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It is a fact that we become happy in exact proportions as we despair of happiness from this changing sinful world and wait & hope for it from the mercy and all sufficient love of God our saviour. while the storm is raging about me I would not choose to stop and admire the structure of a Marble edifice but take shelter within you say you are studying the prophesy? - tis well for all scripture is profitable but I am satisfied that I have more need to study the precepts of the bible & have so little time for reading and study and the more I learn of the dear Saviour and his precepts the more I see my need my "emptiness and poverty."

Ann Bangor May 21 1840

May 22 Bangor Mrs. Anna M. Metcalf

                                   Milo, Me