able to support the want of intelligence. Let us all bless God
together for all his mercies: among those which are temporal, health
is the chief; and I believe to most mothers it is more valued in their
children than in their own persons. I rejoice with you over our
restored J----y. O that our covenant God may give the more important
blessing of divine life. You had need to be importunate for this,
after the importunity exercised for natural life. I thank God also for
the alleviation of your own distress, for our dear D----'s restoration
from complaints less alarming so far as they existed, but which might
have been the seeds of serious affliction.

"I could go on enumerating, for causes of thankfulness crowd into
my mind; but all are swallowed up in the grand mercy, the
distinguishing mercy of redeeming love to our souls. Salvation, not
only to me, but to my house. Oh, all words fail here. Read over with
me, sing with me, in your heart, the 103d Psalm. O my God, dare I even
sigh in thy presence, under any temporal pain, or hurt of body or
mind, with such a Father, such a Christ, such a Comforter, such a
richly-furnished well-ordered covenant, such a constitution of grace
and providence--O, such an all in all, even 'all the fulness of God.'
My God and the God of my seed, the God of my house; yea, and the God
of my prodigal, who shall in heaven, if never on earth, join the song,
'To him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, be
glory, honor, dominion, power, and praise, for ever and ever. Amen.' O
shall a murmur ever pass these lips, shall this unthankful heart
indulge even a sigh over any object but sin; shall I shrink from any
cross with such a crown? Father, glorify thy name.

"I have been to church; the subject, 'be not weary in
well-doing.' Many arguments were adduced for exertion; but the gospel
was wanting. O that my friends could hear our shepherd; he would sound
his Master's voice more in unison with their own hearts' experience,
and views of new covenant provision and gospel motives: except in the
Baptist congregations, the gospel is much mutilated here, and kept out
of sight even by the few who are supposed to build upon it.

"Sabbath next brings round your--I will add, my gospel feast. I
will endeavor to meet you to-morrow evening, and to have you all on my
heart, then and on the Sabbath, in that one Lord, one faith, one
Spirit, one God and Father of all, who is above all