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I have had the emblems of
woe, so often at my door,
that, I felt that it hath been
truly said, "That one touch
of sorrow, makes the whole
world kin." I felt like writing
you a letter, when you lost
your idolized son, but there
you had your husband to
comfort and sustain you
but, now, as your last-earthly
prop has been taken, you can
take the blessed promise of the
Lord, that, he will never leave
or forsake, you, and although
he moves mysteriously, to us
He is too wise to err, & too good
to be unkind, and we have
to bow, with submission to his
will, as we are told in the Bible
that He chastens those that

he loves. We know not why we
are called on to suffer such
deep & heart-rending afflictions
in this world, but we will
know here after when the secrets
of the other world are known to us.
Now my dear unknown friend
let those blessed promises sustain
you in all, your earthly trials
untill the Master calls you to
"Come up higher" there to meet
your lived & lost, that have
gone, before you, never more
to be seperated, in that
"Blessed Land" where sickness
& Death are unknown, & where
the wicked cease from troubling
& the weary are at rest. Please
pardon the liberty I have
taken in addressing you, but
as I myself, am a child of