
          Please accept one of the sticks for yourself,
& allow my well remembered & much
bored pastor H. White, also Dr. Ludlow
to select after you have taken yours. Tis
only a stick but it may serve to worship
upon, to those who like yourselves are blessed
with faithful above harm, & like him
may need even such support. Give
the others to whom you please. I 
think my Br. Hall has one, if not I shd [should]
like him to get one of these.

[?] much [?] the part 
with the loved & loving friends
and faithful servants of the Best of
Masters. Receive them in all love
and may your communion be as 
sweet as ours has been.

With Mrs. L. [Lawrence] & my own
afft [affectionate] regards to you & yours

I beg to remain
Ever very truly yours
J. J. Lawrence

Dindigul
21st Nov. '45 [1845]

(Missionary in China)
        