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liarly significant and impressive. He knoweth those who seek to 
follow him, and with his strength will aid their weakness. We 
hide the promise in our hearts, with new lessons of humility, and 
go out from the “ upper chambers,” striving to learn aright the 
meek, suffering patience of Jesus, which will fit us to be his co¬ 
workers here. The gem of patience is among the greatest of the 
Christian virtues, and blessed is he who wears the jewel in his 
heart. 
3d. — Doctor has gone to a funeral some miles away. If he 
does not go himself, on all such occasions, his carriage does. The 
person now dead clung to her jewels. She wore bracelets, rings, 
etc., until her last breath. Life to her must have consisted in 
externals; and a weary home Kansas must have been, with its 
cotton-wood, “ shake ” cabins, bare floors, and general dis¬ 
comfort. 
There has been a good deal of cholera a few miles from here, 
mostly among Missourians. They lived in most abject filth, and 
drank of the stagnant water in the bed of the Wakarusa, when 
the water was at the lowest, from ten months’ drouth. One in¬ 
stance of sickness seems almost incredible among civilized people, 
but there is no doubt of its correctness. The father and mother 
were ill — very ill. The cabin was very small, untidy, and would 
of itself almost breed disease. Dr. C. proposed that the children, 
who were adults, should occupy a tent near by, for their own 
safety, and yet attend upon the sick. The next morning, what 
a sight met the kind physician’s eyes, as he entered the cabin ! 
One of the parents was lying on the bed, dead; the other was 
still living, though with little breath left. A little water was 
standing by the bed; and no one had been in but once since the 
time of the doctor’s leaving, the day before. Thus forsaken of 
their children, they died. Such heart!essness, such barbarity, we 
can scarcely believe would exist among any people. 
Qth. — With a friend, who has been several days with me, I 
visited one of the early pioneers. She lived three months in a 
cloth tent, and now resides in a log house, which she renders pleas¬ 
ant, by her tac/ hiding every rudeness. She talked gayly of their 
