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you one of those, who have chosen the good Christ? I hope so for it would be a very painful thought to me, that our whom I have learned to love in a very short time should not be able to sympathize with me in these matters so dear to my heart. Oh how truly is religion styled "the one thing needful". If we possess Christ we are full, we have all things, but with out him we are poor indeed. Mary thanks for cousin Edward's picture and the good account you give of him. I hope we shall know each others letters one of these days. It would give me great pleasure to make you another and longer visit, and also to see you at our house. We are a little uncertain about being in Buffalo another year, altho the probability is that we shall remain. I have not seen my dear mother since my last visit to Utica, which was in September but we hear every week her health seems about the same, altho I feel