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it at once &  lately an urge invitation to the same purpose
it at once &  lately an urge invitation to the same purpose
to receive a like call from 3 united churches around
to receive a like call from 3 united churches around
Dodgeville Wis. one
Dodgeville Wis. one Welsh [[Conge.?]] & one Eng. Cong. ch. in town
& Bethel [[on Coed?]] out in the country.  But very same reason
I had to give up these two calls [[unclear]] they were
In many ways very tempting as I had to give [[a?]]

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Ebensburg July 13th, 1857? Dr Everett Truly venerable & tome long revered Friend he?. Indeed such are always my feelings in writing to you but especially to none in this more private & confidential manner altho at present having neither the time nor the knowledge I can give you no very full information no more than to drop a few lines respecting our present news & intentions as we are just on the eve of removing our little family to Alliance in Ohio with the view of helping our poor people there all I can (for a while at least) towards planting & raising a Con. l little unclear there few in number & feeble in strength as they now are however - For more than a year seeing their prospecting view rather dark & precarious had I been fighting against their proposals & yet have never been able to give it entirely up if possibly any good might be done there. You are aware that a small infant little church was organized there last Spring altho the Cal. Meth. had made an organization much earlier & was unclear stronger in number & strength even the mills as they intended & I answered? it being sort of a "church & state concern" seemingly Ours were, but, 2 or 3 small families already involved? indebted in the ,ice? & in building their humble dwellings houses they number now in all about 20 members. I have now occasionally back & forth supplied them for a number of unclear or other & in answer to their humble but earnest request told them that if they agreed to do their best faithfully I would likewise do my best for them for one year late more fully what can be done & to have I colored? to their cannot to far not wishing to despair this "day of small things" Apart from this discouraging aspect of things there I was strongly tempted to relinquish this enterprise the Cong. Ch. in Cambria Wis., a fine healthy country & a very promising field of labour were we younger to cup it at once & lately an urge invitation to the same purpose to receive a like call from 3 united churches around Dodgeville Wis. one Welsh Conge.? & one Eng. Cong. ch. in town & Bethel on Coed? out in the country. But very same reason I had to give up these two calls unclear they were In many ways very tempting as I had to give a?