Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   30 August 1861

Newcastle on Tyne | 30 August 1861.

Very dear Brother

I received your very pleasant note yesterday and was rejoiced to hear what it told me of your progress. I shall not be so apt to find fault with railways, delays, &c, since I owe to one of them your acceptable communication. I should have written before, but that I wished to see Mr. Paradise, and after communicating with him, tell you the result. He is still at Tynemouth with Mrs Paradise¹, and I have just come back from a very pleasant walk with him between that place & Cullercotes. He joins in, most heartily, with the view taken by the Elders of London, Dundee & Glasgow, - says he could never see how the contrary conclusion could be sustained by the Scriptures, - but submitted himself to the judgment of others: he is heartily rejoiced to have that condition removed from his mind. We have had some very happy chats together;- & he is, for him, very well; though as he says, in the matter of health he can never answer for himself. Last Wednesday Evening² after meeting we had a very merry party at the meeting house, which indeed went off so well, that they have since called it the house warming. Mr. Cowan I understand is to be here this evening but I cannot wait to honour that, before I write to you.

The Meeting house here is very comfortable indeed; a vast improvement upon the old place which I have been once to see & compare with it³.

All the friends here are I think pretty well. David [Reid] himself is troubled with a varying deafness. My wife is beginning to feel tired and cannot fulfill all her engagements; I shall be glad to get her home in the middle or latter end of next week and hope, with care, to succeed as well as in bringing her here:- as yet we have nothing to regret. She sends her love with mine to you & Mrs. Vincent & the members of your family.

You know how I forget. I dare say there are many points I have omitted. You must draw them out when we see each other.

I hope you found all right at the Institution including the bell pull up the stairs[.]

I hope Miss Savage’ sister is still improving[.]

Our kindest remembrances to Mr Leighton Mr Whitelaw, Yourself & all the brethren from (for both) your affectionate brother & friend | M. Faraday