we have always the word of God to comfort and support us in afflictions, to regulate and guide our actions, to cement and permanently establish our happiness if it should be His will to prolong our lives and to render us humble, faithful and obedient servants of His to the end of time. One thing if we are obliged to be separated our prayers may often times be poured out before His throne and offered up at the same time, each of us desiring that God in His mercy may never leave or forsake us, that His goodness may always be extended towards us, that His powerful guidance should direct our paths and bring us together to each others arms in health, happiness, peace of mind, conscience and future hopes of salvation. I must confess that I am not so religious as I ought. No dearest very far from it. My mind that is known to my Heavenly Judge is far from being what I should wish