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New Port - Page.Co.Va Jan 26th 1883

Let us encourage him with our prayers our sympathies, and our efforts to support him. Do this, and it will gladden the old mans heart and strengthen him in the evening of his life. The young minister will feel the cold [?] chill with which he was surrounded, and which was [?] the energies of his soul [charged?] by the influence of such kindly [beam?]. His health will return; his energies awake, and he will show to all that he had within him the [?] of a [?]. Your Minister who had to follow [other occupation] for a livelihood will feel quite different and will remark ["]how he is in the estimation of his people, and how congregation is prospering! [?] would you have a good Minister and a [?] congregation? [Go?] [one?] and all hand in hand.

Sunday Morning Jan 26th 1883

The weather is pleasant but cloudy and a mist of rain occasional. Preaching in New Port church [by?] Rv W. A. [?]. The [General?] and [Mitton?] A [?'s] child will [?] [?] today [?] [last?] Sunday evening [?] 60! [?] [?] [?] of The [Chist?].