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[[underlined]] 1867 [[/underlined]] unusual favor was given & received was comical in the extreme. Saturday evening before communion. I cannot lift my head up low I lie Before Thy great & boundless majesty I cannot lift my head up still I dare To raise my thoughts to Thee my God in prayer The sins I have committed day by day The sins that led me from Thee for asking Now weigh me down yet lowly as I lie I feel Thy love still bless me from on high Tomorrow Lord Thy Holy feast is spread I, even I, would eat Thy children's bread For presence there the only claims I plead Thy sovereign mercy to my simple need. Not to the righteous was Thy mission Lord Sweet hope to sinners does that thought afford The love that shows me how unclean I am Still makes me feel that & that love may live. Oh all enduring all untiring love unchanging pure immeasureable love [[end page]] [[start page]] Out of Thy fullness Some of thy grace to this unloving heart I cannot lift my head up still I dare To raise my thoughts to Thee my God in prayer Still dare to love Thee lowly as I lie And feel Thy love still bless me from on high. Oct. 23rd We came home last evening that is Father & I. We have been away over two months. We went first to the Catskill Mts. where Father spent a week with us enjoying entire rest & freedom from care We separated on coming down from the Mts. Mother & I going to Albany. Nell & Carry to Princeton & met again in Phil. at the wedding of Stewart Patterson. Father was engaged in high business at Sandy Hook & did not rech P. in time for the wedding. I came away with him on Tuesday. We find the house in great confusion. It is being repainted. We eat in the