Cedarville, Herkimer Co., Dec. 15.

Frederick Douglass:—Permit me, an obscure man, to say to you, that I am more and more pleased with your paper. I like your selection, favoring religious faith, such as prayer, practical faith, belief in the whole Bible, &c. I don't expect that the Lord will bless the labors in any Reform long without simple prayer and practical faith. I think the want of this in so-called reforms, is one of the great hindrances. I think it was Queen Mary that said that she feared the prayers of John Knox more than anything else. Your acknowledgement, also, of your error in coupling together all manner of Churches and ministers as corrupt, is exceedingly appropriate and useful.

All of us who have labored any in the Anti-Slavery Cause, have bordered upon the same error. But God has a Church in the world, and a ministry also, and it is the means of his own appointment to convert this fallen world, of course the appropriate means to carry forward every Reform, every good work. Reforming men, and converting them, are in the highest sense synonymous.

Yours, for Christ and his cause,

J.C.J. C.