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I trust it will not be without fruit.

Our Commission as such is virtually closed dead in one sense & yet in God's good providence the rational prospect is that its death will be the direct occasion of the life - real vigorous life of the whole N. S. Presbyn. body on this subject.  I should be glad to have you write to "Rev. Edwin T. Hatfield  D.D. Presbyn. Rooms, 150 Nassau St. N.Y." on the subject - He is the temporary Sec. of the New Com just getting under way. For a month past I have