Add to ORKG[Page 1] Oakland Jan 13th 1874 My dear friend. I am very sorry to hear that your uncle is dead. He was a father to you and the loss is terrible and I sympathize with you in your great affliction all the more because he was a friend of mine of that kind that one depends on instinctively. These trials are among the very [ ] that our common Father lays upon us, acting as they always do, with crushing grief for a time yet resulting in the case of all good and pure souls in a production of greater faith and power to accomplish the true end of our existence because however dark and mysterious some of our experiences may be, this truth yet remains universal and eternal “God is Love” and the upshot of all our griefs as well as joys will be our gre...