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I can not express how grateful I feel that our Heavenly Father has sent us such a man to rule over & guide us - But with our [...] we have our trials - Tuesday ev.g [evening] I was sent for to Macquarie Grove to visit poor old Tom [B..] He had had his thigh broken on this day Monday by a kick from a mare & they were compelled to amputate it that night Before my return he was dead & buried - On that night Mrs Howell [sp?] told me of Thom's sad conduct - and on my return Sabbath even.g [evening] from Vermont I heard he was no more He died on Sabbath Morn.g [morning] hastened his end by intemperance - What a solemn warning to George & others 697
I had written him a long letter but he never received it - What an awfully besetting sin is that of intemperance - but the love of money on one hand & the love of drink on the other hurries men on to destruction - I have just returned from his funeral the Rev M Rogers read the service - There were not many present alas my nephew !!-
We are getting on with the interior of the Church I cannot help thinking it will be a great improvement - I held service last Sabbath in the School room I suppose we shall be one or two Sabbath more there - Mrs Barber was much pleased with your wife & Child.n [Children]
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