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1842 Milo August 2d '42

My dear sister Lucy

What a nice girl you, to overlook and pass by my negligence and inability to write you, and send me such a nice good letter warm from the heart. I am really delighted with your generosity. You say it is but a short time since there seemed to be a great deal of religous interest and feeling among the people, but how soon it all died away. I presume you refer to the time of the protracted meeting when, such there was deep feeling, and such feelings I presume that christians never before experienced. And what was that feeling? Was it not the feeling of overwhelming joy that God had been pleased to answer our prayers, that sinners were finding the Savior to the joy of their souls; and a willingness to spend and be spent in the service the Redeemer. You probably did not enjoy as much at that time as others did who were eyewitnesses to the scene. My own feelings at that time are utterly indescribable. I think I felt very much as the people at mount Sinai felt when the Lord appeared in such glory that even Moses quaked and trembled and as the disciples felt when their hearts burned within them as He talked with them by the way. True this feeling did in a measure subside and I think it necessary that it should for the weakness of flesh and blood would