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Nov. 25 Thanksgiving no meeting. Went to Wedding {Lorfair? Knapp's} in evening enjoyed very well thought of home and dear friends there. Dec - Letter from home father mother and brothers all wrote a portion. It was very very welcome. all are well. I feel grateful to God that he has preserved my dear friends in health and happiness. Dec 19 - Sabbath - come to Elder Knapp last eve to spend a Sabbath and go to cch in Lockport. Oh that it may not be a misspent Sabbath - my heart is cold & I have Ch: for grace to do soften it. __ met a unclear. Dr. Merrit who was from Epsom and knew my parents there urged me very much to go and see her I told him I would try. Dec 25 - Christmas - went to Mr Hopkin's with Mr Clarey Came home in the evening and found a box I had been expecting from home had arrived. I was very happy indeed - it was full of tokens of love and kindness I felt grateful that it came safely - God is good - His mercies are new every morning and fresh every evening. O that I loved him more. Dec 26. Sab. The last Sabbath in the year. Oh how far am I from what I should be let me seriously in Thine into my spiritual state. am I nearer heaven than when the year commenced! I hope I do feel an increasingly intense in heavenly realities - Two dear friends, my own dear grandmother's - links in the chain that bound me to earth and now among the ransomed hosts above - and others whom I loved have during the past year found a home with the dead, and I know not who next may go - many doubtless will be deprived of dear friends by the grip of death ere the last Sabbath of another year comes round.