116
Contopowituct.
FROM OUR ROCHESTER CORRESPON-
DENT.
BRANCH OF CHRISTIAN COMMISSION
A convention was held in Rochester
on Tuesday the sth inst., to take into
consideration the subject of forming a
Branch Christian Commission, auxiliary
to the national society of the same name,
whose headquarters are in Philadelphia.
The meeting was not a numerous one,
but 'embraced a few representative men,
delegates from different localities in
Western New York. They convened
in the office of 0. M. Benedict, Esq„ of
our city, and after due deliberation, re
solved that it was expedient to form
such an organization for Western New
York and vicinity ; the object being
to awaken a.deeper interest in all this
region in the aims and operations of
the :national society, and to draw out
additional supplies of money and mate
rial, from this fruitful „part of the coun
try to relieve the wants of our sick and
wounded soldiers.
Rev. Dr. Canfield, of Syracuse; Mr.
Ludlow, of Oswego ; Jno. D. Hill, M. D.
of Buffalo ; Rev. Dr. Claxton, 0. M.
Benedict, Louis Chapin, and 0. D. Gros
ernor, .gsqrs., of Rochester, were promi
nent and efficient in the action 'of the
meeting. Rev. C. P: — Lyford, of Phila
delphia, well represented the parent
institutions and excited much interest
for its work. Some disappointment,
however, was felt in not seeing Mr.
Stuart himself, . the noble President.
Some expectation had been created that
be might be present, and that we might
hear a characteristic speech from his
magic lips. We shall hope to hear him
another time, and we shall keep a warm
welcome in waiting for him whenever
he manifold engagements, from Maine
to Alexia°, will permit him to come.
Surely, if our war were doing nothing
else for 0, it is developing character—.
it . is'bringlng Out men—and has already
brought out some who will not soon be
forgotten by a grateful people.
But to return ts , ) the ligcheeter meet
ing. It was further recommended Oa
the organization for Western New York
aai n siaiaits‘whe,,,ooninosecLof.J.wAlve.
to any vacancies which may occur in
their Mom number by death or resigna
tion, and to increase that number to
fifteen if deemed by them desirable.
The question of locati , z,q i Fo r its hCiad
quarters then came up. Some desired
that Rochester should be the centre of
its operations ; others preferred Buffalo.
The latter is mudh.the larger city; has
100,000 inhabitants and Rochester 50.-
000; has already engaged more zealously
and earnestly in thirii-Zil of the Chris
tian• Commission, haVing had from the
beginning, an earnest and active mem
ber of the national organization, in the
person of Jno. D. Hill, M. D., residing in
that city. It was argued that Buffalo
is better propared than Rochester to
take up the work and do it efficiently,
or rather to go right on, and only en
large in a work which it already haS in
hand. Others said Rochester needs the
organization here in order to stir her
up to do what Buffalo is already doing.
But after mature and harmonious de
liberation it was unanimously decided
that the headqUarters should be at Buf
falo. We cheerfully give the honor, and
" the laboring oar," to our bigger sister;
while we shall try not to feel excused
thereby from doing our part in the great
and good objects contemplated. But
we shall expect our neighbor, the queen
of the Lakes, to set us a very noble ex
ample, and to send down some of her
best men occasionally to hold meetings,
and stir us up to a proper emulation.
The following persons were nominated
as members of this Board—five of whom
shall constitute a quorum.
Dr.. Jno. D. Hill, Pascall B. Pratt, S.
S. Jewett, and Dr. B, F. Whitney, of
Buffalo ; Hon. H. W. Loomis, Oswego ;
Hon. Israel S. Spencer, Syracuse; Dr.
Sylvester Willard, Auburn ; R. B. Clax
ton, D. D., Louis Chapin Esq., 0. D.
Grosvenor, Esq., Rochester; and Juclah
C. Spencer, Erie, Pa.
One or more other names will proba
bly be added to this list, to reprssent
some other of our larger towns, and if
the whole be approved by the Execu
tive Committee of the national society
at Philadelphia; the branch society will
be organized accordingl?, and be pre- •
pared•fbr work. It is a strong commit
tee, well located, and wisely distributed ,
and will do much to call out and con
centrate the benevolence of Western
New York in this line of effort; and our
brave sons and brothers, in camp and
hospital, will feel the benefit of these
generous operations.
ITEMS
The Central Presbyterian Church, of
this city, (Rev. Mr. Ellinwood's,) is to
be closed for a Sabbath or two, while
busy workmen are engaged putting up
a new organ ; and scrubbers and clea
ners are renovating the house generally.
The organ is;Wbe,one of thisib.ost,,built
by Hook, of Boston, is very large, and I
will require a slight alteration of the
gallery, in order to furnish the needed
room for its ample dimensions. It is
expected to fill every nook and crevice
of this large church with very sweet
and devotional harmonies, when the
workmen pronounce it ready for use.
In the meantime, the closing of the
church, gives the pastor a chance for a
little pleasant vacation which he is in
tending to improve by a brief trip, with
his excellent wife, to Washington, and
also to the army of the Potomac, if per
mitted by the authorities to go to the
front. We trust he may be, for he will
find a number of his parishioners there,
glad to see him; and he can carry to
them a tone of cheer and remembrance
from numerous friends at home. The
Central Church has furnished its full
proportion of union soldiers, and is loyal
all over.
It will be taken for granted, of
course, that Mr. Ellinwood's people,' or
some of them at least, furnish the faith
ful pastor with the necessary funds for
this pleasant trip. It is just like them.
Indeed, we believe it was first suggested
by them; and they kindly insisted that
Mrs. Ellinwood should be included in
the plan. All this, after aiding con
siderably in building a • good house for
their pastor in the past year, and various
other acts of unremitting kindness,
show a very good state of feeling. And
in this connection we are happy to add
that Mr. Ellinwood seems entirely to
have regained his health, which suffered
so much in the early winter.
The Brick Church, (Dr. Shaw's,) after
having succeeded so admirably in rais
ing a subscription of $20,000 to pay off
their entire debt, felt just in the mood
to add $5OO &year to the minister's salary,
and the Trustees voted it accordingly ;
but the good man declines the proffered
addition ; feeling, perhaps, that his peo
ple are already taxing themselves heav
il.---
iy in paying -le debt, and he would not
add even this sum to their burden ; or
else he feels a delicacy in receiving this
addition just now, lest some should say
that he had urged the payment of the
bringin order to about an increase
fully made by a grateful - people, and
that it would give them real pleasure
to have Illeirl ll 9,*(t7W.ertlig tind beloved
'Pastor receive and enjoy the benefit.
And
. weknow they willstill do the hand
some thing.
ELMIRA
We judge from some movements re
cently made in Elmira, that the burnt
edifice of the First Presbyterian Church
is to be rebuilt by general subscription,
the whole community to share in re
storing that which was lost to the so
ciety by the loan of their building to
public charity. A meeting has been
held for this purpose, addressed by lion.
D. S. Dickinson and others, and a sub-
scription started, including some gener
ous pledges to begin with. We notice
that Rev. T. K. Beecher, pastor of the
Congregational Church, offers SIOOH.
S. Gilbert $3OO—D. K. Pratt $lOO, &c.,
&c. It is, perhaps, but just; and yet it
is a noble sympathy with this church
in its calamity.)
Wm. Wisner, D.1.D. ; :of !Ithica, now
eighty-three, or eighty-four years of age,
has been spending a few days in this
city; and gave an interesting lecture on
Wednesday evening, in the Lecture
Room of the Brick Church. It was full
of reminiscences of the good providence ;
of God toward that Society, of which he
was the pastor from 1831 to 1835. The
old gentleman is feeble, and yet active
for a man past his four-score years. He
is venerated and beloved by those who
remain of his former charge ; but many
of his best parishioners of that early
day are in the courts above, where he
will doubtless soon see them, and be
cordially welcomed by them.
The revival in Leroy, is still progress-.
ing with unwonted power. Rev. C. C.
Kimball, of New Hartford, has preach
ed there for two weeks with great ac
ceptance, and many have been brought
to Christ in that time.
We hear also of some quickening. and
some conversions in the Second Presby
terian Church of Geneseo, (Rev. Mr.
Folsom's ;) and of a revival in progress
in Ithaca, in Dr. Torrey's church. We
hope to hear of still greater things from
both of these places. GENESEE.
ROCHESTER, April, 9, 1864.
THE PENNSYLVANIA BIBLE SOCIETY
has appointed Rev. W. W. Eells Secreta
ry of the western district of Pennsyl
vania. Mr. Eels has entered on the
duties of his office. His address is
Pittsburg, Pa.
MESSRS. WOOD & CARY'S announcement
—one of great interest to the ladies—
will be found in another column. The r
stock is large, their experience is exten;
sive, and their character as business .
men first class.
• 1 • IDi • •
• - 111; I APRIL 14, 1864.
FROM OUR LONDON OORRESPONDENT,
The great calamity at Sheffield is in
every one's month. We read of thou
sands slaughtered on either side on the
American battle-fields, and hundreds
lost 4n some Danish fight, with little
feeling—it is what we expect in war, it
is what the sufferers expect; it is the
fortune of their dangerous profession;
but to read of a hundred men choked in
a colliery, who went forth from homes
with promises to return, of thousands of
unhappy creatures in the high ecstacy
of a religious fete consumed in a short
hour or two, beyond all recognition or
of a vast flood let loose upon a peaceful
valley, where pleasure and toil were
alike reposing in fancied security—the
water pouring down in a resistless body,
and sweeping away at once the life and
beauty of the scene, chills us with horror.
It is unexpected, it is near, it is the
march of death past our doors—nay,
through our houses.
I shall endeavor to give you an idea
of the locale of this catastrophe ; the
most terrible of the kind with which
England has been visited. From the
populous town of Sheffield up to the
Stonington hills, there runs a deep
valley, with fields and farm-houses and
mills—the latter taking their supply
from tliesstream of Loxley that ran. at
the bottom of the vale. Going up from
Sheffield, the valley ascends to a point
where it becomes a deep gorge, placed
between two hills of considerable height,
and somewhat the shape of the letter A.
At the apex of the gorge and down
from the adjacent hills there poured into
the little river a number of small
streams; and this fact, ,together with
the happy situation of the place for en
gineering purposes, led men to select it
for the construction of a great reservoir.
Hence, it was thought, should Sheffield
draw a. daily life—the pure, invigorating,
cleansing water. Nothing was easier . ,
apparently, than to confine a vast sup
ply in this natural cavity. Accordingly,
across the lower and wider portion of
the gorge an embankment was thrown
—forty feet in width, ninety feet high,
and three hundred yards long. This
inipacume,barxiAt--wm;-WitptittilliflrilX4 .
000 gallons of water. Engineer no
say that it was utterly infigleOuate for
the purpose. I tho base, which ought to
have been of solid masonry to a depth
of fifty feet, was only " puddled ;" and on
it there was a pressure of two and a.
half tons per square foot. Well, the.
works had not been quite completed;'
but the reservoir was full, and there any
one, walking along its banks last Satur
day, would have looked:on a fair lake
of seventy-six acres, on; whose broad
surface a fleet might have floated;
There was, however, through the melt
ing of the snow on the hills, and the
strong blasts of wind down the gorge,
an immense pressure on the embank
ment, and a young farmer, who passed
a little before night came on, noticed a
crack in, the middle of it. To many, the
alarm was given, and numbers had the
felicity to escape. The Superintendent,
who had left the works, having anxious
ly watched all day the effect of the
enormous force that was pressing the
great wall, was recalled before he could
reach his home by a workman who, in
crossing the top, found a gaping crack
across which he had to step. Back
went the engineer. Men were set to
work to let off the water. But the
exits were small and insufficient : by 12
o'clock the aperature had widened fear
fully. They tried to blow up the weir
but the powder failed; and presently, at
once, with a great, sullen crash, one
hundred and forty feet of stone and
earth, propelled by several hundred mil
lion gallons of water, went down upon
the still, dark, sleeping valley. Can
you picture it? How that gigantic
body, forty or fifty feet high at• first,
bearing along with it stones and trees
and houses and bridges; went roaring
and hurtling between the green glades
of the, peaceful vale, crashing down all
opposition, drowning out all life, lifting
up vast machinery and casting it by as
if in play; whirling up the sturdy old
farm-houses, with all the inmates, and
flinging them battered and scattered be
side its path; until its way was less
confined, and spreading itself it inunda
ted whole suburbs, insatiably demanding
life, life wherever it went ! So it was.
Men say that they knew that pretty
valley well, but cannot recognize it now;
Razed perfectly- smooth, scarcely a tree
or wall stands where - villages securely
stood for centuries. The river bed has
changed its course, and when some of
those who lived there, but were saved,
returned to seek the spot which once
was home they find that the great flood
has blotted out the landmarks, and the
bewildered memory of affection vainly
strives to recover the signs. Two hun
dred and sixty or seventy bodies have
been found, and they say there, are a
hundred more somewhere. At'one place a'
whole wood was carried off; atianother
LONDON, March 19th, 1864
rows of houses; at another a farmhouse
well known to all in that valley—Mr.
Trick.ett's—with the whole family of
fourteen. Between Malin Bridge and
Owlerton 300 or 400 houses were swept
away. The lower part of Sheffield was
overflowed, and some bridges were de
stroyed; but here the water spread and
the loss was not so great as above.
More than half a million of property has
been irreparably lost.
The benevolence of England is awake
again, and the poor sufferers will be
taken care of. But what can compen
sate the fearful losses that friendship
and affection suffered in that short hour?
I suppose that the promoter of this
undertaking will be called upon to
reckon for this awful blunder. It will
be hard to bring it home to any one,
and distributed criminality is individual
innocence. So far as mercenary penal
ties can be inflicted, no doubt they will
be, and the company that has caused
the calamity will be ruined. God's
Providence is also heard speaking in
this matter; and in the voice of that
midnight deluge we hear the warning
that we need so much, to beware lest in
our pride we set up ourselves and forget
1 1 God.
To turn to other matters. Great in
dignation is felt and expressed by the
religious liberals at their failure to get
Jewett's stipend increased. The Times,
always in the favor of mean and mer
cenary interests, has of course been
filled with protests; but as yet the re
ligious-conservative party is the strong
est. How long it will be so, however,
I cannot say. I look with anxious ap
.
prehension to the rising power of loose
and infidel principles. Nothing but a
firm persuasion that God will preserve
his own cause - sustains one's hopes in
such a time. The worst of it is that
many of our own faithful orthodox men
.are not resisting unto blood—they are,
I fear, drifting.
The second reading of an act to
abd!ish religious tests for degrees in the
University Of Qxford was allowed in
the Commons on *e_lneSday. Though
a few " old fogies" who must be ob
structive on principle, attempt to raise
the cry of latitudinarianism and danger
ms
I think that th© bill,
end right. There is no such test in
Qanabridge—and after all ? why should
there be a teligtotig test iii i national
university. Religion which teaches and
fosters freedom of opinion must practice
it.
.The meeting convened by the Synod
Committee in aid of the Church Exten
sion Fund of the English Presbyterian
Church was held on Tuesday, in St.
James' Hall. A large number of people
was present. Earl Dalhousie took the
chair. He urged that the opportunity
of Presbyterianism had come. He said
that with us, at all events, people would
find them a denomination in which the
infallibility of scripture would not be .
allowed to be impeached, and he stated
that there were signs that those who
could not find anything reliable within
the Church itself,were disposed to attach
themselves to our Communion. Dr.
Hamilton and othersafterwards spoke,
and a large number of contributions
was announced, amounting to £6,600
($33,000.) These meetings are produ
cing their proper effect in a feeling of
stability and prosperity—an effect which
cannot but be miliary. Success pro
vokes success.
It has struck me that it would be well
could English and American Presbyte
rians be brought into closer and con
stant intercourse. Might not the As
semblies send deputies annually to our
Synod and to the Scotch Assemblies,
and vice versa? I think if you were
disposed to do it in America it would
not be unwillingly received here.
PRESBYTERIAN UNION-11.
Tacitus indeed assures us, that malignity
has a false show of liberty . : Malignitati falsa
'species libertatis inest ; that history is listened
to with more favor, when she slanders and
disparages : Obtiectatio et tivor - pronis auribus
accipiuntur. But what historian could en
tertain the culpable ambition of pleasing at
the expense of truth ?—D'Aubigne.
In the memorable schism of our histo
rically one denomination, there are
comparatively few of us remaining who
personally recollect it, with those events
that preceded and induced it. This
exists only where persons and agents
too are recollected, and where are names
and facts that might be quoted—rarely
with advantage either to quesions, or to
godly edifying, which is in faith. Know
ledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 1 Tim.
1: 4. 1 Cor. 8: 1.
When first united to the church of
my devout preference, I was surprised
and grieved, as a hicnovus in aule, to see
what parties, what disputatious and
what alienating theological differences
existed; leading too to acts and partisan
plans not at all honerable to our pro
fession. If I took sides and parts, it
was ever with regret, and often by
seeming necessity alone. I have nierno
ries, notes, journals, documents, prints,
manuscripts, in plenty; to which, how
ever, it is not my purpose to resort on
this occasion, or mainly on any other,
unless under constraints, that I am
happy neither to feel nor anticipate at
present.
I may just add that it is probable,
whenever the discussion comes into fair
earnest, there will appear great disparity
between the comparatively few older,
who lived and witnessed the past, one
half or one-third of a century ago, say
about the time our excellent brother
Barnes became ecclesiastically a topic
of interest, with angry pros and cons;
and the comparatively many younger,
who will meet new issues, with new
phases and feelings, as it were, impro
vised for the scenes and movements
then before them.
The Presbytery of New York, the
Synod of New York and New Jersey,
in connection with the politico-ecclesi
astical differences of opinion, touching
the then new theological seminary at
Princeton ; and above all, the settlement
of one, two and three pastors in New
York, impeached of " Hopkinsian" pro
clivities ; and hence, after the induction
of the younger Whelpley, in Wall street,
as successor to Dr. Miller, of Princeton;
all these, more and more exagitated and
morose, by causes and consequences less
and less silently working, were soon
arrested and intensified by the publica
tion of the elder Whelpley, then in the
city of New York, called "The Triangle,"
issued at intervals, in octavo numbers,
pamphleted, austere, humorous, sarcas
tic; not without caricature, profiles,
personalities; withal, evincing a high
order of talent, read by everybody, and
producing results of no ordinary charac
ter and power.
But—l arrest my pen ! The war
was begun and progressive. Other ele
ments obtained sway. Almost every
candidate of force or character had to
run the gauntlet of severe and often
dreaded probation, before Presbytery,
in order to enter the ministry. In
October, 1814, I saw four promising
ones licensed, at Elizabeth, N. J.: Henry
Nips, A. M., now the honored and the
learned Professor Emeritus, Rev. Pr.
Mills, of Auburn; Rev. John Ford, A.
Philip Melancthon he pley, A. M.,
who was, as above, soon settled in Wall
street, New York, where, after a minis
try of eloquent power and easy rela
tions for ten years, he died beloved and
regretted by many, with the dew of his
youth yet. upon him.
They were a noted 'and esteemed
triumvirate;. my Own personal friends.
In the excellent old Presbytery of
Jersey, with such worthies in it as Rev.
Drs. Richards,Fisher, Hillyer,McDo well,
Ogden, Armstrong, and other Presby
ters of note and influence, there was
more of real dignity, less of partisan
jealousy, envy, sparring, than in those
of New York and Philadelphia—as I
have some special right to remember;
first a candidate in the last; then by
transfer licensed by the second; after
ward ordained by the first, and settled
as the successor of Rev. Dr. Armstrong,
at Mendhain, N. J. Old Dr. Milledoler,
of New York, pastor of Rutgers Street
Church, left us for the Dutch, saying
that he would not be co-presbyter, wil
lingly, with any one of "Hopkinsian"
sentiments; this was as early, I think,
as 1810-11.
My own conviction, coram Domino, is
that both sides were to blame, for ultra
ism, partisan action, want of forbear
ance mutual; for talking much of ortho
doxy and all the cracked shells of
theological difference, as if the kernels
of love, peace, brotherly kindneas, recip
rocal liberty, constitutional purity, and
such like, had just about nothing, to do
with duty, wisdom, and especially with
Presbyterian orthodoxy !
ADELPHOS
If suoil- things are to be repeated, as
the result of reunion, I am sure wE are
NOT YET ready for it! 0 ! the scenes
and the sins of such times ! Many were
almost led, with the old seer of Lamenta
tions, 3 :.18-20, to exclaim—My strength
and my hope is perished from THE LORD:
remembering mine affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the gall ! My soul bath,
them still in remembrance,'and is humbled
in me ! The Lord in mercy counsel
and keep us ! SAMUEL HANSON COX.
NEW YORK, March 31, 1864.
PRAYER PROPOSED IN THE SELEC-
BROTHER MEAus.—Permit me to sug,
gest for the consideration of the many
ecclesiastical bodies in our country
which will soon hold their annual meet
ings, the propriety of recommending to
all the citizens of the Republic—esL
pecially to Christians-4o unite in obser
ving a day of earnest prayer to God,
that his favor and' direction may be
granted us as a nation, in the selection
and nomination of a candidate for.ereCti en
at the coming presidential canvas.
The propriety of this seems obvious,
It is doubtless true that godd men
throughout the republic daily- pray "for
TION OF RULERS.
all that are in authority over "us : this
is well. If our government were a he
reditary monarchy, its offices being filled
by a hereditary succession, perhaps our
duty of prayer for "rulers" would end
here. But we select rulers. Hence we
need divine guidance in our selection.
Let us humbly and earnestly ask it.
In legal form, our rulers are chosen
at the ballot-bog; but really, this is
done at the primary conventions for
nominating candidates ; or even earlier.
The people need, and therefore should
pray for the divine guidance in the in
cipient work of looking out and nominating
candidates.
Such prayer, it may be hoped, would
have a tendency to wake good men
throughout the republic to opportune
and timely action, in putting forward
worthy candidates, and such only, for
office. This vital point has been too
much neglected. Party demagogues,
selfish aspirants, have assumed the con
trol just here, and,y to a great extent,
been permitted to exercise it. A refor
mation is needed; and prayer to God
would doubtless greatly facilitate this
reformation.
In our form of government, the people
and the magistracy are in the closest
relation. We make our own rulers; we
make our own laws ; our rulers are ex
ecutives by our own delegation. Bring,
then, the people to God in prayer, there
in his presence to select their candidates
for office, and then, pursuing a course
consistent with our prayers, is there not
rational ground for our confidence that
the divine favor would give us happy
realization of Oded's utterance, "The
Lord is with you while ye be with him?
2 Chron. xv. 2.
Should a day be appointed it should
be early. H. E.
DEATH OF ELDER J. T. ABM
At a meeting of the session of the lst
Presbyterian Church in Delaware City,
Del.,held. in the evening of March 25th
1864, the following preamble and reso
lutions were adopted:
Whereas, Our dear brother and asso
ciate in the Eldership, Jesse T. Ash,
with whom we " have taken sweet
counsel, and walked to the house of God
in company," on the evening of Saturday
the sth inst., and in the midst of a gra
ciao outpouring of the Spirit of God.
411)cin- the chute , .he so much loved,
sweetly "fell asleep in Jesus," exchang,
ing the cares and duties of the church
militant for the praises of the Churck
triumphant in Heaven
Resolved, That - Are d es i re to magn ify
the rich race of Almighty God, as
111 / 1 7.:Lrested in his Christian walk and
conversation, gratefully acknowledging
our obligations to the great Head of the
Church, for granting to us so long the
benefits of his prayers and counsels and
earnest labors for the cause of Christ
here.
Resolved, That while we mourn the
loss of a dear and valued friend, and in
our relations to the church of Christ, a
brother whose absorbing interest in the
prosperity of the Redeemer's cause never
flagged, and whose consistent Christian
life always recommended the religion
which he professed, we would learn the
lesson which this providence would
teach us, and each one of us hear the
admonition, "What thou doest do quick
ly." "Be ye also ready."
Resolved, That we tender our earnest
Christian sympathy to the bereaved
family of our departed brother; beseech
ing the God of the widow and Father
of the fatherless to more than make up
in the rich blessings of his grace, what
seems to them an irreparable loss.
Resolved, That the moderator of the
Session be requested to furnish a copy
of these resolutions to the widow of our
deceased brother, and cause the same to
be published in the American Presbyte
rian and such other papers as he may
see fit.
J.H. GAYLORD, Moderator
THE GOOD WORK IN NORTHERN . NEW
YORK.
A brother writes from Brasher Falls,
N. Y.: " The interest which your corres
pondent noticed at Stockholm has ex
tended to Skinnerville, and adjoining
neighborhood, and some twenty-five or
more are anxiously inquiring what they
must do to be saved. It may be en
couraging to other small churches, to
know that these two small churches at
Brasher Falls and. Scockholm, neither of
which thought they could support a
pastor, have given during the year I
have been with them, more than the
amount of my salary to .benevolent
causes. And no one has given so far as
to feel it; nor do they know how much
they have done or can do."
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