A. D. Jones' Good Deeds

In 1884 Jones, newly wealthy, founded a charity called Day Star Universal Relief Fund.

I have insufficient documentation. If you can find more, send it on, please.

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Stage Struck

Albert Royal Delmont Jones' soon to be second ex-wife went on the stage in 1903.

So did his third ex-wife in 1922.

It was a long way from Zion's Day Star.

Title Page

Other things

Some of our regular readers know that Rachael wrote a YA novel some years ago. Two or three of you read it. It's not at all related to our history project, so this may not interest you. But we plan on republishing her book with a new cover and with added illustrations.

This will happen later next year, after Separate Identity is published.

A. D. Jones again

I can trace him to NYC in 1877 and believe he was there maybe as early as 1876 or even 1875, but cannot prove that. I do not have time to follow up. Can you find any trace of him in New York City from say 1874 to mid 1878?

Also, can we find a help wanted ad in the NYC papers placed by Russell?

A visitor

A visitor to the grave of Joseph Lytle Russell in the Allegheny Cemetery. From Watch Tower of Allegheny Historical Tour book by James S Holmes (available through Amazon). Picture reproduced with kind permission of the author.

I personally did this tour with the author in 2014.

Can you untangle this?

I sent this email to "Jerome," but anyone can help. I wish Ton was still alive. He'd untangle this ... But, alas, he is not ...

Delmont Jones, his daughter and which Jones this Delmont is

https://books.google.com/books?id=y0MWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA337&dq=%22delmont+jones%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6weje27DlAhWQJTQIHYT6CY8Q6AEwAXoECC0QAg#v=onepage&q=%22delmont%20jones%22&f=false

see page 337.

There are several hints, but no proof, that the Jones were related to the owners of Jones and McLaughlin Steel in W. Va. W. I. Mann worked for them for a while. My best efforts have not untangled this mess. Can you?

Bruce

Jerome reminded me that we have a genealogy prepared by Ton. Herewith the solution:

Delmont Jones, born Pennsylvania  on 3  Aug  1803, died Pittsburgh,  PA     on 30  Dec  1878, married  on 2  Apr  1826,  (they had two twins) with Mary Ann Carr Jones, daughter of Edward Carr and Elizabeth Eliza Sanders, born London,  England  on 16  Jun  1802, died on 2  Mar  1875.

                 From this marriage:

6.              Jemima Jones, born on 12  Dec  1835.

We still need to know if there was a relationship between 'our' Jones and Jones and McLaughlin Steel.

What's in a name?

by Jerome

Interest in the bad boy of Watch Tower history “Albert Delmont Jones” caused me to have a look again at newspaper accounts of his exploits, and also his changes of name throughout his history, a cross between Icarus and Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress.

For Watch Tower history we know him as Albert Delmont Jones. The names “Albert” “Delmont” and “Jones” are used for a number of people in various partial permutations, including his grandfather, his father, his brother, and also one of his sons who died young. So it is easy to follow the wrong trail. He started the paper Zion’s Day Star in late 1881, which soon became just The Day Star. By the end of the 1880s, ADJ was in trouble both in business and matrimony and his wife Cassie divorced him on the grounds of infidelity.

In the 1890s he reinvented himself in St Louis as a businessman extraordinaire. He dropped the common name “Jones,” added the name “Royal” and with a flourish became Albert Royal Delmont. A blind pool investment scheme (basically where investors invest “blind” without knowing where their money is going – not the wisest of moves) had gone sour and there was a court case. What it does is tie the different names of Albert together. From the St Louis Post-Dispatch, 20 July 1896.

So here in July 1896 we have the Albert Royal Delmont “blind pool” case, and there is lots of complicated material in several newspapers of the day for those who want to get a headache. Of interest to us is that one of the witnesses (and possible co-conspirator) is Wiliam J H Bown, who is billed as Delmont’s brother-in-law. ADJ’s ex-wife Cassie was originally Cassie Bown. So here we can link Albert Delmont Jones with Albert Royal Delmont.

It was interesting that William Bown is called ADJ’s brother-in-law because ADJ had married again by this time, to a young Society beauty half his age, Isabel Agnes Mulhall. The couple moved to Chicago and ADJ tried again, this time linked to a company called Albert R Jones and Co., commission merchants. (The name Delmont was dropped this time.)  A R Jones and Co. were expelled from the Chicago Board of Trade according to the newspaper cutting below. From the St Louis Dispatch, 22 January 1902.

Prior to this ADJ had tried his hand at publishing again. The 1900 Chicago census has him down as Albert Delmont and occupation as editor. For a long time we didn’t know what he edited after the long defunct Day Star. We now know his new venture was called American Progress. It is not known how long it lasted as no copies appear extant. From the Norton County News (Kansas), 23 March 1900.

It was only a matter of time before the marriage of ADJ and Isabel hit the buffers. Albert’s money went, and so did she. The newspaper cutting below written in popularist style has the inference that Albert’s manly charm was not the mainstay of their relationship. From the Saint Paul Globe, 15 September 1903.

He is still Albert Royal Delmont at this point.

By the end of his life the name “Royal” was to go the same way as “Jones” and he was simply listed on his death certificate as Albert Delmont.

Another ...

I cannot read all of this. Can you?

HELP!

This is from the Cincinnati, Ohio, Catholic Telegraph of Nov 24, 1881. The image is poor. I can't read it. Can you. A clear transcription would be helpful.

Separate Identity 2

As it stands now, almost finished, it has 597 pages. There are 149 illustrations, including many photographs that haven't seen the light of day in over a century. Among the photos are those whose names will be familiar and those who have never been profiled in a history of the Watch Tower. I haven't counted the footnotes. They are plentiful, and those interested should be able to follow our research trail.

As with the first volume, this book is very detailed, though it does not exhaust the subjects covered. I hope others will follow the trails outlined in this book.

While much needs to be done, we are at the end of the trail. I'm still looking at a March release date, though that is subject to change.

A. D. Jones

From The Guardian [London, England] June 10, 1882:

Zion's Day Star, a journal published at New York in the interests of the Millennium, makes the following editorial requests: “We suggest that you read carefully, -at least twice, most of the articles, and especially those on chronology and the Prophetic Time. Without this our readers can scarcely get the connections, and unless these are seen the force of the argument cannot be appreciated.” This advice, though perhaps salutary, and even needful, is not very complimentary to the lucidity of the writers or to the intelligence of the readers.

A. D. Jones and related ...

This appeared in the Christadelphia Advocate of January 1889 in response to an argument over the proper name for believers. [Depending on your browser, you may have to click on the image to see it entire.] While it is interesting to see the writer class the Watch Tower with other Age to Come groups, my problem in identifying the periodical "Good News." Can you help?

I'd love to have this as an original but

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1800-BENJAMIN-FARNHAM-Dissertation-on-the-PROPHECIES-Revelations-MILLENNIALISM-/282729421444

Way too expensive for me.

However, there is this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=VLJCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=benjamin+farnham+prophecies&source=bl&ots=YzOmpXvam_&sig=ACfU3U1_Ha4uFT44Ha6e0c_r65IrAlxJ-g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj96-Pb3JLlAhVHsZ4KHTmyBroQ6AEwCHoECDAQAg#v=onepage&q=benjamin%20farnham%20prophecies&f=false

First Chapter

For COMMENT. Usual rules. You may take a copy for yourself. Rough drafts will change. Never rely on a rough draft. Not ready for proof reading. Delay that for later. But comments are helpful, even on a draft this raw.

Now is the time to comment. This comes down tomorrow. 

Note: If you have skipped the Introductory Essays, please return to them and read them. Doing so will put the remainder of this volume in context.

1. Foundation

            Russell wrote a flurry of letters to counter Barbour’s speculations. And having decided to start a new paper to give a voice to their established doctrine, he sought regular contributors.[1] We have profiled all of these but Albert Jones in volume one of this work. Jones came from a fairly well-off family and was a ‘clerk’ in one of Russell’s stores. Instead of being a mere clothing salesman, he seems to have had accounting and management responsibilities. We find him not much later opening a thriving clothing store of his own and pursuing other business interests.

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Misc.

I owe several answers to their emails. Be patient, please. I'm experiencing work overload.

Do we know if P. S. L. Johnson's private papers still exist? Can you help locating them?

Some were interested in the Sermon Ledger Book. I now know that these were kept by Maria Russell, and that it is indeed in her handwriting. I also know that they formed the basis of some Watch Tower articles. Interesting, huh?

We've asked before, but do you have or can you locate personal letters by any Watch Tower adherent in any period. They do not have to seem 'historical' in nature. I would like scans, photocopies or,if you wish to part with them, originals.

Things that may seem irrelevant often provide clues to things that are.

We need a scan or photocopy of a single issue of a periodical held in the Harvard library. I have a mass of hospital and doctor's bills. If you want to pursue this in my behalf, email me, and I will send you details.

Mrs. Russell wrote many letters to subscribers and others, especially to women who sent in questions or comments. I need to see any of these that still exist.

I have some health issues now. But I am still working on chapter 1, the one unfinished chapter to volume 2.

The Russells and the Allegheny Cemetery

(reprinted)

by Jerome

Allegheny cemetery entrance (for the Russell family plot)

Plan of graves in the Russell family plot, Section 7, Lot 17

Owner: James G Russell. Size of lot: 300 (square feet).

Back row: 1. Mary Russell, 2. Charles T Russell, 3. James G Russell, 4. Sarah A Russell,

Front row: 5. Joseph L Russell, 6. Ann E Russell, 7. Joseph L Russell Jr., 8. Lucinda H Russell, 9. Thomas B Russell

This undated plan from the Allegheny cemetery records was drawn up after the last burial took place in 1897. The same document listed the names as above, and also gave the interment numbers and dates of burial.

You will note that for some reason this gives no details for grave number nine, but elsewhere in the document we find this was for interment number 4778, name: Thomas B Russell; date 8/11/55.

As will be seen from the dates and in the following article the numbering is not the order of burials. The graves were started from the right hand side of the plot and then worked across to the left side in two rows. The actual order of interments was:

4. Sarah A Russell 1846

3. James G Russell 1847

9. Thomas B Russell 1855

8. Lucinda H Russell 1858

7. Joseph L Russell Jr. 1860

6. Ann E Russell 1861

2. Charles T Russell 1875

1. Mary Russell 1886

5. Joseph L Russell 1897

But first, some background to the Allegheny cemetery.

As cities in America grew in the 19^th century, the problem of burying the dead became an issue, involving both public health and space. Town and city graveyards tended to be small, sectarian, and full. The rural cemetery or garden cemetery was a solution. It was designed to be a landscaped region that allowed the public to have parkland outside the city area, while also allowing the families of the rich to indulge in eye-catching memorial architecture. The latter seemed to work on the principle that, while you may not be able to take it with you, at least you could show the huddled masses you’d once had it! It also took the burial of the dead outside of church control.

The first rural cemetery in America was founded near Boston in 1831. Quickly others followed, including the one where most of CTR’s immediate family are buried, in Allegheny. The Allegheny model was chartered in 1844, and the grounds (originally one hundred acres of farmland) were dedicated to their new use on September 20, 1845. Other tracts of surrounding land were later purchased, so that a 1910 guide describes the cemetery as having grown to a little over 273 acres, divided into 39 sections.

Modern publications give a figure of around 300 acres, divided into 48 sections with fifteen miles of roadways. The area is carefully landscaped with well established trees, and is a haven for wildlife. Over 132,000 are buried there. Perhaps the most famous resident is Stephen Foster, the nineteenth century composer.

Although the cemetery location was chosen to be well outside the metropolis, inevitably the city encroached around it and then way beyond it. Today it is a very useful green space with some forestry, as well as a cemetery, in the middle of an urban area. It is located in the Lawrenceville neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, bounded by Bloomfield, Garfield and Stanton Heights. Its official address is 4734 Butler Street.

The original prospectus allowed for the purchase of individual graves or family plots. The prevailing sizes of the latter were 150, 225, 300, or 500 square feet each. A 150 square foot lot was for six graves, using wooden rough boxes only, a 225 foot lot was for eight interments and a 300 foot one for ten burials.

So finally we come to the Russell family.

We know that Charles Tays Russell (CTR’s uncle with variant spelling for the middle name) came to Allegheny and founded a business in 1831, assuming his obituary is accurate. He joined the Third Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, on 22 January 1834.

Other family members gravitated to the same area. His older brother James G Russell was in the New York area in the early 1830s, but is listed in the 1840 Pittsburgh area census. James Russell’s plans on moving to the Pittsburgh area included his extended family also staying there. Forever. Literally. He purchased a 300 square foot sized family plot in the brand new Allegheny cemetery, designed for ten interments. As it worked out, only nine family members would eventually use the site. The family plot is Section 7, Plot 17. Here is how it looks today. There are eight stones for a total nine graves, all laid flat on the ground.

Back row: Mary (no marker), Charles, James, Sarah

Front row: Joseph, Ann, Joseph Jr, Lucinda, Thomas

The first two interments were Sarah Russell in December 1846, followed a year later by James himself in December 1847.

There is a document in general circulation called the Relatives of Charles Taze Russell, originally produced by Robert Speel, a Russell descendant through Joseph Lytle Russell and his second wife Emma Ackley. This work could be called a labor of love, produced in the pre-internet age, and seems to draw a lot of early information from the Allegheny registers and the details found in Charles Tays Russell’s last will and testament. But there is one significent error in it. It lists Sarah Russell as the sister of James Russell, who bought the family plot. However, Sarah was not his sister, but his wife. This is not clear on the burial registers which give no details of familial relationships, but below is the small headstone that still survives for Sarah.

Sarah, wife of Jas. G Russell, died Dec 14, 1846.

This makes a lot of sense. James would purchase the family plot because first: he was the oldest in the family, and second: because his wife Sarah was dying or had died. James was born ten years ahead of Charles Tays Russell and seventeen years ahead of Joseph Lytle. As the oldest and to our knowledge the first-born, he would normally have taken the lead. However, he was to die comparitively young and hence disappears from the narrative before our CTR was even born.

Sarah Russell was originally Sarah Ann Risk from Faun, Ireland. Her father was an excise officer in the old country. She married James in the early 1830s and they reportedly lived first at Elmwood Hill, New York. Her sister, Margaret Risk married James’ brother Alexander. Alexander is outside the scope of this article in that his life in America was spent in New York and New Jersey. However, since his picture has survived and I have permission to reproduce it, here it is:

Alexander Grier Russell, an older brother of Joseph Lytle Russell.

Returning to the Allegheny cemetery, as indicated above it started with around a hundred acres of land and has grown to about three times that size today. But initially the take-up was small. In the first year, 1845, from the start in September to the end of the year there were only eight burials in total.

In 1846 there were only 29 new interments. These included Sarah Russell. One must assume that James had the pick of many potential family plots; his choice then being dictated partly by cost, but also by situation and outlook.  However, total interments were 67 that year, because there were also 38 re-burials. It was common in the early days to remove bodies from city cemeteries at the request of relatives, who wanted a more congenial final resting place for their whole family.

So by the end of 1846, a grand total of 75 burials or re-burials had taken place at the cemetery. Sarah died of consumption in the December; her burial registration number is 73.

Almost exactly one year later, in December 1847, James died. His burial registration number is 264. He was laid to rest next to Sarah in the top row of two on the plot, the one furthest from the roadway. James died of paralysis, so one assumes he suffered a fatal stroke at the age of 51.  Here is the small stone grave marker for James.

 

James G Russell.

So that made it two down, and eight places left to go in the family plot (only seven of which were eventually taken up).

By the time James died Joseph Lytle (sometimes spelled Lytel) Russell was living in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Daily Post newspaper started a regular column in 1843 listing the names of all those who needed to collect mail from the Pittsburgh post office. In the issue for Monday, October 16, 1843 (repeated in the following two daily issues) we find both Joseph L Russell and James Russell.

A month later in the issue for Saturday, November 18, 1843, we find the other brother, Charles T Russell, also being asked to collect his mail.

Joseph joined the same church as his brother Charles Tays, the Third Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, on March 7, 1845. And it was his branch of the family who would use the site next. The Allegheny Cemetery charter laid down strict legal provisions for inheritance of family plots – first to children (James and Sarah did not have any) then to parents (assumed to be long dead in the old country), and then to brothers and sisters.

In common with many in those unhealthy times, Joseph and his wife Ann Eliza were to lose three of their five children quite early on. Thomas, pictured on the left in the January 1, 1912 WT photograph was the first – he died of whooping cough and was buried in a row nearest the roadway in front of James and Sarah’s graves.

Thomas and Charles

The cemetery record states he died in August 1855 at the age of five years and three months. While not something to pursue here, it should be noted that the 1850 census returns suggest Thomas was born around January of 1850. That would make him five years and eight months when he died. It’s possible that the crabby handwriting and fading ink of the era caused someone at some point to confuse a three and an eight.

Thomas B Russell had been the firstborn, and was no doubt named after his maternal uncle, Thomas Birney, who lived in Pittsburgh. He was followed by Charles Taze Russell in 1852 (both Charles and Taze being an obvious nod to his paternal uncle, Charles Tays) and then Margaret Russell in 1854. Charles and Margaret survived to adulthood of course, and were finally buried side by side, but elsewhere.

Then a young daughter named Lucinda was born (probably a nod towards Thomas Birney’s sister Lucinda). She died from scrofula (sometimes spelled scrophula), a form of tuberculosis affecting lymph nodes in the neck, in July 1858 at the age of a year and a half. Lastly, there was a young son, Joseph Lytle Jr, who died of croup at the age of six months in April 1860. The family had been living and working in Philadelphia at this point, but it was still important to the family to bring the little bodies back to the Allegheny cemetery for burial in the family plot.

For the three children, three sad little gravestones survive, but they are very weathered and the memorial inscriptions on them have all but gone. On the one reproduced below you can just make out the figures 1857 and 1858, so this would be the grave marker for Lucinda.

Finally, after losing her three children, mother Ann Eliza died from consumption in January 1861. Her funeral took place from the home of her brother, Thomas Birney, in Pittsburgh. Her will, written just the month before, when she was no doubt very ill, lists her husband, Joseph Lytle, as “her agent in Philadelphia.” The notice of death in the Pittsburgh Gazette for January 26, 1861 calls her the wife of Joseph L Russell (of Philadelphia, PA).

Her grave stone survives, although it is worn in places. It reads:

ANN ELIZA

WIFE OF

JOSEPH L RUSSELL

DIED (indistinct) 1861

IN THE 39 YEAR OF

HER LIFE

There is an inscription at the bottom – probably taken from a scripture – but indecipherable today.

After Ann Eliza’s death, the family plot remained unused for nearly fifteen years. During this time, CTR and his sister grew to adulthood, and CTR started his spiritual journey in earnest.

Then, in 1875, the original Charles Tays died. His life story, such as we know it, is covered in an earlier article on this blog – The Other Charles T Russell. Charles Tays died of hepatitis in December 1875 and was buried in the family plot. The grave was positioned in the top row, next to James and Sarah, whose funerals had been 30 years before. Charles Tays’ grave stone is quite well preserved.

It reads:

IN MEMORY OF

CHARLES TAYS RUSSELL

A NATIVE OF

COUNTY DONEGAL, IRELAND

DIED

AT PITTSBURGH PA

DEC 28 1875

IN THE 70 YEAR

OF HIS AGE

Eleven years went by before the next interment. The extended Russell family who settled in Pittsburgh included an unmarried sister, Mary Jane Russell. Mary had been housekeeper for her brother, Alexander Russell, in New York after the death of his wife, but on Alexander’s death in the 1870s she moved to Pittsburgh to live. Joseph Lytle probably took over managing her care. When Charles Tays died, he left $3000 in a trust fund for Mary’s support. By 1886 the plan had gone awry and it was necessary to dip heavily into the capital to care for her. But within a week of the documentation being drawn up, Mary was dead. She died in September of 1886 and was buried in the top row next to her brother Charles Tays. No stone was provided.

There was only one more person who would share this final resting place, CTR’s father, Joseph Lytle. Joseph had re-married (his second wife being CTR’s wife’s sister) and they had one child, Mabel, who was to live until 1961. The family moved from Pittsburgh to Florida, but Joseph Lytle then returned to Pittsburgh shortly before his death, likely so he could die there. He was buried alongside his first wife and the three children who had died before them.

Joseph’s stone reads:

FATHER

JOSEPH L RUSSELL

BORN IN IRELAND

JULY 4 1813

DIED IN ALLEGHENY

DEC 17 1897

The inscription at the bottom reads: Blessed and holy are all they who have part in the first resurrection. They shall be Kings and Priests with God.

And that was it, as far as the Allegheny cemetery plot was concerned; a total of nine interments out of a possible ten. The years went by, it became forgotten, and grass encroached over the stones lying flat on the ground; until more recent times when the plot was rediscovered. The memorial inscriptions for Joseph Lytle and Charles Tays are in the best condition today, but of course they are the most recent.

So why didn’t CTR end up buried here with his family in the one remaining space?

I have no way of knowing how carefully to scale the chart of graves reproduced with this article may be, but if accurate, it might appear that squeezing in another interment could be problematic. Probably more to the point, CTR was involved in founding a new cemetery.

The Rosemont, Mount Hope and Evergreen United Cemeteries were founded on land purchased from what was called the Wiebel farm in 1905. One section in the Rosemont Cemetery was earmarked for Bible Student use. In his will, written in 1907, CTR directed that he be buried there. By the time of his death in 1916 the area was simply called United Cemeteries. His sister Margaret (or Margaretta) R Land was buried next to him in 1934.

But that needs to be the subject of another article.

Postscript

It should be noted that elsewhere in the Allegheny cemetery are other relatives of CTR. His maternal uncle Thomas Birney (from whose home his mother’s funeral was conducted) was also buried here in 1899. There is a family plot in Section 24, lot 46. In the same grave (grave 1) as Thomas (1830-1899) is Thomas’ wife Mary Ann Birney (1832-1906).

The Birneys had at least five children and two daughters never married. They are buried in this family plot, Eve Birney (died 1950) and Mary Birney (died 1953).

Volunteer?

I need a volunteer to transcribe an article written by Parish B. Ladd against The Plan of the Ages. Ladd was a 'free thinker', that is an Atheist. The article is ridiculing and a bit silly, downright factually wrong in places. I still need it transcribed. Anyone?

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069867/1910-07-24/ed-1/seq-2/#words=%22zions%2Bwatch%2Btower%22

Sample Packets

We need a clear scan or photo of the sample packed mentioned in an 1886 Watch Tower:

To this end, as an aid to such laborers we have prepared a large quantity of large printed envelopes, each containing a sample copy of the TOWER and a copy of “Food.” These can be distributed from house to house and called for and collected a few days later, at which time you could take subscriptions, or sell the sample packets, or have conversations, etc., as you may find possible and expedient. We need scarcely say to you that ZION’S WATCH TOWER is not a money-making enterprise. (Your own experience probably proves this.) It has never yet repaid the cost of paper and printing any year since it was started. Nevertheless, if you are dependent for your living on your daily labor, you must needs have some income, or you could not give your time in the manner suggested. To such we would say that the following provision is made for this contingency: --You may retain ONE-HALF of all the receipts obtained as described from NEW readers to go towards your support, your traveling expenses, and the support of any one dependent on you, returning to the Tract Fund any surplus you may be able to spare.

Another comment from an Advance Reader

I didn't ask his permission before posting this, so for now I'm leaving his name off this post. But herewith are his comments:

By reflecting about the very dense contents of the Introductory Essays, and in particular after my search for its references, I would like to insist that I am not only pleased but also deeply impressed by the wealth of books and articles that you patiently gathered, and whose references you provide so liberally, to prove, support and illustrate several important facts ignored so far or deliberately distorted, such as:

 

- the fundamental doctrinal differences of Russell versus the Adventists, and his constant, although always courteous, distancing from them ; 

 

- the long history of the multi-faceted and particularly widespread tradition of the premillenarianism in the English-speaking world, and the skills of many of its supporters ;

 

- the non-exclusivity, or should I say the banality, of Russell’s doctrines, his originality residing in his eclecticism (characteristic of the Christian who proves all things and hold fast that which is good), and his determination to give to his message the widest possible dissemination, devoting to it all of his talents, his time, his energies, his belongings.

How encouraging and reassuring it is to discover supporting evidence that some most disparaged and apparently awkward aspects of one’s faith, don’t drop out of the sky, but had already many adherents from all sorts of horizons and of countless times.

May I permit myself to wish you the best for your further invaluable works, and please accept, Dear Bruce, the expression of my deep gratitude, with my best greetings.