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Okay great well let's let's move on then to the to the William Law story and I don't want to just

dive into the particulars without painting a bit of a you know just a bit of contact setting a

bit of context for the story so we're not looking for you to recount specifics we're not going

to hold you to any details we just want to get an overall feel for what's going on so tell us a

bit about William Law so that then we can understand why this is significant. Okay I don't pretend to

have a deep understanding of William and Jane Law's life frankly we need a first class biography

of the man he the research I did let me just say he was born in Ireland in 1809 came to

Western Pennsylvania when he's 10 years old his family he's only a 10-year-old he migrates up near

Toronto Toronto Canada and there he meets marries his wife Jane they joined the church in 1836 in

Toronto in 1836 he's late on the scene then moved to novel in 39 in 41 he's a member of the

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