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[Text in top margin, written upside down] I have been waiting very impatiently for a full length photograph of the. I am very anxious for one, though I do not know as thee can get a chance to have one taken. Have you sent yours to the [?]? Pleaswe write very soon. Love to Henry and all the boys. love, lover, lovest to thee Ann
[Text in top margin written downward] "The Saints in Heaven were Fanatics on Earth." "La verité est eternelle."
[Text normal] Although hidden under the dust of superstitious bigotry; sunk beneath a deep ocean of hatred or shrouded with clouds of ignorance and jealousy, yet the day surely comes where the dust is wiped away by the hand of Religion, the ocean reveals the treasures in its depths, and the cloud disappears before the [says?] of Enlightenment, then the diamond, the pearl and the star shine, but [?ntly], soft and beautifully. Truth which is an attribute of Him, who created time and [?] Eternity, like the whole of which it is a part, can never perish. Darkness may envelop it, but the suunshine will at last break through; [strikethrough] and [/strikethrough] rain may obscure but it only starts the seed and nourishes the flower.
The advocates of truth and right were despised and [persecuted?] at the time they lived, but the next generation acknowledged them as just men and holy. Those, who in this century are [accounted?] as fanatics, may in the following be honored and respected by the advanced people who will see the truth with clearer eyes and weigh the good and evil with sounder judgement.
What was long ago spurned as falsehood has become the truth of the to day and the dead boughs of error fall
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