Our family is now so widely separated that our enjoyment must consist in soul communing.

Indeed, I almost believe in the power of affection to draw unto itself the yearning heart of the absent one.

What the modern Spiritualist tells of feeling the presence of departed friends and enjoying their loving ministrations, I sometimes imagine to be true, not of the spirits of those gone hence, but of those still in the body who are separated from us.

I often pass blessed moments in these sweet, silent communings....

Every day brings to me new conceptions of life and its duties, and it is my constant desire that I may be strong and fearless, baring my arm to the encounter and pressing cheerfully forward, though the way is rough and thorny.
I have just returned from the hardest three weeks' tour of anti-slavery meetings I have had yet, so cold and disheartening.
The masses seem devoid of conscience and looking only for some new expedient to accomplish the desired good; but in every town there are some true spirits who walk in God's sunlight and do what is right, trusting results to the great Immutable Law....