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Moreover, were you able even at once so completely to relieve me of other duties as to leave me entirely free to study, stroked out: and teach and exemplify the application of our common Christianity to common life and its social conditions, the opportunity for the fulfilment of this life purpose [[stroked out: single .. which has possessed my life for ten years]] wh. by a strangely Providential culmination of circumstances the Chicago Seminary has been able to make for me and to adapt closely to my aptitudes is in comparably larger than that which this or any other Seminary could afford to one of just my aptitudes and purpose. By no other opportunity that I can conceive of, could I have been led to think it my duty to leave that wh. Hfd. being now afford me above this lineadvantage? grant? and specifically? [[Following sentences stroked out: In my work & now in the call of this purpose which has possessed my life for ten years, and of this greatest opportunity to fulfil it that w in my judgment could possibly be opened to me for its fulfillment. I cannot fail to recognize & dare not delay the voice of God.]] In determining duty in this sorely perplexing complication [[stroked out: of this most serious problem of my life]] I am as glad to have escaped any temptation to mercenary motive, as I am grieved to have occasion even as a temporary embarrassment to the institution, I have and have tried faithfully to serve. The familiarity intimate personal stroked out: and fraternal