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Our Ralie was last week threatened with darkness taken with a severe chill fever pain in head and back The next day another but fasting and hygeans have been efficacious and she is about the house but feeling weaker than before Mother not much different from common Westbury 10th mo other friends as usual. Dearly Beloved [Isaac Post]” pencilled in "Thine ace... a few days since was long looked but none the less acceptable for that for these little mess engers tend to brighten and keep pure and fresh the interest in each others welfare in all the joys and sorrows which checquer our pathway, each have to feel some of the thorns perhaps they rend and pierce because of our unfaithfulness in some way but which are nevertheless very painful and exceedingly grievous but then we have times of rejoicing times when all these annoyances seem like the dust in the bana.. so insignificant so powerless to shake our trust in all that is good and pure and then every thing assumes a beautiful hue we overlook the discord of earth and can almost forget the conflicts of the day The changeableness of the weather is emblematic of life we have had the most beautiful weather for some time but now in the early morning it is dark and threatening rain (which we need) so with life it is both gloomy and bright and we cannot be too grateful for the instruction which comes to us from these silent teachers if we would only heed them and why do we not learn wisdom from them I fear I am too prone to look at the dark side of the picture so many wrongs and outrages and so much has proved decep”