Your favor of the 2nd instEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. came in good time. many thanks for your confidences. I should have written sooner but my wife was away on a visit among some of the Mission friends in BuffaloEditorial Note: Buffalo, New York and I desired to have a good talk with her. Now on the matter of Business, I can simply say this that I can see a great disappointment before me if I do not have the privalege Corrected: privilege of your Class - and a terrible amount of persecution and trial if I do. My wife says she cannot advise me in this matter, that I and my God must settle it. You see her positonion is this. My people think she has a g [?] Unclear or illegible reat influence over me and if I do things they disapprove she is blamed for it. I suppose I am a dreamer but all my dreams tend God wardCorrected:Godward and my desire is to gain a healing power for use in his work and for his Glory. I was called a crank an enthuseast Corrected: enthusiast etc- last year because I worked among the vilest, but I feel repaid some whatCorrected:somewhat for yesterday I received a letter from one who is to dayCorrected:today a christianCorrected:Christian humbly serving God who was then only a common prostitute. and I cannot but feel it has been of God. If I go my wife has to suffer in my absence and it is hard to feel my desires to attain to a higher life are indirectly the very causes of so much pain to her- We are one in our love and I have her sympathy. again as I told you before I have only a little money. It would cost me nearly $25.00Editorial Note: $25.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $632.82 in 2019. to go and return another $25.00Editorial Note: $25.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $632.82 in 2019. for support while there with incidentals (or nearly that amount.) some to leave to provide for the Home. and I should not be able to give you over $25.00Editorial Note: $25.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $632.82 in 2019. – now that is only a drop in the bucket and I should feel ashamed to offer it only from this fact. It is the widows miteMark 12:41 ¶And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. Mark 12:42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. Mark 12:43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: Mark 12:44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living. Luke 21:1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. Luke 21:2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. Luke 21:3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: Luke 21:4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. It is all I have. I feel that the power you possess is above all price - Nor do I wish to have you feel I am wishing to buy the Gift of GodActs 8:14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: Acts 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: Acts 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Acts 8:17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. Acts 8:18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, Acts 8:19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. Acts 8:20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. Acts 8:21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Acts 8:23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. Acts 8:24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me. but from a human stand pointCorrected:standpoint I should like to do as others do. (as far as it is right I mean). Now you have it all I guess - When I should be able to pay you the ballance Corrected: balance of the $300Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $7,593.79 in 2019., I could not say. If successful in practice I might soon but if I work among the ones most in need of help the poor and destitute, they could no more pay me than the 10 Lepers could our MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ and judging from the past I should be treated about the same way. 9 would be missing I have some more work engaged to be done but the hot weather has brought out a lot of gnats and sand fliesCorrected:sandflies and I shall have to lay by I suppose a few weeks. If you feel it best to receive me - answer at once and I will try to be on board on the 14th. If so Please send directions as I shall be a stranger in your cityEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. It may not be right for me to go on in the face of so much opposition I shall not hesitate if I can once see that it is of God- no way is hard then but it is hard to decide sometimes as to what my duty is

I shall look anxiously for a reply – and shall try and judge by that time as to what his will is for me to do –