State Library of NSW
[MS 129b]
Mr Rowland Hassall Parramatta New South Wales to the care of Revd Mr Marsden
[MS 129c]
My dear Brother I was highly gratified with your kind letter and thankful to our covenant God that you have been preserved with your dear wife and children in the midst of so many dangers to which you have been exposed, since our affectionate parting at Coventry. It affords me great pleasure that you have been kept diligent, and faithful, while many have deserted the Cause. This my Brother is the Lords doings, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Knowing what an evil heart of unbelief we have, our preservation in the good way is a miracle of Grace. May the Lord continue to smile upon you and yours, support you under every difficulty and trial and grant you strength equal to your day. God is all sufficient. & my wife and self are still preserved. My health is but indifferent but tho' faint I am still enabled to pursue my work, and blessed be God [indecipherable][indecipherable][indecipherable] now and then fruit appears, and sometimes [indecipherable][indecipherable] cast off, and disappears. Most of our old friends have gone [onto into] eternity since you left, which I suppose you have heard of Alderman, [indecipherable] Mr Brown and Mrs [?}] friend [indecipherable] and his wife and several more are gone to Heaven. Brother [Parkes] is now settled in London. There is an excellent young man in his place at Orchard Chapel one of the in the ShipDuff on their way to Otaheiti. The Congregation is flourishing, and things go on comfortably. Your Salvation is fixed where Satan's Kingdom is amongst [indecipherable]. I was greived to find that you had suffered personally by their depredations, but the Lord can amply supply you and I hope will. Another [indecipherable] on [indecipherable]
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