A Letter To Thomas Godwin – April 3rd, 1860
My Dear Friend, Mr. Godwin.
Through mercy, I hope I can say I am progressing in health, and, for the first time since the end of November, went today out of my garden-gate, and took a turn up and down the Terrace. I feel also stronger in walking than I expected I would after my long confinement, and I hope now, with God’s blessing, if I get no relapse that I may be restored once more to my pulpit and people. It has been a long and heavy trial to me, and I doubt not, I may add, in a measure to them; though the pulpits have been well supplied, especially here where there has been as much preaching as if I had not been laid aside at all.
I hope I may not lose the life and feeling which I have had for the most part through the affliction; but I have often found that as the body got stronger the soul got weaker, and that the sickness of the one was sometimes the health of the other. I could wish that my soul was always alive unto God—with no darkness, deadness, coldness, unbelief, or worldly-mindedness. But alas! I find that I have still a body of sin and death which will make itself felt, and which seems to suffocate by its pressure all spiritual good. But the blessed Lord has said, “Because I live you shall live also;” so that wherever He has communicated life out of His own fullness He will maintain it in spite of sin, hell, and death. What a mercy this is for the living family of God.
I hope the Lord may be with you in your visit to Leicester. You will preach to a large congregation, and we hope that there are among them some of the royal family.
Yours very affectionately,
J. C. P.
Jesus is LORD! 
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