Miss Ellis's MissionSmith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells)
Religion
Miss Ellis's Mission
Smith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells)
Ellis, Sarah, 1835-1885; Home missions -- United States -- Unitarian Church
Your kind letter awaited my return from the city last evening, when
I returned at ten. It grieved me to think that possibly I had
wounded your feelings, for your "heresies" have not been "too
tough" for me, as you fear. One's religious belief never troubles
me as long as they do not force me into the same belief. Should be
sorry if I had not "charity" enough to see the good in one, and not
look at the outside merely. Your last letter reached me September
28, and I replied by postal October 19, as there did not appear to
be anything especial to require a letter; and as my eyes were
troubling me much at the time, I was compelled to desist from all
but necessary letters. Am still as much interested in the good
cause as ever, and we still have new applications constantly. We
are gaining ground in the South. One gentleman in Alabama is much
interested in Unitarianism, and wrote, asking me for Mr. Savage's
address, whereupon he wrote to Mr. Savage himself, who is sending
him "Unity Pulpit" present series. I am subscriber to it myself,
and never can keep a sermon. I subscribed for the benefit of
others. In Independence, Ky., a gentleman lately wrote, asking for
Unitarian papers, etc. He is highly satisfied. Has been groping in
the dark a long time, and wrote me, "When I read the pamphlet,
'What Do Unitarians Believe?' by C. W. Wendte, I shouted 'Eureka!'
Like it so well that I shall not part with it." So it goes on all
the time. Some one finds just what they have been in search of for
some time.
* * * * *
FEBRUARY 19, 1885.
Am much obliged to you for sending matter to Mr. ----. He is
extremely radical, a farmer, with a large family to educate, and
cannot get such religious matter as he needs. You might, if you
choose, send the Chadwick sermons to him too, or, if you prefer
they should go elsewhere, address them to me, and I will send them
where they are needed.
Her last postal card to this correspondent, dated about a month before
her death, says:
"Thanks for the six 'Unity Pulpits' received. I have been too busy
to reply before, and my health still feeble, though not confined to
the house or bed at all. I'm not one of that kind until necessary."
Since her death, the farmer referred to above has written:--
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