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is this service of song: but I know that the secret heart is capable of making melody in itself, even while the lips are silent.

" " " Saturday night. Nov. 27 - '76:

Another week has finished its seven day's course. Thanksgiving, too, is over & gone - faded away in the ir-retrievable past. I have been permitted to see once more; this festive day. - the centre-day of the past week,- & which has for any heart, its own peculiar memories & endearing associations. I spent the day, as usual - even as I had expected to do - with this exception.. The absent one was not with me. But we thought of him: & unclear regretfully of the imperative duties which kept him away. Sister Lillia was very much disappointed; but the unclear wife must learn to expect disappointments in this world, & to meet them with a brave spirit. Every hope of the heart cannot be realized: & it is