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Prof. Samuel Ives Curtiss, Pres. A. L. Coe Vice-Pres. Wm. Spooner, Sec'y, 29 Erie St. H. S. Harrison, Treas. 159 La Salle St.

Chicago City Missionary Society, Object: To Promote Religion and Morality in Chicago and Vicinity.

Rev. J. C. Armstrong, Supt. Residence, 743 Harrison St. Office, 151 Washington St., 1 to 2 P.M.

Chicago, Ill. July 15" 1892

Prof. Taylor, Dear Brother, You will have a wide field & an earnest welcome to our city. The opportunity for scoring a full day's work in every twenty-four hours will be afforded you. We are trying to solve the city problem of reaching the masses & while we have done a good deal, much remains to be done. We have kept ourselves clear of much? charity work (I speak of our [laity] Missionary Society) not that charity work should not be conducted in such a city but we have tried to do a different kind of labor, & as it seems to us, a far better. Our efforts as you doubtless know are directed to the organization & maintenance of Sunday-schools and churches. I have had some rather laughable experiences in trying to find people who have come to our