A Letter To Isaac Harrison – June 24th, 1843
My dear friend, Isaac Harrison
I purpose, if the Lord wills, to leave Oakham for Leicester on Tuesday morning by the coach, and intend to bring my wife and little girl with me. We think of getting down at the turnpike at Belgrave, as I did before, but as I have to preach that evening we shall sleep at the chapel-house.
I have been but poorly since I came home, and was able to preach but once on Lord’s-day, and that much shorter than usual.
We cannot always, nor indeed often, see how these trials work together for good. Here, however, is the more exercise of faith and patience. “Let patience,” says James, “have her perfect work;” but if patience has no trials to bear no dark and mysterious dispensations to endure, she can have no work at all, much less a perfect one.
I have had a letter from Mr. Brown, of Woburn, and greatly fear the breach is irreparable. I certainly think he has not been treated well. But at present I have heard one side only, and therefore feel it premature to come to any decision on the subject.
I hope your sister at Belgrave will take care to have the bed well aired for my wife and daughter, as I shall feel anxious about them.
Yours very sincerely, for the truth’s sake,
J. C. P.
J. C. P.
Jesus is LORD! 
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