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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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Dated Albany NY 21 To Mrs Leland Stanford
our love & heartfelt sympathy in this great sorrow
Martha L. Judson
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Greenfield. Mass.
June 26th 1893
Dear Mrs. Stanford.
The terrible blow has fallen and you are alone through the remainder of your earthly pilgrimage. Only, only too well I know all the desolation, the bitterness, the woe of widowhood. No loss like that of a beloved companion in its bitter desolation. May His Mighty Arms hold you up and shelter you unto the End. Oh! what a meeting it will be on that other side "across the Shining Shore"? I am wondering in all the mystery of the "Great Unseen", who have already met? My heart is overwhelmed within me and words are too poor.
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given my heart of hearts! You kindly wished me "Good health" - am sorry to have to say, since I had the Grippe a year ago, I have been afflicted with rheumalism, effecting my knees; but I am not crippled and dare not complain. Yet with my always active locomotion it has been and is a sore trial to me, this stiffness and lameness. Am better and hope for a summer's recovery. A limited income will not admit of much travel or I should soon seek change of scene and climate. I would joy to go to California once more if it could be. It will not do for me to let my thoughts wander and I must "be still".
May our Loving Heavenly Father shield and comfort you and bear us bravely on to the Great End, receiving us at last into His Heavenly Fold. May God permit us to meet again face to face. I know you are surrounded by all Earth can give, but, none can better understand or more deeply feel your woe, than your truly sorrowing friend.
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to tell my deep and yearning sympathy for you my poor, bereaved friend. The weary wailing soul has been mine to travel for years and the struggle to live and bear my long inheritance! The only way it has been done seems summed up, in These Mighty Words - "Be still and know that I am God". Only, only in that way have I gone on and on. As I dwell upon all you are passing through, and know how sudden & unexpected it was at the last it seemeth more than can be borne and my heart aches for you with pain untold! Some kind caller came to me, the day before the papers announced the "end had come" - I could not believe my eyes, for I felt and hoped with you, your beloved had
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taken a new lease of life and it indeed seemed like it. But, who can tell "the day or the hour" the grim messenger will give his call?
You both came before me so vividly; through your welcome letter and I thanked you for every kind word and the "friendly greeting" sent, seems almost among the last of your husband's words. My little remembrance and your kind letter in return, seem to me, a heart prompting almost prophetic; our husbands, so soon to meet, in His glorious kingdom. where there will be no more parting and pain. In his own good time, He will let us go to them, "Not lost, but gone before". I do not know, that you will be able to read my letter and I must not inflict poor words upon you, but, "sympathy is sweet" and you have it my stricken friend.
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John G. Jury.
EDITOR: PACIFIC COAST TEACHER SAN JOSE, CAL.
