February 12, 1820 – no entry. (Thaddeus Journal)
Feb. 12th. We still go with speed.—Have just passed the lat. of Hartford. My health continues good— can be employed all day in my studies without inconvenience. I never felt that I had so good an opportunity for improvement as now. Pen and paper, and books such as I want, a kind and able instructor, from hour to hour, by my side, whose delight it is to help me forward, and motives, drawn from the prospect of future situation, urging me to diligence. Perhaps you say, ‘Thus situated you can realize but little of the toils of a missionary life.—Prepare for the time when the scene shall change, —be laying up in store fortitude and resolution, with every Christian grace:—soon the demands may be great.’ Such, too, says a voice within; and while I desire thankfully to receive present comforts, my daily petition is also, that I may be fitting, by inward preparation, for all my Divine Master has in store for me. (Sybil Bingham)
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Dearest Sybil…I embrace your remarks…may I also be found “fitting”.