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May 9 1900

San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Dr. Jordan:

Your communication
dated May 8th received.

I am willing to in-
crease the income for this year
to Two Hundred and Seven
Thousand Dollars ($207, 000.00)
as requested; but I am
sorry that even with this
increase of income you will

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of its students, but their spirit-
ual nature through the influ-
ence and power of its atmos-
phere may be so developed that
when they lay down this life, and
enter the portals of that life
beyond - which is eternal - they
will have lain up for themselves
such treasures as this world
alone cannot give. The develop-
ment of the soul is by far the
most essential thing in life.