Then came what was worse than anything else, the dreadful Civil War, which tried men's souls and showed the kind of stuff the women of Kansas were made of. In the spring of 1865, we went to Iowa to our friends to stay until the war closed. Especially was it hard on the older children, who were then just the age to want nice clothes and such things worse than they ever do afterwards. The thing I regret most as I look back on my past life is that I have not always lived up to the requirements of the Gospel as I should have done. I should not have let my mind dwell so much on getting gain, accumulating this world's goods, for I can see plainly now as I am nearing the end of life's journey that we should make it the chief aim of life to gain the Glory World, and I desire nothing else for my children than that they lay up their treasures in Heaven and that they begin now.
Life is too short and the work too important to wait or be put off.
I could never die happy knowing that any of my children or grandchildren were living ungodly lives, and thereby denying the God that bought them with the precious blood of His Son, our Savior. May God bless and keep them is the prayer of their mother.