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[s] 10 [Brethren and Friends,] 
We cannot, therefore, but regret the mistaken conduct of those who encourage females to bear an obtrusive and ostentatious part in measures of reform, and countenance any of that sex who so far forget themselves as to itinerate in the character of public lecturers and teachers.
Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837
Brethren and Friends,