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Phillipsburg Kansas Dec 13th 1901

Mrs Jane L Stanford

San Francisco Cal

My dear Madam

I am an humble minister of the gospel of the Blessed Christ. I know I am called of God to this work & in the [ten?] years of His ministry He has wonderfully blest my work in the conversion of souls but I am poor & now for these years my wife has been very very delicate & last summer had to go to Hospital & be operated upon & as a result of all this sickness & expense what little means I had has been used up & owing to wife's delicate condition I have been compelled to give up my pastorate at Junction City Kas and move here to the farm & take the pastorate of two little country churches that together can only pay a salary of $300 per annum & our family of six children & ourselves can't possibly live upon it. We have bought a little farm of 80 acres & many acres