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sunshine is not always best for us. The time of the arival of the last pack- et, and the preceding week was a proving season-- here I was, no change of society, no neighbouring meeting where perhaps I might receive a crum - Well it will cause me to get deeper and to know that my dependance must alone be on Divine help. -- I trust it was a season of renew'd instruction to me. 3 Month 22nd Dear cousin, Previous to the reception of thy letter, the tidings of the decease of your precious sister had reached us- and I feelingly sympathiz'd with you. Truly it must be a great con- solation in believing she was prepar'd for her awful change, which I have no doubt was the case. Oh that it may have an awakening tendency on those of her contemporaries who attended the solemn scene. Tryals of this sort and many others frequently occur during