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2 to beat their swords into plow share's, Their spears, into pruning hooks is my earnest prayer, and I know of no one who
is leading them towards that point any more successfully than you. No, no, I not given to illegible praise.- rather, the
opposite, for I find myself complaining when praise would do more good. Here I'm, wintering at the Old Home , for 30 odd
years, of my only brother, (now deceased) 35 miles illegible city of Savannah He came from Maine our birth place to Ga. in
1847- living in this state until Aug. 1898 - over 50 yrs. So you see I'm in the Piney Woods - not so far from the early Home
of our illegible . Friend Le Conte, 3 2 You may be surprised at style of my paper,- but it indicates one line of some
of my missionary work.- as I think Alcohol, man's greatest enemy. For 16 yrs. I've secured names to illegible pledge - and
using it as a heading to my letters, simply raises, the question, and sets people. thinking. Give my high regards to the
members of your family telling them I cannot forget their delicate and kind attention to me last summer- Sincerely W. W.
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