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You know that Mr. Lee & Mr. Sargent & yourself are the only male members of the Church in Milo. Mr. Sargent the only Resident member. Mr. L & S have I suppose given Almeda & her daughter Lucy a letter of recommendation to the Brownville Church & Mr. Lee & wife as I understood are about to remove their relation to Brownville Church Have you anything to do in the premises as regards yourself before the Church becomes quite extinct as it very probably it will. The meeting house built by Mr. Owen for the use of the Baptist Church has already become a bone of contention. It was proposed that the Baptist buy half the Items & the Freewill Baptist the other half & that would pay Mr. Owen. But the 2 parties cannot agree about the control of it. The Freewill Baptist want to let the Universalists have the privilege of having it with them & the Colonial Baptist are not willing they should. I wish you could have heard a Lecture Proff. Shepherd delivered lately on reading He compared novel reading to pouring dusky dirty water thro a sieve just for the tikking while it passes there. Some people's reading like the Contents of a Lumber Garret compos'd of all manner of commodities & then tumbled from the garret into the cellar in confusion many valuable things there but impossible when wanted the more one has the worse off he is. I wish I could tell you more that he said but if I could I could not tell it as he did & I don't know of any body that could he is a powerful man Everett calls him the old sledge hammer