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Aug 6. Have had now 26 different scholars. How great my responsibility. May | Aug 6. Have had now 26 different scholars. How great my responsibility. May God help me to do my duty. Should be glad if I could hear from home often but I must submit. | ||
Aug 7. was made vary happy by a letter from home last evening. I do feel thankful that my dear parents and brothers are presently in health. Praise God now in my letter - god's ways are mysterious. E. Ireland is dead others I expected to hear and Mrs. Bavinhour is gone to her home - two persons whom I should least have selected when I left home. May God sanctify these Providences to me and to all especially the young. | Aug 7. was made vary happy by a letter from home last evening. I do feel thankful that my dear parents and brothers are presently in health. Praise God now in my letter - god's ways are mysterious. E. Ireland is dead others I expected to hear and Mrs. Bavinhour? is gone to her home - two persons whom I should least have selected when I left home. May God sanctify these Providences to me and to all especially the young. | ||
Aug 8. Attended meeting saw Miss Roberts. She stopped between meetings at Elder | Aug 8. Attended meeting saw Miss Roberts. She stopped between meetings at Elder Knapps We were very happy to meet. She says she is happy though there is no society there which she can enjoy She does not know of a professor of religion in the immediate neighborhood - has 26 scholars on an average. Hope we shall see each other often. | ||
Aug 12. Do not feel at all able to go to school to day. I hope it will be God's wish to grant me my health and strength for my labors, but not my will but thine be done. | Aug 12. Do not feel at all able to go to school to day. I hope it will be God's wish to grant me my health and strength for my labors, but not my will but thine be done. | ||
Aug 14 Saturday, no school finished my letter home. Do not feel very well. A Miss French got Mr. Parks from | Aug 14 Saturday, no school finished my letter home. Do not feel very well. A Miss French got Mr. Parks from Lockport come here Mrs. Goody and I had to play as usual. Mrs. G is one of the best of women. I love her very much. She does every thing for me and seems to feel as anxious as a mother. Oh how thankful I ought to be for such friends. They are from God's hand. | ||
Aug 15 Sabbath. I stayed at home with Mrs Goody today do not love to stay at home when it is possible to go but I should get very tired, I am so weak and she advised am to say and try to get rest. I have read in the Bible and in the Young Christian and have prayed God to bless me my parents and all my friends both here & far away - Hope the preaching at the chh | Aug 15 Sabbath. I stayed at home with Mrs Goody today do not love to stay at home when it is possible to go but I should get very tired, I am so weak and she advised am to say and try to get rest. I have read in the Bible and in the Young Christian and have prayed God to bless me my parents and all my friends both here & far away - Hope the preaching at the chh I so love to attend; hence and every where will be attended with succes. abundant. O my Father prepare me for the duties of this week many and great as they are - help me to trust alone in thee then shall I be safe. | ||
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Aug 6. Have had now 26 different scholars. How great my responsibility. May God help me to do my duty. Should be glad if I could hear from home often but I must submit. Aug 7. was made vary happy by a letter from home last evening. I do feel thankful that my dear parents and brothers are presently in health. Praise God now in my letter - god's ways are mysterious. E. Ireland is dead others I expected to hear and Mrs. Bavinhour? is gone to her home - two persons whom I should least have selected when I left home. May God sanctify these Providences to me and to all especially the young. Aug 8. Attended meeting saw Miss Roberts. She stopped between meetings at Elder Knapps We were very happy to meet. She says she is happy though there is no society there which she can enjoy She does not know of a professor of religion in the immediate neighborhood - has 26 scholars on an average. Hope we shall see each other often. Aug 12. Do not feel at all able to go to school to day. I hope it will be God's wish to grant me my health and strength for my labors, but not my will but thine be done. Aug 14 Saturday, no school finished my letter home. Do not feel very well. A Miss French got Mr. Parks from Lockport come here Mrs. Goody and I had to play as usual. Mrs. G is one of the best of women. I love her very much. She does every thing for me and seems to feel as anxious as a mother. Oh how thankful I ought to be for such friends. They are from God's hand. Aug 15 Sabbath. I stayed at home with Mrs Goody today do not love to stay at home when it is possible to go but I should get very tired, I am so weak and she advised am to say and try to get rest. I have read in the Bible and in the Young Christian and have prayed God to bless me my parents and all my friends both here & far away - Hope the preaching at the chh I so love to attend; hence and every where will be attended with succes. abundant. O my Father prepare me for the duties of this week many and great as they are - help me to trust alone in thee then shall I be safe.