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You say in your "By all means live near to God." This I have been endeavoring more faithfully to for the last few months than ever before, & have been devoting myself with more than usual energy to my work. And God I believe has condecended? [strike-throughs] to unsure & bless, in a measure at least, my feeble efforts. We have had a hard siege here in Albany for more than six weeks we have been laboring night and day & though we have not realized all we desired, yet we have reason to bless God that all in the church except two or three have been Converted and some twelve outside have given good evidence of conversion & 14 have been added to the church & Methodism is looking up in Albany. Since writing the above Bro Ford? has come in, & I have asked him to make a statement of the facts in regard my transaction written him & Bro Payne which he has cheerfully done. Perhaps it may be a satisfaction to you to know from them how the matter is between us and perhaps it may be a unsure to me for you to be in possession of it so I enclose it to you, I hope this will set all things right so far as that transaction. Other things will turn out in like manner when investigated. I have coveted no man's silver or gold; & though I [strike-through] may not have acted as wisely as other men in some things, yet I have done all in good faith. So far as taking a dollar from any one wrongfully. unclear if I have wronged anyone I shall be ready to restore him four fold as soon as in my power so do. In the mean time I shall with the Counsel of my bretheren & the help of the Lord do the best & all I can to get free again. I count? no higher honor on earth, than to be a useful itinerant minister of the Gospel. I have an unwavering confidence in God that all will yet work and for my good. and while enduring the chastisement I will endeavor mostly to kiss the rod, & as " thy will O Father be done" & not mine, if it is his will to make me perfect through