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Sixty-Six Letters to a Clergyman and His Family, Between the Years 1791 and 1801
SixtySix Letters to a Clergyman and His Family Between the Years 1791 and 1801 Author:John Newton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: From your account of Mrs. , it is probable she is in danger of going to heaven soon. I will not call her 'poor woman' in the world's phrase, on that account. The merchant does not pity his ship, when she is just entering the harbour. I am, Yours indeed, JOHN NEWTON. April 5th, 1796. LETTER XXXVIII. My Dear Friend, I Must confine myself to one point. Mrs. has told me of an offer made to place a son in the academy at Woolwich. She asked my advice, and I could not honestly say that I quite approved of it. If I saw you with one of your little boys in your hand, and should ask, What is your highest wish for your child ? I thinkyou would say, ' to meet him at the right hand of the Lord in the great day,' or to that purpose. For this I douht not you frequently pray. May your prayers be answered! You cannot give your child grace, but I think you should be careful not to put him in a path, which, humanly speaking, is directly calculated to counteract the design of your prayers. A military education would probably preclude him from all instruction and example for the benefit of his soul, and place him where it is likely the most of the people with whom he was connected would be infidels or libertines. And the military line, whether in the army, or artillery, seems but a poor business. If a man is ' called,' being a soldier, perhaps he might safely abide in his calling, as Colonel Gardiner and other good christians have done; but I question whether it is becoming our profession, for a believer, especially a minister, to place his son deliberately in the school of slaughter, to be trained up in the art and ...« less