remembered. I hope I had a realizing sense of my cured sense of things and of the great condescension and love of God – I had not the feeling of fear, when partaking of this holy Sacrament, for I felt as if obeying a solemn command of our dear Savior’s – “Douch feelings, to die with going for would it not be gain to be with that Saviour who has so loves us, as to as t shed his precious blood to redeem us. What a consolation it is that this would of sin and this in remembrance of me.” I never knew anything , my dear Father, so calculated to abstract the mind from worldly considerations, wickedness is not to be forever our home. And what is death to us, why should we fear to die when death is but the passport to the regions of Life! To this pious and aged Christian, death cannot but be received as a friend – And who glorious will that eternity be to us, my dear Father, if in it we together wish all those we love shall meet? – and if we never meet again on earth, oh my the happiness to me in heaven be ours.
Please tell Mother I thank her for her kind wishes as regarding my future usefulness and happiness – I hope we all may be useful while we live, I often wish I could visit you in our next vacation, but it will be some time I expect, before that happiness will again be mine. Lorenzo was so conscientious about writing to me again by cousin emmas, that I believe I shan’t write to him again