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harm can come to him who maintains his integrity and faith
firm to the end.

I send you the enclosed Pastoral. I judge that, whether
we substitue or not, the same result will follow. The ord-
er will go forth in due time--"Pray a certain prayer or vac-
ater;" or perhaps, "Go into exile." How can we meet? I
would love to commune with you.

Yours in the best of bonds,
RICHARD H. WILMER.

Bishop Green.

Bishop Green to Bishop Wilmer.
Colombus, Miss. Juune 7th, 1865.

Rt. Rev. R. H. Wilmer,

My dear Sir,

Wilst I thank you for your letter and
the accompanying Pastoral Circular, I hasten by the first op-
portunity to set you right in the view which you have taken
of my letter to my Clergy.

You seem to understand me as taking the ground that our
Southern ecclesiastical organisation is absolutely dissolved.
Such a view of our Church condition was very far from my mind