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like the present, and I can thoroughly enter into the feeling. At the same time it is my firm conviction that the alterations which I have ventured to make will, in a very short time, be viewed with approbation, even by those who at first were disposed only to think of the inconvenience resulting from them.
I can only add, that, as it was with great reluctance I admitted the necessity of a revision, so it is with a fixed resolution that this shall be final. Having now laboured conscientiously and without fear of man to do my best for the work, I once more commend it to God's good blessing, and the Church's kind consideration.
WILLIAM MERCER.
Feb. 3, 1859.