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Samuel Calvin letters, May-August 1864

1864-08-17 Page 2

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of consolation and encouragement, and breathing the spirit of true piety and patriotism, was a balm that the physician could not administer, and one more powerful in alleviating disease than anything in the whole Materia Medica Forgetting all about disease I lay for a great while thinking of home and its associations, of the many friends who will greet my return and of a kind mother, who, more than all others, will welcome me home again. Then almost involuntarily my thoughts were turned to Him who ruleth among the affairs of men, and I thought that it might be His will that I should not again return and trying to resign myself to His will and commit myself to His keeping I gradually sank into a state of semi-consciousness accompanied with a total suspension of thought.
 
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