Crime & punishment > Notes of conversations with H. M'Donald, N. Sutherland, and H. M'Intosh, (who were executed at Edinburgh, April 22, 1812,) during the time they were under sentence of death

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those that are appointed to die. God will com¬
fort them that are drowned with grief, and dry
up the tears of the afflicted. God be with you
all when I am dead and gone. Dear father, take
no grief about me, for I hope I am going to a
place where there will be no grief, but everlast¬
ing happiness—happiness that will never have
an end.”
The following extracts are taken from the se¬
cond letter :—
Edinburgh Tolbooth, April 21.
“ My Dear Father and Mother,
“ I write this letter, letting you know it
comes from a sincere well-wisher ! Oh ! that
God may be your comfort, and help you to get
over all this, which I hope in God he will. God
grant that those that swore against me that day
may take an example by me, for they swore
false about Dugald Campbell’s murder; for, as I
shall answer to God, I am innocent of it, which
I am very happy that I have none of that man’s
blood on my head. Dear father and mother,
dry up your tears, for my sufferings in this
world will not be long, if my soul be happy, as
I hope, in God, it will. O brothers and sisters,
think what God is, and take a thought. O
God! what would I have done if it had not
been for that blessed book the Bible : it gave me
comfort when I thought of my grave. Oh ! for
God’s sake, brothers and sisters, read, read your
Bibles, and you will find comfort in them.