a special act of mercy, that my time had not yet come, and that I had still a work to perform upon the earth.
The following is the letter referred to at the commencement
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I[n] addition to the above I give the following: informed me that Joseph looking him full in the face & as solemn as eternity.
“I am going as a lamb to the slaughter; but I am as calm as a summer’s morning. I have a conscience void of offence towards God & Man.”
I heard him state, in reply to an interrogatory made either by myself or some one in my hearing, in relation to the best course to pursue. “I am not now acting according to my judgment; others must counsel & not me, for the present” or in words to the same effect. [p. 69]