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encouraging, is the extreme sensitivities? which I have suffered so much, is subsiding. Oh, mother, I do hope that I have now? fairly started on the road to health, and that I should soon commence? to unclear much faster. I know it is not swell? to be too sanguine as it would cause our disappointment to seem much greater if any hopes are not realized, but still, how can a? unclear girl like me, help feeling very much encouraged when she sees she is really getting better. I feel that I am getting well and shall I not rejoice? But if I do not get well, if there are yet long years of lingering suffering before me, oh? may I have strength to bear it? patiently?, and may we all be patiently? resigned, knowing all is for the best. I know it would be a hard track?, almost, if not quite as hard for you as for me, but still it may be, it would not be safe for me, to be well, and consequently, exposed to all the temptations of society. Dear mother, if I was well and able to indulge in all the pleasures which most others enjoy, who knows, but what I would be led astray, who knows what would become of me. Would my poor sick mind be able to without? all the unhappy influences with which I might be surrounded in the native scenes? of life? There is only One who knows; and in His