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Hartford Theological Seminary. Founded in 1834 Hartford Conn, August 17, 1892

The Rev, G, S, F, Savage. DD. Secretary of the board of Directors of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

My dear Sir. After the most deliberate and prayerful consideration of the call [preoffered?] me by the Executive Committee of your Board to the professorship of Christain Sociology and the English Bible in the Chicago Theological Seminary, I am at last [irresistibly?] [constrained?] to accept it. For a whole month the two peculiarly inspiring fields of usefulness were [strangely?] kept open before me. I could decide for neither, until a single course of duty was disclosed to me. For this I waited long, but not