In the
last years he dieted almost wholly on fruit. The private
correspondent, from whose account, written two years ago, we have
derived our sketch, proceeds in these words. "Through evil reports,
revilings, seductions, and temptations many and severe, the Spirit
has not let him go, but has strongly and securely held him, in a
manner not often witnessed. New consciousness opens to him every
day. His literary abilities would not be by critics entitled to
praise, nor does he speak with what is called eloquence; but as he is
so much the `lived word,' I have described, there is found a potency
in all he writes and all he says, which belongs not to beings less
devoted to the Spirit. Supplies of money have come to him as fast,
or nearly as fast as required, and at all events his serenity was
never disturbed on this account, unless when it has happened that,
having more than his expenses required, he has volunteered extraneous
expenditures. He has been, I consider, a great apostle of the
Newness to many, even when neither he nor they knew very clearly what
was going forward.
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