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THE STORY OF MARY OF UNNIMORE. 407
He advanced him step by step in the army. He
is now on his way home with a pension from his
king and country, which will keep him easy for
life. He is quit of soldiering any more, and we
look for his return home in the course of a month.
James is now in good health. He has got an easy
place from the humane men, who did not forsake
him. My daughter is married to a prudent, in¬
dustrious lad from the Highlands, and now, thanks
to the Gracious One who sustained us, the voice of
joy is to be heard among us. Hardship did meet
us : but God blessed it for our good. He stood by
us in every difficulty. Often does James, in the
communing of the evening, go over everything
that has befallen us, tracing as he best can the
steps of the Lord’s providence towards the good
of our souls. “ It is good for me that I have been
afflicted,” is his language, and of every cause of
gladness the least is not that, according to every
account, John remembers his God and loves his
Saviour. He never parted with his brother’s
Bible. Often has it accompanied him on the day
of battle, and been his pillow at night in a far
distant land.