lands, but I long now as I never longed before to go to

Heaven

." I begged him not to talk of dying, but he said

it did not make him low spirited. Emilie and he talked

of it often. Ah Edith! that boy is more fit for heaven

than any of us who a year or two ago thought him

scarcely fit to be our companion, but as Emilie said the

other day, God often causes the very afflictions that he

sends to become his choicest mercies. So it has been

with poor White, I am sure. I find I have nearly filled