LAND AND LABOR TESTIMONIALS. 8 



From the Hon. GEORGE F. HOAR, United States Senator from 



WASHINGTON, DEC. 6, 79. 

 My Dear Sir : 



I H AVI; ivad your papers with pleasure. They are 

 written with great clearness of style, and precision in the use of 

 words, in excellent temper, without heat or bitterness. 



I have long ago formed and expressed the opinion that the work - 

 inginen ought to get, in greater wages and reduced hours of work, 

 their share of the increased production caused by the invention and 

 perfection of machinery. So far I agree with your conclusions. 

 Some of the propositions which you lay down as steps in your process 

 of reasoning are new to me, and seem to demand further reflection. 

 I am, 



Yours very truly, 



GEO. F. HOAR. 

 MR. W. GODWIN MOODY. 



From the Rev. EDWARD ANDERSON, Pastor of the First Pres- 

 byterian Church, Toledo, O/rio, and late Pastor of the First 

 Congregational Church, Quincy, Illinois. 



STUDY, FIRST UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 



QUINCY, ILL., DEC. 23, 1878. 

 Dear Moody : 



I HAVE been thinking a good deal about the matter 

 of our correspondence, and the more I think the more grows on me 

 the importance of the discussion, and of your being in the field at 

 work on it. I am sure you have the only solution of our problem ; 

 and that there is no other way out of our hard times. This must be 

 solved soon. 



Last night (Forefathers' sermon) I discussed the general question, 

 without statistics, in my service. Our people seemed deeply inter- 

 ested. That interest must grow. Some earthquake must rouse the 

 people. You remember that it took the guns of Sumter to blow the 

 cotton out of people's ears, and to shatter the film over their eyes, at 

 the beginning of our Rebellion. Our people are hard to rouse for a 

 swing ; but, roused, they are honest, ingenious, and very prompt. 

 I want to write more of this, but am now, 

 Affect'y yr. Friend, 



EDW'D AXDERSON. 



