I am also on an immense heath, surrounded by 16,000 men, mostly young and gay, cooking, singing, working, and not very like the stern old Covenanters; however, I shall try.

First of all, let me congratulate you that it passed happily and well off.

Secondly, let me entreat you to look with a serious and reflective mind on the day which is past.
Many are the religions, many the shades of those religions, but it must be confessed the principles of the Christian religion are the most perfect and the most beautiful that can be imagined....

There is one virtue which is particularly Christian; this is the knowledge of our own heart in _real humility_.

_Hypocrisy_ is a besetting sin of all times, but _particularly of the present_, and many are the wolves in sheep's clothes.