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Rockwood Ont.
Jan. 25, 1924

Dear Sibyl,

We, your fellow-members of the Rockwood Presbyterian Church, are assembled here tonight to express in some slight measure, as a congregation, our sympathy with the cause with which you identifying yourself, and to wish you God-speed on your journey to the field of your labours.

Your choice of a life profession, the spreading of the gospel of Christ through the ministry of healing, in the darkest continent of the world, approaches, as nearly as man can, the ministry of Jesus who healed first the body and then the soul.  The acceptation of the challenge to - Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" can never fail to bring to the life so consecrated, the blessed reward - "Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world." 

We know something of the self-sacrifice of social and material interests, which is involved, and that only a vision of Jesus himself impels the missonary to leave home and kindred to take up the glorious but often arduous task of holding aloft the banner of Christ in an alien land.  Trials, discouragement and loneliness are human emotions to which we all are subject; but we are assured that He who has said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee" doubly fulfils that promise in lives fully surrendered to his work in foreign fields.  In the joy of His service is found compensation for all disappointment and seeming limitations.

We ask you to accept this purse that we may feel we have a small part in your work, in which since we cannot all stand in the front line of battle with you, we will endeavour as a congregation and as individuals to further, as far as we are able by our prayers and material gifts.

May the Heavenly Father, whose loving arms are just as close in Africa as in Canada, guide, protect and bless you in your work and spare you long to garner souls for His Kingdom, is the prayer of every heart.

Signed on behalf of Rockwood Presbyterian Church.
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I get the impression that this letter and the purse of money mentioned in it must have been presented personally to Sibyl at some ceremonial gathering, along with the Rockwood Presbyterian Church letter of the previous day:
I'm imagining half the congregation in tears.

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Your choice of a life profession, the spreading of the gospel of Christ through the ministry of healing, in the darkest continent of the world, approaches, as nearly as man can, the ministry of Jesus who healed first the body and then the soul.
In some letter of Sibyl's from Africa (at the moment I can't remember which) she comments that Africa isn't dark at all.  I wonder if she was thinking of this letter at the time, although I'm sure she had heard many references to it being a dark continent.
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