“AUGUST 3, 1877.
“MY DEAR BELOVED FATHER,--Your son is a Christian. I am going off
another road. I am going a road where it leadeth to heaven, and you
are going to a big road where it leadeth to hell. But now please
return back from hell. I was long time thinking what I shall do,
then my father would be saved from hell. I prayed to God. I asked
God to help my father to become a Christian.”