Dear Madam: –
Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. asking for a Letter of Dismission and Recommendation, was presented to the Church Committee last evening. I was instructed to write to you and suggest that according to Congregational polity we cannot dismiss a member and recommend to any other than a recognized Evangelical As Written: Evangenical Church. We give Letters to Methodist, Baptist Presbyterian & Episcopalian. The "Church of Christ (Scientist)" of which you write we know nothing about. We are not able to recognize in it a regularly organized Evangelical Church. We desire to do just right towards you and the Church, and, hence withhold As Written: withold action, giving you opportunity to write us more definitelyAs Written: difinitely , or meet us next Friday night after prayer-meeting, when we shall be pleased to receive any information which you may wish to give. Should you conclude to meet the Committee – trains leave Station in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts at 7 and 7..20, and return leaving Malden at 9..28