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My Dear Son We had a good long letter from you a day or two since expressing some of your wants. I know & feel them as sensibly as you do perhaps, & am doing what I can to relieve them and make you comfortable. Meanwhile I hope and mean to often very often engag'd in earnest prayer that you may be sensible of your wont of grace and that you may speedily obtain that mercy and grace from God that will give you joy peace and true happiness such a trust and confidence in the Giver of all good that you can rise above these little vexations & perplexities which for the present to be ? and not joyous. But after all they are transient and received in the light of eternity appear very very trivial.

 I know that small things (like the wants of some of comforts of life) may and do sometimes accation pretty severe trials. But they must of necessity be short and therefore unimportant. O what nothings in comparison with the welfare of the immortal soul - now my Dear in order that these trifles may not bear to much upon our mind let us write in this one great objects. Let us seek and strive in earnest prayer for the salvation of your soul. Will you my Son devote a little time to the deep consideration of this all important subject  about 10 o'clock every night. You do mean to be a Christian - there is no consideration whatever that would for a moment willing to be call'd from this world without - then why not put in exercise every faculty - use every mean now to obtain the inerimable blessing - when will there be a better time - are you sure there ever will be another as good. Ellen Lee has you know been very sick so that she thought she should not live but little whole - she was alarm & distress'd almost to distraction because her peace was not made with God. She has now obtain'd a hope and continues to view the subject as all important she said her distress was not because she was soon to die but because she had not submited to and accepted of Christ. Is not that another proof that religion is indeed the one thing needful