Salvation for her Brothers

August 10 Adair County, K

Dear brother,

It is through the mercies of kind providence that I am permitted to lift my pen oncst more to let you no that I am blest with a reasonable portion of health at this time and my sons and their families are all in common health[. A]lso I do hope these may find you and family all in good health[.] I received a letter from sister Allen not long since[. H]er health was some better than it been[. S]he had just returned from Nashville[. I]t fetuigued her very much[. S]he was distressed about our poor old brother Thomas[. H]e was bed fast and almost gone by using ardent spirits[. A] few day before sister got there he had his will drew[. H]is family was in grate distress about him[.] O what a distressing thought to think of a dear brother or sister a going headlong into everlasting punishment beneath the frows of an angry God where mercy never can come[.] O Lord pittty poor sinners[. P]oor Thomas promised sister when she bade farewell that he would try to seek his soul's salvation[. T]his happened bast May[.] I have not hurd from him since now[. M]y dear brother, I have one request to you that I want you to seek an interest in the savour and not to put off any longer if you have not already found him precious to your soul

for he/his promises none who comes shall be denied[. H]e that seeks is sure to find[. G]o to the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the woreld[. G]o on your self with full purpose of hart[. P]ray in father and our fathers who are in heaven will bestow the blessing[.] I trust it is an awfull thing to die in sin[.] I have thought it my duty my dear brother to advise you to fly to the wide expanded arms of a crucified savour for refuge[.] I pray you in stead be reconciled to God for I waunt meet my friends all in heaven to part no more for ever[. T]he last account I had from my daughter, Elisa Crawford, she in bad health in June last[.] O my brother, this is too worn world of sorrow and tears to me, but my days am fast a winding to a close when my sorrows will have an end[.] I wish to serve the Lord with a perfect hart and a willing mind while traveling here below and it is my cinceare wish that you and your whole family may be fit meat for the Master's use in that grate and awfull? day may these words rest days on your mind as it is from a sister that wishes you well in time and eternity[.] I expect to impower doctor Samuel Feald to receive what falls to me from the estate of father and mother[. H]e was one of the phisisons that attended on me in my long spell of sickness[. H]e is a citizen of Collumbia; a very find may[. Y]our will send it by him if your please[. T]ake ? I want you to send me a nice dress and shall and pay for them with my own mony and then I can say you sent them to me.

/S/ Margaret Turk