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 is proper to state, that the following Letters were written in answer to enquiries from different friends, and not volunteered ; the writers feeling, with many others who share their opinions, a reluctance to agitate, or to obtrude their sentiments upon the Public, though, at the request of those friends, they have from a sense of duty, since consented to have their sentiments made known.

Rectory, Whitechapel, Feb. 15, 1849.

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In the midst of my always pressing work in this immense Parish, I can only give a hasty and brief view of my opinion on the subject of your Letter, viz. "the Marriage with a deceased Wife's Sister: still my view is, to me, clear and decided.

1. I assume that, in point of nearness, the relationship of a Brother to his deceased brothers Widow, is the same as that of a man to his deceased Wife's Sister. Two Brothers are successively married to the same Woman, in the one case ; and the same man to two Sisters in succession, in the second.

2. I assume that God would not command anything