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[[preprinted]] ELEVATION, 4,000 FEET [[image - drawing of a wreath containing the initials MLH]] T.G. PORTERFIELD MANAGER Lake Hotel Corporation OPERATING Mountain Lake Hotel (GILES COUNTY) COOLEST PLACE IN THE SOUTH TELEGRAPH AND POST OFFICE IN HOTEL ADAMS AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS OFFICES N. & W. AND VIRGINIAN STATIONS PEMBROKE, VA. LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS Mountain Lake, Va., [[blank line]] [[/preprinted]] material you have made accessible. Now it is my belief no translation or paraphrase of a religious document can reach our emotions unless cast in Biblical or if you please Elizabethan simplicity. I am therefore attempting to make a paraphrase on the basis of your free translations checking them off by a very careful study of the literal translation you have given us. If you would care to look over my efforts at a Biblical rendering & note any phrases you think overstrain the spiritual import or impute too much refinement or mystic devotion to our aboriginal prophets. I should be very grateful indeed I do not want to misrepresent the Indian, but I want to give him the benefit of a language association.