I was certainly very busy on the day I had the honor and privilege of writing to your lordship, and much distressed both in mind and heart, by the woeful backsliding of a member of our congregation.

On looking over the copy of the letter, however, I perceive one thing that is gratifying to me.

My Lord, I made no mistake.

It is not, perhaps, known to your Lordship that there are two descriptions of widows--the real and the vegetable; that is, the widow by death, and the widow by local separation from her husband.

Indeed the latter is a class that requires as much sustainment and comfort as the other--being as they are, more numerous, and suffering all the privations of widowhood, poor things, except its reality.