We are assured you are the man for this place.

We therefore tender you most heartily the position of Professor of Sociology at Fairview Seminary at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars a year and a preliminary year's absence, either abroad or in this country, before you begin actual labors with the Seminary.
With this formal call on the part of the trustees goes the most earnest desire on the part of all the professors of the Seminary who remember you in your marked undergraduate success as a student here.

You will meet with the most loving welcome, and the Seminary will be greatly strengthened by your presence in this new department.
We are, in behalf of the Seminary, Very cordially yours, THE TRUSTEES.
Here followed their names, familiar to both Philip and his wife.
There was a moment of astonished silence and then Sarah said:-- "Well, Philip, that's what I call the finger of Providence!" "Do you call it the finger of Providence because it points the way you want to go ?" asked Philip, with a smile.

But his face instantly grew sober.

He was evidently very much excited by the call to Fairview.