John Moore letter to Charity Rotch, Jenkin Town, Pennsylvania, 1st mo 14, 1808

              B-271-3
	   Jenkin Town Pennsylvania   1st Mo 14th 1808
 The friendly, affectionate and sympathizing letter of my
dear friend C. Rotch was received on the 25th of
last month;  It was grateful to me to find that
thou hast continued to think of me as thy friend even
tho much time, and may dispensations had passed over
us during the suspension of our correspondence 
           I regret the return of thy disease, and I have much
reason indeed, to feel a near sympathy with my fellow
sufferers in disease.  These months of painful illness
have caused me to reflect more and more seriously on
the variable scenes of this perishable world.  I notice
with gratitude, thy feeling solicitude for my advancement
in the best of all causes, - and hope through the favors
of Him who is invisible, that I am making some
   Progress in that way which only can give true comfort
in all the vicissitudes of human life.  Unless the mind
is under the regulating power of Religion, it will be
perpetually losing its balance, and changing its [illegible]
at one time there is danger of being accelerated into in-
decent speed, through the impulse of desire, ambition
or revenge; at another we may become languid
and inactive, through fear, despondency and disappointment.
 It is a good thing,  therefore,  that the heart be established by
grace.