Letter

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

X2022.128

Scope and Content

Description of an 1864 speech and publication by Mary A. Dodge (1833-1896) aka Gail Hamilton, who was an anti-slavery advocate. The letter says the title was "The Church has Work to do." She says that the weakness of the church is from within, not without. Also that freedom and slavery, activity and stagnation, the Bible and priestcraft have been fighting for three hundred years, beginning in Spain. She exhorts her audience to continue the fight.