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approved of my course and encouraged me to join in the good work in which they said, I had been so faithful. I felt [[strikethrough]] sustained [[/strikethrough]] stimulated from such words of kindness from Christian citizens!! One of these citizens so highly spoken of is Judge Thornton, a most excellent and kind hearted man.

Capt F.O. Steinberg Asst Supt. Freedmen at Greenville reports: I find that the rector of the Episcopal Church in this place (Rev Jas T. Jarrett) & a number of highly respectable ladies and gentlemen of his congregation have now in vigorous operation a Sunday School with between eighty and one hundred scholars and constantly increasing. They have secured the confidence & respect of the negroes in the town and neighborhood. They have distributed a number of primers and other books from the Sunday School Library among them. The negroes show their appreciation of these efforts in their behalf by flocking in number to the Sunday School and by many demonstrations of esteem and respect for their benefactors.