The GOSPEL TRUTH
LETTER OF

CHARLES G. FINNEY

1855

To Gerrit Smith

6 January 1855

 

[MS in Gerrit Smith Papers, Syracuse University Library]

 

Westernville 6, Jan 1855.

My Dr. Br. Smith,

I recd your kind note

by Br Copeland & had time

only to send a verbal reply by

him. I should have written

before but for the fact that

[ ]ising

[ ]? that

[ ]? when

[ ]is field.

Last Mail, I recd a note

from Br. Copeland urging

my decision. I can not at

present say any further

than when he was here.

The state of things has been

about as bad as possible,

but is changing fast for

the better. I must not leave

here at present. Please say

 

 

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this to Br. C. & to the brethren.

Br. Smith can you not come

over & spend a we[e]k with us.

Whether it will be my duty

to go. to your place this winter

I can not say. The work is

dispersing & spreading here.

Mrs. F. is with me. & unites

in love to you & Mrs Smith.

[Signature has been removed]

Footnote:

A section of the letter following this, containing Finney's signature on the reverse, has been cut out.