The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-25
SERENITY COMES.
The Wife's Prayers Are Answered.
and She Is Happy Again.

salt Lake City, Utah. Dec. Is 1900
My Dear Orson:-In your last letter
| which | received this morning and tn,
one preceding ii. you ask after my health
PARDON me. dear. for not replying to thie
| question sooner. The reason / failed
thinS you had written me save the sub
)ect upon which YOU dwelt at length and
winch occupied my every thought while
making apSwcr.
Physically. my health is perfect except
Ing now and then a slight attack of ner-
Vousness, but OF my mental state l can
not speak so favorably. Many unwcl-
come thoughts occupy my mind daily and
at night l lie awake fully half the time
allotted TO sleep, thinking innumerablo
Things, some pleasant and some very
unpleasant. My mind seems to be in q
constant whirl; even when sleep has en-
yeloped the senses II disturbs me with
dreams, some of which are terrible. caus-
Ing me to start up, uttering shrieks and
other hideous noises, that frighten poor.
little Mary and make her cry | can
not remember any OF my dreams. After
| awake nothing but a mystic recollec-
ton OF them remains, and If | were TO
remember them they would not be worth
repeating. they are so queer and terri
BILE.
PRAYER ANSWERED.
Yes, Orson, ] feel that my prayer has
been answered. Since writing YOU last
time / have experienced. some very happy
hours. For a while ] so much as tired
of Marys company and many a time
was cross. scoldlng her for nothing at
all. This was when l was so disturbed
In mind and heart and did not know what
| was doing. But since the Fight / last
wrote YOU and offered up my prayer to
God | have been a loving mother TO
Mary, taking delight In having her near
me, In listening To her tales of school
life and In kissing and caressng her. We
have become great friends. so whom she
is absent from my sight | grow lone
some.
One portion OF your letter brings sorrow
upon me. You say but Alice. i fear YOU
Will have many such battles to fight
oh! l hope and pray that L Will not
L know that ] would not survive many
like the one that terminated In my last
letter to you. Such battle! Duty to
God on one Side and my womans heart
on the other so clinched my Yitals that
had not relief come when 1t dld l would
not be living now. This sounds strange.
but, nevertheless, when l look back over
the desperate struggles OF that conflict
l realize with incandescent clearness that
to live another twcnty-four hours through
such heart-torture and mental agony
would have been utterly impossible. But
now | am thankful for all that has hap
pened 1t has made me a better and
stronger woman, and has given me a
higher conception of the Truth, Every
moment OF those many hours of suffer
Ing is TO me pearl OF great price
Through sorrow alone do We rise In
spirit Happiness never did make one
strong In faith or faithful In. and obedi-
ent to, duty. Long-suffering has ever
been the scale by which mortals have as
cended TO heavenly bliss.
SWEET THOUGHTS
Sweet are my thoughts tonight. and
fancy ike in the days of my girlhood
when the enchanting and resistless spirit
OF poetry came stealing over me, COM
Delllng my pen TO sketch the beautiful
thoughts that filled Dly mind, comes back
TO me now and l am almost tempted 10
wander once more in the olysium gar
dens of Apollo But this | VIII resist
from fear OF tiring you, for although you
have never said so, | long since concluded
YOU were not lover Of that which has
ever been my fayorlte pastime and study
Poetry has taught me much. Above all
else II has prompted me TO take eX-
duisite delight in reading the Bible. The
Psalrne OF David and the Song OF Solo
mon are SO highly poetic that | never tire
of reading them, and many are the tears
of ecstacy | have shed over these and
hundred other portions of the Inspired
Books The stories OF the Magdalene
of Calvary OF the women at the tomb.
are amongst my favoTites. Nothing In
our own language can equal the poetry of
the Bible Such sweetness. such beauty
and such truth could flow only from an