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Antoinette Dunbarton N.H. Oct. 28 . 51 Jonesboro Nov. 18 to day on account of sickness - the first time for many years. He suffered from Neuralgia all the week, and yesterday, and Friday, we very much feared a fever, but we hope now to be able to throw it off.

   In the forenoon, one of our good deacons read a sermon, and this afternoon the Baptist minister came over and preached in our house, bringing his congregation with him.
    I hope you have not been sick today. Do you not look with longing eyes, when away from home, on these Sabbaths? Or, do you always enjoy the present as well as you can, not allowing yourself to think much about pleasures that might be? Perhaps you have learned to "let the dead past bury its dead," and "act in the living present." How much good there is in that "Psalm of Life". I do love it.
     Last Sabbath, I was sick, and could not go to church. The rain poured in torrents all day. But just as night was coming, the clouds flew away, and the sun came out in triumph. I do enjoy the quiet of a bright Sabbath evening. Its stillness seems to speak to the soul so soothingly, of truer bliss, and an unending Sabbath of pleasure, at God's right hand. O for a home at last in that world of perfect peace. We both have much to make us love Heaven. Perhaps God takes our dear ones there, that our thoughts and affections may follow them. Still, they are but lesser lights, to guide our way to the great Sun of Righteousness.
   Oct. 28 We have having winter here before the time. Yesterday morning, when we rode, the ground was all covered with snow, and the cold wind blew about all day long, and piled it up in heaps. To day it is very still, and somewhat warmer, and probably the snow will all be gone in a day or two. You will not be likely to have very cold weather to endure, if you stay West I suppose. But I believe the cold never troubled you much.

[left-hand side] I told you I was sick - it was only for a day or two, and I am well as ever now.