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the frailty of life! How often observation & experience testify with Holy Writ that man cometh firth like a flower & is cut down; - fleeeth also as a shadow & continueth not. Oh, that the living might lay it to heart; then Death would no longer be unclear the King of terrors, - no longer should we behold agony depicted in the countenance of the dying from a fear of meeting the blessed Saviour. But praise, be to God, who forgiveth iniquity through our Lord Jesus Christ, that in the death of Mary Ann we have hope, - yes, much hope that she is now singing praises to her Redeemer. She met death with resignation, & seemed to have a foretaste of Heaven. Oct 10. Sent to the Post office, but no intelligence from Milledsville?. And what shall I say, my dear husband? - I will say nothing, for should my pen pour forth pages of disappointment, it would avail nothing. When the Lord suffered you to be taken from me in your first arrest, I said, & I hope with sincerity, “the will of the Lord be done!” and I have not felt like recalling these words in any subsequent trial of the kind. It is true I felt these providences to be afflictive; but I hope the result will yet be good. I look about my room, and call to remembrance your movements in it, - I gaze at the corner you used to occupy, & think, at this hour, you used to be seated in it with your Bible. I go to the dear children, locked in the embraces of sleep, and help them for their absent father; - and I hope I am thankful that I can do more than this; that I can go to my Heavenly Father and ask Him to bless this one whose absence we feel to be so great an affliction. He has the power to bless & make you happy in your situation, and I trust He will. He can suit your constitution to all your hardships & privations. He can send you that Comforter, who will prove a greater blessing than your family, or all created good. 12. Wednesday Eve. Mr Gann is no more unclear with the living. Mr Wheeler told me that his hardships preyed much upon his health before he parted with him. He returned as far as Mr Rodger’s & there died. Who can know the circumstances of the death of this man without deep feeling? I never saw him but twice; but when I heard all the prisoners were sentenced to the Penitentiary, my sympathy was awakened for him. I know from what he said on his way to Laurenceville that his mind was not prepared