"In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven’s mercies to mankind, the power we have of finding some germs of
comfort in the hardest trials must ever occupy the foremost place; not only because it supports and upholds us when we most
require to be sustained, but because in this source of consolation there is something, we have reason to believe, of the
divine spirit; something of that goodness which detects amidst our own evil doings, a redeeming quality; something which,
even in our fallen nature, we possess in common with the angels; which had its being in the old time when they trod the
earth, and lingers on it yet, in pity."
Chapter 47
In the previous installment, Barnaby and Mrs. Rudge made their way to London, met up with an old acquaintance, and were swept up in the anti-Catholic crowd. For this week, read chapters 49 and 50.
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