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ever, no reason to be dissatisfied with this first effort of the 

 course 



March 8. My health is good, and my voice clear, so 

 that I fill the house without difficulty ; my son is very 

 efficient; and at both lectures the theatre is quite full. 

 Good news from home ; and the best news is, that my two 



younger daughters, H and J , have become 



deeply interested in religion, and I wrote to them to bid 

 them God-speed on their way to the celestial city. 



Sabbath, March 14. Yesterday I received from them a 

 very gratifying answer, in entire sympathy with my parental 

 counsels ; and their response shows that their young minds 

 their ages are seventeen and fourteen have already taken 

 the right direction in deciding to embrace the offered Sal 

 vation. I was so happy as to receive similar intelligence 

 respecting my only son, Benjamin, when I was engaged in 

 my first course of lectures in Boston, in March, 1835 ; and 

 now, in the same city, during a similar engagement, I am 

 again favored in the same way. I have been permitted here 

 to unfold to an excited and interested community some 

 views of the secrets of God's material world, as displayed 

 in its structure and constitution ; and thus, I trust, I have 

 been enabled to contribute not only to the .mental illumina 

 tion of the people, but to the increase of their reverence for 

 God. But I am much more favored in hearing, on this be 

 loved spot, that my two younger children are determined 

 to walk in the truth, so that thus all my dear family are 

 hopefully enrolled in the Book of Life. Not unto us, O 

 God ! but unto Thy great and holy Name be all the honor 

 and glory ! 



Immediately after his return home, at the comple 

 tion of this course, he went on an important scien 

 tific errand to Philadelphia. 



It would appear strange, even to myself, that, after so 



