The least breath was sufficient to scatter it all and to leave me, fearful and afraid, to go over and over again the same ground; thus allowing neither time nor strength for progress in the Christian course.  I trust that you will not go through years of such unnecessary darkness and despondency.  There is certainly enough in our Saviour, if we only open our eyes that we may see it, to solve every doubt and satisfy every longing of the heart; and He is willing to give it in full measure.  When I contemplate the character of the Lord Jesus, I am filled with wonder which I can not express, and with unutterable desires to yield myself and my all to His hand, to be dealt with in His own way; and His way is a blessed one, so that it is delightful to resign body and soul and spirit to Him, without a will opposed to His, without a care but to love Him more, without a sorrow which His love can not sanctify or remove.  In following after Him faithfully and steadfastly, the feeblest hopes may be strengthened; and I trust that you will find in your own happy experience that “joy and peace” go hand in hand with love—­so that in proportion to your devotion to the Saviour will be the blessedness of your life.  When I begin I hardly know where to stop, and now I find myself almost at the end of my sheet before I have begun to say what I wish.  This will only assure you that I love you a thousand times better than I did when I did not know that your heart was filled with hopes and affections like my own, and that I earnestly desire, if Providence permits us to enjoy intercourse in this or in any other way, we may never lose sight of the one great truth that we are not our own. I pray you sometimes remember me at the throne of grace.  The more I see of the Saviour, the more I feel my own weakness and helplessness and my need of His constant presence, and I can not help asking assistance from all those who love Him....  Oh, how sorry I am that I have come to the end!  I wish I had any faculty for expressing affection, so that I might tell you how much I love and how often I think of you.

Her cousin having gone abroad, a break in the correspondence with him occurred about this time and continued for several months.  In a letter to her friend, Miss Thurston, dated April 21st, she thus refers to her school: 

There are six of us teachers, five of them born in Maine—­which is rather funny, as that is considered by most of the folks here as the place where the world comes to an end.  Although the South lifts up its wings and crows over the North, it is glad enough to get its teachers there, and ministers too, and treats them very well when it gets them, into the bargain.  We have in the school about one hundred and twenty-five pupils of all ages.  I never knew till I came here the influence which early religious education exerts upon the whole future age.  There is such a wonderful difference between most of these young people and those in the North,