Your letter was read with much interest, and we are glad to know our
"little society has done good work."... Don't be discouraged if you
cannot convert the world at once, but wait quietly till your time
comes to do more. You are young yet. Think I can spare a few more of
Mr. Thayer's sermons. He has only had four sermons on "Reasonable
Religion" published.... Will send you the Meadville catalogue next
week, and you can see for yourself, and afterwards write to
President A. A. Livermore, telling him I sent you the catalogue. He
can give you all further information. He was the pastor in
Cincinnati from the time I was fourteen to twenty-one, and knows us
well.... Hope to hear further from you occasionally. Work on
quietly, knowing the discipline will the better fit you for
ministerial labors. We can't jump into the highest calling on earth
in a moment, and now-a-days a man must be something of more than
ordinary ability to enter a Unitarian pulpit. It is not an easy
place to fill.