Select passages from the diary and letters of the late John Blackader, Esq.

23O EXTRACTS OF LETTERS
one of the regiments that befieges, fo that:
there is nothing in the world but one:
wave upon the back of another. The:
juft mud live by faith. The Lord of :
hods is the God of battles, and has pre-
served me many a time there. He is alfo
the God of lieges, and has preferved me
as wonderfully there. I defire to put my
truft in him. When you grow anxious
and thoughtful, take my riddled hat and
hang it up before you, and truft in God
who has delivered, and doth daily deliver,
and in whom I truft that he will yet de-
liver.
My deareft, as to my advancement, I
fhall fay but little about it. I blefs God
I am very eaiy, go as it will. I am uting
the ordinary means, and have promifes
enough. If it be good for me and for
God's glory, I fhall get it ; if it be not fo,
I do not feek it, 1 have no butinei's with
it. It is a cnfis of my life, as 1 hinted in
mine before the battle, though I did not
know how it would be, yet I had impref-
iions that the campaign would take ano-
ther turn, and that it would not be idle.
This day was appointed to be a thankf-
giving ior our great victory. We had