Shortly After This a Card Was Received From Another, Telling of the Death of a Little Child of Bro. B., and a Word of Fellowship and Consolation Was Sent to Which Reference Is Made in the Following Letter: RICHMOND, Ind., May 31, 1877. MY BELOVED BROTHER-Your Kind Letter of Remembrance Came to Hand at a Time When Its Loving Words Were Doubly Acceptable, on the Day When Our Only and Precious Little Girl Would Have Been a Year Old Had She Been Left Us. I Had Been Wishing to Write to You to Tell You of Her Departure to Be With the Lord on April 24th, but Have Been Both Very Much Pressed With Work and in Poor Health. Our Babe Was Only Seriously Ill for About Ten Days, With Typhoid Pneumonia. She Was a Peculiarly Sweet and Precious Babe, and Had Endeared Herself to Our Hearts Exceedingly, and Also to All Our Friends, and We Were so Glad to Have Her As a Companion to Her Brother, Who Was but Sixteen or Seventeen Months Older. He Seemed to Be so Good to Her, and She to Be Delighted With Everything He Did. We Therefore Felt the Separation Deeply, and You Know Far More Than We How Much Grief to the Poor Human Heart These Trials Can Give, and, Bless the Name of Our God! You Also Know the Depths of Consolation There Are in Him, and, How We Are Enabled to Triumph and Rejoice in His Doings, Even When They Come so Close

Dear S., whom I suppose you will see about this time, came over to the funeral and God gave him precious words for us and those assembled, so that many acknowledged that they had never heard such consoling words before. Truly He must have given them. Dear S. has indeed been used of God to comfort and strengthen us, and we have been favored to have many times of sweet fellowship. We have also Brother and Sister B. at Fair Haven, Ohio. They spent a Lord's day with us two or three weeks ago. None have, as yet, manifested much inclination to examine the ground we have been brought into, but seem to have mostly settled that it is a new fangled idea that will only lead to disaster. However, we have proved the ground and daily become more rooted and grounded in the blessedness of the place, and learn the truths of God, to the consolation of our souls. My wife has been most encouragingly and happily blessed in fully seeing the truth of the place. We know we occupy in weakness, but God deals with us after His grace, and not after our failures. I am hoping to go to Canada, about 35 miles east of Port Huron, Mich., with my wife, in order to recruit my health, in about three weeks, and write now in part to ask if you could give me a letter of introduction to any saint in Detroit with whom we might stay a night. It would, I think, be a convenience to us. To this query an early reply will be a favor. The tracts on the office of the Holy Spirit were very acceptable and made the matter clear. I think I had reached nearly the same mind before receiving them. Yours in Him, A. B.
Answer was made to this as requested, and a letter sent to Detroit, upon which a letter was addressed to him from there-inviting him to a temporary home on the journey. In this letter allusion was made to God leading His own into the deeper things by His dealings in sorrow that they might know and own the exceeding strength of His own arm for them, and rejoicing that this dear brother was being made more acquainted with Him, and accepting the fact that whom He loved He chastened. To this, answer was made as follows, the last received from him, before he left us for the presence of the Lord.