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these can not preserve us.
Winds, counter-currents, ice, cold, 1000
things may baffle us.

We need protection from Providence.
We see the reputation – welfare of our
community – place at hazard
Soon people be afraid to come –
given over to destruction.

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Let us be thankful that God has
scourged us so little in proportion to
our guilt.

Let us repent of & forsake our ways
of folly – selfishness & sin – & earnestly
labor & pray for the good of all around us.
Our safety rests on faithful praying men.

Let us so act toward sufferers – that we as they shall
long remember this calamity – not wholly with regret.