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Bertha and Her Baptism

CHAPTER Seventh
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CHAPTER Seventh.
TERMS OF COMMUNION.
Him first to love, great right and reason is, Who first to us our life and being gave; And after, when we fared had amisse, Us wretches from the second death did save; And last, the food of life, which now we have, Even He himselfe, in his dear sacrament, To feede our hungry soules, unto us lent.
Then next to love our brethren, that were made Of that selfe mould, and that self maker's hand, That we;[6] and to the same againe shall fade Where they shall have like heritage of land,[7] However here on higher steps we stand; Which also were with selfe-same price redeemed That we;--however of us light esteemed.
SPENSER.--"_An Hymne of Heavenly Love._" -- --PRAIRIE,----, 185-.
MY DEAR BROTHER: Here we are, at our journey's end.

We have had a most romantic journey, arriving in health, though wayworn, much of our ride having been in wagons.

My wife says, Give my love to brother, and tell him of the scene at "the hill Mizar." Your letter, which we found awaiting us, made her think that you would be deeply interested in the story.

This, by and by.
[Footnote 6: As we.] [Footnote 7: The grave.] As we were leaving C., one morning, in the great mail-wagon, a man and his wife, with an infant in her arms, took seats with us, bound far beyond our own home.

The parents had been delayed by the birth of the child during the journey from New York.


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