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[I], to have him under our
roof and within sight for
nearly sixteen yers, it
lacked but a few months,
and each year as it
passed we would say to
[?] "is God going to
permit us to keep him?"
At last he was called to
grace the Courts of
Heaven; we bowed our
heads in humility to the
sacred decree from ever
since my husband and I
had been trying to learn,
all we [?] of this
beautiful country where
he [lived?] and we have
pleaded with god to give