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you say you are not fit for the ministry my opinion accord, with yours I presume you are not |"who is sufficient for these things?'| I dont say that that is your proper calling- But I say if that seems to be the path of duty I want you should submissively walk in it- Do not you think when you look round and see the moral wastes in our country and Error rushing in like a flood from other countries and the great destitution of principled Educated men- that God may have something for you to do and that He will furnish from His immense Stove house strength and armour amply sufficient for you if you are willing to be his devoted Servant 18th" we got a letter from Eliab last night how I should like to have been in your midst past day- What do you think of Eliab in those any thing of him but fun and nonsense- I wish he would be a little more serious he need none the less cheerful- How happy & thankful I ought to be that you are all so near me and all doing so well- But I feel myself safer wont get half your pay- you know the "plan of Penobscot" one must look out sharp or they'll lose their eye teeth and every thing else if any one leaves your school I would look after them immediately i.e. have an eye on them- You have probably heard of Mrs. Abigail Greenleafs death She was I think a very superior woman was very calm and happy in the near prospect of death C. says the Sons of Temperance number 60 or more in this Division thinks they have done much good in this town and elsewhere I tell him to better him that they get only the skim milk the Cream keeps aloof such as Dr Kimball and Mr Haskel Jr. & but he says they are coming in by and by Good bye write soon

To your affectionate Mother A. M. Metcalf