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THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY, having the everlasting Gospel to preach to all of every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people in North America, solicits your hearty co-operation, your liberal contributions, and your effectual and fervent prayers.

Contributions may be forwarded to Rev. J.S. BACKUS, 132 Nassau Street, New York, for the support of our Missionaries, or for the Freedmen's Fund, to support teachers South, or for the church Edifice Fund, to aid in building meeting-houses. Any Baptist Church that pays Ten Dollars can be represented by a delegate at the annual meeting. Thirty Dollars will constitute you or your friend a Life Member, and One Hundred Dollars a Life Director. Give as you love your country. Give as you love Christ. Give as Christ gave for you. Give while you live; and before you die say in your Will: "I give and bequeath to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, formed in the City of New York in eighteen hundred and thirty two, the sum of [[blank]] dollars, for the purposes of the Society." For all of which we will give you the credit and give to God the glory.

New York, Nov 21 1865
ROOM 7, No. 132 NASSAU STREET.

Col. O. Brown
Assist Com.

Dear Sir
Your favor of the 18th is before me = I have confidence in Rev Wm L Walker as a Christian man but that he is adapted to the work you propose or would succeed in it to any great extent were he to undertake is to me very doubtful. He might and he might not

I should be more hopeful of his success were he to come North at your request and appeal to communities to help the suffering saying nothing of denominational churches or of one more than another He would make a good appeal but whether having shaken the gree he would have a facility to gather and forward the fruit is to me doubtful perhaps he would but I should only be donfident of it when I had seen him do it
Fraternally
J.S. Backus