Show PREACHERS LOVE LETTER he wrote it to another shins wife and got into fronbe there has been much excitement in richmond va recently over the fact that the kenj R stu gia he popular of printy trinty methodist church hd a letter to alie wifel of a member of his congregation alie letter was given by the wife to her husband and he complained whereupon the presiding elder suspended sir sturgis at a reopening of the the committee decided that owing to sickness mr sturgis was not responsible for liis utterance made in the letter they therefore restored him to alie ministry this evening alie husband odthe lady feeling aggrieved at the action of the committee malo ma lo alie letter mr sturgis biad written to his wife it is as follows 1 I hope you will forgive and destroy it after reading I 1 know yen would forgive it if vou c uld know drw had I 1 have been made how keenly I 1 have suffered within the past few weeks I 1 do not know what ha caused the change in you I 1 blush with shame to know that I 1 have felt it so deeply that against what I 1 know to be right I 1 care BO much for you so much more alian I 1 have the right to care why from alio first time your eyes met mine I 1 should have felt heir attractive power I 1 cannot anden tand my saddest thought is hat I 1 have not accad so 0 as to lead you to christ had i left here the fart of leaving you out at alie clerch would have been ahe bitter thought nest to leaving you in all my life I 1 have never biad an experience like this when I 1 feared 3 were alck and called you did not ask me to r main longer nor to come again ami you seemed anxious to open the door and exit I 1 could not I 1 sleep eliat I 1 have felt just before and since that day aliat I 1 am annoying you forgive me if I 1 have forgive me tor a love eliat lias grown upon me and me when I 1 allow myself lo 10 think of it as I 1 ought pray for me eliat I 1 may overcome it and believe me when I 1 promise to try to avoid giving you annoyance I 1 have refrained from where we met this morning at your time of going for fear of annoying you in eliat way but I 1 could not help going this morning in alie liepe of seeing ou again I 1 pray for you to this and destroy it at once I 1 know I 1 am wrong but i have suffered to much alip husband also published with alie left r r follow ming certificate from mr 1 I certify that in my letter when I 1 bcd alie words 1 I havo n trained from going where we met this morning at your time of going for fear of annoying you in that way my explicit and only meaning as to the place of meeting was her husbands store mr sturgis is reported to be very much debilitated from over study and nervous exhaustion nashville evening herald |