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Midd. Coll. Jan 1. [1830?]
Dear Friend
your thrice welcome letter I have delayed answering in order that I might hear from you by Mr. Robertson and has lately returned here; & I rejoice to hear that you & yours are well, beloved & respected; impressing every opportunity of usefulfulness within your reach I felt when reading yours that though changed in clime you are not changed in mind or attachments & our walk together while in college our correspondence while in Andover, our occasional Meetings afterwards, & our parting visit to Mr Stubbins,- all rose up to my mind with distinctness, The journal of Mr Bird I always read with interest; & you have had trials: you have had what is incouraging, My Brother. You have the consolation of knowing that your labor has not been in vain in the Lord; & in the changes that are going on I cannot but believe that there will be a wide door
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of usefulness opened to you, which your experience will enable you to enter.
To me changes are going on in this country, some for the better + some for the worse. you know of pressure of the N. Haven controversy on the notion of [?] H title continues, those of the old school maintaining that our Friend, do not pronounce shibolleth distinctly; while they on the other hand insist upon it that sibboleth is shibboleth . However the view that makes [?] consist in an act of choice may be received or how ever it [?][?][?] with previously sent [?], and I think it departs a little from the sentiment, of the older writing; still it is difficult to deny it's correctness.
The cause of Religion is prevailing; though in one form and another there is considerable opposition. The society for promoting the observance of the Sabbath on obtaining [?] to a Memorial in support of those who are now obliged to open the post office on the Sabbath [?] so [?] be [?]
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chance of success than last year. The A. E. Society has become a very powerful society so much so that although it is accomplishing great good, there has [ ?] up a jealousy in regard to it that may some what impeed its operation. It is said that the money that is paid to benefactors is to be refunded to the society & if the management of its covenants should go into the hand of other men, it [ ?] becomes engine of evil. This is the argument of President [?]. Mr. Stuart has replied, and P. Canahan has rejoined.
Lost evening I received a letter from Brother Bull. He is pleasantly settled and usefully employed in Lebanon. I shall hope to write to you again by Mr. Robertson. Who I believemhopes to return to Greece next Autumn. We have received for our cabinet a few articles which you sent to the [?] and I value them more for your [?]. If you could conveniently make up a box lager or smaller it would be very grate