Minneapolis, Minn.
April 2, 1878
Dear John,
Yours of March 30th I received this evening on my
return from Stillwater and of course I was not here to answer it last
evening. I am sorry that you should think
that the tone of my letter and Frances’s letter was unchristian-like for I know
that such things are far from my thoughts, and I know too that it is the case
with Frances, and I know that we have been trying to bring ours and other children
that comes within our reach to live and only live but practice Christian
lives. And if we have made a failure in
this, well all I can do, in fact all of us can do, is to take it to the Lord in
prayer. And when he tells me I am wrong,
why there is no person in the world that is more willing to acknowledge it and
confess it, and we’ll try to do the will of my Father and on my own, and if
this offends you, as I said before, I am sorry.
So I will not undertake to say what I should until some future time. But I do ask you to send for Annie and when
she goes to visit anyone again, and to work, I hope the lesson of the past will
be of profit to her. And if I was going
to give her advice, I would certainly do it in a Christian like spirit and
sympathy.
I shall start for home tomorrow and if you should feel like
writing to me and ask any questions about it, I will very cheerfully answer
them in the very best manner possible for me to do so. And I certainly
rather to know more about it before I should say what I now know to be facts,
and I have no doubt but you would be surprised to know all about them.
From yours respectfully,
Edwin
(Address 149 Wilmot Ave, Chicago, Ill)
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