more than on our actual performance. Right here let me "7S 

 suggest that I shall always be glad to have interesting things 

 like the amoeba cultures presented (by some of your friends 

 here) to the Chicago Pathological Society which still flour- 

 ishes as of yore. . . . Dr Ricketts is gaining heavily in impor- 

 tance since his good qualities have become known. . . . We 

 seem all to be "sawing wood" which in many cases may mean 

 merely this, that there is no very great activity of any kind. 

 Money, money, money is the great, crying, everlasting need 

 it seems. Yet much could be said on other phases of the require- 

 ments for progress. Perhaps great progress is going on right 

 under our noses [it was!] without being perceived on account 

 of its relative slowness. Well, now I have chatted with you 

 without restraint about things of various kind. The main 

 burden of my song, however, is this, that I wish you to know 

 you have good friends here who are watching closely for all 

 developments in the "far east" in which it is likely that you 

 may have a hand. . . . Also, remember me to Dr McDill 

 whose reputation for good work and heavy charges is rapidly 

 spreading over the civilized parts of the globe. . . . Did I 

 tell you that we have a youngster who arrived about a month 

 ago and to-day weighs 10 lbs and 5 ounces (of course you 

 do not know what that means to fond parents for whom every 

 unwonted wrinkle in the skin means general marasmus and 

 inanition) ! 



A letter from his aunt Sarah (December 27, 1904) thanked 

 Wherry for Christmas gifts and reported a visit to Allahabad 

 where she had gone "to see the General Assembly organized 

 and especially the union of several Presbyterian denomina- 

 tions. It was a grand meeting. Your father was a happy man as 

 he has been working for this for years." Reverting to her own 

 interests, she wrote: "I have wanted monthly meetings for 

 the strengthening of the village workers for a long time. I 

 do hope that they will be greatly helped and many more souls 

 brought out of darkness into light in consequence." 



The father confirmed the aunt's news (December 28, 

 1904) of the union of eight Presbyterian churches, with 

 another due the next year, into "the Presbyterian Church of 

 India." "This is a real Indian Church," he continued, "having 



