“DEAR BRETHREN: I have the very painful necessity laid upon me of relinquishing the pastoral charge of the church over which for eight years I have presided. I need not assure you that I do it with extreme grief. If I could have had the control of my own affairs I should certainly have supposed it wisest and best that, for the present at least, I should remain in the West and with you. It is only the firm belief that in removing temporarily to the sea-coast I should save the life and restore the health of my wife that has induced me to sever the connection which has so long and so pleasantly existed between us. I am peremptorily warned, not only by those in whose medical skill I place implicit reliance, but by a continual confirmation of their judgment in actual experience, to leave this climate if I would save her life. You will perceive in this state of facts that against which neither I nor any one can form any argument or persuasion. I cannot express the feelings which have warred in my breast in the anticipation of this necessity, nor can I without the deepest regret recall the deficiencies of my ministry among you. But I shall never forget the kindness with which my failings have been borne, the sympathy which I have experienced from you in the vicissitudes of the past eight years, and that co-operation without which I am sure I could but in a small part have accomplished the work which has been done. There are some details of arrangements which I desire to make, but which can be better treated in conversation. “I am, with Christian and personal affection, very truly yours, H. W. BEECHER.” Having decided, he wrote at once to the committee of Plymouth Church from whom he had received the call: “INDIANAPOLIS, August 19, 1847. ”DEAR BROTHERS: I desire to convey through you to the Plymouth Church and congregation my acceptance of the call to the pastoral office tendered by them to me. “I cannot regard the responsibilities of this important field without the most serious diffidence, and I wholly put my trust in that Saviour whom I am to preach in your midst. I can heartily adopt the language of Paul: ‘_Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified._’ It will be necessary for me to remain yet for some time in this place, but I hope to arrive in Brooklyn in the middle of October, or at farthest by the first of November. “I am, in Christian love, most truly yours, “H. W. BEECHER. “JOS. T. HOWARD, “H. C. BOWEN, “CHAS. ROWLAND, and others.”