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    "ocrText": "WE PREACH CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED\nW. H. JORDAN, MINISTER\nCHESTER HOLLAND,\n2006 WILLIS AVENUE\nSUPT. OF BIBLE SCHOOL\nMRS. L. F. CLYDE,\nOUR FOREIGN MISSION\nPARISH WORKER\nREPRESENTATIVE\nBethany Presbyterian Church\nREV. EARL GEORGE HARRIS,\nWM. J. SELLNER, CLERK\nEBOLOWA CAMEROUN,\n20TH STREET AND WILLIS AVENUE\nWEST AFRICA\nOMAHA-10- NEBR.\nTEL. Ha. 2802\nMay 9, 1945\nMrs. Harry S. Truman,\nWashington, D.C.\nDear Christian Friends,\nI am writing you rather than addressing theletter to the\nPresident. I know he is swamped with all sorts of mail.\nBut I wanted to say Thank you for Courout andout Christian\ntestimony, and for your high ideals We have had some wonderful\nwomen as \"first ladies If in the Whitehouse. I think of the refined\nMrs. Hayes, and Mrs. McKinley, and a few others I have known It is a\nposition of very great influence on the womanhood and girlhood,\nindeed on the whole home life of America.\nThat is why we are delighted to sucha family as you all in such\na place. Your daughter in college will never be able to know\nhow her exemplay life will inspire the young people of our\nland. One of the many precious gifts God bestows upon us is INFLUENCI\nThus it is easy to see that a good life is far reaching in the\nlife of others. Then, too, I believe there is a boy in your\nfamily I work with boys a good deal, know a little about t hem,\nhaving been a boy once myself, and also having tried to raise\nthree of them, to say nothing of thenumberof boys I have\nmet with, worked with, in more than 50 years as preacher and\nteacher.\nI heard of a boy who wanted to be a lawyer. His father took him\nto an old lawyer, and asked what is the best thing for him to\nread? \"Read the book of Proverbs,\" said the lawyer. Yes, that\nbook as well as the hole Bible is packed with splendid, inspiring\ncounsel for oldand young .\nWe remember you all, andespecially ourpresident, in prayer, daily.\nLike Queen Esther we can say of Mr. Truman as well as of all of\nyou ,\n\"Who knoweth but thou art come to the thr for just\nsucha time a S this ?\nThis does not require any reply. I just wanted let you know\nwe thank God for ourpresident and his precious family, and\nfeel sure the blessing of God will abound to you all day by\nday Rememb r Ro. 8 28 and Isaiah 41 10. Also Isaiah\n26 3:\nCordially\nW.N.Jordan H.Jordan."
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