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Winch, G.W., Graham Taylor Outgoing Correspondence, 1892

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Title Winch, G.W., Graham Taylor Outgoing Correspondence, 1892

Date 1892

Language English

Subjects Chicago Daily News, Inc., Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy

Description Works, correspondence, and family papers of minister, social worker, professor, and founder of Chicago Commons settlement house, Graham Taylor.

User-Contributed Transcription of its whole attitude and methods, the institution is
stroked out: slowly and now surely and safely passing not only to administrative Unity but to what I
believe to be its highest, if not its only, mission. Although
as loyal as I have ever been to that stroked out: the Seminary that mission,
as projected stroked out: by in the essential outline of the Presidents'
stroked out: great ideal, I have, slowly been Inaugural, yet the conviction has been steadily growing upon me that
the mission of my life lay in another direction
than that stroked out: to in which the Seminary is finding its greatest opportunity,
stroked out: highest most distinctive privilege and surest warrant.
The very generous and highly appreciated stroked out: offer effort
of the Trustees at their last meeting to adapt my work
to stroked out: these what I find to be my more efficient aptitudes [[stroked out: for service through which have met with the most
success and the best evidence of divine approval, forced]]
I need to reconsider the trustworthiness of this conviction - or its
applicability to the changed conditions proposed. Upon stroked out: careful mature
reflection, and after consultation with some of my colleagues, the proposition to distribute my work in Homileties
among the other professors and instructors for the present
seemed. so impracticable, that I could not entertain it
even as a transitional expedient - nor could I see [[stroked out: how
you could possibly be warranted in the near future in]] any warrant for
relieving me of this branch in the near fut. involving as it would the stroked out: at the act of an addition of another instructorstroked out: Professor.

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Archival Collection Title Graham Taylor papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Taylor Box 11 Folder 477

BibID 992819118805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Filename 992819118805867_midwest_ms_taylor_box_00011_fl_00477_000004.tif

Unique Identifier NL1Z520

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