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my bed in the mornings. The rest of my time is devoted to study,
communion, and, a little of it, to reading. How unlike the life at
home!

"The thought just occurs to me that if such a life seems desirable to
you, how easily you could obtain it. What is it that costs so much
labor of mind and body? Is it not that which we consume on and in our
bodies? Then, if we reduce the consumption there will be less need of
production. Most of our labor is labor for the body. We are
treasuring up corruption for the day of death; is this not so? As we
rise in spirit above the body we shall bring all its appetites into
subjection to the moral law. . . .

"This is what I should like you to do for me. All the food that I
brought with me is gone, and as I would like to have my razor sent
on, and as the articles you can give me would be better than any I
can get here, you will be so kind as to send with it the following
list, if you think best: 1. Put in some hard bread. 2. A few
unleavened wheat biscuits, such as I used to make. 3. Some unleavened
Graham biscuits. 4. A five-cent or ten-cent loaf of bread, if you
think it will keep good until it gets here. 5. Get me a linen summer
frock-coat such as are worn--those loose ones. Dunster has my measure
and he can cut it for you. Let it be made. I have only a summer
jacket with me, and that is John's. 6. Do not forget the razor. You
can put in any other simple, solid food, if you wish to send any. Do
I ask too much from you? If so, you must be kind enough to tell me.
Your labor is already too great, and I am burdening you with
more. . . .

"How much my heart loves you all! How unkindly I have spoken to you
at times! You will forgive me and love me none the less, will you
not? May we live together more and more in the unity of love."

"May, 1844.--. . . My studies are pursued with the same spirit in
which they were commenced, and there seems to me no reason to fear
but that they will be continued in the same for some time to come.
However, I would affirm what has been affirmed by me for these two
years back, the only consistency that I can promise is submission to
the Spirit that is guiding me, whatever may be the external
appearance or superficial consequences to others. . . .

"How our astonishment should be excited to perceive that we have been
in such a long sleep, and that even now we see but dimly. Let us each
ask ourselves in whose business we are employed. Is it our Father's,