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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]]
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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.