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Jan. 1-7
New Years Day. Too cold for church so spend the day very comfortably at home reading, etc. Get the ice house filled this week... Making scrap books-quite the fashion ....The Lodge in consequence in great disorder. A present from Sam of a nice copy of Tennyson's Idyls of The Kinq. I enjoy it much. Finish reading Dairy of a London Physician. Such a collection of horrors. A sweet long letter from Emily. She tells me some news which makes me feel sick at heart but it ought not so to be. I must be brave. What would my little friend think of me if she knew with what feeling I received the intelligence of the near accomplishment of the dearest desire of her life. I ought to rejoice with her. She tells me my niece Lizzie [Minor] was baptized on Christmas Day and was admitted to the Lord's Table. Dear Lizzie, she is a young soldier of the cross but God's words tells us that those who seek him early shall find him ....
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