By special request we insert the whole of Dr. Dobbs’s letter, with the one which called it out. ASLD 129.1
“To the Reverend Dr. Dobbs— ASLD 129.2
“VENERATED MAN: I rejoice that in you wisdom has its seat, and that you are a sort of plug, so to speak, to which we may, as it were, bring our little pails and dippers to get a supply. Now I am a public speaker, a teacher of morals; in a word, to come right to the point, I am a preacher of the gospel. But I have my troubles; the chief of them is this: I often am compelled to prove something when I haven’t got anything to prove it with. What shall I do? how shall I argue without any arguments? ASLD 129.3
“Pray relieve me, and accept my undying gratitude. “Yours with remote veneration, “A FEEBLE BROTHER.” ASLD 129.4