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Ebenezer
Memphis Jan. 12, 1857.

My dear Sanders,

Yours of Dec. 31 is just to hand. The roads be-
tween there & Chattanooga have been so bad that great
delays in the transmission of letters has taken place.
I suppose your letter has in this way been detained.
Your previous communication enclosing twenty dollars
in redemption of my pledge to the [Dom. Com.?] came to
hand some days previously. I very willingly accede to
the suggestions made concerning Mr [Mowbray?]'s ex-
amination and hereby appoint [such day & place?] as
shall be agreed on between Mssrs [Humes?] & [Gay?], whom
I appoint the examining [Presbyter?]-and Mr Mowbray himself. I thus
leave the time & place open to arrangements for the conveni-
ance of Mr. M. & of the Examining Com. I could myself make
the appointment, but deem their plan the better one, all things
considered. You will be kind enough to inform Mr. M. of this, &
ask him to adjust the matter with Mr [Humes?], Mr [Gay?] by correspon-
dence. But now let me make a suggestion. After Mr. M.
is examined by Mssrs Gay & Humes. I shall have myself to
examine him before ordination on his theological studies. The
canon makes it my express duty. And therefore I do not see
that he will gain anything by seeking an examination
from the Presbyters now or at any time previous to his