'be strengthened to bear up under the dis

'tresses of this life, and that you will find

support in the good that you are enabled

'to do and your situation will admit of your

living sociably with a few friends; and I 'hope you will not seclude yourself, but in'dulge in the society of those friends whom 6 you find your heart leads to, under the pro'tection of your brothers. I cannot have any

fear that you will not receive every proof ' of kindness and affection from them. In 'that hope, and from every consideration, I will leave this world with joy; conceiving that 'I no longer can be of either use or comfort 'to my children, whose happiness it has ever 'been the first wish of my heart to promote.'

THE END.