The salary this church pays me is $2,000 a year, a sum which more than provides for my necessary wants.

What I have decided to do is this: I wish this church to reduce this salary one-half and take the other thousand dollars to the fitting up the parsonage for a refuge for homeless children, or for some such purpose which will commend itself to your best judgment.

There is money enough in this church alone to maintain such an institution handsomely, and not a single member of Calvary suffer any hardship whatever.

I will move into a house nearer the lower part of the town, where I can more easily reach after the people and live more among them.

That is what I propose for myself.