csprasc la bolunlad de los Tcjanos sc ere q. los dcrnas Ayunlanuen- los del dcparlarnenlo se declaren contra Lal probid,mcia o por lo mc•!~s no la ascplen la dicha junta a prolcslado q. sus miras son pac1f1cas. El sujeto cornpr~•~•elido con cl g11ag11in no ha venido hoy por lo CJ· no sc ha verif1cado la marcha cnmo U. me ordena lo aguarclo de un momcnto a olro pucs me tiene muy violcnto cl q. no cumpla su palabra como sc acoslumhra en cl pais. . Mc repito con el mayor afccto de U. subordinado y atenlo amigo Q.S.M.13.
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Anto. Tenorio
[524) [TRAVIS to EDITOR I
San Felipe de Austin, Texas, Aug. 17, 1835.
My dear Sir:-
1 Lake the liberty of addressing you from this distant quarter of the world for the purpose of requesting you to receive my name as a subscriber of your widely circulated Advocate. We are very destitute of religious instruction in this extensive fine country, and the circulation of your paper here will be greatly beneficial, in the absence of the slated preaching of the Gospel. Although the exercise of religion in any form is not prohibited here, but is encouraged by the people, yel but few preachers have come among us to dispense the tidings of salvation to upwards of sixty thousand destitute sould. I regret that the Methodist church, with its excellent itinerant system, has hitherto sent the pioneers of the Gospel into almost every deslitule portion of the globe, should have neglected lo long this interesting country. I wish you would do me and the good cause the favor to publish such remarks a::; will call the attention of the reverend Bishops, the different Conferences, and the Board of .Missions, lo the subject of spreading the Gm,pel in Texas. About five educated and talented young preachers would find employment in Texas, and no doubl would produce much good in this benighted land. Texas is composed of the shrewdest and most intelligent population of any new country on earth; therefore, a preacher lo do good must be respectable and talented. ln sending your heralds in the four corners of the Earth, remember Texas. Wm. 13. Travi~. [To the Editor of the New York Chril-lian A<lv0t:ale and Journal I
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