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no effect whatever, and she continually grew worse till Sunday a few minutes past one o,clock her spirit returned to God I hope it will never be my lot to witness another such death She was so unhappy, so unwilling to die, from the commencement of her sickness in all her delirum - and her short intervals of reason her one theme was death Oh, she says I would give ten thousand worlds if I had not neglected religion - she would frequently exclaim must I suffer all this here and then burn forever? She was delirious most of the time and it was very difficult to say anything to her owing to her nervous state but we tried all we could to point her to the Savior - I know not whether she felt any more reconciled - in the hands of a just and merciful God we must leave her who cannot do wrong - never before did I feel the unspeakable blessedness of a hope in God so fully, nor never did realize what a poor place a death bed is for repentance a few minutes before she breathed her last Theodore came in after the Dr saying "the horses had run away and broken Johns arm I could not help wondering what should come next - may God in his infinite mercy prepare us all for whatever is in store for us I suppose you have had all the particulars about this last providence from Father so I will not repeat - I feel that you are ready to ask as I often do what good are all these afflictions doing us - that they are sent from God I most firmly believe, that they tend to soften or to make us more hard I also believe and the thought distresses me exceedingly that they should not have the effect which God designs - and I come now to way what most wished to say to you at this time which is - that I do believe the Spirit of God is bringing home these things to the hearts of Bel and John I think they are both very serious, and I wish this more particularly to engage your prayers for them - it does seem to me as if it was a