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strength! I shall try again! 

Ma is calling me to finish her picture. Now for the trial.

Feb. 25.-1900. It all looks very foolish & silly and strikingly full of Ego. But I shall keep it awhile longer if only for a looking glass for Rebecca's use when now and then she thinks after all she has been a rather nice sort of person. It may help her a little to be more cheerful & sweet. May help show her what has been the lesson God in all these years has tried to teach her.

1907. Wed., Aug. 21. - I have been looking again into the looking glass. Poor little girl! People who have a little light on a strange road in a strange country stumble often and sometimes turn back and lose, and grope, and turn again and push along; the light sometimes seems failing, sometimes flashes more broadly. And ever the poor wanderer is conscious that a better light might have become his if perhaps he had done this, or if he had not done that, or had kept a path that his little light had not [[strikethrough]] kept [[/strikethrough]] made always clear. Some fail because will o'the wisps are forever alluring. 

This summer has been a sweet one, for Calvin and I returned home to find everyone well and the home as of yore - a flowery, fragrant, breezy green hill. My father & mother & brothers & sisters are so precious to me now & nothing else in all the world seems to matter really - except a few near friends, and the good and beauty I see in the world everywhere - everywhere a portion.