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Transcribe page 11
in Esther Latrobe
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"is to prepare for a better city. What if things
"do not always answer our expectations, are we
"on that account to despond? certainly not! For
"
"is not our home. If he were not to do so, we
"might grow hardened and secure in our sins,
"until they plunged us into endless woe! --
"Oh! that I could walk as though each day
"were to be my last. The crosses and vexations
"which occur here, are but for a short time,
"the joys and happiness of heaven are for a never
"ending eternity: why then should do I allow
"such things to affect me so much? This is
"indeed sinful, but human nature is in
"itself unable to overcome the assails of its
"mighty opponents; the spirit may indeed be
"willing to do what is right, but the flesh
"is weak. But Oh! dearest
"be wholly thine; take thou possession of my
"heart, and whatever would obstruct any of thy
"blessed views with me, root it out, although it
"cause me pain." -- How consoling is it to see
"our dear departed relative, though in the full
"enjoyment of health and youth, thus manefes-
"ting one great characterestic of God's dear child
"ren, who consider their latter end, and who re-
"member in the prime of life and in the bright-
"est of their mortal days, their latter and that