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My dear brother, I have been intending this sometime to write a long serious letter to you, but have been so pressed with work with various disruptions of late that I have not found time, but my thoughts are often employed upon the condition and prospects of my absent brother. I feel sorry, very sorry, that you are obliged to submit to inconveniences and little trials - most glad should I be if I could furnish you with everything you wish, and relieve every uneasiness and ? ? but oh how much more I wish I could give you true religion; all other things dwindle into insignificance when I think how desirable, how necessary it is, that you should have God for your covenant God and Father and Christ for your Leader and Almighty Friend that you should set out aright now in the spring time of your being - if the good seed be not sown in the spring, when will the harvest be? There is a great peace and happiness in looking up to God as a Father and tracing his providential hand in all the minute occurrences of life. - in trusting his gracious promises, especially ought we not to love and trust He who has styled himself the God of the wicked and faithless. In tracing the dealings of God in his providence towards us how much reason we have for thankfulness - how many fashionable circumstances attend your situation there in spite of some little trials and how thankful we ought to be that just as we were perplexing ourselves what to do for Joseph this winter, such a chance should come up so unexpected for him,