JOHN BUTCHART, SEN by John Butchart

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1857

JOHN BUTCHART, SEN

By John Butchart

From Bro. Butchart

BRO. SMITH:—As it is time to renew my subscription for the Review, you will find enclosed two dollars in payment.

I am pleased to understand that as a community you are persevering in the attempt of reforming the world. I also learn that you are making some progress in the desirable but unthankful work. I am doing what I can; but it is a cold backward work in this region. The ice that has been accumulating for centuries has not any where been broken as yet. I stand alone, and my means being limited there cannot be much done.

I have had 5000 tracts published for gratuitous distribution; but neither your books nor my tracts will sell. The books I had from your Office I left with a bookseller in Toronto to dispose of, charging only a small compensation for his trouble. This statement will account for my not casting in my mite with others.

Hoping that we may so labor in this present life that we may stand accepted before the Son of man at his appearing and kingdom.

JOHN BUTCHART, SEN

Eramosa, C. W., May 10th, 1857.