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Show 46 Milford will soon be home. The following three entries are consecutive, the intervals between them suggesting the fever of activity prior to his return. June 9th-Friday Eve Another year gone by since I parted from Milford. As I look back over these two years of toil, care, perplexities, and loneliness, I wonder how I have lived without him, for love and sympathy sweetens toil, soothes care, overcomes perplexities, and obviates loneliness. 0 I feel that with the love of my Milford I can endure anything. May I live for it, that by faithfulness I may prove myself worthy of the most full and perfect love of my husband. It has indeed been a trial to be so long separated from my dearest friend, but I do not feel to murmur for I know that he is laying up jewels in Heaven, that it is for God and His Kingdom he labors. Sunday Morning-June 18th, 1871 ...Last Friday I returned from school weary and despondent. The children had been more than usually hard to manage and the worry had caused a severe headache. After waiting a few moments Maggie directed my attention towards the mantelpiece and there, oh yes, there was the pictured face of Milford. As I gazed upon it my heart was thrilled with the deepest emotion. How can I describe it. They were all anxious to know my opinion but my heart was so full I could not speak. I took the picture and letter in which it came and retired to another room where tears flowed copiously. Why did I weep? I could not tell but methinks it was both for pleasure and regret. It was joy indeed to see so truthful a semblance of that dear face-to see those eyes so vividly real in their expression that they almost seemed to speak to me from out of their mighty depths-but there was a slight degree of sadness I could not dispel, a feeling that the dear original was not with me now. But when I read the open missive that was for the moment forgotten-that welcome messenger of love, so full of peace and contentment and so evident of the influence and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And although there is a protraction of some weeks in his absence I felt I would not murmur but strive to emulate his patience and willingness in all that pertains to this great Latter Day Work. I will now have more time to prepare for his coming, and I must toil diligently that I may accomplish what I so |