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presented me the instructions which he had received from you. I saw from them that he was not to disturb churches unless they chose to go to him and suppose of course he wont let this church alone. But in the stead of that, he went to work among them privately and soon had them all in formation I could in relation to the colored churches in the county, and offered all the assistance I could, and let him preach to my church here whenever he could, and then in my absence got them together, secretly so far as we were concerned and persuaded to join him, and neither he nor they have informed me of the fact. I have had nothing to do with it, and will not of course disturb them in any way. You say it was stipulated that all our colored members were to join you. I have seen no such stipulation, and I presume none was made. If they had the gen [[?]] would not have made the arrangements they have, and though they seem to look to your church [[strike-out]] as [[/strike-out]] in the future as the colored branch of the M.E. Church, South, that time has not come yet. When P. [[?]] and others send for you it is all right it is for you to go, but it is not right