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April 18 The wind is east and rain and cold
we have been kept from all danger in the night and
woke in comfortable health, and our hearts have been raised
and warm in prayr to god this morning, my dear young
friend united in prayr, she told me that in the night
she felt that she lay in the arms of christ, O what
lovely thing to see a young christen devoted to their saviour,
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, for I am desolate
and in misery: the sorrows of my heart ar enlarged:
O bring thou me out of all my troubles look upon my
adversity and misery, and forgive me all my sins. O keep
my soul, and deliver me, let me not be confounded, for
I have put my trust in thee, through jesus christ our lord,
O how I pitty mothers that have not children to symithise (sympathize?)
with them in there sorrows and in there weakness
My poor mother has not one to smooth her pillow
I wish that I could have her with me in her last day
to comfort her at the close of life