Now with the Lord, to an absent friend to be opened when she was twenty-one years of age.
My Dear Mary: —When you open this you will be twenty-one years old. Now, dear Mary, just for one moment look back on your past life, has it been all for yourself, all for your own pleasure, or have you lived for the Blessed Lord Jesus. Now. Mary, if you have not trusted Him, do so now. Think of it, eternity will never end, and Jesus offers you free pardon now if you, as a sinner, put your full trust in Jesus. He has borne all your sins on the cross if you will only trust Him, and surely if He gave Himself and died for us, we should try to live to His glory and honor while He leaves us down here. It ought to be the first thing that we would think of when we are going to do and thing. Would this be to the glory of our blessed Lord? If not we ought not to do it. How often we follow our own will and not His. Dear Mary, you may be far from me when you open this, but it is my earnest wish and prayer that you might trust in Jesus and be saved before the day of grace is past. It will not be long till the Lord will come and take His own home and then the door will be shut. How terrible for those who are left. May you not be one of them.
Your loving friend,
M. H. R.
ML 09/14/1902