WEST POINT, January 6, 1860.
MY DEAR SISTER: Another year has joined the past, and 1860 bright with promises, has dawned upon us. “We know not what a day may bring forth.” 1860 may be as indelibly stamped upon our memories as 1859 or 1856, when our loved ones were summoned from hearth. As we look over our diminished numbers, we ask who is to go next. The one most robust in health may be the first to succumb to disease. Let us thank God for his goodness and mercy, for we feel that he has called them unto his glory. We should be more watchful, more diligent in our service to god than we have been. Let our united prayers ascend to God that he may hasten the conversion of those of our family who still delay.
SOURCE: Peter Smith Michie, The Life and Letters of Emory Upton, p. 17-8
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