His diaries reveal a life lived in great humility and special nearness to his Lord.

There are those for whom it is prepared of His Father, that they shall sit in special nearness to Him.

God had then admitted him to special nearness; and special trials might be requisite to keep him humble, and prevent high thoughts of himself.

'I always seem to think that in the case of good men the suffering is the sure earnest of special nearness to God.