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Murren, August,15 1869

losses and drive back the Germans.

However the war may end, I suspect that the Empororship of Napoleon will be finished, and we shall see France in a state of distrubance for some years to come.

Something good must be intended to come out of all these troubles, which will compensate humanity. The Pope, the French, the German are only puppets, each having his more or less selfish ends to accomplish; but all are made to work out some great plan which God has in view.

Meantime I should like to know how you have been this summer. Do ask some one to write, for I am afraid to ask you to give yourself the fatigue and the trouble of writing yourself; it would be a great satisfaction to know defintely that you have been no worse through the hot weather. I told you, or Pa, I forget which, that I had taken a three-weeks' walk with Johnny amongst the mountains, and I think we have been benefitted by the excursion. We had a nice walk of six hours on Saturday, to the top of the Schilthorn, in this neighborhood.
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Mary and the children send a great deal of love to you and Pa and the rest of the family. Johnny intends trying to make a portrait of the baby for you. And now with best love to Pa and the brethren and sisters and their progeny, I am your affectionate son,
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