SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 2d
Dec, 1847.
DEAR FATHER, — Yours of the 9th November was received a few
days since, but I have delayed writing on two accounts since receiving it. One
is the greater press of business, and increased anxiety on account of the sudden
change in money matters; the other, that it is always hard for me to make out a
letter without something to make it out of. We have been middling well since I
returned, except John and Watson. John has had a short turn of fever, and
Watson has seemed to have a number of complaints, but both are better now. Our
business seems to be going on middling well, and will not probably be any the
worse for the pinch in the money concerns. I trust that getting or losing money
does not entirely engross our attention; but I am sensible that it occupies
quite too large a share in it. To get a little property together to leave, as
the world have done, is really a low mark to be firing at through life. “A nobler toil may I sustain, A nobler
satisfaction gain.” You wrote us that
Lucian seemed to decline. This is not unexpected; but we hope that a life still
lengthened may not all be misspent, and that the little of duty to God and
mankind it may yet be in his power to do may be done with his might, and that
the Lord Jesus Christ will be the end of the law for righteousness, for that
which must be left undone. This is the only hope for us bankrupts, as we
may see at once if we will but look at our account. We hope to hear how you all
are again soon.
Affectionately yours,
JOHN BROWN.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 23-4
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