Rev. W. THOMAS _to the_ SECRETARY.
_Limerick, Nov. 21, 1834._
My dear Sir,
You will have the kindness to excuse the brevity of these few lines,
as I have only this moment arrived after a journey of preaching and
inspecting some of the schools, and it is necessary that the readers'
journals should go off by this day's mail, which will proceed
immediately. I have, I trust, some interesting things to communicate,
which, please providence, I shall shortly do; and also, offer my
grateful thanks to the Committee of the Tract Society, for a precious
parcel of tracts, forwarded with a kind letter from their worthy
Secretary; and also my very grateful acknowledgments to an excellent
lady, for a very acceptable parcel for the female children in the
schools; this good lady says, they are "from one who wishes well to the
cause of instructing the rising generation." The thimbles, bodkins,
thread-cases, needle-books, work-bags, scissors, and five shillings,
inclosed in the "old purse," shall be judiciously distributed: the five
shillings we will apply to clothing some naked creatures. May the Lord
of glory clothe the dear lady's soul with the beautiful and glorious,
the spotless and eternal, robes of the Redeemer's righteousness, which
will never wax old!
With the kindest wishes for you, my dear Sir, and all the dear friends
of the Society, ever most affectionately yours,