*I SHOULD tell you, “I long to see you,” but that my own experience has taught me, there is no happiness to be enjoyed in _earthly friends_, though ever so near and dear, or any other enjoyment that is not God himself. Therefore, if the _God of all grace_ would be pleased graciously to afford us each his presence and grace, that we may perform the work, and endure the trials he calls us to, in a tiresome wilderness, till we arrive at our journey’s end; the distance at which we are held from each other at present, is a matter of no great moment.――――But alas! the presence of God is what I want.――――I live in the most lonely melancholy _desert_, about eighteen miles from Albany. I board with a p…
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