
          of my doings. My life during the
last few years - I may say the last
7 or 8 has been - a fair fragment
of human existance. Shade & sunshine
a good deal to cause anxiety 
but many blessings (all undeserved)
to be thankful for. A change in
my circumstances much for the
worse owing the state in which
a brother in law left his affairs
at his death obliged me to devote
all my time to some remunerative
employment. I became for some
years a professional artist - a
landscape painter in oils - and 
for the last two years I have [?]
the arrangement of a 
large association for the promotion
of the observance of the Sabbath
called the Sabbath Alliance which
takes all my time and we 
are engaged on an herculean task
a contest (a moral one) with
the railway companies & with
government with the former 
an account of their systematic
        