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Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, Jan.-Jun. 1852

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Open book Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers 1842-ca. 1940 [Box 04]

Title Personal: to Nathan Kendall from Friends and Students, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous correspondence, Jan.-Jun. 1852

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date Jan.-Jun. 1852

Place California, Lake States, Northeastern States, United States, Indiana--LaPorte, Panama--Isthmus of Panama

Language English

Subjects Washington City and California Mining Association, Chronically ill, Courtship, Domestic relations, Families, Farm life, Gold miners, Husband and wife, Migration, Internal, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Teacher-student relationships

Description Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern travel to California begun in 1849.

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User-Contributed Transcription Amherst Feb. 12 1852Mr N KendallDear Sir. It was with a pleasure mingled with sadness that I rec'd your letter of the 29of Jan. last I little thought as I bid your Mother adieu on the eve. I was at your house was doing so for the last time. Allow me, my dear Sir, to offer you my deepest sympathy worthless & unavailing as it may be. Ah! I know very well what a mother's love is. I know very well what meaning there is in the expression " a mother's tenderness, a mother's watchfulness". I know too what an aching void is left in your bosom when such a mother, so good a mother as your own, is is torn from your embrace. Yet what is your earthly loss I trust is her eternal gain, & that while weeping friends moan her departure, she is singing the song of redeeming grace & dying love. -- Perhaps I ought to offer an apology for intruding on your time & affection. So long a letter, on questions of theological controversy, yet I have none to offer except that I feel that a candid expression of ones views & feeling & the reasons for those view may be of incalculable advantage. The subject you treated of in your last letter was the divinity of Christ in connection with the divinity & to those 2 topics I will endeavor to confine myself in this letter. Allow me to say however by way of correcting my self, that it seemed to me that in your letter you have not endeavored to prove that Christ was not divine, but rather that he was not identical with the Father. Now I would not for a moment be understood as saying that Christ was literally & identically the same with the Father, & if that were all you were endeavoring to disprove in your letter, then I agree with you at once. Very likely I despeched the subject too hastily in my January letter. Still I was sorry you did not allude to one of the other papages & which I resend it inasmuch as you did not, they remain unnumbered. In a subject like this we must receive without hesitation the assertions of the Bible, although we ought to use our reason to determine what the scripture means, yet when it is once determined, we should believe with perfect confidence. We should be Careful about setting that down as ridiculous or about which we cannot understand, remembering that while with me things are impossible with God all things are possible. I said in my former letter that Christ was equal with God, by no means that he was identical with God the Father. If I remember right I only said that Christ was equal to God, although it would seem that the Evangelist John goes still farther when he says "& the logos was was God." Allow me to state then as clearly as I am able what I do believe on the subject. In the first place that there are three persons in the trinity. Not that there are three Gods, but three person in the Godhead. I admit that there are mysteries

Archival Collection Title Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 4 Folder 93

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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