I am in receipt of your letter inclosing Mrs. Stetson's.

I will write to the different churches at New York today to disregard my adviceEditorial Note: See 006BP2.05.007 in respect to a a committee, and follow their own sense in this matter unless I should have something to send them later.

If Mrs. Stetson hasd any special instructions from Mother in respect to N.Y.Expanded:New York she should have written me so instead of writing to Mother, and thus given me the opportunity to withdraw.

I named Mr. Norton because I had the impression that all the churches in N.Y.Expanded:New York would endorse him, and that my naming him would be a help. Had I known the situation, I would not have done this, and have not done so in any other city. Have merely written to them that it was the purpose of the by-law to have only one committee in a city.

As the by-law now reads, I understand that there is to be but one committee in a state; and that perhaps the intention is that the largest church in the state should elect this committee.

I shall let this question rest for a a few days, so long as we are so busy with tthe matter of greater importance here; and if meanwhile things are not straighteneed out, I will write you again.

The bad condition of the N.Y.Expanded:New York press made me anxious to have someone at work on it at once.

I fear that Mother will have to name the church which shall elect the committe,e, or name the committee itself, before they finally act.

Mrs. Stetson says they are not looking for a "bombardment from the press." This is well, yet the fact remains that they already have the bombardment on hand, and should be at work to meet it.

I mentioned to them that I thought the committe Corrected: committee should be well paid in order to suggest a way whereby they could feel justified in asking some oneCorrected:someone of the best workers to do this work. I know from my own experience that this work will not be so well done by one who all the time feels pressed to earn his living in some other wayline. The publication committee should be in position to give it much time abnd attention.

I have written Mrs. Stetson, asking her to withdraw her letter, sent to Mother, and let us work it out without troubling Mother.

I have only this one desire and that is that the work be done. Of course it should be done by the right one.