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[s] 7.4 [Brethren and Friends,] 
Let them despise or slight him, and he ceases to do them good, and they cease to respect those things of which he is at once the minister and the symbol.
Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837
Brethren and Friends,