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We extract the following notice from the Diary of an excellent foreign Minister, lately published—‘I find that I always go on best in the business, when I keep close to the first text or truth, which the Lord makes important to me. This is at the time as it were only as a small lighted taper which beams into my heart, and commonly soon disappears. But if I take care not to let it go, but meditate on it thoroughly as a word sent from God, and [ignore] the dryness and obscurity which re-appears, then I easily come to the point. Whereas, if I begin to change my subject, and think there is really nothing at all clear, or of concern to me, in the one I am engaged upon; and that I must get something more to the purpose, then I drift upon my own choosing and selecting, and miss the Lord’s aim.’ Memoir of Hilman Rauschenbush—an interesting piece of Biography (Seeleys) 1844.