sunshine is not always best for us.
The time of the arival of the last pack-
et, and the preceding week was a proving
season-- here I was, no change of society,
no neighbouring meeting where perhaps
I might receive a crum - Well it will
cause me to get deeper and to know
that my dependance must alone be on
Divine help. -- I trust it was a season
of renew'd instruction to me.

Dear cousin, Previous to the
reception of thy letter, the tidings of
the decease of your precious sister had
reached us- and I feelingly sympathiz'd
with you. Truly it must be a great con-
solation in believing she was prepar'd
for her awful change, which I have no
doubt was the case. Oh that it may
have an awakening tendency on those of
her contemporaries who attended the
solemn scene. Tryals of this sort and
many others frequently occur during