Mrs. Gertrude Madelen Hodgson

—- St. Peter’s Cathedral Archives

for us that has kept you with us, where so many wider fields lay open to your talents.

For all of which we have made no return and never can make any except the gratitude and affection which we all feel and of which perhaps our constant prayers for your welfare may be a better expression than any written words.

There are many also outside your congregation who value your ministration and some of them have wished to add their names to ours in this letter.

Trusting that God will bring you back to us safe and well and begging you to