"Herein we have a great loss..."

Herein we have a great loss; but the remembrance of the remarkable appearances of piety in her, from her childhood, in life, and also at her death, are very comfortable to us, and give us great reason to mingle thanksgiving with our mourning. I desire your prayers, dear Sir, that God would make up our great loss to us in himself.

~Jonathan Edwards, on the death of his eighteen-year-old daughter, in a letter to Rev. John Erskine