Find my strength greatly reduced. Desire to be in readiness to meet my summons from the world; have but little expectation of recovering strength before I go hence to be here no more. My great desire is to honour God and religion, even to the moment of closing my eyes. As this earthly tabernacle is dissolving, I pray God to build me up into a new, vigourous, spiritual man; then can I sing, with a dying voice, "O death, where is thy sting?" I did desire to slumber till the resurrection on the holy hill Bethlehem, the birth place of our Saviour. But I rejoice that the Lord has brought me to Egypt. As to the future, may I say, "The will of the Lord be done."

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