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allowed to be sold should not be allowed to keep open on
Sunday, nor later than about 6 oclock, the general
hour for closing. I am very certain that the present
Board of City Trustees are in full sympathy with any
practicable means of crippling that particular
kind of business, because of its baleful influence es-
pecially upon the youth of our city, or [those[ resting.
I should like some expression on the subject.

I desire here to ask that our expression of sym-
pathy be sent to brother George CLifford, in his serious
and probably fatal illness. I commend him to your
sympathies and prayers.

During the year the United Presbyterians were
granted permission to build a church.

I am persuaded that our relations to the Grove
are such as to make the residents of long stan-
ding feel more certain of the permanence of
the restrictions on the use of lands, and also
our moral & Prudential influence in the
affairs of a public and private nature. It
is no time for us to think our influence is
not a large factor forged in the city.

I believe as time passes and the history of our
work becomes more fully understood it will
effect very favorable all the future. The brightest
days - and as it seems to me, in the future.
The Annual Conference, Chautauqua Annual
gathering. Young men's CHristian Students
Association and numerous other gatherings of a
less noted influence have been held the past year.
So far as I can learn the Conference is likely to
make this its headquarsters for many years to come.