THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH 
 
 OF ITALY. 
 
 LETTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Rev. JOHN R. Mac DOUGALL, D. D. 
 
 ON THE 
 
 CASE of the Re\i. LUIGI ANGELINI. 
 
 FLORENCE, 
 PRINTED BY G. BARBERA 
 
 1895 . 
 
Printed but not published. 
 
 CHIESA SCOZZESE, 
 
 Florence, 15th December, 1895. 
 
 To the Friends 
 
 of the Evangelical Church of Italy. 
 
 Dear Christian Friends, 
 
 « The 21st General Assembly of the Evangelical Church of 
 Italy, met in Florence, from 29th October to 2nd November 1895, 
 approved and sanctioned the action of the Committee of Evan¬ 
 gelization, and the sentence pronounced by it, against the Rev. 
 Luigi Angelini. His conduct was judged dishonest by the whole 
 Court, and having thus rendered himself unworthy of the Gospel 
 Ministry, he was expelled from the Church, and his name 
 removed from the Roll. The Assembly also authorised the Com¬ 
 mittee to proceed against Signor Angelini in every legal way, in 
 order to indemnify itself for the loss it has sustained through 
 him, in whole or in part. » 
 
 This judgment was sent, on 7th November, to Signor Ange¬ 
 lini at Forano. 
 
 The early history of Signor Angelini, in his relation to the 
 L Evangelical Church of Italy, may be given in a few sentences. 
 He was born, we are informed, at Forano, Sabine Country, 
 11th April, 1847. His father’s name was Gemignano. He joined 
 the Capuccin Friars, in the Convent of Piazza Barberini, in 
 Rome, in 1867, and was a Collector of Alms for the Order. 
 
 For reasons unknown to us, he left the Convent, and in 1871 
 returned to his native place, as a Priest, officiating as Assistant 
 in the Church of Forano, from which he was summoned for 
 military service, and spent the 45 days in Florence, as Attendant 
 in the Soldier’s Hospital of St.Agatha. 
 
Returning to Rome in layman’s dress, he had occasion to 
 hear the Gospel, of which he became so warm a supporter, that 
 by deliberation of the Evangelical Church of Italy there, and 
 after being examined as to his faith and conduct, he was admit¬ 
 ted to the Lord’s Supper, on 3rd October, 1872. 
 
 On 2nd December, 1873, he was in extreme distress, having 
 nothing to eat, nor where to lay his head. Indeed he had been 
 arrested for sleeping on the steps of the Piazza di Spagna, and 
 placed for three days in the prison at St.Andrea delle Fiatte. 
 Moved by pity for his condition, Rev. Ludovico Conti engaged 
 him as Assistant Teacher in our elementary Boys’ School in 
 Rome, at the small salary of 40 francs a month, and he was 
 so employed during the scholastic year of 1S73-4. On 1st le- 
 bruary, 1874, he was admitted as a Student of oui Theological 
 
 College in Rome. 
 
 In 1876 he was expelled from the College, for having accepted 
 the Spiritualist beliefs of a certain Professor De Andreis, and 
 for having acted as a Medium on two occasions. After two 
 months at Forano, he returned to Rome, and showed his repen¬ 
 tance with tears, and was readmitted by decision of Professois 
 
 Gavazzi, Pigott and Henderson. 
 
 At the close of the College Session of 1877, and while on 
 holiday at Forano, without advising any of his Superiors, he 
 married Rosina Bartoli of his native village, and a second time 
 he was disciplined. In consequence, however, of the suffer¬ 
 ings of the young couple, who were without any means of liveli¬ 
 hood, and through their tearful pleadings, the excellent SB 
 gnor Gavazzi permitted him to occupy a room of our Mission 
 House in Via Panico, and thereafter aided him to carry on an 
 Evangelistic work at Albano. 
 
 Here the cause gave good ground for hope, but an incident 
 occurred, which obliged the Committee to remove Signor Ange- 
 lini elsewhere. A dispute arose in the Public Square, in which 
 serious wounds were inflicted. Signor Angelini sprang forward 
 to arrest the homicide and succeeded. As a citizen it was a 
 laudable act, but not so as a Minister of the Gospel, for An- 
 
gel ini presented himself on the occasion, not armed with the 
 two-edged sword of the Word of God, but with a revol\ei, with 
 which he went about armed. The Committee severely censured 
 Angelini, but on his promising that the Bible would hereafter be 
 the only weapon he would carry in his pocket, he was transferred 
 to Brescia in 1880. 
 
 Here his conduct was not satisfactory, and but for the strong 
 advocacy of a member of the Committee and his own teais and 
 promises of better behaviour, he would have been dismissed. 
 
 Thereupon he was sent in 1882 to Bassignana, and as early 
 as July 1883, he altered the Portico of our building there, without 
 the authorization of the Committee, and set agoing schools in 
 the new rooms, thus causing an outlay of 4000 francs, which he 
 could not repay. 
 
 To avoid the consequences of this false step, in the shape 
 of a fourth dismissal, Signor Angelini went to America, where 
 he underwent great hardships, before he acquired the language 
 and was so strongly taken in hand by our great Friends, Dr. 
 and Mrs. Howard Crosby. It was not till January 1885, that he 
 was able to repay the moneys advanced him in Bassignana. 
 
 I have stated these facts, Dear Friends, that you may observe 
 how 7 from the earliest times, neither prudence nor lespect foi 
 Superiors w 7 ere among the traits of Signor Angelini’s character. 
 In those days I used to send out the monthly moneys with my 
 own hand, and I w r ell remember, how nearly every month a fa¬ 
 therly word about some imprudence or another w r as necessary. 
 ^At one time it was the revolver he used to carry, at another 
 it was his accompanying the Mayor of the place to shoot, or 
 walking about the city with a double-barrelled gun, and so on, 
 but I am bound to say, that my remarks were always accepted in 
 a grateful, friendly and even filial spirit. 
 
 II. 
 
 Our Friends in the United States have always been numerous, 
 influential and generous. Ever since Signor Gavazzi went over 
 
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 the length and breadth of the land with Rev. Dr. John B. 
 Thompson of Highland Park, New Brunswick, there has been a 
 lively interest in the Evangelization of Italy. I remember my 
 own cordial reception everywhere 20 years ago and the intense 
 sympathy for a Free Native Italian Church. 
 
 The late Mr. Roswell Smith was our kind Treasurer for 
 several years, and Rev. Antonio Arrighi of New York our inde¬ 
 fatigable agent, but no Societies had as yet been formed. 
 
 When Signor Angelini reached New York in March, 1884, he 
 found himself in a position of great difficulty, as his letters of 
 that period show. He had indeed studied the English language 
 at Bassignana, but was as yet unable to speak it. A dear Friend ^ 
 of mine, who interested herself in him, wrote to me two long 
 letters, after visiting many of our friends in New York, that they 
 were all ready to contribute, in order to enable him to return to 
 Italy, but not to stay in New York, for he should never have come. 
 
 I must confess that it required great pluck and perseverance on 
 his part to remain. Hov r he managed in the early months of 
 his stay to pay for food and lodging would take too long to tell, 
 but his faith and resolute bearing must have won him friends. 
 He even vwote for his wife to join him and she on her part 
 wrote to me in June, that she wished to go to her Husband, 
 as well as to see her Mother in America, and she crossed the 
 Atlantic in August. The friends whom God raised up in his 
 support w T ere Dr. and Mrs. Howard Crosby. Dear Dr. Crosby 
 tells me, on November, 24th, the story: « Angelini arrived 
 here, not knowing a word of English. Mrs. Crosby took,* 
 him and taught him for five months, and paid his board and 
 lodging for most of that time. He could not begin to collect 
 for your Mission till September, and then only by a speech, which 
 Mrs. Crosby taught him to use by rote. It was difficult to 
 interest any Church in such a Speaker. It is hard for persons 
 to understand him in private conversation. His wife is a great 
 help to him in this regard, and we have found work for her in 
 teaching Italian. They live very economically. I admire the 
 patience and faith of the man. I trust that he may before 
 
spring be able to conduct his mission successfully. I think that 
 he will soon be able to support himself, and will be able to 
 send all he collects to Italy. » And success followed upon such 
 generous kindness of the Crosby family and such devoted labors 
 on the part of the Angelinis. Dr. Howard Crosby writes on 
 January, 27th, 1885, when sending the first money: « Angelim 
 will send you the details of collection. From the time of his 
 wife’s arrival to this, (six months) he has spent about 500 dollats 
 of his collections, which is wonderfully little. He lives in the 
 strictest economy and is most faithful in the execution of his 
 Trust. I keep account only of money handed me by A. for you. 
 Of the rest he keeps account and will send the record to you. 
 
 The more I see of A. the more I love him. » 
 
 Again on June, 30th, 1885, he says: « I am grieved that 
 you are displeased with Angelini. I am sure you could employ 
 no more faithful or industrious agent. You will make a great 
 mistake, if you withdraw his mandate. He is just becoming 
 known to our churches. » 
 
 And so again on November 2nd, 1885 : « Mr. Angelini lias 
 collected altogether $ 3118. 69, and has spent $ 1518. 69, of which 
 latter amount $ 700 have been for travelling expenses. It must 
 be remembered that his expenses cover 19 months and his 
 collections only 16 months. I think he has done his work 
 faithfully and collected as much as any man could. He has 
 become known and beloved by our ministers. » 
 
 In the Annual Report for 1885, I printed a list of subscribers 
 sent to me by Signor Angelini, with the amount of tlieii gifts 
 * mentioned, and also an extra list entitled « Donations to enlarge 
 the Church of Bassignana. » In the printed balance of the Annual 
 Report for 1895, Dr. Crosby is credited with sending $800 for 
 the Mission, the other $800 having gone to pay Signor Ange¬ 
 linas creditors at Bassignana. 
 
 The letters of Signor Angelini were very pleasant reading 
 during 1885. The President of the Committee had written to 
 him strongly, and he answers (August 8th): « Please continue 
 to love me, who will always he obedient and accept join 
 
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 Christian counsel. I promise to remain in America and to be 
 at the disposition of those who love me, and to seek to make 
 myself useful for the work of the Lord in my dear Italy. » 
 
 And to me he writes (July 28th, 1885): « You are not pleased 
 with me, but I am pleased to do my duty. Tell the Committee 
 that I will do nothing but that which is wished, for the good 
 of the holy work of God. » 
 
 During 1886 Dr. Crosby’s letters are again satisfactory. 
 
 February 24th: « I merely receive what Angelini collects and 
 take receipts from him for what he spends. I think he is living 
 as economically as he can in this very expensive country. » 
 
 March 13th : « I think that Angelini in his appeals asks for A 
 the whole work. He has established permanent annual gifts in - 
 many Churches. I deeply regret your own infirmity of health. 
 Your oversight is too precious in the Free Church of Italy to 
 be dispensed with. » 
 
 The same may be said of Angelini’s letters in 1886. In 
 January he speaks of an average of $ 4 a day being enough to 
 maintain his wife and himself. « I neither live as a rich nor as 
 a poor person, but take only that which is necessary. Tell the 
 Committee I am willing to continue on Deputation, or return to 
 Italy, according as it desires. » 
 
 In July he acquaints me: « For your guidance, my salary 
 is the same as that, which my predecessor Arrighi received, » 
 (amount unknown to us). Again, I printed in the Annual Report 
 for 1886 the goodly list of givers, with their gifts, through the 
 Deputation of Signor Angelini in America, as he had sent it to £ 
 me, and also a list of givers for Bassignana ivork, and in the 
 accompanying balanced account, Dr. Crosby is credited with having 
 sent $ 3000 that year. 
 
 So again of the 1887 letters, when Angelini paid me a short 
 visit at Bridge of Allan, Scotland, in April, and regretting that 
 we had no Deputy in Great Britain, tried to do something there, 
 for a week or two, in token of gratitude for which, and on his 
 asking for money, we gave him $ 40 towards expenses. 
 
 Dr. Crosby writes, April 1887 : «I have given Angelini two 
 
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 months vacation and $ 300 to go to Italy. He is run down 
 with three years hard work and will return in June. He has 
 acted wisely in founding Societies in the Churches, which will 
 give regularly every year. I am convinced that it would be a 
 great error, to remove Angelini from the American field. » 
 
 And Angelini writes: « I have suffered much, because of your 
 illness. I pray for your life, for we have need, if it were pos¬ 
 sible, of two Mac Dougalls. The Free Church will prosper and 
 nothing will he wanting to us, if we are faithful to the Lord. 
 
 » I have already organized 5 Angelini Missionary Societies 
 to aid the Free Church of Italy. 
 
 » I will do my best to aid my beloved Chiesa Libera. 
 
 » I am not very strong, and if I should die in America, I wish 
 you to send another person immediately to carry on my work. » 
 Again, I printed in the Annual Report for 1887 the long 
 list of givers and their gifts, sent to me by Angelini , under the 
 heading « Deputation of Rev. L. Angelini, in America. » and 
 Dr. Crosby was credited with having sent us $ 2000 in the Ge¬ 
 neral balanced Account. 
 
 So again in 1888 the letters are even more enthusiastic and 
 cordial, as the results of the various Societies formed began to 
 show themselves. 
 
 Dr. Howard Crosby writes (19 January): « xingelini has col¬ 
 lected in 1887 $4000, one half of which has been used for 
 travelling expenses. This is not too much. His travelling expenses 
 (and those of Mrs. Angelini, who has been very efficient) must 
 have been fully $ 1300, and $700 for his personal needs is a 
 ''very small sum in America. » 
 
 February 20th: « There has been no separate collection that 
 I hioiv of. I believe a single giver once asked Angelini about 
 his local Church, and then gave him an amount solely for that 
 Church, and not to be credited to the Free Church of Italy. 
 Angelini could not refuse it. It is probable from this solitary 
 instance (for which Angelini is in no wise responsible), that 
 the rumour of a separate Collection has arisen. Do not, my dear 
 Dr. Mac Dougall, discourage Angelini by finding fault. » 
 
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 The immense number of Angelinas letters to me in 1888 refer 
 to the starting of other Societies, to whose officials I always 
 wrote and sent our missionary papers. Whether my expectations 
 had been raised too high, or whether I began to feel that there 
 was leakage somewhere, and less money coming to us than 
 ought to come, I cannot say, but Dr. Crosby as above, and 
 Signor Angelini in several letters tried to quiet my fears. 
 
 In April 1888 Signor Angelini says : «I take $ 150 a month of 
 stipend and about $ 50 for expenses, so that if I take $ 2500 a year 
 in all, I take only that which is necessary for living decorously. » 
 
 This was a matter I left with Dr. Crosby, as also the matter 
 of a threefold Certificate, which Angelini asked from me in No¬ 
 vember, to the effect that he was the authorized Deputy of the Free ^ 
 Church of Italy in America and was worthy of confidence, 2nd, that 
 it had been conceded, that he and his wife should have $ 2400 a 
 year for salary and expenses, and 3rdly, that I should write to the 
 President of the Newark Society, that our General Administration 
 in Italy approved, that their $ 600 a year should go for the 
 one third of his salary, while he was in America. In this way, 
 he thought it would be better known that « our brethren of 
 the Chiesa Libera do not walk in darkness, but know how to 
 explain everything in the light. » « Strange, » he says, « that 
 
 with all our good intentions, we are always subject to censure 
 and suspicion. » 
 
 My reply was, that Dr. Crosby was the person to arrange 
 all these things, for our Administration and myself did not in¬ 
 terfere with the affairs in America, any more than Dr. Crosby^ 
 would think of interfering with our Committee’s affairs in Italy. 
 
 Again, I printed in the Annual Report for 1888, under the 
 heading: « Deputation of Mr. and Mrs. L. Angelini, in America » 
 the list of givers and their gifts, which Signor Angelini sent 
 to me, and credited Dr. Crosby, in the balanced Account with 
 $5000, which he had sent to me. 
 
 The year 1889 opened also as a year of mutual confidence. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Angelini came to Italy, he from January to October, 
 and she from July to the end of the year. 
 
Dr. Howard Crosby wrote to us: « The Free Church ought 
 to honour Mr. and Mrs. Angelini, for as faithful and laborious 
 work as I ever saw done. They have taken no holiday, but 
 have labored beyond their strength, in one of the most trying 
 of vocations, soliciting money for a foreign field. » 
 
 And we did honor them and Dr. Crosby as well. We sent to 
 him, with all our signatures, a beautiful Pergamena and a suitable 
 address, with which he was greatly gratified. 
 
 And, without discussing the amount of salary which Dr. Crosby 
 had allowed the Angelinis, as a matter we were not competent to 
 decide upon, we never imagined that they would continue to take sa¬ 
 lary when in Italy , as afterwards appeared, and therefore 200 francs 
 a month ($ 40) went from us in Italy to Forano, as personal salary, 
 increasing to 225 in October, during the whole year 1889. Not 
 only so, but we paid the postage of the Angelinis with the So¬ 
 cieties in America during the year. Further, on my proposal, 
 the Committee granted Signor Angelini $ 200 (1000 frcs.) in 
 May, in appreciation of his zeal and success in America. Further 
 still, on his starting for his work in the United States, at the 
 end of October, I gave him, at his own request, $ 200 (1000 frcs.) 
 for his journey and early expenses in New York. 
 
 In the later part of the year 1889, however, Dr. Howard 
 Crosby’s mind became troubled, and so did ours. 
 
 Let me give Dr. Crosby’s trouble first, though ours came 
 first by a month or so in time. 
 
 On 9th July, Dr. Crosby wrote: « 1 have gone over my re¬ 
 cord of five years, that I have acted as Treasurer, and find 1 
 have received in all % 17,127, of which 1 have sent you % 13,727 
 JBy this you will see that the expenses of Mr. and Mrs. Angelini 
 have been only $745 per annum, which is marvellously small. 
 But I suppose they have received money, of ivhich they have not 
 rendered me any account. That ought to be enquired into. I 
 only last weeJc discovered , that the Philadelphia Society gave 
 $400 to Mr. Angelini, of which I heard nothing. He should give 
 a full statement of all such money, which he or Mrs. Angelini 
 received, and which did not come to me. I have printed nothing, 
 
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 as I have no time to do more than receive, Tceep and forward 
 the money. Angelinas idea of a Musician coming to America is 
 folly. He wrote to me about it, and I scouted the notion. 
 
 » His $ 10,000 Church in Forano is very absurd. He needs 
 
 guidance. » 
 
 When I wrote at once to Signor Angelini about this, he 
 answered from Forano, August 3rd, 1889 ; «1 received in 1888 
 from Philadelphia $200 + % 100 from Mrs. John W. and also 
 remittances from other places, tvhich ivere my due, but have been 
 didy acknoivledged as results in the Reports , but we shall attend 
 
 to this at the October Committee.» 
 
 The inference from this is, that in supplying me with An¬ 
 nual lists of givers, to be printed in the Annual Report, and 
 which I believed to be checked by Dr. Crosby and himself, he 
 put in gifts tvhich he retained to himself. 
 
 At the Committee on October 2nd, Signor Angelini was asked 
 to put himself right with us, through Hr. Crosby, which he 
 never did. 
 
 But in a letter, dated New York, September 19th, Dr. Crosby 
 returned to the subject thus: « Here are my payments to Si¬ 
 gnor Angelini 
 
 In 1884. ... $ 40. 42 
 
 In 1885. 450.41 
 
 In 1886. 541.00 
 
 In 1887. 664.89 
 
 In 1888. 875.00 
 
 In 1889. 213.00 
 
 $ 2784.72 
 
 To Mrs. Angelini In 1887. 175.00 
 
 In 1888. 280.00 
 
 In 1889. 480.00 
 
 Total . . $ 3719.72 
 
 w This represents five years, not six, as the account begins 
 jn the autumn of 1884. Hence the annual expense of the An- 
 
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 gelinis averages $744, which would he a very small sum without 
 other resources. 
 
 » Mr. Angelini ought to give an account of all money , that 
 either he or his wife received and did not send to me. Those who 
 gave in such cases did not notify me, except in one or two 
 cases, and of course, as the money did not come to me, I made 
 
 no reply. 
 
 » I enclose one letter of 1886, which showed $76. 98 given 
 in that way. My hooks now show as collected for these live 
 
 years the sum of $ 17,957. 01. » 
 
 Here is the letter above mentioned, sent to Dr. Crosby : 
 
 « Philadelphia, June 3rd, 1886. 
 
 » Dear Sir, 
 
 » I desire to advise you of the fact that I have this day 
 sent to Rev. Luigi Angelini, at Baltimore, a cheque for the sum 
 of $76.98, the contribution of the Harriet Holland Memorial 
 S.S. of Philadelphia, to the Free Church of Italy. 
 
 » He wrote me from Baltimore, under date of May 31st, 
 stating that he was in need of funds, and requesting that the 
 
 cheque be sent to him. 
 
 » Yours respectfully, 
 
 » Robert C. Ogden. » 
 
 Again on October 26th, Dr. Crosby writes: « I see by An¬ 
 gelinas statement that he received in all personally (not coming 
 
 through me) in the five years $ 7384.32. 
 
 » 1 gave him up to January 1st, 1889, $ 3239. 71. The total 
 
 is $ 10,624. 03. » . . 
 
 And then he explains a discrepancy of $ 392. 29, Angelini 
 
 only making the total sum he had taken, 110,231.74, by explaining 
 that Angelini had overlooked at least one payment of $ 200, and 
 that the bases of reckoning were different, so that exactness of 
 agreement was impossible. 
 
 Henceforward Dr. Crosby, in sending me moneys , sent me m 
 each letter the list of parties contributing, with the amount of 
 
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 their gifts , and from his letters I made up the printed list in the 
 Deports of 1889 and 1890. 
 
 That for 1889 was so short that I put an explanatory N. B. 
 « Mr. Mac Dougall is under the impression that the above list 
 only represents the latter part of 1889. Should this be so, 
 the omissions will be rectified next year. » 
 
 And a list of sums omitted was sent to me, and printed in 
 the 1890 Report, according to above promise. 
 
 Dr. Crosby was credited in the general balance for 1889, 
 with having sent us $ 6000. 
 
 As our noble, heroic Friend Dr. Crosby was so soon called 
 to his rest, and as there was nothing particular in his 1890 letters, 
 nor in those of Angelini in this connexion, I may, before passing 
 to what has troubled us exceedingly in Italy, say that in 1890 
 we went on paying Mrs. Angelini at Forano 200 lire ($ 40) a 
 month, from January to April, and from May to August, when 
 Signor Angelini also was there, 225 lire ($45) a month - as 
 personal salary, and additional to all other payments - and gave 
 him in September L. 60 sterling, or $ 300, for his wife and 
 himself to return to America, believing that he was not paid 
 salary, when living in Italy, by the American Society. 
 
 I made up the list of givers for our 1890 Report, from 
 Dr. Crosby’s various letters, and credited him with having sent 
 us $5261.67 in the General Balance. 
 
 Our best Friend in the United States, the great and good 
 Dr. Howard Crosby, was taken up in the Spring of 1891, and 
 Dr. Virgin most kindly, at Angelinas request, took his place, 
 a going carefully through the accounts after Dr. Crosby’s death , 
 crediting to Mr. Angelini what he reported as receiving from the 
 Churches , and paying him the balance on January 1st , 1892. 1 
 
 also ashed Angelini about his salary , and he responded $ 2500 
 yearly , which includes all expenses. » 
 
 After two years of service to our cause, Dr. Virgin retired 
 in the spring of 1893, when Mr. Angelini returned to his work 
 at Forano. 
 
 The American Board, under Mrs. Hopkins and with Mr. J. J. 
 
 
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 Tower, of 340 Clinton St., Brooklyn, as Treasurer, then decided 
 to pay a salary of $ 100 a month to the Deputy, during active 
 Service only , and certainly not through the summer months , when 
 the Deputy may have returned to Italy. 
 
 Mrs. Angelini acted as Deputy in 1893, and the following 
 year the Rev. Carlo Gay visited the States in our interest. 
 
 And now, Dear Friends, returning to our special sorrow in 
 Italy, let me say: Would that the singleness of aim of the earlier 
 years had continued! What a position of honour Signor Angelini 
 would have occupied to-day ! Dear old Gavazzi was nearing the 
 end of his labors, and I was laid aside during 1886 and 1887, and 
 many a time since have I been unwell, through having no entire 
 rest and therefore no thorough cure, because the whole financial 
 responsibility of the Mission had all along to be cared for by 
 me. And my invaluable Secretary Torti, too, had died. 
 
 What though some of the Societies fell away from the work! 
 What though others were unable to reach the sum they had 
 promised ! 
 
 What even though too many of these Societies were pledged 
 for the work at Forano, which was but an infinitesimal part of 
 the Mission, though naturally bulking large to the vision of Si¬ 
 gnor Angelini! 
 
 What though, in his enthusiasm, Signor Angelini wrote to 
 the Evangelists, that he had secured help for one and another 
 of their stations, as he formed one Society after another, and 
 so largely defeated my efforts as Treasurer, to increase the 
 i givings of the Churches to our Central Maintenance Fund! 
 
 What though a personal name was given to these Societies 
 
 and afterwards a general one! 
 
 These and many other questions are pure matters of detail, 
 to be settled by our Committee or by the American Society in 
 aid of the Evangelical Church of Italy. 
 
 The essential thing was to maintain the spirit of pure and 
 noble devotion to Christ and His cause in Italy, which has ani¬ 
 mated all our Deputies. 
 
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 III. 
 
 On 13th June, 1889, there first appeared the cloud, no 
 bigger than a man’s hand, which has since overspread the sky. 
 Signor Angelini was in Italy the larger part of that year, and 
 he was present at our Committee Dinner at Fiesole, on the eve 
 of returning to our homes and separate fields of labor. He had 
 spoken on the way up the hill about beginning a personal effort 
 on his return in November to New York, for the erection of a 
 large Church, with a belfry and bell at Forano. Coming to 
 my ears, and knowing the boldly daring spirit of Angelini, I ^ 
 spoke in the strongest terms against any such intention. I 
 prophesied his ruin and ours, if he did not at once dismiss this 
 project from his mind. All the members of Committee joined 
 me in opposing energetically such an idea, as quite uncalled for 
 in such a small mountain hamlet, whereas the maintenance and 
 extension of the general work called for larger supplies from 
 abroad. In point of fact we made it perfectly clear, that we 
 would not consent to his returning to America, except on condition 
 that he ivould collect alone for the general work, the Evangeli¬ 
 sation of Italy , and not for a Church at Forano , or for any 
 other special enterprise. 
 
 Signor Angelini was obliged to promise on the spot, that 
 he would carry out his Committee’s instructions. And yet, know¬ 
 ing how refractory he could be, I lost my sleep over the matter, 
 and wrote to him, that unless he gave me a solemn promise j 
 that he would not collect for a Church at Forano, I could* not 
 remain at my post as Treasurer. 
 
 All this he did and more, in his letters, as follows: 
 
 19th July, 1889. « I am truly sorry that you have been 
 
 afflicted about my affairs. I beg you to give yourself peace, 
 for I will do nothing without your approbation. » 
 
 22nd July. « Nobody speaks of building a Church just now; 
 but certainly, with the blessing of God, it will be needed in the 
 course of years. Such is my belief. » 
 
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 30th July. «I pray God to keep and preserve Mae Dougall. 
 
 I can well believe he is tired and worried with our troubles, but 
 God will sustain and preserve him alive. » 
 
 13th September. « It is not true that I have commenced 
 to build. Before doing anything 1 shall ask the advice of the 
 Committee. » 
 
 24th September. « You do wrong to preoccupy yourself so 
 much with my Forano affairs. I believe you are wrongly in¬ 
 formed. Any way I can assure you, that no harm will come on 
 my account. » 
 
 And Madame Angelini also, writing on 31st August of same 
 year, says: « The work in Forano is untried and uncertain. It 
 would not be worth while to build there as yet. I am sorry 
 there should be anything to cause you the least worry. Many 
 things which Angelini, in his zeal and earnestness, thinks es¬ 
 sential, I believe, for the newness of the field, to be precipitate 
 and unwise. For the work in Forano, it would be wrong to 
 build at this early stage of its existence. » 
 
 IV. 
 
 After such assurances my mind was set at rest. 
 
 And yet these promises of Signor Angelini must have been 
 made with a mental reservation. Scarcely had he reached Ame¬ 
 rica in November 1889, with 1000 Frs. from me for his journey, 
 which he had asked, in order that he should not trouble Dr. Crosby 
 C too soon, than he did the very contrary. 
 
 The new reached us, of course, little by little, but at last 
 it assumed the following definite shape, that at his meetings, 
 Signor Angelini gave an account of the Mission work for which 
 the collection was declared to be taken, and then a statement 
 of the work at Forano and of his intention to build a Church 
 there. But he added, that as Dr. Mac Dougall had prohibited 
 him from collecting for this latter object, anyone who wished to 
 help him in it, should kindly give their contribution into his own 
 hands! In this way Forano often obtained double what was 
 
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 given, we heard, for the Mission, though Signor Angelini was 
 being so handsomely remunerated for his Deputation work. 
 
 I leave you, Dear Friends, to say whether Signor Angelini 
 was acting honestly and straight-forwardly in this matter or not ? 
 
 But while these details were crossing the Atlantic during 1890-91, 
 
 « 
 
 I was also receiving letters from Signor Angelini’s contributors 
 for Forano, asking why I did not print their gifts in our Annual 
 Reports, and quite a number of Christians called upon me for 
 explanations, in the name of their dissatisfied friends in Ame¬ 
 rica. You may imagine what a difficulty I was in, and how I 
 wrote to Signor Angelini and what my Committee felt, because 
 I had no account of such gifts. 
 
 Other evils came in the train of these. Signor Angelini’s F 
 letters for the first time began to assume a petulant, discontented 
 and aggrieved tone, and so continued for two years at least. 
 
 He wished that others would consecrate themselves to the 
 work as he did; he told us that for 5 years the Committee 
 had been receiving from him and not he from the Committee; 
 he was tired working for ungrateful people ; my conduct and 
 that of the brethren caused him displeasure, and that « he need 
 not answer about money matters, because when he was right 
 
 with his God, it was enough! » 
 
 I also found it more difficult to see Signor Angelini for two 
 or three years after this, though I only left Florence each year 
 at the end of June and returned in September, although his 
 yearly stay in Italy usually overlapped my time of absence at 
 
 both ends. 
 
 But further news of Angelini’s purchase of large tracts of 
 land at Forano brought matters to a head, and at a Meeting of 
 Committee in Florence, on 4th September, 1891, and before I had 
 returned, Signor Angelini signed the following legal document 
 on stamped paper, which I translate literally. 
 
 Florence, 4th September, 1891. 
 
 'fifc.t i' 
 
 I, the undersigned, declare that with gifts and perso¬ 
 nal offerings received in America, and with economies 
 
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 made by myself, I am erecting presently in Forano, 
 my native place, an Evangelical Temple, with school- 
 house and dwelling-place adjoining, which will cost the 
 sum of 50,000 lire. The said monument of gratitude to 
 the Lord, I from this time give over to the Evangelical 
 Italian Church, in Florence, 7 Via dei Benci, to which 
 I belong, and in whose name I went as Deputy and Repre¬ 
 sentative to America; pledging from this time the sum 
 of Twenty Five Thousand Lire, which are invested in 
 Forano, in the said building, which I am erecting. 
 
 {y Luigi Angelini. 
 
 From this time forward I greatly urged Signor Angelini to 
 print a balanced account from time to time of his receipts and 
 expenditure, for his own sake and for ours, in regard to this 
 unauthorised movement. He promised in September 1892, that 
 he would do so, on his return to America, where all his papers 
 were, but here again he failed me, on the plea that Dr. Virgin, 
 who had so kindly taken the place of the late Dr. Howard Crosby, 
 thought it time enough to print such a financial statement, when 
 the work was finished. He did send me, however, on the eve 
 of leaving America for good as our Deputy, a list oi gifts for 
 Church, School house and Manse, which I printed in March 1893, 
 in our Report for 1892, and followed this up by inserting a 
 Photograph of the Church Building in March 1894, in our Report 
 "for 1893. 
 
 V. 
 
 But see now, Dear Friends, how much evil one false step 
 leads to. 
 
 Signor Angelini breaks away from all his solemn pledges, 
 and prosecutes his forbidden personal scheme more earnestly, 
 if possible than before, if indeed he had begun it. And when 
 reports reach us to this effect, and requests for explanations 
 
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 are made to me, and I am obliged to write to him about bis 
 broken promises, he takes up the attitude of the injured party, 
 and not only writes to us in this strain, but influences the minds 
 of some Friends in America, especially the dear Christians of 
 the Newark Society , who now begin a course, which has been the 
 occasion for still further departure by Signor Angelini from the 
 path of duty, for this reason, that if Angelini had not been 
 assured of their financial support, he could not have continued 
 his personal work. 
 
 Writing to me from New York, on 7th December, 1892, 
 Dr. Virgin said: « Some of the best givers feel a little anxious 
 about Signor Angelini’s withdrawal from the work, are jealous of 
 his good name and good work, and the Society which gives the 
 largest amount, wrote me last week, to know why his name did 
 not appear in the Annual Report, with the list of contributions 
 from the United States. I explained that that was because the 
 money had been sent to Florence, by cheque of Dr. Crosby and 
 myself. It indicates great loyalty to Angelini , and a disposition , 
 
 not to give at all , except through him. » 
 
 I was greatly startled by this last sentence, which was heavily 
 underscored by Dr. Virgin. It seemed to me a very strong 
 step for Newark friends to propose, without having given any 
 reason for such action, which naturally would involve the with¬ 
 drawal of the Newark Committee from our American Society, 
 
 and of Angelini from our work. 
 
 I thought it therefore my duty to write as follows to the 
 
 Newark Committee: 
 
 « Florence, 23rd December, 1892. 
 
 )) My dear Mrs. A., 
 
 » Through a reference in Dr. Virgin’s last letter, I believe 
 to Newark, I am able to explain, that in all my Reports, I have 
 put Signor Angelini’s name, on the early pages, as our Deputy 
 in America, and also prefaced the sums sent, as ft By Angelini 
 Deputation, per Rev. Dr. Crosby.” 
 

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 » The young hands, who kindly brought out this year’s Ee- 
 port, when I was away unwell on the Riviera, while retaining 
 the former, have only said in the latter, Per Drs. Crosby and 
 Virgin.” I can assure you there is no slight whatever meant 
 to Signor and Signora Angelini in the omission of his name. 
 
 » He also hints that your Society, (for I take it to be that 
 of Newark) is 50 loyal to Signor Angelini, and almost disposed 
 
 not to give except through him. 
 
 » I think it right, however, to say that we too are jealous 
 of the good name of Signor Angelini, as well as of the good 
 cause here, and it is in this way and no other, that an\ misun¬ 
 derstanding can have arisen. 
 
 p* » Signor Angelini was present, say 4 years ago, at our 
 Evangelical Committee, and at dinner in the country, at the 
 close of our labors, said something about collecting for a scheme, 
 apart from our general Fund. This greatly disturbed me and 
 the other brethren. We had never been consulted, and had 
 given no warrant therefore, and from my large experience, as 
 an old Ordained Minister, of 38 years standing now, I foreboded 
 trouble, and begged Signor Angelini not to bring himself and 
 us into difficulties. 
 
 »I spoke so earnestly, as a Father to a Son, and was so 
 supported by the wise, experienced men of the Committee, that 
 I never doubted but that Signor Angelini would desist. 
 
 » I had above a year of absence in Scotland thereafter, in 
 very bad health. I was obliged to go on collecting foi the 
 cause, as responsible Treasurer, though very unfit, but that was 
 all I could do. Even on my return, I kept in hand only Trea¬ 
 surer’s duty and the foreign correspondence, as nobody could 
 be found to replace me. 
 
 » Some 3 years ago I was informed that Signor Angelini 
 was still collecting for a large building at Forano, a small but 
 interesting country place, where he was a priest, in olden times. 
 
 » I never had, nor have I now, any doubt of Signor Ange- 
 lini’s honor and honesty, but I still feel that the Sanction of 
 the Committee should have been obtained, so that we might be 
 
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 responsible for the receipt and disbursement of any such moneys 
 collected. 
 
 » Signor Angelini’s plan was to collect for the general cause, 
 but to ask special gifts for Forano to be brought to him. 
 
 » I have not been able to see Signor Angelini, but I have 
 explained to him how surely trouble would arise, by people 
 looking to me, as the responsible party for all this, and in that 
 case my post as Treasurer would be untenable. 
 
 » And what I expected came to pass. During last winter, 
 
 I had letters from individuals and Societies, asking why these 
 gifts to Angelini were not printed in our report, and so on. 
 
 » You can understand the delicacy of my position, especially 
 
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 when persons delegated by givers came here, to get information 
 for their friends at home. I have said as little as I possibly 
 could, but still necessarily more than I wished. 
 
 » Last summer I pressed on Signor Angelini, at least to 
 print the list of moneys he had received these years past for 
 this special object, so as to exonerate me and himself, or to send 
 me the list, and I would print it in our Report in February next. 
 
 » Signor Angelini felt the force of this, and agreed, that on 
 reaching New York, where all his papers were, he would either 
 print himself, or send to me the list for printing. 
 
 » On arriving at New York, however, he informed me, that 
 Dr. Virgin thought it would suffice to print a Report, when the 
 whole work was accomplished. 
 
 » I have always followed a different wav, and so have secured 
 the fullest confidence in our finance, from year to year. Of 
 course, I can do no more, but am obliged to state the facts, 
 when pressed by parties. I cannot suppress these, otherwise I 
 would in the future be held responsible, and I send them to 
 you, that you may judge how anxious ive have been about Si¬ 
 gnor Angelini’s name and character, as our Deputy in America. 
 You can use them as you think fit, in his interest and in the 
 interest of the Evangelization of Italy. 
 
 » Signor Angelini informed me by letter from New York, 
 however, in September last, that in seven years he had received 
 
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 as personal gifts and for the Church at Forano $ 7822, and 
 also that in seven years, with great economy, he had saved $ 9895. 
 
 » This latter statement is in reference to extensive properties, 
 which he has purchased these few years past at doiano, con¬ 
 stituting him one of the largest landed proprietors, whereby he 
 proposes to protect the infant Church there, and give employ¬ 
 ment to the members. 
 
 )) I hope, my dear Mrs. A., you have understood my sense 
 of duty in writing to you now. It is to show you, that nobody 
 doubts the enthusiasm, zeal and excellent intention of Signor An- 
 gelini. What I have doubted was his prudence , and as to that 
 I have always written to him, as I have done to others. I have 
 asked him and others to do, as I seek to do myself; not only 
 to do the right, but to show it, in short, to provide things ho¬ 
 nest in the sight of all men. 
 
 » My own mind is perfectly calm and clear on the mattei, 
 that as responsible Treasurer, and a lover of Italy and the Lord s 
 work here, and of all our Evangelists these 35 years, 1 could 
 do no otherwise, from what I have seen in my public experience 
 
 of Christian men and Societies. 
 
 » I have no desire to concuss the opinions of others = I hope 
 all may go well, but the very fact, that you should be so loyal 
 to our dear Brother, as to be disposed not to give at all except 
 through him,” proves that I rightly foresaw danger, which I 
 hope God will graciously avert. 
 
 >■ )) With my kindest regards, 
 
 » Ever your sincerely, 
 
 » John B. Mac Dougall. » 
 
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 4 
 
 Surely this letter should have set to rest any fears on the 
 part of the Newark Society, as to our sympathy with, and kind 
 treatment of Signor Angelini. 
 
 A kind answer did come from Newark, hoping there would 
 be no misunderstanding, approving however of all Signor Ange- 
 
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 lini’s plans about the building of a small Church and the purchase 
 of land for the good of the people, seeing no opposition to our 
 wishes nor spirit of insubordination, wondering we keep Signor 
 Angelini in America when he wishes to return to Italy, speaking 
 of their esteem for Signor Angelini and their hope to continue 
 to maintain him as their Missionary. 
 
 But there was no kindly word for the Mission of the Evan¬ 
 gelical Church of Italy, nor could there well be, for Newark, 
 whatever else it did with its money in 1892, sent nothing for 
 our work that year, either to New York or to Florence. Nor 
 was there any sympathy with the difficulties of a young native 
 Church, in which the example of Signor Angelini, purchasing pro¬ 
 perties and building Church premises without explanation or 
 consent of his Committee, would naturally be followed by De¬ 
 puties in other lands. And above all, the matter mentioned by 
 Dr. Virgin, and which formed the burden of my letter, was not 
 even alluded to. 
 
 No one could be otherwise than pleased with the happy 
 personal relations of Newark with Signor Angelini, and no one 
 could fail to sympathise with his longing for home, which was 
 gratified shortly after, though he came to Forano every sum¬ 
 mer, but that is not the point. « They were so loyal to Mr. 
 Angelini, as to be disposed not to give at all, except through 
 him.» 
 
 Now who first wrote that to Dr. Virgin, and ivhy? We could 
 be loyal to Mr. Angelini and to the Evangelical Church of Italy 
 as well. Why could not Newark be the same ? Why not explain 
 if they could not ? Had a decision been come to by Newark to 
 that effect? Something as good as a decision must have been 
 reached, for since the day of Dr. Virgin's letter till now, Neivarh 
 has not contributed anything, except $ 25 in 1893, to the Evangel¬ 
 ical Church of Italy, but dealt exclusively with Signor Angelini. 
 
 And yet Newark is represented on the Board of the Ame¬ 
 rican Society in aid of our work in Italy by 2 members, who 
 voted last month in favor of Angelini having still a free hand 
 in collecting money in America, after all that has come and 
 
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 gone, and in opposition to Circulars from the Committee here and 
 from the American Board. And all this without their seeing that 
 there is in such action a great inconsistency! Signor Angelini 
 has understood things better, for he has freely said in Italy, 
 that with Newark to support him, he would defy the Committee 
 of his Church. 
 
 Now I wish to make it abundantly clear, that Newark had not 
 a shadow of a shade of an excuse for acting towards us, as it 
 has done, by showing that we remained loyal friends of Signor 
 Angelini, as well as of the Evangelical Church of Italy, until 
 all confidence in him was impossible. 
 
 But before doing so let me say, that the only explanation 
 given by Newark was to Mrs. Stephens, of Brooklyn, on 22nd 
 December, 1893: « Our Society ivould be very glad to send, through 
 the American Treasurer, money to the General Fund, but for 
 severed reasons find it not advisable. » 
 
 These reasons were, I believe, «the change of the Society’s 
 name, » with which we had nothing to do, having been argued 
 and decided by the American Society itself, Mrs. Angelini being 
 strongly in its favor. 
 
 Again : « I had obliged Mr. Angelini to pay an assistant 
 during his illness. » Well, I was away on Deputation and was 
 never asked, nor was our Secretary Fera. Mr. Angelini had a 
 young helper at Forano, and as he is so wealthy a man and 
 has so large a salary for so small a country station, he had not 
 the conscience to ask. 
 
 These and similar things have no weight against the inva¬ 
 riable, orderly practice of transmitting money, through the reco¬ 
 gnized officials of Societies and Churches. For all the 100 years 
 that the Church of Christ has been out in the Mission field, 
 there is as yet no instance of a native Church coming out of 
 a great superstition, and managing its own affairs. The expe¬ 
 riment is being tried in Italy, these 25 years, and what we 
 need is strength and support at the centre, and which we might 
 have expected our wise, Christian Friends at Newark to give us, 
 as opposed to the leanings of some, Italians and others, who 
 
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 think the centrifugal force is what is needed, and that every 
 man should start, whenever he can, for himself. 
 
 Look then at our loyal conduct towards Signor Angelini in 1893. 
 We continued to see to the maintenance of the work at Forano, 
 in the Committee, by visits from Rome, our nearest station, and 
 
 by sending the monthly moneys. 
 
 On 2nd May Signor Angelini was here at an Evangelical 
 Committee, and I find in my Diary: « Forenoon arranging An¬ 
 gelini and Forano accounts amicably. » 
 
 At the end of that month we honored Signor Angelini, by 
 asking him to go with Rev. Cav. Fera, as Deputies to the Jubilee 
 Assembly of my own Church in Edinburgh. These brethren 
 lived in my own Scottish home, were sumptuously entertained 
 in Edinburgh, addressed that memorable Assembly, and visited 
 Glasgow and spoke with me at various meetings. If human lan¬ 
 guage means anything, I understood from Angelini, that he had 
 then received a great blessing of God’s grace, and purposed 
 walking in the hereafter in full integrity of heart and conduct. 
 
 Again, on the 11th October, in the General Assembly of 
 the Evangelical Church of Italy, held in Florence, perceiving 
 the trouble ahead, because his affairs were the common talk all 
 over Italy, I came generously in aid of Signor Angelini, though 
 showing his constant acts of imprudence, and succeeded in get¬ 
 ting his brethren to leave his affairs in the hands of the Com¬ 
 mittee. 
 
 Two days later, not in connection with Signor Angelini, for 
 there was then no idea of defection in that matter, on the 
 part of Newark, the Committee had occasion to renew its de¬ 
 cision, that all moneys must pass through the hands of their 
 responsible Treasurers. 
 
 And yet Newark sent the moneys for 1893 directly to Mr. 
 Angelini. What was to be done? I wrote to Signor Angelini, 
 that these $ 600 belonged to us — that we had disbursed them 
 month by month during 1893 for Forano — and that they must 
 be paid over to our Treasury, as I exactly needed that sum, in 
 order to obtain a balance. Happily Signor Angelini saw the 
 
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 thing clearly, after long explanations, when he came here on 
 8th February 1894, and shortly after paid the 3000 francs, but 
 instead of appearing in Mr. Tower’s American list, as it had not 
 gone through him, it figures in mine, thus: ((Newark, for Fo- 
 rano in 1893, per Rev. Luigi Angelini, 3000 lire. » 
 
 Then a word or two about our loyal conduct towards Signor 
 Angelini and Forano in 1894. 
 
 I was in Rome the first week of January, and had arranged 
 to go to Forano, but two snow storms and several rain storms 
 kept us in our hotel for the whole week. 
 
 Grateful for our many kindnesses, and for still further 
 placing a drawing of Forano Church in our Report, issued 
 March 1894, Signor Angelini was in an excellent frame of mind, 
 as appears from his letters, and I believe that if the Florence 
 Committee could have met that of Newark, and got it to adopt 
 the regular and constitutional way of sending their moneys, as 
 all other Societies and individual givers do, directly through the 
 hands of our Treasurers, the issue might have been very diffe¬ 
 rent to-day. 
 
 However that may be, Signor Angelini expressed his per¬ 
 suasion, (8th June) «that I was a true Friend of his, and hoped 
 that God would bless me on my journey, and give me plenty of 
 money to carry on our noble work for Christ. » 
 
 He was also much touched by my summer letters of sym¬ 
 pathy for him, in his serious illnesses, and wrote (18th August): 
 
 I Rave made my last will, and Rave left everything 
 according to conscience to you. l r ou will Re, I believe, 
 mucR satisfied. Everytliing will be for rt Our CRurcR,” 
 though I Rave left some legacies for yon to pay my 
 relatives, during tReir natural lives. If I Rave done 
 wrong and get better, yon will counsel me. 
 
 Angelini recovered and was present at the Committee, on 
 3rd October, and witnessed as fine an outburst of brotherly re- 
 
conciliation and love as I ever saw. Jealousies will crop up and 
 untender language be used among the best of men, but God 
 sends His happy, uniting, forgiving Spirit, and again all is peace 
 and joy. 
 
 I find in my Diary of that day : « On Angelini affairs. He 
 promises us a balanced account, and when well goes to Ame¬ 
 rica with our sanction, to get remainder of money, which is to 
 pass through our hands, and his Newark salary as well, and he 
 is to avoid crossing purposes with our Deputy, Dev. Carlo Gay, in 
 his tvork among the Societies. » 
 
 The Committee, certainly this time with reference to Newark, 
 formally decided, that moneys should all pass through our re¬ 
 sponsible Treasurers. 
 
 Also that Signor Gay should go as Deputy to our Societies 
 in the United States. 
 
 And finally, Signor Angelini, on 23rd October — only 18 
 days after the Committee — came to Florence, all unasked and 
 to my great surprise, and told me he was then going to America, 
 to get the last moneys for the Forano Building. 
 
 Certainly he was the last man I should have sent across 
 the Atlantic at such a time. In the then state of his health, 
 it seemed to me suicide. In the then state of American com¬ 
 merce, it seemed to me folly, and having only sent Signor Gay 
 10 days before, it seemed to me, and I know it did to our 
 Brooklyn Committee, like acting contrary to the interests of 
 our own general work. 
 
 But Signor Angelini, in the spirit of the recent general Be- 
 conciliation, promised that he would do everything, not to 
 weaken, but to strengthen our Committee’s hands, by insisting 
 on the Newark money passing through our Treasurers in New 
 York and Florence, and also that he would go only to his wealthy 
 givers, and not interfere with Mr. Gay’s visits to the Societies. 
 Still further, he engaged as a pledge of his good faith to his 
 Church, the Evangelical Church of Italy, to send through me 
 all the gifts he received, to be laid out on Forano building, 
 of course. 
 
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 Signor Angelini then gave me on a piece of paper, written 
 and signed by himself, the principal outlays which he said he 
 had made, from Nos. 1 to 13 inclusive, amounting to 55,550 frcs., 
 and those from 14 to 19 inclusive, for which he still required 
 money, making a total of 65,700 lire, or $ 13,140 for the 
 Church and School Buildings in Forano, as indeed the paper 
 
 is entitled. 
 
 Here are the items : 
 
 1. Ground and laying foundations. Lire 
 
 2. Stones. 
 
 3. Bricks. 
 
 4. Lime. 
 
 5. Roman cement.. 
 
 6. Chemical cement... 
 
 7. Plaster. 
 
 8. Wood and beams. 
 
 9. Iron beams. 
 
 10. Ropes, nails and iron fastenings. 
 
 11. Asphalt and tiles. 
 
 12. Masons and other workmen. 
 
 13. Expense of Church Bell. 
 
 14. Six large iron frames, with colored glass. 
 
 15. Church front door and inner door, with School fixings. 
 
 16. Plasterers and stucco workers. 
 
 17. Floors of marble cement (Church and School). 
 
 18. Decorative artist... 
 
 19. Architect and Superintendent. 
 
 Total... Lire 
 
 Luigi Angelini. 
 
 Naturally I could not receive such a genera] statement, 
 without documents showing the details, because Signor Ange¬ 
 lini has always expended the moneys, without any control, so 
 far as we know, and therefore he gave me, in his own hand¬ 
 writing, the following declaration: 
 
 I, the undersigned, declare to Dr. Mac Dougall, that I 
 hold at Forano the receipts, which show that Lire 55,550 
 
 2,000 
 
 7,060 
 
 6,000 
 
 7,000 
 
 6,432 
 
 2,300 
 
 285 
 
 1.950 
 1,700 
 1,590 
 
 720 
 
 16,513 
 
 2,000 
 
 1,800 
 
 2,000 
 
 2.950 
 1,000 
 
 900 
 
 1,500 
 
 65,700 
 
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 (I 11,110) have been already spent for Church and 
 School-house at Forano, as appears in the balanced 
 accounts. Further I declare that I have made con¬ 
 tracts for other Ten Thousand One Hundred and Fifty 
 Lire (12030), which are sufficient to finish the con¬ 
 struction of Church and School-house in Forano. 
 
 In faith. 
 
 Luigi Angelini. 
 
 Florence, 23rd October, 1894. 
 
 With such a document in my possession, I consented to his 
 going to America at that time, all the more that he compiled 
 with my help, the following Circular to his and our Friends in 
 the United States, which he published at the press of Eick and 
 Lewis, 16 Fair St., Newark. N. J., and circulated, under date 
 Newark, N. J. November, 1894. 
 
 To my dear personal Friends and the Friends of 
 Italian Evangelization in America. 
 
 Dear Christian Friends, 
 
 I have the pleasure of submitting to you my accounts, 
 for the buildings at Forano, to which you so generously 
 contributed. 
 
 I am sorry to say that I am short $ 2143, in order 
 to finish this heavy undertaking. 
 
 I have just arrived in America, in order, with God’s 
 blessing, to secure the necessary $ 4173, and return to 
 my loved work, at Forano as soon as possible. 
 
 I have felt it my duty to lay my accounts before 
 our respected Treasurer, Rev. Dr. Mac Dougall of Flo¬ 
 rence, who has kindly given me, in the name of the 
 Committee of Evangelization, the hearty recommenda¬ 
 tion, which you will find below. 
 
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 I have also undertaken as a guarantee of good faith, 
 to my Italian Evangelical Church, for which 1 am prov¬ 
 iding these mission premises ; that your further kind 
 gifts for the completion of my enterprise, shall pass 
 through the hands of Mr. Horace Ailing, 41 Walnut St. 
 Newark, N. J. and Hev. Hr. John Mac Doug all, as General 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 I need not say how greatly obliged I shall feel for 
 another token of your sympathy, and with what joy 
 you will thrill my heart, when you send me away with 
 my task completed. 
 
 With kindest regards and heartfelt thanks, 
 
 Ever yours sincerely, 
 
 Luigi Angelini. 
 
 This document is so important, that I think it well to print 
 in an Appendix, the whole Circular of Signor Angelini, in which 
 it is found, along with my strong certificate, in name of the 
 Committee, to show at once our loyalty to Signor Angelini and 
 to the Evangelical Church of Italy. 
 
 Unfortunately « the well laid plans of mice and men gang 
 aft aglee. » Everything went contrariwise to our engagements. 
 Angelini wrote to me that he was getting no money, whereas we 
 had news that he was, and so he broke his promise to send mo¬ 
 neys through my hands. I had letters from Societies, stating 
 the Mr. Angelinas begging expedition had alienated wealthy 
 givers to these Societies, so he was injuring the revenue of 
 our regular Mission \ and he wholly stultified our compromise, 
 which would have conciliated the interests of everyone, had it been 
 honorably fulfilled, by accepting the $ 600 from the Society at 
 Newark for 1894, which we had paid out from Florence , month 
 by month of that year, to himself, or in his absence to his wife, 
 as his personal salary ! The Newark Society, at the Annual Meet¬ 
 ing in Brooklyn, May 1895, even praised Signor Angelini, for 
 
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 only taking $ 400 for salary, because the other 1200 at his 
 own request , were deducted from his salary, and added to the 
 fund devoted to the completion of the Church in Forano ! 
 
 How self-denying on his part, indeed!, but the whole $ 600 
 belonged to us, because we had expended them on the Forano 
 Evangelist’s salary, in the name of the Newark Committee. 
 
 Whatever the good Ladies of Newark thought they were 
 doing, and surely they should have known they were not acting 
 correctly, Mr. Angelini knew perfectly well what he was doing, 
 and his action has but one name in every language and in every 
 civilized country. 
 
 I therefore wrote immediately to Signor Angelini, under date 
 Florence, 26th January, 1895: 
 
 I 
 
 « Dear Mr. Angelini, 
 
 » In connection with the news this week from America, I 
 write to say, that I have withdrawn all and every certificate and 
 recommendation in your favor, especially those of 23rd October 
 last, and by this letter I beg you to honorably put them aside, 
 and not to use them on any occasion hereafter. 
 
 » Please return to me my Certificate of 23rd October last, 
 or if it is destroyed, send me two copies in the printed form, 
 as proof that you have received this letter. 
 
 » Yours very truly, 
 
 » John. R. Mac Dougall. » 
 
 I also wrote as follows to the Newark Society: 
 
 « Florence, 26th January, 1S95. 
 
 » Dear Mrs. A., 
 
 » This is only a business letter, as I have written at length 
 to the American Society, regarding this week’s news from America. 
 » I only write to say : 
 
 » 1st. That our acting Treasurer here, Signor Cecclii, has 
 sent out during 1894, month by month, Mr. Angelini’s salary 
 
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 of 1600, to himself and when absent to his wife, and that we 
 need that sum from you, at your earliest convenience, to close 
 our Accounts for 1894. If we must differ and separate, let us 
 not quarrel about paying our honest debts. 
 
 » 2nd. I ask you also to forward to me the $150 sent to 
 you from the Orange Society. I hear for the first time this 
 week, that the Oranges wished to support a colporteur at Fo- 
 rano. I was never informed of this. Jersey City was the Society 
 that did this, and for years I paid salary, far in excess of that 
 Society’s giving, to Angelinas Brother, as Colporteur, until he^ 
 was dismissed for utter incapacity. Since then we have had no* 
 Colporteur in Forano, because the money from Jersey City had 
 gone down to a minimum. 
 
 » I have therefore spent in 1894 the money of the Oranges,, 
 as usual, on our general work, our 8 Colporteurs, our many 
 Schools, Evangelists, Bible women, etc., and our books must stand 
 open for a month longer, until you send this money, as we have 
 no reserve funds for this purpose. 
 
 » Even the meanest Servant receives due notice, that his 
 services are no longer required, and surely we, who have been 
 serving Newark and the Orange Societies, in the high places 
 of Italian Evangelization, may claim due notice to quit the ser¬ 
 vice, and full payment of all moneys we have disbursed for you 
 and them. 
 
 » As to the future, the decision is in your own option. We 
 are all free-born, and must serve the Lord with our highest 
 intelligence and deepest sense of responsibility. But the past 
 year cannot be undone, and its disbursements must be recouped. 
 I am sure you will not willingly wrong the dear little Evange¬ 
 lical Church of Italy, the youngest Presbyterian Church in the 
 World, in this matter, whatever you may intend to do in 1895. 
 
 » I have immediately acquainted Mrs. Angelini at Forano,. 
 that all remittances are suspended. 
 
 » With kind regards, 
 
 » Yours very truly, 
 
 >) John. R. Mac Doug all. » 
 
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 On hearing of Signor Angelinas arrival at Forano, I wrote 
 to him : 
 
 « Florence, 8th March, 1895. 
 
 » Sir, 
 
 » You lave lately taken from the Newark Society $ 600, well 
 knowing that you had already received from us this sum dur¬ 
 ing 1894, as salary, and that it is now owing to us. 
 
 )) You have also taken from the same Society $ 150, in the name 
 of the Orange Society, for a Colporteur in Forano during 1894, 
 although you have not had such a Colporteur, and although we 
 have spent that sum, in the Evangelical Church of Italy for 
 Colporteurs, etc. elsewhere, not having had instructions to spend / 
 it in Forano. 
 
 » We need these moneys to reach our balance for 1894, so 
 I beg you to send it to the Treasurer Cecchi, Banca Haskard, 
 Florence, before 22nd inst. 
 
 » If you have not made this payment of moneys belonging 
 to us by 22nd inst., I shall summon you before the Tribunal. 
 
 » It is useless to write to me empty promises and futile 
 proposals. Do not write. Send the money. 
 
 » Your obedient Servant, 
 
 » John It. Mac Dougall. » 
 
 Four days after this, I acquainted him, that I had received 
 $ 100 from a mutual Friend in America for Forano Building, 
 which I held in part payment of the above sum. f ) 
 
 In answer Signor Angelini sent me a series of letters, of a 
 most inconclusive kind, and to which I did not reply. They box 
 the whole compass of proposals, and convictions and arrangements, 
 and are very humbling to read. « I do not know whether I ought 
 to send you the $ 400. Would you not let me kindly use the 
 . $ 400 for expenses ? Could you allow me to give you back the 
 money next year? I do not see how I can meet my appointments.— 
 He would like a large loan on his property in order to pay his 
 debts. He has only, during this trip in America, got $ 2200 for the 
 
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 Building. Why do I stop paying all the salaries at Forano now ? 
 The $ 150 from the Oranges was to pay his pulpit supply in 
 Forano. He did not send his collections through me, according 
 to solemn promise, because somebody counselled him to send 
 them through somebody else. You are tired of so many Italian 
 weaknesses, but lam not tired of my Evangelical Italian Church , for 
 which I hope to work, to the glory of God, to the end of my days. » 
 
 It is very sad to see a soldier of the cross so entangled 
 1 1 
 
 in worldly affairs, so rich and increased in goods and yet so im¬ 
 mersed in debts and bills. 
 
 The reply from Newark was kindly and Christian, but un¬ 
 satisfactory. « They are working for a specified object; though 
 desired to continue with the Brooklyn Society, they preferred 
 the old name, and feel much hurt at the new one. The Orange 
 ladies sent $ 150 for supply of Mr. Angelinas pulpit. We handed 
 $ 400 to Mr. Angelini for his salary, which he will hand to you. 
 Mr. Angelini asked* our Society to send the money directly to you, 
 but the Ladies thought it better to give it to him. » 
 
 I therefore wrote again (indeed twice to Newark, but the 
 second letter was very confidential), on 7th March, 1895, that 
 their letter was unsatisfactory. 
 
 « The only point I have again, and for the last time to refer 
 to, is that ice spent for you on Mr. Angelinas salary $ 600 
 in 1894, and claim that money as a matter of common honesty. 
 Further we spent for the Orange Society their $ 150, in our 
 general work of Colportage, never having heard of any special 
 v designation, and we also claim that money. 
 
 )> You have been pleased to give these moneys to Angelini, and 
 ask me to go to him for satisfaction, not knowing that your 
 action has separated him from the Evangelical Church of Italy 
 — that I have nothing further to do with him — that no word 
 of mine has any weight with him, and that the Committee has 
 accepted your action, leaving you complete control of him and 
 of his work at Forano. 
 
 » The $ 50 a month to Angelini is a larger salary than we 
 would have given for such a small country place, but the salary 
 
36 — 
 
 was fixed by you , and we have paid it regularly and claim it 
 from you. 
 
 » Why you gave money to him, which should have been paid 
 to us, the spenders, directly or through Mr. Tower, and also 
 gave the $ 150 from the Oranges to him, who had not spent 
 it in 1894 for a Colporteur, whereas we had spent it, according 
 to our best light and instructions, I cannot possibly divine, not 
 having the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, but certainly 
 there is needed a sufficient explanation of this unkindly attitude 
 towards myself, and Mr. Tower, and the Committee and the 
 Evangelical Church of Italy. 
 
 » We are in deficit exactly these 4000 francs, which you have 
 paid away to another, and I shall now have to explain matters 
 in our Report to the Christian public, to show them that we are 
 not in deficit, if we had our honest due from you. 
 
 » That you should have acted as you have done towards Si¬ 
 gnor Angelini is at least unbusinesslike, but his having taken 
 money, which he knew he had already been paid, is called in all 
 countries and languages by an ugly name, and is attended by 
 awkward consequences. 
 
 »I am a Minister of peace, and love to reconcile parties at 
 variance, but I have a duty to do by God’s cause here, and must 
 proceed against Signor Angelini in the law courts. 
 
 » You would save us much inconvenience, and yourselves and 
 us much annoyance, if you would even now do your duty; namely 
 order Angelini to pay me at once and without further shuffling, 
 the $400 and $150 you gave him, and you yourselves would 
 send me the additional $ 200 we expended, and so close all our 
 relations, which are too grievous to continue. 
 
 »In the hope that you will prefer this to prolonged contro¬ 
 versy, into which you force me, against my wish, I shall give 
 you till 22nd inst., when this letter shall have easily reached you; 
 — if you accept the above and telegraph to me « Mac Dougall, 
 Florence, Sending, » I shall understand that my troubles with you, 
 these three years, and with Angelini these twenty years, are 
 happily ended. 
 
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 » After the 22nd inst., I shall feel free to do my Christian 
 duty. 
 
 » With kind regards, 
 
 » Yours truly, 
 
 )) John R. Mac Dougall. » 
 
 No telegram came, to my great surprise, but, under date 
 2nd April, there came from Newark one of those overpowering 
 and pathetic appeals, which overwhelm the soul: « Everything 
 had been done in good faith; the sending of money to him di¬ 
 rectly was with no idea of creating trouble; there was no thought 
 of causing disaffection; we are willing to do ivhat will restore 
 peace, sending our money to Mr. Toiver for your Committee; the 
 first payment for 1895 will he forwarded in June; asks that An- 
 gelini be restored to our confidence and former position ; not to 
 speak of separation ; aware that the deed of the New Church at 
 Forano was drawn in the name of the Evangelical Church of 
 Italy)) and many other tender and gentle explanations. 
 
 To this I answered : 
 
 « Florence, 23rd April, 1895. 
 
 » My dear Mrs. A., 
 
 » Your gracious and pleading letter of 2nd inst. greatly 
 moved me. I am sorry that a crowd of spring visitors in town 
 and Church and house, and loads of other business, prevent me 
 from doing justice to it by going into details, even if I thought 
 
 that necessary, which I do not. 
 
 )) I write to-day to Mr. Platt of Poughkeepsie, who also wrote 
 me a beautiful letter, and to Mrs. John Hopkins, for the Annual 
 Meeting on 9th May, as I now, with all affection, write to you, 
 that in presence of these letters I must sist procedure. 
 
 » 1 never yet in my life have said No to a lady, much more 
 a Christian lady, and one tenth of what you so generously say, 
 would stop me in any proceeding, much more in going into Court, 
 which I have never in my life yet done, or writing anything of 
 
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 Christian Friends, who I am sure acted wholly in good faith r 
 though acting so as to break up friendly relations. 
 
 » You say nothing of the moneys we need to make up our 
 deficit for 1894, nevetheless I accept, that if Signor Angelini 
 will come here and pay up at least ivhat you gave him , in the 
 presence of his ivife and myself', and come to terms of good beha¬ 
 viour, with our able Secretary, Rev. Cav. Fera, 1 shall urge his 
 readmittance. 
 
 » You will not expect more than this, for my confidence is 
 wholly shaken, but I shall not stand in the way of his resto¬ 
 ration, as you now promise to pay his salary, — is it to be $ 600 
 or $ 400 a year ? through Mr. Tower. 
 
 )> We have no deed, as you assert, of Forano property, ivhich 
 is in Mr. Angelinas name and hands. Cav. Fera got him to 
 sign a paper in 1891. He also wrote to me last year that he had 
 made his will, leaving the Building on certain conditions of main¬ 
 taining some members of his family, to the Mission, but I have 
 not seen the Will. 
 
 » Excuse haste. 
 
 » Very cordial greetings, 
 
 » Ever yours sincerely, 
 
 » John R. Mac Dougall. » 
 
 I was grieved that nothing was said in this letter of our 
 deficit on 1894 account, caused by our misunderstanding with 
 Newark and Signor Angelini. Nevertheless in our 1894 Report, 
 I only said: « The deficit of 4000 francs is apparent, not real. 
 It is money advanced by us in the work for Friends, who have 
 not yet repaid us, as they shortly will. » 
 
 I am sorry that there is little hope of this now, as the fol¬ 
 lowing pages will show, and so, in passing, let me appeal to 
 Friends who may read these pages, to help me to liquidate this 
 unfortunate deficit, and not keep it in our Annual Reports as 
 a bad debt of the good people of Newark, to the poor little 
 Evangelical Church of Italy. 
 
 How sad too, that not even the promise in this Newark 
 
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 letter of 2nd April was maintained; namely, that in June the 
 first instalment would he sent to Mr. Tower. After a loss of 
 4000 francs last year, I could not venture to advance money 
 again to Forano. « Once bitten, twice shy. » Mr. Angelini was 
 asked by us therefore to go on till June, and when the moneys 
 from Newark came, he would be paid, according to an engage¬ 
 ment we drew up. But when the moneys from Mr. Tower 
 reached us in July, there was nothing from Newark, and in 
 August we heard, that money had been forwarded from Newark 
 to Mr. Tower , to be sent direct to Mr. Angelini in Forano ! 
 
 VI. 
 
 I had no further confidence in Signor Angelini, but was 
 more than willing, that a Brother should be saved from himself 
 and for the work, if it could possibly be done, and so, on leav¬ 
 ing for my holiday Deputation, I commended him and Ma¬ 
 dame Angelini, who by this time had been carried away by her 
 Husband’s dissimulation, to the care of President Conti and Sec¬ 
 retary Fera. Here follows the last tragic act in this life-drama, 
 in which the character of the parties is fully revealed. I shall 
 
 shorten as much as possible the documents. 
 
 By previous arrangement, President Conti and Secretary 
 Fera went to Forano in July, and conferred with Mr. and Mrs. An¬ 
 gelini. They came to a verbal agreement, and the Secretary 
 was to send up from Florence the formal document, to be signed 
 
 - by all the parties. 
 
 Here is the Secretary’s first letter: 
 
 « Florence, July 25th, 1895. 
 
 » Dear Brother and Colleague, 
 
 »I have just returned from my visit to the South, and now 
 I write to you officially, as to the arrangement made first between 
 you, Dr. Mac Dougall and myself, and now confirmed between 
 
 you, President Conti and myself. 
 
 » To remove, then, every possible misunderstanding for the 
 
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 future, and dissipate every doubt as to your standing in the 
 Evangelical Italian Church, it is agreed by you on the one side 
 and Dr. Mac Dougall, Conti and myself on the other, that you 
 shall accept the following conditions, recognized by all of us 
 and by yourself as well, as indispensable, from every point 
 of view: 
 
 » 1st. You will draw up an exaet inventory of all you 
 have acquired in Florence or its vicinity, indicating the purpose 
 of each purchase or building, and also the means, whether special 
 gifts, donations or personal savings, whereby you have been able 
 to purchase or build. 
 
 » 2nd. As all the property is in your own name, you under¬ 
 take without further delay, in due legal fashion, to pass the 
 property to the Evangelical Italian Church, represented by its 
 Committee in Florence, or to some one acting for it, whether 
 Church or School House, or Minister’s dwelling, or whatever else 
 you consider it your duty to pass over, in the name and as 
 the property of our Church and work in Florence. 
 
 » 3rd. It is also indispensable that you draw up a detailed 
 account of how much you have collected and spent in purchasing 
 or building Church, School House and Manse in Florence, and 
 that the Committee be authorized to publish this account. 
 
 » 4th. You are not, hereafter, without special permission 
 of the Committee, to receive gifts directly, whether from Ame¬ 
 rica or elsewhere. Every gift or collection must pass through 
 the hands of our Treasurer, and in the event of any such moneys 
 reaching you, they are to be sent to the said Treasurer. 
 
 » 5th. Exception to the preceding article is made, in regard 
 to a limited fund for the poor, on the understanding that at the 
 end of each year, you send to the Committee an audited account 
 of how much you have received and how you have spent such 
 funds. 
 
 » 6th. These things being clearly understood and loyally 
 carried out, and the American Societies sending their gifts 
 directly to the Committee, the Committee undertakes to maintain 
 not only Rev. Luigi Angelini, as Pastor of the Italian Evangel- 
 
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 ical Church, but also the whole work in Forano and its neigh¬ 
 bourhood. In addition, it undertakes to respect, as it always 
 has done, the wish of the donors in regard to the application 
 of their moneys, 
 
 )> 7th. Lastly, we believe it superfluous to mention, that 
 as we loyally and affectionately feel bound to you, you, on your 
 part, will correspond with equal loyalty, and will respect the 
 discipline of our Church and Committee. 
 
 » In order to avoid any hindrance to the well-being of the 
 Mission at Forano, be good enough to reply at once and offi¬ 
 cially, giving your frank and unconditional acceptance of all the 
 above mentioned conditions in our agreement, which you have 
 V v already verbally accepted. 
 
 » Yuor affectionate Brother in Christ, 
 
 )) S A VERIO FERA. » 
 
 Here is Signor Angelinas reply: 
 
 « Forano Sabina, August, 5th., 1895. 
 
 » Dear Signor Fera and Brother in Christ, 
 
 » Thanks for your letter and interest in me. I understand 
 how you are between two fires, and I wish sincerely to relieve 
 you, but not to be burnt myself, I must needs go gently. I am 
 surprised at this hurry of Dr. Mac Dougall, and at his way of 
 expressing himself regarding the payment owing and promised 
 to me. If he had told me, when we had our interview in Flo¬ 
 rence, what he now so hurriedly exacts, the matter would have 
 been intelligently treated by us, according to your counsels and 
 my rights. My word remains. I have said and will maintain 
 it, for whatever has been agreed upon, but when we come to 
 legal documents, these are things to be dealt with together, and 
 at the next meeting of the Committee I will appear, and we 
 shall go into the whole matter, in the full light of things. 
 
 » That which I am about to donate has cost me too much 
 fatigue and unpleasantness, Dear Fera, to give it away in a 
 moment, without settling the terms. 
 
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 )) In conclusion, I shall cede that which does not belong to me, 
 but before the responsible body of the Evangelical Church of Italy.» 
 
 And then, after writing about moneys which he asked and 
 expected, but which we could not send, according to agreement, 
 he says: « I only desire peace, but if I am driven by suspi¬ 
 cions and bad faith, which would cause me to make a dishon¬ 
 ourable figure, I shall know how to act differently. I shall 
 prepare answers to all questions and in peace, because I am not 
 afraid of anything coming to the light, which would make people 
 doubt my honesty. » 
 
 Instead of answering the business matters in Signor Fera’s 
 letter, as he promises to do, Signor Angelini wrote to me in 
 Scotland tw T o days after the preceding letter, that is on the 7th of 
 August, with a totally different proposal, although he had for¬ 
 merly accepted all the articles contained in the letter of Si¬ 
 gnor Fera, first in my study in the presence of Fera and myself, 
 and again at Forano, before Conti, Fera and Mrs. Angelini. 
 
 « Dear Dr. Mac Dougall, 
 
 )> After our friendly and peaceful parting in Florence, I am 
 surprised now to hear from Signor Fera, that you say no pay¬ 
 ments are to be made to me, until I have drawn up the legal 
 papers for the passing of this Church property to the Evangel¬ 
 ical Church. If you had told me that this was required im¬ 
 mediately, I would have attended to it right then and there, 
 for I have no intention of making such a document, unless in 
 your presence and before the Committee. 
 
 )> You may be exacting on your part, hut I, on the other hand, 
 am entitled to some consideration, for this Church building has 
 cost me too much labour and sorrow, not to wish to protect 
 my rights in this transaction. The paper I enclose contains the 
 terms I would like to make. I hope you will advise me kindly. 
 I would submit to any slight modification you would consider ne¬ 
 cessary, but you well know that to legalise such a document, there 
 is necessary the presence of both you, the Committee and myself. 
 
43 
 
 )) I wonder at your instructions to Signor Fera, and yet I 
 told you my true conditions and the need of this work so blessed. 
 
 I am ready to answer all the questions Signor Fera thought 
 necessary to make, and you will have them in black and white, 
 when, D. V., we next meet at Committee, if you think I should 
 come. 
 
 » I sincerely trust that I shall not be made to humble my¬ 
 self, any more than I have been compelled to do already, in 
 showing how I am in need, and that without further delay, I 
 will receive what I paid for this work. 
 
 )> I earnestly requested the Ladies of Newark to send the 
 money to you, believing in you more than you believe in me. 
 
 )) With best regards, etc. 
 
 » Luigi Angelini. » 
 
 And here is the paper enclosed, entitled a Act of Donation » 
 which after mature reflection, he submitted for my consideration 
 and that of the Committee, hoping that the conditions will be 
 accepted for the good harmony of our mutual relations. 
 
 « 1st. I, Luigi Angelini, give to the Italian Evangelical 
 Church a Temple and annexed School House, of the value ot 
 about 66,000 Italian lire, on condition that, during my natural 
 life, I remain the irremoveable Minister of the Church, with the 
 monthly stipend of 250 lire. 
 
 » 2nd. The Evangelical Italian Church, or for it the acting 
 Committee, undertakes to pay the 9000 lire of debt still on the 
 building, either in 3 annual rates of 3000 lire each, or by per¬ 
 mitting me to collect it among my American Friends. 
 
 » 3rd. Guarantee, in case, which may God prevent, of dis¬ 
 solution, liquidation, or fusion of the Italian Evangelical Church, 
 that the Temple shall for ever remain open for Evangelical 
 worship. 
 
 « 4th. The Evangelical Church and the Committee for it, 
 obliges itself to furnish all the moneys for the expenses of wor¬ 
 ship, as well as for the Schools, till such time as the lorano 
 Church can maintain itself. 
 
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 » Subject to these conditions, I, the permanent Minister, in¬ 
 tend to make, and do make this donation to the Italian Evan¬ 
 gelical Church, with its residence in Florence. 
 
 » 5th. Not accepting the Evangelical Italian Church of the 
 aforesaid conditions, I, Luigi Angelini, permanent Minister of 
 Forano, the Donor, consider the work of Forano separated from 
 the Italian Evangelical Church, retaining the primitive name of 
 Free Church, and independent, though remaining of one body 
 and one spirit, so far as regards worship, doctrine and hope in 
 the only Saviour Jesus Christ. » 
 
 That letter, with its conditions of Sale of the building to 
 the Evangelical Italian Church, I forwarded to Signor Fera, as 
 I was otherwise occupied and had already been too long hood¬ 
 winked by Signor Angelini. I had hoped Signor Fera would 
 have seen the hopelessness of any further correspondence, but, 
 with an earnestness, patience and brotherly love above all praise, 
 he reasoned and argued the points with the Angelinis (for 
 Mine. Angelini had now come to the rescue of her husband), but 
 made nothing of it; until finally he saw for himself, as I had 
 also got to know, the character of the parties we were trying 
 to save. 
 
 Life is too short to give in extenso such letters, but here 
 are three quotations from the Angelinis. 
 
 On 5th August Signor Angelini writes: « I have not collected 
 money to build a Church for the Evangelical Church of Italy, 
 in which case I would be certainly obliged to yield it up at 
 once, but I collected in moments belonging to my own proper 
 time, to have a Church in Forano, in which I might preach the 
 Gospel, and this is known to all my givers. It is you who pre¬ 
 tend to what does not belong to you. » 
 
 On 2nd September Mine. Angelini writes : « My husband has 
 received no compromise from you, on which to base his line of 
 action. And the conditions sent by him are the result of ma¬ 
 ture study and bitter sorrow. I fear you do not know the spirit 
 of the personal friends of Luigi, who have contributed for the 
 erection of this Church, for I am positive that everyone of them 
 
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 would sign their names to a document, which would make him 
 Minister for life, to whom they gave so willingly, to satisfy his 
 holy ambition. He never deceived anyone as to the destination 
 of their moneys, for everyone knew that it was a personal en¬ 
 terprise for his special work in Forano. 
 
 » If the money from Newark is now in the hands of the Trea¬ 
 surer, as we are convinced it is, for Luigi as soon as he returned 
 from Florence, wrote to that effect, why does he not send the 
 monthly payments here, when our financial difficulies aie so veil 
 
 known, » and so on about money. 
 
 On 21st August, Signor Angelini wrote: « I do not know what 
 agreement you refer to, for if my memory does not deceive me, 
 
 I received no such agreement from you. Let me know officially 
 the intentions of the Committee as to my offered gift, by 6th Sep¬ 
 tember, for, after that date, I shall feel free to act.» 
 
 To all these letters there are lengthy replies from Fera, but 
 I prefer to quote from a most brotherly final effort he made, to 
 bring about peace on the only true basis, the nanding ovei to 
 the Church, of which he was the Deputy in America, the build¬ 
 ing for which he had collected, as he had pledged himself to do 
 in various documents already quoted, and as the friends in Ame¬ 
 rica believed he had already done, from the time of purchasing 
 the ground. Our late pastor in Milan has been obliged this week, 
 after months of promises and pretentions and delays, to hand o\ei 
 unconditionally the key of our Church ouilding, which he had 
 claimed as his own, when he betrayed the interests of his Church 
 and thought to destroy it. 
 
 And Signor Angelini had better have listened to Fera’s rea¬ 
 sonings and pleadings, as you shall now hear them in his letter 
 
 of 1st September. 
 
 « My dear Angelini, 
 
 » I have thought it well not to delay a moment, after re¬ 
 ceipt of yours of yesterday, in answering, not as an officral, but 
 as a Friend and Brother, T fwho wishes impartially to counsel you 
 
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 to leave the mistaken road you are now treading, and in which, 
 there can be no true or permanent blessing. 
 
 » Keep in mind, I pray you, that 1 ivrite as a Friend , so 
 that if any phrase or argument seems harsh, you may interpret 
 it in no other sense than that of friendship, which compels me 
 to write to you clearly and faithfully. 
 
 » In writing as you do, and dealing about yourself and Fo- 
 rano in relation to the Committee and the Evangelical Italian 
 Church, you forget or rather do not consider various impor¬ 
 tant facts, which ought to lead you to write and act and speak 
 very differently. 
 
 » 1st. You were in America in the name of the Evangelical 
 Italian Church (then Free), as Deputy of that Church, collecting 
 money for it, being paid by it or in its name, and if offerings 
 were given to you for the construction of a Church and School- 
 house and Manse in Forano, it was only in that name, and in 
 that quality and not otherwise. 
 
 2nd. If you bought the ground, and if you built upon it, or 
 if you built or bought elsewhere for this purpose, Church or 
 School or Manse, in your own name, it was an abuse on your 
 part, appropriating what did not belong to you. 
 
 » So true is this, that even to-day the doubt exists in the 
 minds of our and your good Friends in America, who maintain 
 that everything has been bought and built in the name of, and 
 administered by the Church and Committee. Indeed they have 
 lately categorically asked about this, and are surprised and do 
 not believe, that things are as you have abusively done them. 
 
 » Every step that you take, and which is not in the way of 
 investing Church and School-house in the name of the Committee 
 and of the Evangelical Italian Church, who are the proprietors 
 of the one and of the other, constitutes a fraud, for which you 
 will have to render account — an unjust appropriation which will 
 cost you dear — even many spiritual sorrows, for are you not a 
 Christian and a brother?, and many moral troubles, for are you 
 not an honest man ?, and I love and desire to consider you as 
 such; and many legal worries. 
 
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 )> 3rd. You speak of a gift , my dear Angelini, while in fact 
 it is a thing so different, that it cannot even he considered as 
 a cession, hut as your hounden duty, an obligation of your con¬ 
 science, to give hack to the Committee and to the Church that 
 which belongs to it, that which was given for it, and which 
 really appears to the eyes of all as a deceitful appropriation on 
 
 your part. 
 
 » 4th. Besides, you do not seem to consider another thing, 
 which is a very grave charge against you. Last year, while you 
 were regularly paid yourself, and for the work at Forano, month 
 by month, hv our Committee, you went to America and took 
 the very money, which for that very purpose should have been 
 sent to the Committee and the Central Fund, in compensation, 
 and you appropriated it! 
 
 » You know very well that this is an abuse of confidence of 
 the grossest kind, and quite unlawful. And you complain and 
 threaten because Dr. Me Dougall, distrustful, discouraged and 
 sad, writes : " Do not pay a halfpenny to Angelini or for Fo¬ 
 
 rano, until everything has been legally arranged.” And you, 
 instead of acknowledging your error and confessing your fault, 
 and giving yourself no rest till you had shown that there was 
 no evil intention on your part, and that in very deed you wish 
 to put everything on a proper footing and so repair the blun¬ 
 der committed — you press forward on the old way and system, 
 believing and hoping to frighten us, because others aie follow¬ 
 ing you, on the mistaken road you have taken. 
 
 » Well, dear Angelini, if no disinterested Friend will come 
 forward to call aloud to you of danger, and counsel you, and 
 open your eyes, I shall do it, whether you will heai 01 whethet 
 you will forbear, whether or not you will accord me the confi¬ 
 dence of a Friend and Brother, who loves and esteems you. 
 Perhaps it is difficult for you to understand my sympathy for 
 you, not discerning readily the distinction between the friendly 
 and the official position, but I pray God to enlighten and guide 
 you, for your own good and for the welfare and triumph of the 
 
 Gospel cause. 
 
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 » 5th. I have still another matter to lay before you. How 
 can you possibly say, that you do not know of what compromise 
 I am writing and speaking, when first it was verbally agreed to 
 in the study of Dr. Me Dougall, and in my presence, and after¬ 
 wards verbally confirmed in Forano, in the hearing of yourself 
 and your wife and Conti and myself; and then finally exten¬ 
 ded by me in writing, in my letter of 25th July, of which you 
 acknowledged receipt. It was precisely in answer, that you wrote 
 to me on 5th August and to Dr. Me Dougall on 7th August, en¬ 
 closing a sheet of unacceptable conditions, and which, as Chri¬ 
 stians and gentlemen, neither you nor I, and much less Dr. Me 
 Dougall, could ever subscribe to. 
 
 )) And besides all this, Dear Angelini, what is the meaning 
 of all this shuffling and breach of promise? You accepted the 
 conditions and the compromise, when you were in the presence 
 of Dr. Me Dougall, you reconfirmed them when in the presence 
 of President Conti, and now you withdraw everything, and draw 
 up and insist upon certain conditions, which are not only absurd, 
 but which, as a Christian, I consider dishonest. 
 
 » I will explain myself. What would you say if Dr. Me Dou¬ 
 gall said to us : Look here, I will hand over to you the build¬ 
 ings and the funds, which I have collected for the Evangelical 
 Italian Church, on condition that, during my natural life, you 
 give me so much and you maintain me in this post or in that 
 other ? 
 
 » I see you raise your eyebrows and I know what you would 
 say. Well, this is not what is said by that meritorious man, ,, 
 so singularly honest, so exceptionally scrupulous, the honor and 
 glory of our Work, Dr. John R. Mac Dougall, who collects and 
 invests and purchases everything for us, and hands it over to us 
 or to our Church. But he is a son of those valorous men, who 
 made the « Disruption », who after Chalmers, withdrew from the 
 Church of Scotland, leaving everything behind and confiding only 
 in God. And you and I, after 50 years, have seen what that 
 great Church, founded by these noble Christians, has become. 
 
 )> I was greatly moved in the early days of my own conversion, 
 
49 — 
 
 by the generous and truly Christian spirit of John Wesley and 
 of the early Methodists, who left all that had been done in the 
 name of the Anglican Church, sure that God would bless their 
 honesty. The men of the Disruption and the Methodists are 
 worthy of being imitated by you and me and all others in their 
 Christian honesty and integrity. 
 
 » And why do you wish to diminish the credit of what you 
 have done, by making Forano a personal work? I remember 
 Dr. Mac Dougall once saying to me: " Everybody calls them¬ 
 selves friends, founders, fathers of the Church, but I observe 
 that the only one who does anything for the Church, and only 
 for the Church and all for the Church, is myself. The Italians, 
 as soon as they do something, think of their own interests and 
 work for themselves. ” The good man is right, and I, humbled 
 as an Italian, have been obliged to acknowledge that he spoke 
 the truth ! 
 
 » Well, see to it, that that good man, that true Christian, 
 who has sacrificed everything for the glory of Christ and for 
 our Church, may be able to say: rc Ah, thank God, there is an 
 exception, Angelini, who has followed in my footsteps,” and let 
 us all, applauding the word of our beloved Mac Dougall, follow „ 
 and imitate you and him ! 
 
 » This is all that I wished to say to you, as a Christian and 
 a Friend. Take counsel with our God in prayer. I repeat what 
 I said to you before ; I am here in Florence. Come here and 
 honestly and Christianly, and on the basis laid down and which 
 v you accepted, we shall arrange everything legally. We have our 
 lawyer, the Advocate Gobbo, who will draw up the papers and 
 notaries in abundance. When that is done, we shall all be in 
 peace and you will have nothing to fear. 
 
 » You were so kind to me, that I must ask you, when you 
 come, to accept hospitality in my house, in a humble and 
 friendly way. 
 
 » Tour affectionate Friend and Brother, 
 
 )) Saverio Fera. )) 
 
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 Unfortunately the money from Newark went through Mr. Tower 
 indeed, but with instructions to send it direct to Mr. Angelini, 
 and the good advice of the above wonderfully sagacious and 
 friendly letter was not taken, so that Signor Fera, on 14th Sep¬ 
 tember, had to announce to Signor Angelini, with a heart pro¬ 
 foundly sad, that the Committee had decided to proceed against 
 him, first ecclesiastically, and then, if need be, civilly and pe¬ 
 nally, for abuse of confidence in the mandate he had held, for 
 the several years that he was deputy of this Church in America, 
 and for the appropriation of a considerable sum, which last year 
 ought to have been sent from Newark to this Committee: 
 
 « I have considered it my duty to advise you of this, as the / 
 Committee will shortly meet to examine your whole bearing and 
 operations, and to pronounce your expulsion from the Ministry. 
 
 » This circumstance is a grief to all of us, and especially 
 to me, who have, as you well know, done everything possible, to 
 induce you to act rightly and honestly. 
 
 )) With brotherly regard, 
 
 » For the Committee, 
 
 » Saverio Fera. » 
 
 On the same day, 14th September, a letter was posted from 
 Forano to Secretary Fera, signed by the Pastor Luigi Angelini 
 and the Secretary Giovan Battista Bartoli, begging him to notify 
 the Committee and the future General Assemblv, that on the 
 evening of the 12th, the Church of Forano, on the motion of 
 the Secretary, seconded by the Pastor, had unanimously decided 
 to separate from the Evangelical Church of Italy, though remain¬ 
 ing in the same confession of faith. 
 
 VII. 
 
 I have lately received a large number of Depositions from 
 Forano, but, valuable and outspoken as they are, I prefer for 
 the present to withhold them, both from regard to the witnesses 
 and because of the very grave character of their testimony. 
 
I 
 
 51 
 
 VIII. 
 
 When treacherous hands were raised in March last to destroy 
 the Evangelical Church of Italy, Signor Angelini wrote disapprov¬ 
 ingly as follows to Secretary Fera: 
 
 « Forano, 27th March, 1895. 
 
 » Dear Signor Fera, 
 
 )) I pray that the Holy Spirit may guide the honorable Com¬ 
 mittee in its deliberations, and that everything may be done for 
 the good of the holy work of God. As soon as I received your 
 * Circulars, I sent a messenger round to invite the brethren to 
 come together this evening for prayer, and I shall ask the Church 
 to pray every evening of this week, that the Holy Spirit may 
 be present with the Committee. 
 
 » I am very grieved that there should be brethren, capable of 
 attempting a dislocation of the work, which the Lord has confided 
 to us, and that the peace of the Church should be disturbed. 
 
 » I am more than afflicted too, for the misunderstanding 
 which has arisen between Dr. Mac Dougall and myself, and pray 
 God to send light and cause all things to be done christianly. 
 
 » I have been much offended and I forgive, and if it is thought 
 that I have offended, I ask pardon ; however everything should 
 be looked at as children of God and not in a malign spirit. 
 
 » A cordial salutation and my respects to all the members of 
 v the Committee, especially to Dr. Mac Dougall, who I hope will 
 see things with the eye of a Christian. 
 
 » Luigi Angelini. » 
 
 Signor Angelini can, not only write but talk in this way, and 
 he has done so in Committee after Committee of late years, and 
 added documents to his speech, making us again and again 
 hopeful, that after all we had a man of character to deal with, 
 and then he has gone away, after deceiving us, with vain words 
 and hollow promises, and done the reverse of all his grand talk. 
 
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 So has it been finally, with regard to the Evangelical Church 
 of Italy, which has been the Church of his knowledge of the 
 truth and hearty love, as appears from many expressions already 
 quoted in these pages. 
 
 But now that he cannot lord it over the Church, anv more 
 than the false Brother in Milan, all is changed. « What is to 
 be done now, » he writes from Newark, N. J., to a friend on 
 November 2nd, « is to help the Waldensians, who are the only 
 possible agents to evangelize Italy, and I shall plead on their 
 behalf. It is my purpose to deed the property to such a body, 
 as will comply with the terms of the trust, and to this end I 
 will be governed by the judgment of the Council of Ministers 
 of Newark, N. J., » which shows the rumour to be true, that he 
 has tried to join the Waldenses, and that arrangements are far 
 advanced, and may be signed and sealed, if he can clear his cha¬ 
 racter in America whither he has gone.- 
 
 Mrs. Angelini and he are in accord now, in writing down 
 their Church and writing up the Waldensian Church. 
 
 Writing on October 30th to a friend in America, from Fo- 
 rano the very day she came to Florence, thinking she had a right 
 to sit in the General Assembly, Mrs. Angelini says: « The Union 
 between the Waldensian and Evangelical Italian Churches, for 
 all that Father Gavazzi could do, w r as always defeated. Those 
 who most strongly opposed the Union are in powder in our 
 Board to-day, and by their attitude towards Ministers and Churches 
 throughout Italy, have created such ferment and discontent, that 
 the Evangelical Church seems now to be breaking in fragments.., 
 The best and ablest men have gone with their congregations, 
 only to escape the bitter personal war moved against them by 
 some in the Committee. Mr. Angelini is of the number that have 
 left, for the spirit of persecution that seems to have crept into it. » 
 
 This is the grand, new way to write modern history ; to 
 turn persecutors and deceivers into victims, and the victims of 
 malice and underhand dealing into oppressors of the saints. 
 A good deal of that comes from Turkey to-day, but there is the 
 Armenian side as well. But the real victims are alive and in 
 
 
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 greater numbers than ever, despite the fierceness of their trials, 
 and prospered of God exceedingly, and more honoured of men 
 in Italy, because there have been thrust out the false elements, 
 that have caused the tongue of scandal to move and hindered 
 the progress of the mission. 
 
 But Madame Angelinas sentiments are only the cuckoo cry 
 of her husband’s. In his «Open letter)) from Forano, on 
 September 27th, he speaks of « the new Committee being un¬ 
 constitutionally re-organized» and makes the following statements, 
 all of which I declare to be untrue:'«I have enjoyed the con¬ 
 fidence of the old Committee,» « I have told no one it w r as a 
 
 building for the Evangelical Church of Italy, » « The best and 
 
 most capable men have withdrawn from the Chuich, » « M} 
 
 work on a solid basis caused no end of envy, » « The new 
 
 Committee is anything but friendly to me; when I would not 
 pass over the building, a bitter personal war sprang up, » « The 
 
 Committee uses money sent for the work of God in a work of 
 contention;» and « the Committee which had received money 
 from America, owed me $210 when face to face accounts weie 
 
 compared. » 
 
 It is untrue that « as long as there was a prospect of getting 
 the Church and School building unconditionally, that is, up to 
 September, 1S95, the letters of the Secretary were full of af¬ 
 fectionate expression and assurances of esteem for my Christian 
 character, but the moment he had received the notification of 
 what had been decided by myself and Church, he immediately, 
 k without there having been any meeting of the Committee, of¬ 
 ficially notifies me, that I am to be expelled from the Ministiy. » 
 What is true is, that when about to proceed against Signor An- 
 gelini in the way of expulsion and before the law courts, pro¬ 
 cedure was stopped by pleading and promising letters fiom 
 Newark and Poughkeepsie, and an earnest effort was made to 
 save Angelini, as by fire, but when this failed, the Secretai} 
 rightly fell back on the original intention of the Committee. 
 
 Nor is it true that « Dr. Mac Dougall is mad at me, especiallv 
 because I did not deed the Church and School Building to him, 
 
who has still in his own name all the property of the Evangelical 
 Church in Italy. » What is true is, that it was to the Evangelical 
 Church of Italy we wished Angelini to deed the building, now 
 that we have Government recognition. The other buildings still 
 in my name were bought previously, and every one knows by 
 my declarations and acts and testamentary dispositions, that I 
 have all along been ready, whenever time is found for transferring 
 the buildings. I am willing, but Signor Angelini is not, — that 
 is the difference. It is very easy for Signor Angelini to say 
 «I hereby destroy the purpose of the Trust, » but the documents 
 in the foregoing pages remain to prevent him doing such a thing. 
 
 Nor can he escape by feigning the difficulty: « How could I 
 deed to him, when he says in his letter to Signor Borgia, that 
 he proposes to dissolve the Evangelical Church, » for that is not 
 a true reading of my letter. 
 
 Nor is it true, that the « Rev. Carlo Gay is one of the best 
 and most capable men, who have left the Church » on account 
 of these troubles. Mr. Gay has written an indignant letter on 
 this matter to Mrs. John Hopkins, and a communication from 
 him was forwarded yesterday, to be printed in the next « Quarterly 
 Greeting », which will shut Mr. Angelini’s mouth on that point. 
 
 Signor Angelini does not name Pietro Zuliani, as among these 
 best and most capable men, because he knows that Zuliani had 
 written as strongly in support of the new Committee as he 
 himself had done, but being tampered with by the false brethren, 
 who wished to make their own selfish interests sure and certain, 
 he, like Angelini, fell away from his integrity. 
 
 In the September circular of Signor Angelini from Forano, 
 there is what is meant to be a very touching and convincing 
 appeal, in favour of his present contention. As everywhere, he 
 makes a great talk of « his economies and personal offerings 
 and gifts, » and how the building of the Church was a « sacred 
 ambition of his », and that he had « solved the agricultural 
 problem and so removed the impossibility of evangelizing Forano. » 
 
 Now this is all very good in theory and on paper, but I put 
 it to you, Dear Friends, to say why Signor Angelini did not 
 
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 inform and consult with his Committee about such things, before 
 entering on such a wide departure from the business of a mere 
 Deputy of a Church? 
 
 Was it that he knew too well the Committee’s opinion, which 
 was shortly this, as I believe it will be of all men of common 
 sense ; « the building of a big, expensive Church in a small, poor 
 country district is, to our thinking, putting the cart before the 
 horse, and in our experience Christianity has never been pro¬ 
 pagated, except by spiritual forces, and not by the coddling and 
 favoritism of well meaning proprietors. » 
 
 In proof of this we can point to many country churches in 
 the Italian work, which have only cost a fourth of what Ange- 
 v lini’s Church has done, and are much more suitable for their 
 purpose. And we can point to various districts, where the feudal 
 system is in as dire operation as it can possibly be in Forano, 
 and where no foolish scheme like Signor Angelinas has been 
 put in operation, and where God’s spirit has triumphed over 
 every such difficulty and raised up large Churches of earnest 
 and spiritually minded Christians. 
 
 I am not going to deny that it is possible for a Minister 
 of the Gospel to be a wine grower, and a cattle dealer, and an 
 extensive land owner, letting off small farms, and lending moneys 
 on properties, (which afterwards, through the inability of the 
 tenant to repay the loan, may be forced into the market at a 
 very small price), and all the while be an effective Evangelist and 
 a faithful Pastor. 
 
 Nor would I even deny that such a thing might be done, 
 ** in the place of a man’s birth, where all his family are the 
 poorest of the poor, and need to be practically provided foi by 
 him out of moneys, the sources of which are unknown and there¬ 
 fore suspected. 
 
 God has given wonderful gifts to men, and many of his 
 servants in the Ministry have been endowed with as much 
 sanctified common sense, and as remarkable a faculty for bus¬ 
 iness, as one can find in the walks of commerce. 
 
 But vou will admit, dear Friends, that this is a rare case. 
 
56 — 
 
 Where many try things of this sort, what a large percentage 
 fail; especially when they take no counsel from their brethren 
 or superiors ? And even when a Church of men and women, de¬ 
 pendent on you for their daily bread, and bound to come to 
 your Church when on your property, seems to be a success 
 (especially when onlookers cannot speak their language nor get at 
 the real truth from their lips), how can they tell the genuine 
 element from the hypocritical, and how can they in the circum¬ 
 stances say whether, if the spirits were tried, more than 10 or 
 15 per cent would turn out to be Christians in deed and in 
 truth, in a Roman Catholic country? 
 
 I therefore maintain, that Signor Angelini should not have 
 sprung these plans of his, as a surprise, on his own Evangel¬ 
 ical Italian Church and the Church of both his wives, when he 
 was morally bound to give his whole time in commending its 
 great mission in Italy, and find supplies for its extension, and 
 when he was, as every one will admit, paying himself for his 
 trouble, with four times as much every j^ear as is given to our 
 best paid pastors and Evangelists in Italy. 
 
 And I maintain, that when Angelini was taken to task for 
 starting these personal schemes and promised, on pain of not 
 being allowed to return to America as our Agent, to desist 
 from causing trouble to his Committee, he ought to have kept 
 his word or honourably withdrawn from the Church. 
 
 And I maintain, that when he had soothed the anxiety of 
 his Committee about the Church building, and given his written 
 pledge once, twice, thrice, that it was for the Evangelical Church 
 
 of Italy, he ought not now to deny all these solemn engagements 
 of his. 
 
 And I maintain, that no right about face on his part, and 
 untruthful remarks against his Church and in favour of another 
 mission, can avail to hide the fact, that while engaged in a great 
 public enterprise, he was largely occupied in serving his own 
 private ends. 
 
 And I maintain, that his attempt to rush into another Church 
 at this late hour, or to snatch a friendly decision from kind and 
 
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 loving hearts in Newark, cannot possibly save him from the moral 
 effects of the decision of his own Church, in extruding him from 
 its Ministry for dishonesty, and from the other consequences which 
 will follow, from the decision of the Tribunals of his native land. 
 
 It is offensive to me, to hear him speak of his spending the mo¬ 
 ments of his own time , in gathering in moneys for his personal 
 projects, for all his time was ours. 
 
 It is offensive to me, to hear of his economies, and the life 
 of suffering and perhaps of starvation he put himself to, when 
 he took plenty of money to keep himself in health and strength 
 for his own proper work. 
 
 It is offensive to me, to hear of the more than clever way 
 in which he served us, speaking for one thing, namely our Mis¬ 
 sion, and at the close of his impassioned appeal, taking gifts 
 for another, namely for Forano. 
 
 It is offensive to me, to hear of personal offerings made to 
 him on a large scale, when every honourable deputy at once puts 
 kind hearted people right, by saying that he is personally and 
 fully provided for, and that the brethren in the mission work are 
 the men who need their sympathy and money. 
 
 I am perfectly certain that this is a system, which cannot 
 with safety be tolerated in any branch of the Church of Christ, 
 and Signor Angelini has ventured to practice it, because the 
 Treasurers in America and Italy were far apart and were for 
 a time unable to compare notes, and because I myself was 
 largely an invalid during these years, and also because, after 
 iJdie time of Gavazzi, who would have sternly repressed all such 
 specious and immature philanthropic efforts, we had not a Pre¬ 
 sident who spoke English, knew foreign countries and had expe¬ 
 rience in great Social questions. The man to investigate the 
 affairs of Angelini, go to America and enlighten our Friends 
 there, should have been the President of the Committee, but 
 how was this possible with such a President ? 
 
 And then notice, how unsatisfactory the financial question 
 is. I had left all details of Angelinas salary to the American 
 Treasurer, and only from 1888 was I aware it was $200 a month, 
 
then afterwards it came out that it was $ 2400 a year, so that 
 Signor Angelini could come to Italy every summer, against my 
 frequent protest and his own solemn promise, and attend to all 
 his worldly business, and take part in political affairs, while 
 enjoying $ 200 a month ! And then later on I heard, that! 100 a 
 year had been added for this same Italian trip. 
 
 Believing that Signor Angelini had only $ 200 a month, when 
 labouring in America for us, I gave him 1000 francs ($ 200) in 
 answer to his own letter of October 15th, 1889, in which he 
 says: « Now it is necessary that you send me on the 25th 
 
 inst. 1000 lire ($ 200), which will serve for my journey to Ame¬ 
 rica and early expenses, because I do not wish to draw imme¬ 
 diately from Dr. Crosby. » 
 
 I would not have advanced that sum, nor even a larger 
 sum, for the same purpose in 1890 !, if I had believed Signor An¬ 
 gelini was enjoying $2500 a year. And yet, the only time I 
 asked questions about the accounts in America was in Ja¬ 
 nuary 1893, when the 1892 accounts were forwarded to us, and 
 when it seemed to me that no less a sum than $ 3000 was re¬ 
 tained, as it seemed to me to begin 1893 with, when we were 
 in want of money in Italy. But Dr. Virgin assured me that 
 there were no $ 3000 of a balance, but rather a slight deficit. 
 And Signor Angelini explained afterwards to me, that he was 
 then as at Dr. Crosby’s death draiving out arrears, although in his 
 constant need of money he never had any arrears with us. 
 
 Hearing that Signor Angelini was crossing the Atlantic this 
 autumn, after our failure to bring him to a right sense of duty j 
 and that he and the Waldenses werediaving dealings with each 
 other, we thought it right to warn the American public against 
 this unfaithful Servant of the Evangelical Church of Italy, and 
 our American Board was also justified in issuing a circular on 
 November 12th, asking the Friends of Italy to suspend judg¬ 
 ment until the action of our Committee and General Assembly 
 had been taken. 
 
 And now that these are known, what is the future action of 
 Newark to be? I hope our Friends there will see, that what- 
 
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 ever their intentions were, their action has not been in proper 
 form. The letters from Newark are always so lovely and Chris¬ 
 tian and the action of Newark so out of harmony with the let¬ 
 ters, that I cannot understand the riddle. 
 
 I do trust that Newark will not again pledge itself to Si¬ 
 gnor Angelini, until it has sent out a competent Commission to 
 Forano, when Signor and Signora Angelini are asked to be 
 absent for a few days. Let the Commission, if possible with a 
 Missionary or two upon it, speak Italian, or associate with itself 
 three men, not from the Evangelical Italian or Waldensian 
 Churches, but from the Wesleyan and Baptist Missions, who 
 know English and Italian and the Italians thoroughly. Let them 
 ' purge the parties of all malice towards Signor Angelini, and also 
 of all dread of Angelinas anger upon their speaking the truth, 
 and I venture to say, that they will hear things which will 
 astonish them, and return wiser and more experienced men. 
 Let them ask everything freely, from the estimation in which 
 Signor Angelini is held, to the way in which Meetings are 
 crowded, when strangers are about to be present, and they will 
 have done their duty well. But less than this ought not to sa¬ 
 tisfy them. 
 
 And, Dear Friends, please to remember that we are dealing 
 in the Evangelical Church of Italy with thoroughly native elements, 
 separating themselves from the great superstition of the Church 
 of Borne, with onlv the Bible in their hands, and you will 
 comprehend, that what has befallen us, is incidental to all such 
 yearly beginnings. 
 
 We are too apt to forget, we who are born Protestants, how 
 much we owe to our pious ancestry, trained for generations 
 under Evangelical teaching. Small thanks to us for many of 
 those moral habits which we inherit, and which are entirely 
 apart from our conversion. 
 
 It must never be overlooked, that wonderful as were the 
 enthusiasm and consacration of the apostolic times, there was 
 only one Church, that of the Philippians, to which Paul wrote, 
 without words of censure. How he spoke to the Corinthians, 
 
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 for their meanness and sectarianism and to the Galatians for their 
 falling away from the fundamental doctrines of grace. 
 
 With all the wonderful record of those early times before 
 us, I really believe that there are thousands of Churches in our 
 own day, with a ministry full of the Holy Ghost, which manifest 
 more of the graces of the Christian calling, than has ever been 
 done since the days of Christ. We must have patience with 
 brethren in the faith, who have not had our privileges, but are 
 growing up slowly and steadily in Christian knowledge and 
 practice, and manifesting such a singular simplicity and fervour 
 in their testimony for Christ. That some of them should fall 
 before temptation or be carried away by a love of temporal 
 things, is only what has occurred before and will occur again 
 and again, as Missionaries from every field of labour testify. 
 And that all these trials are overruled for the general good 
 of the Church, however trying they may be as they pass over 
 us, is the earnest belief of every true Christian. Let our So¬ 
 ciety then in America, in all its branches, and our Friends all 
 over the world, not weary in well doing, but continue to hold 
 up our hands and strengthen our hearts, in spreading the Gospel 
 by every means in our power, throughout the kingdom of Italy. 
 
 PS. — I have thought it well to give, in a tabular form 
 below, the moneys collected in our name these last 10 years in 
 America, the Gentleman who supplied the annual list of names 
 and gifts to print in our Reports, the Treasurer for the year, 
 and the sums we actually received each year. 
 
 YEAR. 
 
 LIST FOR PRINTING 
 
 SENT BY. 
 
 SUM 
 
 COLLECTED 
 
 AS PAR LIST. 
 
 SUM 
 
 RECEIVED 
 
 IN ITALY. 
 
 TREASURER FOR THE YEAR. 
 
 1885 
 
 An gel ini. 
 
 $2772.53 
 
 $ 1600.00 
 
 Dr. Crosby. 
 
 1886 
 
 Angelini. 
 
 » 5173. 00 
 
 » 3000. 00 
 
 Dr. Crosby. 
 
 1887 
 
 Angelini. 
 
 » 4762. 67 
 
 * 2000. 00 
 
 Dr. Crosby. 
 
 1888 
 
 Angelini. 
 
 » 7803.64 
 
 » 5000. 00 
 
 Dr. Crosby. 
 
 1889 
 
 Angelini and Dr. Crosby. 
 
 » 5672.81 
 
 » 6000. 00 
 
 Dr. Crosby. 
 
 1890 
 
 Dr. Crosby. 
 
 » 6105.97 
 
 » 5261.67 
 
 Dr. Crosby. 
 
 1891 
 
 Drs. Crosby and Virgin. 
 
 » 5325. 93 
 
 » 4750. 00 
 
 Drs. Crosby and Virgin. 
 
 1892 
 
 Dr. Virgin. 
 
 » 9403. 21 
 
 » 5509. 00 
 
 Dr. Virgin. 
 
 1893 
 
 Mr. Tower. 
 
 » 5590.26 
 
 » 4340. 00 
 
 Mr. Tower. 
 
 1894 
 
 Mr. Tower. 
 
 » 4923. 28 
 
 » 3874. 00 
 
 Mr. Tower. 
 
COl^STIR/TTOTI© IT 
 
 OIE' 1 
 
 Church and School, 
 
 Forano, Italy. 
 
 accounts of 
 
 REV. LUIGI ANGELINI, 
 
 As at October 23rd, 1894. 
 
 PRESS OF EICK & LEWIS, 15 FAIR ST., NEWARK, N. J. 
 
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 T O MY dear personal friends, and tlie friends of Italian Evangeli¬ 
 zation in America. 
 
 AAA/mA/i/m/wv*- 
 
 Dear Christian Friends : Newark, N. J., November 9th, 1894. 
 
 I have the pleasure of submitting to you my accounts for the build¬ 
 ings at Forano, to which you so generously contributed. 
 
 I am sorry to say that I am short $2,143, and that I am in need 
 of $2,030 in order to finish this heavy undertaking. 
 
 I have just arrived in America, in order, with God’s blessing, to secure 
 the necessary $4,173, and return to my loved work at Forano, as soon as 
 possible. I have felt it my duty to lay my accounts before our respected 
 Treasurer, Rev. Dr. McDougall of Florence, who has kindly given me, 
 in the name of the committee of Evangelization the hearty recommen¬ 
 dation, which you will find below. I have also undertaken, as a gua- \ 
 rantee of good faith to my Italian Evangelical Church, for which I am 
 providing these Mission premises, that your further kind gifts for the 
 completion of my enterprise shall pass through the hands of Mr. Horace 
 Ailing, 41 Walnut Street, Newark N. J., and Rev. Dr. John McDougall, 
 as General Treasurer. 
 
 I need not say how greatly obliged I shall feel for another token 
 of your sympathy, and with what joy you will thrill my heart when 
 you send me away with my task completed. With kindest regards and 
 heartfelt thanks. 
 
 Ever Yours Sincerely, 
 
 LUIGI ANGELINI. 
 
 I have much pleasure in certifying that I have examined carefully 
 the Building accounts of Rev. Luigi Angelini, and greatly regret that 
 he is obliged to travel abroad again in search of help to finish the 
 handsome structure, which he has felt called upon to erect, in the place 
 of his birth and early ministry, as a Parish Priest of the Church of 
 Rome. 
 
 His health has -been of late so seriously impaired that, though now 
 much improved, a relapse is always possible, so that I earnestly trust 
 that our dear Brother may have his heart gladdened by many kindly.! 
 gifts from his friends and ours in America, and be speedily on his return- 
 journey to his Evangelistic labors in Forano. 
 
 1 shall he very glad on my part, to receive as soon as possible the 
 $4,173 which he still needs to complete his effort, and to hold them for 
 him in the interests of this good object. 
 
 john r. McDougall, 
 
 Treasurer and Foreign Secretary of the Evangelical Church of Italy. 
 
 Chiesci Scozzese, Florence, 23rd October, 1894. 
 
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 Mr. Horace Ailing and Family, 
 
 Miss Helen S.Abeel, 
 
 Mrs. J. T. Arnold, 
 
 Allen Lane & Cc., 
 
 Mrs. I. L. Ballantine, 
 
 ” a. M. Brooks and Fayette Smith, 
 
 Miss Mary Baldwin, 
 
 Mrs. Wallace Butler, 
 
 Mr. Robert E. Brier, 
 
 By Mr. J. Bellows of Philadelphia, 
 
 Mr. James J. Buchanan, 
 
 Bellefield S. S. of Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor J. W. Baker, 
 
 Ros Street Pressbyt’n S. S. of Brooklyn, 25 
 
 $250 
 
 5 
 
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 100 
 
 10 
 
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 5 
 
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 10 
 
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 100 
 
 Mr. Wm. Clark of Newark, N. J. 
 
 ” Aaron Carter, 
 
 Mrs. Charles Clark, 
 
 ” James M. Carpenter. 
 
 " G. D. Coleman, 
 
 Mr. John Converse, 
 
 By Rev. Dr. Gr. W. Chalfant, 
 
 Mrs. Gr. W. Coburn. 
 
 Friends in Catskill, N. Y. 
 
 Friends in Cleveland, Ohio, 
 
 Mrs. Geo. H. Chase and Daughter, 
 
 By Rev. Dr. Cutting of Yonkers, N. Y. 
 
 Dr. J. S. Cilley, 
 
 Mr. John Dwight, 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Dilworth, 
 
 ” W. A. Dunlap, 
 
 Mr. F. L. Danfort, 
 
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 Mr. J. N. Denison, 
 
 ” C. B.. Davenport, 
 
 By Rev. Dr. Isaac Jennings, Elmira, N. Y 
 Mrs. Theodore Foster, 
 
 Miss Carrie Ferguson and Family, 
 
 " L. Forrest, 
 
 Mrs. C. P. Fagnani, 
 
 Mr. R. F. Fulton, 
 
 * J. E. Greacen, 
 
 Miss Jennie M. Greenwood, 
 
 R. S. R. Gordon, 
 
 Friends in Germantown, Pa. 
 
 Mr. Geo. Griffiths of Philadelphia. 
 
 ” Allan Gilmour, 
 
 ” Wm. Gibson, 
 
 Miss C. U. Halsey, 
 f Mrs. S. R. W. Heath, 
 
 L ” Agnie B. Hall, 
 
 Rev. Dr. AY. J. Holland, 
 
 Mr. B. C. Hardwick, 
 
 Friends in Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 Mrs. Hamilton Harris, 
 
 By Rev. Dr. Howe of Norwich, Conn. 
 
 Mr. N. Holland, 
 
 By Rev, Dr. I. Hopwood of Newark, N. J. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Johnson, 
 
 ” Frank L. Janeway, 
 
 ” John L. Kennedy and Family, 
 
 Miss R. S. Kennedy, 
 
 Mr. John Knowlton, 
 
 Mrs. H. I. King of Pittsburg. 
 
 Ladies’ of 1st Ref. Church, Kingston, N. Y. 35 
 Mr. A. Munger of Kansas City, Mo. 1 < 
 
 Kansas City, Ka. a? 
 
 Mr. A. S. Kibbee, 2 d 
 
 300 
 
 50 
 
 20 
 
 5 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 
 25 
 
 125 
 
 29 
 
 10 
 
 50 
 
 120 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 25 
 20 
 25 
 160 
 50 
 35 
 . 64 
 20 
 100 
 5 
 25 
 5 
 
 25 
 
 27 
 
 5 
 
 62 
 
 100 
 
 20 
 
 50 
 
 75 
 
 45 
 
 100 
 
 20 
 
 50 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 35 
 
 10 
 
 35 
 
 10 
 
 50 
 
 400 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 
 150 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Lloyd of Pittsburg. 
 
 $ 150' 
 
 Mr. D. Lloyd, 
 
 10 
 
 Dr. Z. Ed Lewis, 
 
 130 
 
 Mr. M. B. Mason, 
 
 100 
 
 ” Elbert B. Monroe, 
 
 100 
 
 Miss McKee of St. Louis, 
 
 100 
 
 By Miss R. Mcllvaine, 
 
 120 
 
 Mrs. Theo. Macknet, 
 
 125 
 
 ” Charles Macknet, 
 
 100 
 
 Mr. Wm. McLanalian. 
 
 5 
 
 Mrs. Edith McLanalian, 
 
 10 
 
 Friends in Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 17 
 
 Mrs. C. A. Means, 
 
 10 
 
 Mr. P. L. Moen, 
 
 100 
 
 Rev. Dr. McLeod of Albany, 
 
 10 
 
 Dr. A. S. M’Clean of Springfield, 
 
 5 
 
 Friends in Newburgh, N. Y. 
 
 43 
 
 Angelini Society of Newark, N. J. 
 
 260 
 
 Mr. H. M. Noel, 
 
 5 
 
 ” N. P. Otis, 
 
 25 
 
 ” Charles Otis, 
 
 125 
 
 " Wm. H. Parsons and Family, 
 
 300 
 
 By Mr. Wm. H. Parsons, Rye, N. Y., S. 
 
 S. 100 
 
 Mr. Daniel Price of Newark, N. J. 
 
 150 
 
 " R. N. Perlee, 
 
 10 
 
 ” AY. C. Peters, 
 
 10 
 
 ” Samuel Pogne and Brother, 
 
 100 
 
 ” Ed. P. Platt and Family of Po’keepsie, 112 
 
 Friends in Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 25 
 
 By Rev. Dr. John Reid of Yonkers, N. 
 
 Y. 100 
 
 Mr. G. B. Rich, 
 
 10 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca Sire, 
 
 10 
 
 ” E. F. Shepard and Family, 
 
 1100 
 
 ” John Stronacli, 
 
 1 
 
 ” Savage of Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 15 
 
 Mr. J. E. Schwartz, 
 
 10 
 
 Mrs. M. J. Snively, 
 
 2 
 
 ” B. Swift, 
 
 10 
 
 Mr. Andrew Smith of Pokeepsie, 
 
 50- 
 
 ” AVilliam Smith, 
 
 10 
 
 Rev. Dr. Spaulding, 
 
 12 
 
 By Mr. Geo. Sterry, 
 
 100 
 
 Mrs. Talmadge of St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 10 
 
 Mr. J. A. Thompson, 
 
 2 
 
 ” James W. Thompson, 
 
 5 
 
 ” Torry of Dorchester, Mass. 
 
 25 
 
 " J. E. Tilge, 
 
 5 
 
 " J. A. Tilge, 
 
 25 
 
 Mrs. Albert Woodruff. 
 
 5 
 
 Mr. Robert Wordrop, 
 
 5 
 
 Hon. John Wanamaker, 
 
 100 
 
 Mrs. D. E. Wilson and Family, 
 
 10 
 
 Miss Sally Wain, 
 
 70 
 
 " Annie Wain, 
 
 700 
 
 Mrs. Wheelock of Alleghany, 
 
 5 
 
 Mr. B. Wolff, Jr. 
 
 10 
 
 Mrs. and Miss S. D. Warren, 
 
 150 
 
 Friends in Washington, D. C. 
 
 16 
 
 By Mrs. D. Vose of Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 70- 
 
 Mr. E. C. Wheeler, 
 
 10 
 
 ” G. Henry Whitcomb, 
 
 10 
 
 Mrs. Julia AYickes, 
 
 25 
 
 By Rev. Dr. Wheeler of Po’keepsie, N. Y. 200 
 
 Mrs. John F. Winslow, 
 
 25 
 
 ” AV. Wilson, 
 
 5 
 
 Mr. Henry L. Young, 
 
 25 
 
 Total, $8,967 
 
Balanced Account of Buildings at Forano, as at October 23rd, 1894. 
 
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