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my shortening the period of six months
is simply this : that the failure of
nearly $3000 in the Vermont subscrip-
tions has compelled me to exhaust
my own slender means to the utmost,
in order to complete our building. Al
ready I have actually paid out of my
earnings more than $2000, and on
the strength of what I expected, {insert symbol: next autumn,} to receive
from you, I have contracted for a bell
and an organ, so that my work might
be given up to the diocese, complete, at
our next Convention, June 6th. I shall
then have advanced to our small affair
some $3000, the whole of which should
have been paid by the subscribers; and
I do not see much prospect of my
being repaid, soon, if ever. To resume
my task of solicitation under these cir
cumstances would be, in effect, begging{underlined}
for{underlined} myself{underlined}; and that is a little too much
for my present share of confidence. I
agreed to your kind proposal on the