Being much
confined of late to my dwelling, it was but yesterday that I derived any
knowledge of that awful proclamation of the king in regard to his great
image. Uncle Esrom is at present traveling in a far country on important
business, and I am deprived of his counsel and ye are deprived of his aid
in this crisis. Ob, my brothers! the companions and guardians of my
juvenile hours, into whose care and warm affections I was committed by
the parting words of a dying mother! How ardently does your sister love
you! how deep for you is the affection of Perreeza's heart! What can I
say that will cause one sweet ingredient to drop into your bitter cup?
Nothing better do I know, than the favorite sentence of our beloved
Jeremiah. If the good prophet were here would he not say, 'Jehovah is the
strength of all his saints; trust in him and be at peace!' Oh, how
sweetly flowed the gentle words of the man of God! Brothers! dear as ye
seem to my throbbing heart, terrible as the fiery furnace may rage,
Perreeza has no desire that your safety should be purchased at a
dishonorable price.
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