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31st Oct 1797,

My dearly beloved Brethren
    I seize the first moment, that providence presents, to renew my warmest, and most affectionate Remembrances to you all,
Capt Blyth hopes to call on you, and oh! that he may find you walking in Love as Christ also hath loved you, & given himself for you, an offering and a Sacrifice to God of a Sweet Smelling Savour. With hope, & mingled anxiety, our Hearts beat to hear of your affairs, & promise ourselves, that you stand fast, striving together for the faith of the Gospel: neither shaken in your minds by difficulties, nor distrusting the faithfullness, & Love of the great head of the Church who hath honoured you with a Mission to the Heathen, & called you to the high & awful Office of Apostles to the Gentiles. ~ It is impossible to express to you the Constant & earnest prayer made to the Lord for you; the deep remembrance graven upon all our Hearts of you; and the daily Volition of my Spirit towards you in the Isles of the Sea, when I am mingling my Supplications with yours, and they go up together to the Throne of God from our distant Corners of the Earth           
    Full of Love to your Souls, & breathing hard after the Salvation of the poor heathen to which you are sent, I cannot but as one of your elder Brethren renew my warmest Exhortations to you - that you may be of one heart and of one mind; - The great Enemy of your Souls, & of your Success, will always by seeking to create division, & puffing up one against another, we are not ignorant   
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