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write to that effect to Mynydd Islwyn, so that the friends there may choose some one else to be their pastor. I should like very much to go to Wales, if it were only for sister Emily's sake.

If I do not return to Wales this fall, I shall not be in a hurry to return to Wisconsin, and I may probably stay here till November. It will be no use for me to go to the old country unless I be able to discharge my duties as a minister."

Nineteen days after writing the above letter he wrote another one to his mother, a portion of which we insert here:—

"At Evan Bowen, Esqr., Mankato,
Blue Earth Co., Minn.,
September 29, 1868.

My Dear Mother,—

I received your letter, and also the card, both conveying the mournful news of my dear sister's death. When I received them I was on the point of starting for Minneapolis to attend the Presbyterian Synod, in compliance with an invitation which had been kindly given me; but I was so overwhelmed with grief and sorrow when I got your letter, that I felt too disheartened to go. It was undoubtedly great gain for poor afflicted Emily to be removed from the world of woe to her happy and eternal home; still it grieves me very much that I was not with her during her last moments upon earth, to whisper some word of consolation to her weary spirit as she passed through the cold and dark waters of death.

Before I received your letter I felt much perplexed. Dr. Davies of this town had examined my lungs, and had written a statement which positively declared that I was not then physically strong enough to