I Can Now Look Back With Calm Thankfulness On That Long Period Of
Trial And Exertion - With Thankfulness That The Dark Clouds That Hung
Over Us, Threatening To Blot Us From Existence, When They Did Burst
Upon Us, Were Full Of Blessings.
When our situation appeared
perfectly desperate, then were we on the threshold of a new state
of things, which was born out of that very distress.
In order to more fully illustrate the necessity of a perfect and
child-like reliance upon the mercies of God - who, I most firmly
believe, never deserts those who have placed their trust in Him - I
will give a brief sketch of our lives during the years 1836 and
1837.
Still confidently expecting to realise an income, however small,
from the steam-boat stock, we had involved ourselves considerably in
debt, in order to pay our servants and obtain the common necessaries
of life; and we owed a large sum to two Englishmen in Dummer, for
clearing ten more acres upon the farm. Our utter inability to meet
these demands weighed very heavily upon my husband's mind. All
superfluities in the way of groceries were now given up, and we
were compelled to rest satisfied upon the produce of the farm. Milk,
bread, and potatoes during the summer became our chief, and often
for months, our only fare. As to tea and sugar, they were luxuries
we could not think of, although I missed the tea very much; we rang
the changes upon peppermint and sage, taking the one herb at our
breakfast, the other at our tea, until I found an excellent
substitute for both in the root of the dandelion.
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