Cleveland, November
19.
Dear Sir: Though
personally an entire stranger, yet as a friend to the righteous cause for which
you have shown yourself willing to suffer all things the cause of Human Freedom
— I write to request that should you have time to forward, as soon as may be, a
written statement of the time and place of your birth, the name of your
parents, your church relations, time of marriage and to whom, different places
of residence, time of removal to and from Kansas, incidents of trial and triumph,
personal and domestic, while there, and any thing you may think would be of
interest for the object now about to be named. Then the object of my request is
the following: It is my purpose, should it please God that you should be
offered up, the Sabbath following the event, to improve from my pulpit the
occasion of your execution; that is to say, to preach your funeral sermon.
Joining with thousands in the daily earnest prayer that the abundant grace of
God may support you, and fellow-sufferers, in this your time of great need, and
through his rich mercy in Christ Jesus administer an abundant entrance into His
everlasting kingdom, I subscribe myself
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