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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquering pen. (search)
isadvantages of early education, in the hope of entering the ministry of the gospel. Since then, the teacher and pupil have met but once to take a retrospective look over the route by which God had led them. But a short time since, Mr. Vaill wrote to Brown, in his prison, a letter of Christian friendship, to which he has received the following heroic and sublime reply. Has ever such an epistle been written from a condemned cell since the letter to Timotheus, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time ? I have copied it faithfully from the autograph that lies before me, without the change or omission of a word, except to omit the full name of the friends to whom he sends his message. The words in Italics and capitals are so underscored in the original. The handwriting is clear and firm; but towards the end of the sheet seems to show that the sick old man's hand was growing weary. The very characters make an appeal to us for our sympathy and prayers. His salutation w