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You say in your "By all means live near to God." This I have been endeavoring more faithfully to for the last few months than ever before, & have been devoting myself with more than usual energy to my work. And God I believe has condecended? [strikethroughs] to unsure & bless, in a measure at least, my feeble efforts. We have had a hard siege here in Albany for more than six weeks we have been laboring night and day & though we have not realized all we desired, yet we have reason to bless God that all in the church except two or three have been Converted and some twelve outside have given good evidence of conversion & 14 have been added to the church & Methodism is looking up in Albany. Since