Livingstone Dispensary
39 Cowgate
Edinburgh
April 6th 1924
Dear Dr. Maclagan,
I am very much obliged for the warm reception you have given to my previous letter, for the information you have given, and the Extract from the ‘minutes’ which I received yesterday.
I may have already mentioned that the reason I have kept myself unattached to any Society during the period of training, was that I wished to be free to offer where there was an immediate + urgent need at the time I was free.
It appears to me that your Society fulfills this condition.
The second condition – or rather mental reservation was that I should find myself in what (for want of a better phrase) I must call a congenial religious ‘atmosphere’.
Where I feel happiest is in such an atmosphere

利文斯通藥房
牛門街39號
愛丁堡
1924年4月6日
Maclagan醫生您好：
　非常感謝你對我上封信的熱情回應，也很感謝你提供的資訊以及會議記錄摘要，我昨日已經收到了。
　我可能已提過我為何在受訓期間，選擇不依附於任何傳道會的原因。因到時哪裡有迫切與立即性需求時，我才能立即起身前往。
　我發現貴傳道會符合這條件。
　二個條件，我心理有所保留（因我也沒更好的說詞），即是希望能身處於一個友善的宗教「氛圍」。
　我最喜愛的是