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in past days ; and thus good, not evil, will come from its 

 publication, eventually. 



You are a chosen minister of the Gospel, and in your 

 official station you have committed an error in thus assail- 

 ing private character. Your unkind and ill-chosen com- 

 ments upon the publication of my book -were most extraor- 

 dinary in sentiment and intent. I shall exert myself, in 

 my own way, to counteract the effect you have sought to 

 produce ; and I trust that before you again make the pulpit 

 your chosen place from which to hurl anatheinas upon an 

 humble and unoffending fellow-citizen, who never wrote one 

 line "that, dying, he would wish to blot," you will better 

 weigh the probable effect of your words. 



3}he good Apostle advises those of your holy calling 

 to use only "sound speech, that cannot be condfemned; " 

 and counsels us to " speak evil of no man, to be no brawl- 

 ers, but^gentle, showing all meekness to all men." We are 

 clearly bidden to "speak iwt evil of one another; " for "he 

 that Bpe.aketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, 

 speaketh evil of the Law, and judgeth the Law." 



Mr. Huntington, the pastor, " hath done me much evil ; 

 the Lord reward him according to his works." 

 With due respect, yours, 



Geo. p. Btjknham. 



P. S. I respectfully ask your attention to the enclosed 

 notices of my book (from certain religious and family 



