#AL 9 But I was not comforted by the words of Elder Long, and I said, Before our grief be much abated, Brother David, the same thing may come upon us again. For Virginia lieth just across the river; and but lately there was a second battle at Manassas, with much the same result as the first. 10 And Elder Long answered it was by an evil chance our fertile shore hath become a convenient crossing-place for the armies. And I said in reply, Then it may be wisdom that we receive the help offered by our new friends of Congregation Derekh Me'hudeshet, and remove ourselves from the path of the armies. 11 And Elder Long said, We must seek that the Lord God make his will known unto us in this matter. Let each man pray upon it. And there is no prayer better than work. 12 And straightaway the brethren had need of their beasts, that they might convey the dead unto their places of burial. Half had been taken or slain; yet as Ariel had promised, all those that had been entrusted unto House Haivri were speedily restored.