"BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL, NO. 50.
"DEAR SIR,--I have read your sermon on the New Birth, and hope
I shall always have a due sense of my dear Redeemer's goodness
to me. May Almighty God bless and preserve you, and prosper your
ministerial function! I wish, sir, I could have some explanatory
notes upon the New Testament, to enlighten the darkness of my
understanding, to make me capable of becoming a good soldier of
Jesus Christ; but, above all, I should like to see you.
"I am, dear Sir, yours affectionately with my whole heart,
"JOSEPH PERIAM."