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been fondly indulging the idea that you both might be spared to us for good long years. For my own part I had been indulging the hope that before long in some manner we might be again all united. Then hopes now all be buried in the tomb.

But my dear mother we must not mourn without hope. I feel confident there is a future where we shall all be united, lately I often ask myself, were it possible to bring father back to earth again would we do it. Has he not gone to a better world "where the weary are at rest and the wicked cease from troubling"

I feel in my heart that this is so. How many thousand memories constantly arrise of his goodness and affection. And so dear mother does there of the many sacrifices you have made for your children how constantly and unmeasuredly.