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  Whitestown, Nov, 28th, 1848,

Dear friend Sarah,

  Your previous letter of Aug 28th is before me.  The only excuse I have to make for not answering it before is that I have had so much business to attend to, as to have no time to write to my dear Sarah.  I hope you will excuse me this time, to think that hereafter I shall be a me to do better.  The simplicity and frankness of your communication affected me even to tears.
  The love you have for the truth is certainly a gift of God, for which I thank heaven.  I cannot be persuaded to believe that your heart has not been regenerated.  You will get rejoice in the light of your Saviour countenance, if you do not already.  You only want a little more faith.  If you used to love to sin as you say, & if now nothing grieves you so much as to neglect a known duty or do something wrong, is not that an evidence that you have met with a great change.