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Brother Cornell and let Sister Cornell go around with him I am acquainted with some of her Christian labors and believe she with him could do great and lasting good this would not interefere with Brother Ranes? school or any appointment that he could fill but would fill up and hold partial is other ways abandoned. Perhaps you have some other good preacher at your disposal of course we except any arrangement you make. Allow me to call your attentions to what this change ten years back and compare with the present, then the country was new there was no unclear except Indian unclear and father unclear old man upwards of sixty and he travelled from the mouth of Louis River on the Washington side of the Columbia including all settlements which embraced about the same territory then as now up to the cascades then to the Falls and back cross the Columbia at Sandy, and up to Powels Valley including the country to the [unclear] unclear and the south side of the Columbia down to saint helen there crossed the river once in four weeks, and filled many appointments which is since been discontinued, and all this when there was only Indian trails to travel. Now we have the advantage of ten years improvements in roads the old charge divided so that this the Vancouver charge only embraces about one third of the old one and can not have the work half filled so that we can have preaching every four weeks but must abandon one half the charge