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on the Campus. I drove up to their house and they were all outside and came forward to my carriage, and the picture is very vivid with me still. The cable news came to us through the papers the day after it happened and it took away all joyous feeling we might otherwise have experienced, one could not but feel to the in[n[ermost soul, how many were weeping and wailing over the departure of their loved ones, the brutal manner which they went, it makes one feel thankful that God permitted the comfort of standing by the bed side and administering comforts that only loving hearts and hands can give as the soul leaves the body for the life higher and better beyond this. Yesterday I received the Paris Herald in which the entire list of dead and wounded are named, as many as four and five members of one family were destroyed, how dreadful, and that brings me the thought, what saved the sister of Miss Hillman from being there, with her sister, there is great cause for thankfulness that she escaped - There is nothing one can say to our friends bearing such a sorrow, but we can plead and pray to our Good Father in Heaven to encircle His loving arms around them, and breath[e] into their wounded hearts his tender comforting light and love, it can come only from this Source. Let them ever think