enterprises? Proud young soul as he was: the ruling Powers, be
they just, be they unjust, have proved too hard for him! We hear
of tragic vestiges still traceable of Friedrich, belonging to this
time: texts of Scripture quoted by him, pencil-sketches of his
drawing; expressive of a mind dwelling in Golgothas, and
pathetically, not defiantly, contemplating the very worst.

Chaplain Muller of the Gens-d,Armes, being found a pious and
intelligent man, has his orders not to return at once from
Custrin; but to stay there, and deal with the Prince, on that
horrible Predestination topic and his other unexampled
backslidings which have ended so. Muller stayed accordingly, for a
couple of weeks, intensely busy on the Predestination topic, and
generally in assuaging, and mutually mollifying, paternal Majesty
and afflicted Son. In all which he had good success;
and especially on the Predestination point was triumphantly
successful. Muller left a little Book in record of his procedures
there; which, had it not been bound over to the official tone,
might have told us something. His Correspondence with the King,
during those two weeks, has likewise been mostly printed;
[Forster, i. 376-379.] and is of course still more official,--
teaching us next to nothing, except poor Friedrich Wilhelm's
profoundly devotional mood, anxieties about "the claws of Satan"
and the like, which we were glad to hear of above. In Muller
otherwise is small help for us.

But, fifty years afterwards, there was alive a Son of this
Muller's; an innocent Country Parson, not wanting in sense, and
with much simplicity and veracity; who was fished out by Nicolai,
and set to recalling what his Father used to say of this