
          Every alternate Sabbath, but the assignment was inconvient, 
and for other reasons he desired to be released from
the necessity of attending to this station. They sent me here
to take his place. The particulers of the state of the church here
would [insert: Tuesday morning] delay me too long at present, as I am about to start
off again. You see I preach here two Sabbaths consecutively and 
then elsewhere the next two. The reason is that the New School Presbyterian
of  Montrose send a man here on the intervening Sabbaths, for 
whom I leave the coast clear.

The Presbytery of Luznre, in order to defray my expenses while laboring
here, procured for me a Cornucopian of $100. [added: a year] from the Board of 
Domestic [?]. I have made no use of this yet, but shall
probably be obliged to draw a part of it before I am through.
We have no church organized here, though there are several members
of various Presbyterian Churches (O.S.) in the place & neighborhood. My
congregations are made up of all denominations, as there is no
other preaching at the same hours. The audience is reasonably large for
a small county village; & as they are plain folks for the most
part, it suits them to hear [?] preaching. You see I have
no expense for boarding. I stay with friends. I hope they will 
not grow tired of the say upon their hospitality; if they do I am
sure their reluctance & meet it could not reasonably be greater
than my own unwillingness to inflict it. But there is no sign of
that yet.
        