He has been absent from home since Christmas, and this has delayed his answer in acknowledging the receipt of McMaster's beautiful and appropriate gift, at the hands of a mutual friend, Charles Campbell. The gift is appreciated, and is especially fitting, in that McMaster was the one who first set the writer's feet in the true path, and this should aid and strengthen him in the journey. He prays that the book may gain him salvation, and will serve to bring both McMaster and himself to Heaven. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.