Memoir of the Chisholm

214 PROPOSES THE
been at work, and imparted a stronger im-
pulse to the ardour of his natural tempera-
ment. But, whatever may have been the ne-
cessity laid upon the Chisholm to adopt a
course so painful to him, the writer feels him-
self relieved from dwelling upon it. Nay
more, as the conviction is firmly impressed
upon the writer's own mind, that, if the spirit
of his friend were still animating its " earthly
house of this tabernacle V it would have un-
ceasingly renewed those prayers for mutual
pardon, which, before its departure from this
unquiet world, it offered up, so earnestly and
faithfully, before the Throne of Grace, — and
that words of kindness and acts of kindness,
issuing from the same spirit, would long since
have stilled the voice and smoothed the brow
of angry disputants, and won back the con-
fidence of the estranged to his heart again, —
so he trusts that he may now most effectu-
ally promote the same blessed work of recon-
ciliation, by abstaining from any further com-
ment upon the misunderstanding which then
arose.
If any thing were yet wanting to show how
i 2 Cor. v. 2.