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Rush Hill
Oct 20. '93

The years are going by! What have I accomplished? Weal or woe? The past scraps of a Journal. I have just read and they are very full of meaning to me. I know how from the depths of my heart I wrote everything and how that I felt it all. With such insight into my own character and knowledge of how to improve it, why have I stood still - why am I no better - ah I even feel that I have added to, instead of taking from, those evils. On this one dark day of my life do I realize that my life has been fruitless.

It proves the truth that lies in the theme of an humble Sermon that I heard the other day, that the desire to do good will not alone avail.

But have I not tried? Alas, temptation! and the perversity of human nature!