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of service, that I kept my mind open to all facts pr considerations bearing upon the claims of either, until the representatives of both conceded the data to be before me. Before balancing the opportunities for usefulness afforded me by either field, I most carefully and conscientiously considered the prior question whether I had theunderlined 3 times right or liberty to entertain the claim of any other stewardship than that which had so inserted here and underlined ? here plainly committed to me by the Providence of God in church, Seminary and city. Some of my most revered brethren and closest personal friends denied that I had any such right or liberty. and to their solemn and weighty words I gave the most prayerful heed. Had I been convinced as they were, that my withdrawal from the served essential interests as to irretrievably thwart the fulfilment of its mission in the Kingdom of God,