[Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay]@TWC D-Link bookReminiscences of Scottish Life and Character CHAPTER VII 132/146
We are thus _put right_ by _trust, justified_ or _put right_ by faith in the loving fatherly righteous purpose of God towards us. Dear George Dundas's death has taken from me my chief social support in Edinburgh.
I was fourteen years his senior, but I had known and loved him from his childhood.
Our mothers were sisters, and thus we had the same family ties and traditions. I think of him now in connection with that verse, "to those who by patient continuance in well-doing," etc. And now farewell.
Let us seek to live by the faith of the Son of God--his filial trust I suppose, which I so much need .-- Ever truly and gratefully yours, T.ERSKINE. * * * * * The three following letters hardly help on the story of the Dean's life, but I could not pass them when they came into my hands. The writer is Adam Sedgwick, the well-known Cambridge Professor and Philosopher.
In another capacity he was still better known.
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