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to go to school. Mamma was destined not to return
with her whole family, After we had been a few
months in our own house, sickness entered it, we all
had scarlet fever. I was the first and had it most
slightly, the others suffered greatly, and with my
little sister it proved fatal, this was the first real
affliction we had met with, and we felt it, to be
deprived of a member of our little family was indeed
severe, and never, never, will my sister be forgotten
by me, it only serves to make me more anxious, so to
live, that I may be fitted where I die to enter
those blessed regions, where she is enjoying happi-
ness unspeakable.As I look back to the period when
we had her with us, every thing relating to her
recurs to my mind, not in an [indistinct], but in
a most vivid manner. And as time advances
this is still the case. Ever will that place be re-
garded with sacred interest by me, where for the
last time on earth we were an unsevered family.
What bliss beyond description will it to be, to be uni-
ted once more to those dear objects, torn from
you here, and who as time advances you are
only more anxious to be reunited to. If heaven
is a place of perfect happiness, we must have
the feelings of affection that we hade here, & be able
to distinguish those we loved from those to whom
we were indifferent, Love constitutes the happi-
ness of this world, who could be happy with-
out loving and being loved. No one indeed.