Rev. M. E. Strieby: Dear Brother.—Your kind favor, dated September 2d, has to-day come to hand, with the $50 all right. I have not been able to go so far as the post-office before this, and it lay in the registry office. Thank you for your warm sympathy. May God reward your kindness. I was quite sick; suffered considerably from want of proper care, but none from lack of means; was among the first in our neighborhood to have the fever, and the people were afraid. With two or three exceptions, every member of the church remaining in the city had an attack of the fever. A. J. Barker—one of the oldest, and, as it seemed to me, the man whose life was most important to the future of the church—has died, and one other. The loss seems an irreparable one; but the Lord has done it, and we try to say, “Let Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him.”
In this vicinity, and I think throughout the city proper, the sickness has greatly abated, but is spreading and increasing fearfully in the outskirts and adjacent country.
The supplies in the hands of the Howards and Relief Committee are ample, but there is such a routine imposed upon the poor colored people that many of them get out of heart before they reach the end.
I will not appropriate any of the $50, but use it among the people. Had already bought a barrel of meal and side of meat, and begun work; and now that I can write, will let you hear oftener.
Yours, in hope,
W. W. Mallory.
A NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
The following letter is one of several received by us in acknowledgment of moneys sent by and through the Association, to the sufferers by the yellow fever in the South. It is most gratifying to know that it has been expended with such care, that a return of names and amounts given has been made to us:
New Orleans, September 30, 1878.