Writings by Susan Dickinson: Correspondence with Bishop Huntington

	May 13. 1898. My dear Susan - "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shall know hereafter." Mere increase of knowledge is not much; because knowl- edge is so small a part of life. But, being made as we are, to know why things are as they are, to
	know how things were right wh. seemed only + wholly wrong, to touch the key of mysteries wh. were agonies to out hearts,- this much be a kind of Heaven in itself, whatever else Heaven may be, or bring. This is the promise. It is the promise of what we want. And we know eno' of the Promiser to be sure that it will come to pass. "This is "Life Eternal".
	The high, pure, true manhood in Edward made it good to see him, to know him, to count him in among the world's best posessions. As long as he lived in this world he grew in goodness, in gentleness, in dignity, in the beauty of Character, which is the Supreme glory of our Estate. Whatever he might have done here, there was something
Papers of Susan Dickinson, Box II, Series A, Brown University Libraries	more important for him to do elsewhere. How you, his Mother, + Martha, his Sister, are to do without his visible presence, God foresees; + foreseeing He will provide. We think of you tenderly; you know we do. I send you more than any words. Lovingly, F.D.Huntington.


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