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My Beloved Brethren: — I congratulate you upon erecting the first edifice of our denomination in the Keystone State, a State whose metropolis is called the “city of brotherly love.” May this dear church militant accept my tender counsel in these words of the Scripture, to be engrafted in church and State: —

“Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” “If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.” “By thy words thou shalt be condemned.” “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

“Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that [we] should follow his steps:. . . who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to Him that judgeth righteously.” “Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

My Beloved Brethren: — The good in being, even the spiritually indispensable, is your daily bread. Work and pray for it. The poor toil for our bread, and we should work for their health and holiness. Over the glaciers of winter the summer glows. The beauty of holiness comes