We must do our best to have the Depositions and Affidavits prepared and forwarded in due time.
This done we may have _Faith_ that we will gain our cause.

Or, if with our utmost exertions, we fail in our preparations, we shall be warranted in having Faith that no harm will come of it.
"But if, like the Jews in the Maccabees, we rely upon the Lord to fight our battles, without lifting a weapon in our defence, or, like the wagoner in the fable, we content ourselves with calling on Hercules, we shall find in the end that 'Faith without Works is dead.' ...

The world, as you say, is '_the world_'-- a quarrelling, vicious, fighting, plundering world--yet it is a very good world for good men.

Why should man torment himself about that which he cannot help?
If we but enjoy the good things of earth and endure the evil things with a cheerful resignation, bad spirits--blue devils and all--will fly from our bosoms to their appropriate abode." Another true and loyal friend was George Wood, associated with Mr.
Kendall in Washington, from whom are many affectionate and witty letters which it would be a pleasure to reproduce, but for the present I shall content myself with extracts from one dated May 4, 1849:-- "It does seem to me that Satan has, from the jump, been at war with this invention of yours.

At first he strove to cover you up with a F.O.G.