LETTER OF
The GOSPEL TRUTH CHARLES G. FINNEY
1869
To George Whipple
Secretary of the American Missionary Association
14 June 1869
[MS in the American Association Archives # 114971, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University]
Oberlin 14th June 1869.
My Dr. Br. Whipple.
I expected to see you on your
return from the North West.
I do not see any notice of my
book on Masonry in The Independent.
Tilton promised me that he would
notice it. Neither has the Advance
noticed it. Nor, so far as I know,
any of the leading journals.
The fact is, masonry is fast muzzli
ng the press. If editors fear to notice
the book, men of influence
must notice the work, & call
publick attention to it, &
inform the people where it
can be had. If you think
as you did when I last saw
you, will you not write a
notice of it for the Advance,
Independent, Congregationalist,
Tribune, & The nation. Or, I will
send a copy of it by the mail
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to Lewis Tappan, & you & he
can arrange to get notices
into the leading journals.
The smoke in regard to giving up
our theological department is has
been driven away.
With Love to yourself & all
your family. I am as
always Your Br. in the Lord.
C. G. Finney.
Footnote:
As in the original.