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but that you are more to be blam'd if you do, why? because it is worse to bury five talents than one Rouse up then place yourself where there is a great deal of good to be done and do it.

 I greive to think of your Christian influence and progress in the divine life compar'd with what it might & ought to be. If you will have the earnest

deeptan'd piety and hearty endeavers, what an influence for good you might wield in the brest?. Tis your duty & your privelege, do it "life is earnest life is real". There I have written what I happen'd to be thinking & you may well say what a fool! to be so much like a Guide board

 When I look back (from the end of the track or doubtless very near it) and see how little - how less than nothing of what I ought to have done & might have done by the help of divine grace which would have been granted if earnestly enough sought for It makes me very anxious that my Children should do some good in the world should make up my lack of service I feel that I have not done what I could tho' what I could was so little
  We have been reading Biographical Sketches & Sermon of Mr. Reuben Tinker with much pleasure and with edification I hope