LETTER OF
The GOSPEL TRUTH CHARLES G. FINNEY
1868
To George Whipple
Secretary of the American Missionary Association
26 September 1868
[MS in American Missionary Association Archives # 114540, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University]
Oberlin Ohio 26th Sept 1868
Dear Br. Whipple.
I see you are pressed for
funds. Br. Markham has
taken his collection for your
Society & has left I believe.
I am pledged to give $10. for the
support of a lady teacher of
the freedmen, but I must help
up
& put in my mite to make ^ your
deficiency. Please find enclosed.
a check for $20.
All well. God bless you
& yours & your great
work.
C. G. Finney.
P.S. Bless the Lord the A.B.C.
F. M. is helped. I trust you
will.
[endorsed]:
Wrote that Sec. Whipple would
write on his return.
H.D.
Footnotes:
A report of the visit of Rev. R. F. Markham, the agent of the American Missionary Association, to Oberlin is in The Lorain County News, 23 September 1868, page 3.
Neither this letter, nor any reply from Whipple, are in the Finney Papers.