Sister C. M. Shepard's Letter from Wisconsin
SISTER C. M. SHEPARD writes from Wisconsin: Through sore trials and discouragements I am striving to press on to the kingdom. I was in hopes that through sister Gates’ instrumentality, some of the inhabitants of this place would be led to embrace the truth and go with us. But we must lay her in the grave and pursue our lonely way, more lonely than before. Oh! how strange that any one can love such a world as this. How little there is of joy, or even of comfort, except that which comes from Heaven. I feel deeply impressed with the shortness of this life, and the necessity of improving it well. If we can only do this, soon we shall enter upon an endless life that will be exempt from sin and sorrow and death, and have pleasure forevermore.