While upon this subject of George Allen, I may
say, with as much delicacy as is permissible to a faithful minister
of God's holy Word, that I fear George has been--a--h'm--what shall I
say?--at least led astray by an unhappy intimacy with a female
residing in the metropolis who is an infidel. I have no doubt in my
own mind that the knowledge of this fact accelerated the departure of
my dear daughter, whose sorrow was of a twofold character--sorrow, in
the first place, with regard to her husband's unfaithfulness, causing
her thereby much personal affliction, which, however, endureth but
for a moment, for she now inherits a far more exceeding weight of
glory"--Mr. Broad's week-day and extempore quotations from the Bible
were always rather muddled--"and, in the second place, sorrow for her
husband's soul. I think we have distinct evidence of this intimacy,
which I shall be able to produce at the proper moment. We have all
observed, too, that whilst the Allens have not latterly attended
Divine Service at Tanner's Lane, they have not seceded to another
place of worship. Finally, and by way of conclusion, let me remark
that I have wrestled long with the Lord to know what was my duty
towards these apostates and towards the Church of Christ.
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