00681 will do underlined: no more underlined: harm either to you or others. and then like Paul look to the Cross of Christ
glory in it. and as in the Sight of God in Christ Jesus my only Lord master I hereby say Amen to it. I expect my God willing
to leave Portage City for Hamilton Toronto, on the last day of this month I bought a house last October there without my family
at present I mean to go in the way of gods providence to Spend All my time in His Service wholly by His grace to glorify Him
I shall be glad to hear. from you there any time I will get your letters at the post office there. We are all well your Dear
Mother Sends her love to you. Your Affectionate Father in Christ Daniel Muir For you I ever pray Portage City March
19th 1874. My very Dear John Were you as realy underlined: happy as my underlined: wish would make you you would be permanently
underlined: So . in the underlined: best Sense of the word. I received yours of the 3 inst with your Slip of paper but I had
read the Same thing in deleted: a the Wisconsin. Some days befor I got yours. then I underlined: wished I had underlined:
not Seen it . because it harried up my feelings So with another of your hair breadth escaps. had I Seen it to be underlined:
gods work you was doing I would have felt the other way but I knew it was not God s work. Although you Seem to think you are
doing Gods Service. if it had not been Gods boundless mercy you