Although there are impenetrable mysteries in God's dealings with souls,
in order to promote their sanctification, it is true that each soul,
aside from the ordinary means, common to all, has a specific training,
and this method of the divine order can alone accomplish the work. The
means that sanctifies another may not sanctify you. You, my friend,
will not be led by great crosses and severe sufferings, but in the way
of helpless infancy. The child-like, yielding soul is necessary for
you; therefore God has chosen a child, myself, to be your helper.
Forget yourself as the man to whom many eyes are turned, and become the
little, helpless one, who cannot take care of itself, but lets another
care for it. The pride, presumption and vanity, of the natural man,
must give place to the littleness and simplicity of the child. Says
our Saviour, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye
cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." O, when shall we learn that
it is littleness, and not greatness, that God requires of his child!
God has given me a maternal yearning for your soul. I sympathize
deeply in your wants and burdens. Be assured, the eyes of the God of
Love are upon you. I entreat you, yield to the influences which are in
operation to restore your soul to God. I can offer no apology for my
letter; for in all things, I obey my Lord.