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Letter to Sally Phelps, 20 July 1835
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D[ear] Sister [Sally] phelps, as Brother [William W.] phelps has given me an opertu nity in his paper letter, I gladly improve it, how far it may be to your edifycation I know not, but trust you will receive it in a maner that shall answer my intention, in so doing for my intention is to give you a word of consolation to streng[th] en you in the absence of your most worthy Companion, and— husband whose merits and experiance and acquirements, but few can compete with in this generation and fewer I fear will ever appretiate the worth of such men; men upon whom God, in his wi[s]dom hath bestowed gifts, that duly qualify them to lead men in the way of life and salvation. I consid er in some degree how great a trial you muste have in this sepera tion, but I think I may safely say, that you may rest with a firm reliance that God will so order it that you may not be seperated only but for a short season, and then <your Joy will be full> and if faithful <he will> return and teach you things that have been hid from the wise and prudent, hiden things of old times, as Moses saist [in] Deut. 33d <chap> 19th verse for they shall suck of the abundance of [the se]as and of the treasures hid in the sand. Some of the[se] things have begin [to] come forth therefore Lift up your heart and be glad; be comforted be faithful: pray in faith; and in fine say to all the saints in Zion as the Lord God livith the redemtion of Zion is nigh at hand, and we shall live to see it
17 Feb. 1792–7 Mar. 1872. Writer, teacher, printer, newspaper editor, publisher, postmaster, lawyer. Born at Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey. Son of Enon Phelps and Mehitabel Goldsmith. Moved to Homer, Cortland Co., New York, 1800. Married Sally Waterman,...
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JS, letter, Kirtland, OH, to Sally Phelps, Liberty, MO, 20 July 1835; Improvement Era, Aug. 1942, p. 529.
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