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Accompanying these was the following to Dr. Perkins, dated October
3d, 1851:--
"To you, O my spiritual father, Mr. Perkins, I presume to send two
letters, for friends in Middlebury. If you please, you will
translate them, and send them; but I fear that they will give you
much trouble.
"Again, you wrote me in your letter, that I should teach children to
read. Now, I am very needy myself of instruction. Yet I desire that
that might be my employment. But that is a very difficult matter
among such a people, of whom you have heard that although there may
be here and there one who would walk in this way, yet there is a
stone of stumbling and a rock of offence therein; so that every one
that goeth in it, his foot stumbleth, and quickly he turns back.
"Again, O friend beloved, though I am unworthy to call you such, yet
I beseech you that you remember me always in your prayers. I know
that you do remember me, but I desire that you remember me more, for
I greatly fear for my perishing soul. Greatly do I desire to see you
once more in this world, if the Lord will."
He who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working,
commissioned these praying souls to prepare his way in the
mountains, even as he chose those other three to show forth his
grace in death; and they who live to mark the future course of the
river of life in those rocky glens will find, we trust, that his
strength was made perfect in their weakness.
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