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 expect a clear unhesitating answer from all who teach in the Church.” Meanwhile, brethren who took the opposite view were carefully kept away from Plymouth, and letters in one unceasing stream went out from the sisters against the brethren who did not receive these views, and every thing was said to discredit them to those who visited Plymouth. The whole teaching there was to settle people in them. In this no pains were spared, whether as to strangers arriving, or those who had leisure at Plymouth. The sisters were carefully taught in particular, and held meetings in their respective districts, to retail what they had heard at the principal meeting held for that purpose. The poor were in general thoroughly starved as to feeding them with Christ.

This had come to such a point before my last return from abroad, that the gospel had been formally sent