Just came across a letter written around 1628, in which a man is trying to console his grieving friend: "We do but borrow Children of God, to lend them to the world, and when I lend the world a daughter in marriage or lend the world a son in a profession, the world does not always pay me well again; my hopes are not always answered in that daughter or that son. But, of all that I lend to, the Grave is my best paymaster. The Grave shall restore me my child..."
Aah, the Carlisle's father's vibes! After Carlisle went missing, did Pastor Cullen think his rebellious son had finally left him? How did he spend the days after that? Would he write to his friend saying similar things that the loss is temporary, even though devastating, but in death, you will be together again? Except he didn't know that death would separate them forever.