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"I am convinced there is a necessity for Missionaries to have wives to
cheer them under the multiple sorrows and toils of their lives to provide
comfortable food for the support of their bodies under hard labour, and
to enable them to set before the heathen an example of cleanliness and
decency … O that I may not be wanting in the duties thereof."