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honors, with the vexations too, of your station. $3000,00 is indeed a large salary - more perhaps than could be obtained in New. England - But the care? must be considerable, and, as you say, in loosing so great pay, you escape the burden of responsibility also, so never mind the loss, but "hope on". - It is evening, as it usually is when I sit down to write, and we have just finished family devotions. We usually sing, and to night we sung the evening hymn commencing, "The day is past and gone". O these are precious seasons. I shall never, never forget them, go where I may - But our circle is more broken than usual to night. So it makes us who are left draw closer together. Mother has become so well that she had left us, and gone to visit her relatives in Westboro, Mass., and it seems as if half the brightness of our home is gone. She went thus suddenly, chiefly because of a sick sister, whose health it was thought might be benefitted by her presence. She is exceedingly nervous, and mother, though never well herself, is a very cheerful body, and perhaps will drive the "blues" away from Aunt Martha. It is possible she may come back with mother, and try the effect