Now to the dear friend who sends me the Witness. You may rest assured that your donation has not been as pearls cast before swine; it is as bread upon the waters, and if it doesn’t return to you in this life, it certainly will greet you in the far better land. I prize the Witness next to my Bible. It has been to me strength in weakness, light in darkness, a means of peace in times of trouble; in short, it has been food to my soul.
The Witness is valuable to me in a two-fold sense. First, the motive which prompted the giver; second, the vast amount of information it contains which I could not find or get elsewhere. My only wish and constant prayer are that every colored preacher on the globe may have the Witness. I am fraternally yours in Christ,
P. J. McEntosh,
Pastor First Congregational Church, Anniston, Ala.
Powers Shop, Laurens Co., S. C.
Dear Editor: I have been kindly furnished with your valuable paper since last August to the present time. I am certainly grateful for the kindness of the friend that paid for it. May God bless him ten-fold. Inclosed in this you will please find an order for your valuable paper, The Weekly Witness. I induced six young gentlemen to pay twenty-five cents each, thereby raising the required sum.
May God bless you and your papers, for they are doing much good. I will do you the good I can. Let the friends in the pulpit who receive the Witness work for it, and work now.
Yours in Christ,
B. F. Martin (Colored).