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Hickory hill 7th Jan. 1872. My very Dear Son John. Much I pray for you though seldom have I written to you. yet no less
do I love you then were I writing you oftener, and I think my love for you the rest of my family is growing, especially for
your Souls Safety, and eternal Safe Keeping may my good Lord Keep you Safe as in his heart for ever is my prayer to Him. Your
Mother Father Sisters Anne Joanna are all living by faith or trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for both life living, as exemplified
by the Apostles etc George Muller of Bristol England, Dr Charles Cullis Boston etc who is at the head of a consumptives' home
at Boston. I have sent you inclosed a little tract wrote by him I am in correspondence both with him G. Muller of Bristol.
I have got Tracts, Books from both of these Institutions. I get about 20 Annual reports from each of these Institutions and
have circulated them all around amongst the churches others I have sent to Boston for more, am about sending to Bristol for
more, we are very much interested with their Doctrine manner of living. It is so Bible like.