Part 47 (1/2)

We had an excellent ser, which he repeated by request Last evening we had Chi Alpha, and as I saw this body of -room, I wondered whether I had borne any minister to take up your father's and ht within myself, as I listened to a sermon on the union of Christ and the believer, whether I should have the bliss of hearing you preach Let me see; how old should I have to be, at soonest?

Sixty-two; the age at which ot a beautiful letter, a few days ago, from a minister in Philadelphia, the Rev Mr Miller, who has 1,300 meive a copy of Greylock to every young mother in it

I went to Mrs P's funeral on Friday She wanted to die suddenly, and had her wish She ate her breakfast on Tuesday; then went into the office and arranged papers there; her husband went out at ten, and shortly after, she began to feel sick and the girls o to bed

One of them went out to do some errands, and the other sat in the room; she soon heard a sound thatto her found her dead Dr P got ho after all was over He told me it was the most extraordinary death he ever heard of, but his theory was that a small clot of blood arrested the circulation, as she had no disease I had a talk with C about his wife's sudden death I had already written hi Post the slip I enclose about Mr Moody's question-drawer I wish I could hope for as sudden a death as Mrs P's

_To Mrs Condict, April 16, 1877_

I aet leaves and flowers in advance of spring, by keeping twigs in ater?

I had forsythia bloos leafed beautifully It is said that apple and pear blossolass cans I have been thinking, lately, that if I enjoy my imperfect work, how God, who has s, o from house to house where sickness and death are so busy Mrs F G

has just lost her two only children within a day of each other Neither hertheir illness or after their death, because of the flock of little ones in their house, and it was not safe to have a funeral Dr Hastings

_May 3d_--Dr Storrs preached for us last Sunday, and said one striking thing I e, ”They were stoned, were sawn asunder, they were teht the word _tempted_ out of place amid so many horrors, but that it held its true position, since few things could cause such anguish to a Christian heart as even a suggestion of infidelity to its Lord To this a Ke whether one had yielded or not

_May 17th_--”Misery loves co to you Perhaps it will be some consolation to you that I too have been knocked up for teeks, one of which I spent in bed Nothing serious the reeable, but necessary How _astounded_ we shall be ake up in heaven and find our hateful old bodies couldn't get in! M is , and H has made, a picture scrap-book for a hospital in Syria Your ht enjoy that We all _crave_ occupation ”Ihtful as i to do, does Did you ever hear the story of the eon, idle, and then found so, and crawling about and finding?

Well, I have got rid of a wee et rid of anotherit So we'll patch each other up, and li and no patching

The new serial, her Bible-readings, and painting, with visits to sick- roo the early half of this year, left little time for correspondence Her letters were few and brief; but they are marked, as was her life, by unusual quietness and depth of feeling Her delight was still to speak in the with their own ile extract will illustrate the gentle wisdo as peace of conscience even in this life I do not mean careless peace, or heedless peace; I , so to speak, between the soul and its Lord A wife, for instance, s to her husband that show she is huether loyally, and be happy And unless a Christian is aware of having on hand an idol, dearer than God, I see no reason why he should not live in peace, even while aware that he is not yet finished (perfect) We love God more than we are aware; when He slays us we trust in Him, when He strikes us we kiss His hand

Her own rave and pensive She felt more and more keenly the inning to end, in every aspect,” she wrote to a friend, ”life grows more mysterious to e things are all the tis that nearly drive one wild We live in a o down; go down and then fly up” Still this strange, ever-changing h it sometimes perplexed her in the extrereat sources of enjoyood deal; infinitely er children went to Dorset On reaching there, she wrote to her husband:

Here we are, sitting by the fire in our dear little parlor We made a very comfortable journey to Manchester, but the ride froot to send wraps The neighbors had sent in various good things, and the strawberries looked very nice

It rains, but M and I have surveyed the garden, and she says it is looking better than usual

I only wish you were here Your love is intensely precious to ht to be that we have loved each other through thick and thin! This is God's gift I can not write legibly with this pencil, nor see very well, as it is a dark day, and yet too early for a lamp

The latter part of June she made a short visit with her husband to Montreal A pleasant incident of this journey was an excursion to Quebec, where two char the Falls of Montmorenci, the Plains of Abraham, and other objects of interest in and about that re the ride in the cars from Montreal to St Albans, she called the attention of her husband to a paragraph fro an account of the death of a miner by an explosion, on whose breast was found a lock of hair inscribed with the name of ”Jessie” She remarked that the incident would serve as an excellent hint for a story This was the origin of _Gentleman Jim_, the pathetic little tale published shortly after her death

Soon after her return fro in water-colors, which afforded hernote to Mrs Ellen S Fisher, of Brooklyn, dated July 2d, will sho her lessons were taken:

Will you kindly infor your system of water-colors byin that line, as I had to go to Canada (by-the-bye, you can get delightful Chinese white paint there in tubes) My daughter says she thinks she heard you say that you would paint a little flower-piece reasonably, or perhaps you have one to spare now I should like a feild flowers against a blue sky I got half a dozen Parian vases at Montreal--each a group of three--and filled with daisies and a few grasses, they are exquisite Some of them are in imitation of the hollow toadstools one finds in the woods

_To Mrs Condict, Kauinfels, July 23, 1877_

Kauinfels is a e invented, after spending no little ti to a spot in a favorite brook as ”the place where the old cow fell in”; it looked so Gerive our place that na Pharaoh and a horse Shoo Fly Then we had Shadrach, Meseck, and Abednego for cats We had a dog named Penelope Ann--a splendid creature, but we had to part with her My Bible-reading began teeks ago, and neither rain nor shi+ne keeps people away For a se I do not kno et over Miss ---'s tragical end She must have suffered dreadfully I do not doubt her present felicity, nor that she counts her life on earth as anything more than a ood I saw so much that was morbid when she visited me here, that I never enjoyed her as I did when I knew her less But there is nothing he, Dorset, Aug 20, 1877_

Yesterday was the first fine day we have had in a long ti it on the front porch, hoished I could transport you here and share these ladly would I bottle it up and send it to you! A score of ti you here, and then been reminded that you can not leave your husband

I do not write uests nearly all the time This uses up what little brain I have left, and by half-past eight or nine I have to go to bed I aarden all the forenoon and get tired Yesterday the Rev Mr Reed, of Flushi+ng, preached a most impressive sermon on the denial of self In the afternoon he preached to a neighborhood o, naive Thursdays prettyand holding it at three in the afternoon Utter unfitness for this or any other work for the Master ely attended, and how I get courage to speak to so many, I know not

[Illustration: The Dorset Hoone to Portland and Prout's Neck Mr P is unusually well this suoing to Saratoga this week to visit Mrs Bronson M is a kind of supplement to her father; I love in her what I love in him, and she loves in me what he loves; we never had a jar in our lives, and are hter Hatty K is like a second M toa plate They work all the arden, and in the afternoon sit in”for the poor” like two Dorcases, or drive, or row on the pond They also study their Greek Testaether like a pair of twins Just here Mr