from enjoying the free rich salvation of our crucified redeemer through whom alone we can find acceptance and pardon and a hope and assurance of entering to the eternal Kingdom of glory for which we must in this transitory existence make a full and decided preparation or otherwise we shall be eternally miserable. Eternity is a word sufficient to answer the most careless and inconsiderate. What a momentous thought does it convey to the reflective mind a period without beginning or end, an everlasting sphere where we must forever be in anguish and despair or be forever in the full enjoyment of celestial bliss and unspeakable happiness. I think Catherine is writing you by this mail and will give you more home news than I can and be more able express to you our united gratitude for your almost ... liberality [as we were ?] beginning to fear that something had come in the way