society of a town let it be ever so small. The life of a person in the country where he can rise early as I did this morning with a clear brilliant sky and keen appetite at 7 for breakfast is certainly not to be compared to your late rising, late going to bed, late to parties, that neither improve mind nor body but that frequently destroy [crossed out] disturb the peace of one and destroy the health of the other. Here you can hold sweet lonely communion with your Maker and behold his wondrous works on every side you turn from the clear running stream that affords you refreshment to the trees of the forest that affords you warmth & shelter down to the minutest shrub and plant that you tread over. All these are objects of a great parent's care and shall we then if we confide in his mercy be overlooked or neglected. No my dearest while we firmly rely and trust upon God we need never be afraid wherever we are or however desolate our state that he will forsake us and truly happy are those whose trust and confidence is in the God of their creation. I think that even the most minute & trifling incidents of life are regulated by him and that even the slightest times of good fortune that may accidently attend us are not the effect of accident so much