Your affectionate father. DAVID A. WALLACE. II. -"MY DEAR SON. Although I have not heard from you since I last wrote, I feel like writing to you again this morning. I am very busy; still I feel that I must take time to write to you. Your welfare is very dear to me. I exceedingly rejoice in it. Mis- fortune to you I feel as keenly as to myself. I want to say something to you about' your religious inter- ests to-day. You have made a profession of faith in Christ. I trust your profession was genuine, and To His Children. 207 that you are a child of God. Be faithful in reading the Bible, and in private prayer. Let your room be a Bethel. Wherever you are, select a church. Make it for the time your own. Attend its prayer- meetings. Help in its Sabbath-school. Go to all its public Sabbath services. A poor church and preacher is better than none. You will get good by going, and you will suffer loss by staying at home. I very much desire that you remain a member of the United Presbyterian Church. My first reason is, that I believe before God it to be more nearly right than any other; and it will be very gratifying to both mother and me. Fix a certain percentage of your income and pay it out for the Lord's cause.