BEDIseros, Va, Aug, %, 1896.
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BEDINGToN, VA, Aug, 20, lS46.


Much Of my time here is employed ID read
ing, writing and meditation, exercises for
which pleasant country residence presents
many favorable circumstances. Interruptions
are of much more frequent occurrence to the
city student thar, 10 one ia the country there
is stiffness, a freshness, beauty all around
one in his homely, rustic retreat, which IS
sought for in vain amid the conmoton Of the
city life. And yet, after all, cannot say that
would prefer perpetual, or a lifetime resi-
dence away from the city; for II too has at
fractions which cannot be found here. Per
haps the best security for happiness IS not :. SO
much in the place we occupy as in the condi-
ton of the mind, though it must be confessed
that outward circumstances are apt 10 effect US
more or less. solomon says, "A contented
mind is continual feast, !" and l think II was
st. Paul who had, by the power OF divine
grace, been brought 10 asta'e OF experience IN