God's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor His ways as our ways. May He by His Holy Spirit conform our wills unto His holy will. Katherine is wonderfully supported, but it is an awful blow. Pray for us, that this dispensation may be sanctified to us, that we may look more to Christ, that we may look wholly to Christ. Oh! there is nothing else of any consequence. We live in the midst of shadows, and we think them realities. Lord, open Thou our eyes that we may see the truth, and that we may be assured that Thy love is better than life. We hardly know yet what has happened to us,—it seems a troubled dream; but we know that it is the Lord, and that He doeth all things well.

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