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to you in tenderest
sympathy - and sincerest
appreciation in these
trying hours. I pray for
you earnestly every night.
I desire that you
may constantly so
realize the nearness of
your dear ones who have
passed to the higher life,
that from their loving
support you may draw
strength and fortitude
for your great responsibility
here. I pray God
that the intercession of

such as they may avert from our
beloved land the threatened doom
of anarchy and bloodshed. I sometimes
feel that the knell has struck, and I
fancy I hear the rustling of the
cords that are rushing, to the mast
head of our ship of state the red flag
of anarchy. What an exciting trip
that was of yours from the mountains! I
shed tears when reading of it, and how
trying these dreadful times are to you, my