S.H.D. Commonplace Book (16:35:1),
Martha Dickinson Bianchi Collection,
John Hay Library, Brown University Libraries
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I know it will come strangely
over many of you, some of whom
have followed me in all my ways
from my earliest childhood my
friends associates acquaintances
to see me in such a place at such
a time as this - Where a month ago
I should least have expected to find
myself - my own voice indeed almost
startles me - It seems as if it could
hardly be mind - as if some other
must be speaking in me, so new is the
faith and experience with which it goes
laden from me - so new is the testimony
with which it is filled to the power
goodness and limitless love of our
common Father. I feel to-night
as a witness recalled to the
stand to state if I have any changes
to make in the evidence he has
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