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Hurstgreen June
My Dear Son
I
once more take the upportunity of writing a few lines to you by W John
Page who you used to know very well when you were boys together he has
been out there & made his fortune & Returned to England again have
been home rather more than two years & now return again to Australia
& with the greatest pleasure takes these letters for me & makes no
doubt but he find our where you are & will see you if he can he went
there I think about two years before you – was a shepherds boy for a
good while but now has a farmyard & considerable possessions in that
part of the world, My dear son I like as you brothers am anxious to know
the reason you do not write or if you do what can be the hindrance of our not receiving your letters I do want to receive one more letter
from you it would cheer my heart very much, a little while & I shall
be no more here & do let me hear from you before I go hence to
be no more upon earth I shall soon go
the way of all flesh very soon be remembered with the
(??) of
the valley & my spirit will take its everlasting flight into a world
of spirits unpierced by human thought I hope you my dear son you
have not neglected the one thing need full until this time this is
the greatest moment of all things if we seek after this we shall find that
happiness that the world can neither give nor take away but if it is
neglected & not sought after we loose our souls & are undone foe
ever O how unwise for anyone to put off the Salvation of the soul yet what
a surprising number there is who do neglect it to their own destruction
& everlasting misery be persuaded by one who loves you to turn you
attention upwards if you have not done it to that God that made you &
look to that redeemer that brought you with his own precious Blood amazing
love how it can be that thou my God should die for me love unspeakable for
the son of God to leave the bosom of his Father & come down into this
lower world to save the human family from eternal ruin laid down his life
to save us from eternal death O that you may take his love & drink of
spirit to live to praise him while here below & then you will praise
him through one eternal day with that noble army that is gone before where
you would hold her who brought you forth whose bowels have many times
yearned over you & has poured our her soul to God for you at the
throne of the heavenly Grave so many times & can you resist her
prayers & mine & the influence of the holy spirit which I am aware
operated very often upon your mind & has said to your inmost soul turn
ye turn ye why will you die I trust that still small voice has nor left
you & that you may listen to it yield to it & be saved by Grace
with your dear mother meet you around the throne of God & sing his
praises for ever O may it be ever so for Christ sake Amen – you brother
Geo wrote last Auttom I hope you received it & have sent an answer
back before now if you have not do not neglect it no longer his love to
you with all his family I think of leaving Hgreen to go to Dover to live
with George for my little business is dwindled into nothing you Aunt still
lives with me her love to you AP lives with us still her remembrance to
you I must conclude hopeing soon to hear from you my love to your dear
wife & family whishing you every happiness in the fear & love of
God & Believe me to remain you loving father Geo Brooker.
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