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relax his efforts now that great prosperity at-
tended his labours. He continued in the same
stedfast path of duty and well-doing, sustained
and encouraged by his faith in his Saviour’s
merits, not in his own. By this he escaped the
ill effects of that which the Apostle Paul has
mentioned in 1 Cor. viii. 1, 2, 3: ‘Knowledge
puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And ifany man
think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth
nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any
man love God, the same is known of Him,’
Thus, year after year, Fred kept on the even
tenor of his way. Mr. Kartmann, who was now
Fred’s father-in-law (as Fred had married one
of Mr. Kartmann’s daughters), placed the utmost
confidence in his talents, skill, and integrity.
One thing cast a cloud over his otherwise
happy condition. After the flight of his brother,
he had vainly sought to discover what had be-
come of Francis, At the time of his marriage,
an article in a newspaper unexpectedly fur-
nished him with the first and last information
that he ever obtained concerning the fate of his
brother, whose separation from him had caused
him so much sorrow and regret. It was stated
in the newspaper that the diligence on its way
from Frankfort to Paris had been attacked by