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appear the less needful for me to do it; but as my mind still bends towards thee, in an affectionate
concern for thy more firm establishment in the Truth, I am willing to tell thee so, and earnestly request
thy constant attention to its dictates; that thereby thou mayest be led out of corrupt self, in all its
appearances, and, consequently into that holy simplicity of mind and manners, which characterises a
disciple of Christ.’

She wrote from Redruth in July 1793 – a year before she died - to one of her relations: ‘Although I have
not written to thee since the commencement of thy present sorrowful state, thou canst not be ignorant
of my sympathy with thee; and considering my increased debility for writing, I might have hoped that
thou wouldst not have waited for my doing it before thou hadst addressed me: if but with a few lines,
they would have been very acceptable…….Dear______, be not dejected at the present dispension of
affliction, nor indulge reasoning upon cases or events, of which thy natural
understanding is incompetent to judge. Remember that “the Lord hath a way in the
clouds, and a path in the thick darkness, and his footsteps are not known;” they
cannot be fully comprehended by mortals. How vain therefore is the query, Why hast
thou suffered this or that? Yea, is it not worse than vain, if our temporal interests,
pleasure, or convenience, are put in competition with his will and wisdom?’

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/
w/index.php?curid=57872972 portrait unknown author (Ed)

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When will it come, the day Mahmud Abu Radj, age 12,
Kfar Sachnin ( Arab village) 1975

submitted by Pat Yates (see below)
When will Peace take over?
When will it come, the day?
When with armies and bombs will they do away
When all this hostility cease,
A day on which battleships
Will become palaces of leisure and fun
Floating on the seas.

A day on which the steel of guns
Will be melted into pleasure cars:
A day on which generals will begin to raise flowers.

When peace
Will include all the peoples of these neighbouring lands,
When Ishmael and Israel
Will go hand in hand,
And when every Jew-
The Arab's brother will be.
When will it come, the day?

Note from Pat The original language in handwriting is by the side of the poem and also the boy's
drawings but I shall have to stick to the translation:

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