Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Frances N.] Pelton
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2. woman members make cakes and buy them and beg them and chickens and turkeys or money or biscuit or anything from wicked or righteous, for the festival, or icecream or oysters All is ready Tickets are bought, Much of societys very dregs are there (for godliness is not necessarily connected with love of icecream and cookies) But here is "midnights holy hour" (Bobby aint you sleepy?) but oysters are still to be eaten and also other blessings The Don't Muzzle the ox bill, is not passed yet ------------------- Next morning God is mercifully chastising many of his saints and the same loving kindness is shown the sinners, sister3. F and mother M and some of the brothers and all the lambs are sorely tried with sick headache rheums and other ails How often is "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth" piously ejaculated "The will of the Lord be done Brother A Is it not wrong for Christians to hurt their health and encourage the ungodly by those festivals? (A) Why no, Guess not, the min- ister must be paid and you know by thus tickling the senses of the ungodly we get them to help support Gods people and assist in the glorious work of converting the heathen - Ah but are not our own senses tickled, is
Location
[Madison, Wisc. ?]
Date Original
[ca. 1861]
Resource Identifier
muir01_0279-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 0279
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
Wisconsin Historical Society. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 8
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
