Letter to Mrs. Burnett of Kemnay, September 2, 1816, in Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, ed. William Hanna (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884), p. 14

God's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor His ways as our ways. May He by His Holy Spirit conform our wills unto His holy will. Katherine is wonderfully supported, but it is an awful blow. Pray for us, that this dispen…