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San Lorenzo Dec 17, 1892 Dear Mr Muir: I am just starting for a Sunday preaching exchange, but I must pause long enough
to thank you for your very kind letter it s most acceptable inclosure. Mrs. Perkins thanks you heartily for the photographs
the beauty of which she does see, says that it shall find a place among her treasures. I am glad if your visit to us gave
you pleasure It certainly left a very pleasant flavor? in our mouths. No one of those who had the privilege of listening to
you the other evening will be likely to forget your words, to some it will prove I trust the waking up to a new life of fellowship
with God through His works. For myself it added greatly to the debt already large which I owed to you for suggestions inspirations.
I have stored away many? illustrations of spiritual truth which your revelations expressions gave to me. It was preaching
to some purpose. And my