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to promote its prosperity. But although
I believed that I had some sorts of
knowledge & experience which might be
available, and which do not often
unite in the same individual, yet
there did not seem to be any way
open, or likely to be opened, for their
useful application. And I did not
feel satisfied to take advantage of
an arrangement which could hardly
render you a quid{underlined} pro{underlined} quo{underlined}, while it
would take me away, for three months
more, from other labors, of greater va-
lue to the church than any which I
couldexpect to render to the University.

Such was the state of my mind, when
I received your letter, in which your de-
sire that I should return is more strong-
ly expressed than it was in the preceding
one. But knowing, as I do, your high