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able, I shall be glad of a line from you, if not, with 

 Ood's blessing, good-by, until we meet. 

 Yours in Christ, 



J. A. B. 

 To J. A. Brown, D. D. : 



Charleston, Sept. 11th, 187 J. 



My dear Friend: Age that has given me the 

 hoary head, has weakened my memory, and seems 

 to have left me very little at the close of a long life, 

 but a grateful heart and kind and tender remem- 

 brances of mercies and friendships. Time has not 

 banished you or your dear wife from my affections, 

 or obliterated from my memory our brief and pleas- 

 ant association in other years. We are pilgrims 

 hastening to a better land, and we have need of 

 friendships to cheer us on the way. In a very little 

 while we shall have come to the end of our journey — 

 -jnine is nearly reached. I trust to be able to say, 

 " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.''' — 

 and I feel, friend Brown, that a man as conscientious 

 in duty, as I know you to be, will be prepared for 

 an exchange of worlds. 



May God bless you and yours to the end. Of this 

 I am sure that on your journey ,you will never meet 

 with one who more heartily wishes you prosperity 

 and happiness than 



Your friend and father in Christ, J. B. 



John Haskell, in his letters and diary gives us 

 glimpses of those da3^s. 



To Dr. Rude : 



July, 1871. 

 '' I never leave the house now, except to go to 

 school, (he was teaching), and to drive out in the 

 afternoons with grandfather. To-day is Saturday, . 



