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To W. G. R Y, M. D. : 



BLUE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Sept. llth. 



We left the Red Sulphur Springs yesterday morn- 

 ing and arrived here in the evening, (a distance of 

 about thirty-four miles). The travelling and change 

 of location has operated favorably upon us all 

 worn as we were by watching and sorrow. 



We expect to remain ten days here and then go 

 directly home. 



You have been informed of our recent heavy 

 affliction, and of the extraordinary evidences that 

 our dear Julia gave of her trust in God and her as- 

 surance of heaven. She left messages for you, (her 

 physician). " When you go home, father," she said, 

 41 Send for my Doctor, in your study, and give these 

 messages, as coming from one who has only a few 

 days to live. Return my thanks to him for his 

 kind and unwearied attendance upon me. Tell 

 him, had it been the will of God that I should re- 

 cover, his skill would have saved me ; but He, who 

 is the All -wise, has willed that I should die early. 

 Perhaps, He foresaw that if 1 lived, I should be 

 worldly and forget my duty to Him. Instead of life, 

 He has given me a joy in my heart that I would 

 not exchange for the pleasures and riches of ten 

 thousand worlds. 



" Tell him to forgive me, if I have misunderstood 

 him ; but it struck me, either from his words or his 

 manner, that he was skeptical in religion, and ex- 

 pected to merit heaven by leading a moral life. I, a 

 sinner, plucked as it were a brand from the burn- 

 ing, want to tell him, that I never found peace, 

 until I cast behind me my own righteousness, and by 

 repentance, prayer and faith, rested alone on the 

 merits of my Saviour. I was always a believer from 

 education ; but never ielt the power of religion, till 



