Letters from an Absent Brother [Signed D.W.]. (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824. Excerpt: ... LETTER Xt. Lausanne, Tuesday Morning, Sept. 2d, 1823. MY DEAREST SISTEE, Yesterday I was employed the whole morning in examining two chapters of the translation of Scott, which I had brought with me from Geneva. I went over it, line by line, and word by word. It gave me satisfaction; it is, so far as I can judge, faithful, clear, simple; nothing is omitted, nothing changed. What I most want, is more steady competent labourers; there is still very, very much to be done before St. Matthew will be ready for the press. I am going off to-day to meet our friends at Geneva, about the work; and then to proceed to Chamouny. It is possible we may go on to Martigny and even Milan, and return by Lyon. The weather is most inviting. In going to the VOL. II. D 40 STATE OF RELIGION. Cathedral yesterday, I found it was built on an extremely high hill; you first ascend a street exceedingly steep, and then you come to a staircase (in the street) of one hundred and seventy steps; so that the church seems quite on a pinnacle; the view it presents is of almost unequalled extent and sublimity. At one o'clock yesterday I visited a pious family, two or three miles from Lausanne. The situation in the midst of vineyards was most beautiful; it commanded a view of the Lake. I had a most affecting conversation with them. The father, mother, sisters, all seem quite in earnest about their salvation. But unhappily they have few wise, enlightened guides. Too many of the ministers here, with much orthodoxy and zeal, are said to want that humble, and practical knowledge of the Gospel, as a business of the heart; without which, they cannot direct others; and one very pious man (who has been silenced) has fallen into the dangerous error of always dwelling on the mysterious doctrine of the div...