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me a little too quick in asking, and too cautious of the little health that is left me. 10 weeks in my sick room at St. Helena makes me dread another such experience.

There is still another side on which I beg to express an opinion. This man says they have promised if they get the money; (which he thinks is sure) to put up a school house that will accomodate a hundred on their ground. It seems to me with all their efforts (& I know they asked 3 times each Sunday) they could not raise enough to finish their church, it will be a long long long time, before they can be able to put up a school building — and — if it goes on Methodist ground it will be sectarian. Do not think I would imply a single thought against this or any other denomination. I am a Friend & hope a Christian — want to see all churches prosper that increase the Christian Faith, that will lead the minds and hearts and lives of the people to a "closer walk with God" —; Yet I see plainly how these ignorant people — (like some wiser ones)

S. 175. O.O.H. Vol. 1. '69.

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