickenson, “dear brother of my heart”. [Note, small section cut out of final sheet obscuring some parts of the last few sentences.]

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