David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ God hath smitten us, my dear madam, with a blow that to us appears harsh; but God’s thoughts are not like man’s, and we should believe that He takes no pleasure in torturing His poor creatures. And what! are we dreaming that God shall change His course in His Providence for our pleasure? ”

“ God grant, madam, that you and I may so discharge our obligations, that the casualties which may happen to us may not turn us away from God’s paths, but on the contrary may aid us to pass peacefully the few days that remain to us before our entrance into the eternal delights which He is preparing for us. ”

“ We must bear up as best we can under all kinds of events, living in hope that we shall one day see more clearly the reason of all His dark dispensations which encounter us and pierce us to the quick.
“Madam, I do not censure your lively grief. You owe it to a son, to a man so brave and so beloved, removed from this world. ”