in all our sacrifices, afflictions sickness, sorrow, & persecutions let us strive to be patient & resigned to the will of God in all these things I am well aware that these things are not joyous but grievous for a moment but afterwards it will yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto those that are exercised thereby. Let us not think strange that our afflictions are multiplied upon us for it is through tribulations that we inherit the Kingdom & we have but little time to pass through these trials & tribulations before the scene will be closed & joy will come & we shall enter that rest that remains for the Saints