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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

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"The Saints in Heaven were Fanatics on Earth."
"La verité est eternelle."

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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 attri-
bute 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