Reverend Nathan D. McCormick The Rescue Mission Sabula, Missouri

TO: My Dear Brother and Friend

My Dearest Friend

Perhaps you have heard of me and my nationwide campaign in the cause of temperance. Each year for the last fourteen years, I have made a tour of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Tennessee and I have delivered a series of lectures on the Evils of Drinking on this tour. I have been accompanied by my friend and assistant, Lester Lindstone, a young man that has a good family and excellent background who is a pathetic example of a life that has been ruined by excessive indulgence in whiskey and women.

Lester would appear with me at the lectures and sit on the platform, wheezing and staring at the audience through beady bloodshot eyes. Sweating profusely picking his nose, passing gas and making obscene gestures, while I would point him out as an example of what overindulgence can do to a person.

Last month, unfortunately, Lester died. A mutual friend has given me your name and I wonder if you would be available to take Lester's place on my 1997 tour.

Yours in faith

Reverend Nathan D. McCormick

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