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the face, I am very apprehensive of being unable to 

 leave home to-morrow. I am now fearful that I may not 

 be able to rally in time for the performance of my public 



duties on the Sacramental Sabbath The sacred 



nature of those duties debars that forced service which 

 one may sometimes bring to bear on worldly works. I 

 think if called upon to actual labour during sickness, I 

 could break stones till I broke my back; but I cannot 

 bring myself, at least am very unwilling to do so, to con- 

 nect this great privilege and labour of love with such 

 painful bodily effort as might be required of me, if my 

 present attack does not abate. I have scarcely any hope 

 of getting out to-morrow ; but I shall anxiously hope and 

 pray that it may please God to remove some of my dis- 

 comfort before the Sabbath morning. I am sure that in 

 my present state I could not go through even the manual 

 part of the ceremony, even were it not one requiring a 

 tit ring frame of mind not often vouchsafed during bodily 

 suffering. My particular complaint unfortunately unfits 

 me more than most others from any comfortable inter- 

 course with my fellow-creatures, while it continues in any 

 excess. Even in its ordinary condition, it renders that 

 intercourse much less easy or convenient than I would 

 desire it. But amid many blessings I must not repine. 

 'THY will be done.'" 



