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mentioned in your letter would show that I am not only free from evil unclear but in each instance greatly the sufferer, so far as dollar and cents are concerned saying nothing about the distress & anxiety of mind I have suffered in consequence. I believe I do not wish to paliate my own case, or make it any better than it justly is nor do I want to make unjust remarks relative to others yet I can but believe that members of the church, & I must say, some of my brethren in the ministry, have been altogether too ready to talk, & take up a reproach against their neighbor in my case. So far as my transaction with Bros Payne & Ford, the brethren who in partnership bargained for the Kerns? Farm, I should have no objections for them to publish to the world all the details and particulars of the transaction so far as I am concerned. There has been nothing on my part which has led them to censure me or question my christian