Immediately Carabet

“ This is the first time that I have lived alone with my family since my marriage. On our arrival at Malta, in 1823, we lived in the same house with the families of Messrs. Bird and Temple. When we ‘first arrived at Beyrout we lived for nearly a year with Mr. Bird, and when we took another house, we had immediately Carabet, and soon after his wife, with us constantly, besides many Arabs continually about us. We have now for a whole month been alone, and we bless God for this retirement and relief from care and anxiety. Though I spend most of my days at the press, yet I see and enjoy more of my family than I ever have before. The society of my wife and children is indeed a comfort, which my circumstances have never before permitted me to enjoy.”

In January, 1829, he wrote: “ On the 8th Mr. Anderson took tea with us, and we had a fire in the evening, the first we have had since leaving America,” which was more than six years before.

To a friend at Andover, Mass., he wrote from Malta, under date of March 24, 1829: —

Constitute the body of Christ

“ We thank you and all our good friends at Andover for so affectionately and prayerfully remembering us in our low estate.’ Though we feel unworthy of such remembrance, yet we are, I trust, of4 the goodly company ’ of those who constitute the body of Christ; ’ and if so, we aremembers in particular, and members one of another.’ We ‘believe in the holy catholic church, the communion of saints.’ We love to feel united in spirit, labors, sufferings, privileges, and blessings, with allthe household of faith,’ with all4 the elect/ who ‘have obtained like precious faith,’ whose ‘names are written in heaven,’ and whoare come unto Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem; ’ with all who ‘ are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit,’ and who ‘ in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.’