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the attack. The next may fasten on the lungs or the heart, 

 and may prove final. 



The notices which follow are each connected in 

 the Diary with a paragraph cut from a newspaper. 

 The first relates to Mr. Lincoln's piety. 



President Lincoln's recognition of a Saviour and surrender 

 to him. More to his honor is this brief paragraph than all 

 that his country can bestow. We have ever regarded him 

 as an honest and patriotic statesman, and there were many 

 passages in his writings and in his action that have favored 

 the hope that he is a good man. His truthfulness is trans 

 parent, and we have now decided reason to believe that he 

 is indeed a good man. 



Death of the Rev. Dan Huntington. The annexed notice 

 is very interesting to me. I was only two years after him 

 in college life. The annexed notice is, I believe, correct. 

 His early friends will learn with satisfaction that in his last 

 years " he returned with great satisfaction, and was wel 

 comed to the worship and communion of the orthodox 

 church." 



He was led to attend the meeting in behalf of the 

 Sanitary Association on Sunday evening, November 

 13, the occasion of his first attack, partly from the 

 interest he felt in Dr. Parish, whom he had ascer 

 tained, on inquiry, to be a son of the Quaker gentle 

 man, who, as is related in the earlier part of this 

 Memoir, had once commended him for declining to 

 go with his fellow-students to Peale's Museum on 

 Sunday. Through the following week, he was con 

 fined to the house, but able to receive calls from his 

 friends. On Thursday, the 17th, he had an inter 

 view of half an hour or more with Judge Gould of 

 Troy. On Friday, President Day called. A picture 



