writes:-- My precious E.Y.is yet so weak that there is a probability of its being an obstacle in the way of our removal; but there is this consolation,--if the work be of the Lord he will not frustrate his own design; if it be not his doing we must submit to have the whole overturned.
In a few days he became aware of her critical state.
9 _mo_.

29 .-- The indisposition of my dear wife has taken such an alarming turn that I yesterday began to have serious apprehensions as to the issue.

I have watched with her night and day, and my prayers have been unceasing for her restoration, I trust not without a due reverence to the divine will.

But I did not feel as though nature could give her up until yesterday, when as I stood retired by the bed-side of my dear lamb, endeavoring to feel after resignation, I gave her up as fully as human nature, through divine aid, was capable of.

Then it sprang in my heart, Where is the man that can offer up an Isaac?
He shall go for me, and I will send him.