Series 01: Rowland Hassall, papers, 1797-1820, 1860: No. 004
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The shortness of the notice we have received admits not our calling together our Brethren, but Mr Hardcastle, Rayner & I beg you to send us by Capt.n Blyth your Journals, and whatever you may have collected of any Kind for the Society. we wish you to assist Capt. B - in any thing he may have need of you, & hope if he should return before or after our precious Argosie, that he will bring a report to strengthen our Hands, & encourage other Labour to go forth into the Harvest, The very communication that may happily be thus established will be for you & us. a mutual blessing & comfort.
All outward matters you will hear from your countrymen perhaps even to some of them your labours may be blessed.
I have thro mercy to tell you of the health & zeal of all our missionary Brethren, not one of them I think has been lost during the last year, all of your friends & relatives of whom I have heard and know continue in good health and in country and town wait to hear of a blessing upon you.
Mrs Wilson has brought a son and is well, & gone down to her friends ----
What the issue of our embro[iled] affairs in Europe may be God only knows I have often thought the Isles of the South may be a happy refuge from the Days of Evil, we know and feel indeed our own: We hope to hear you are covered from the power & fear of Evil.
my poor old Bones still hang together & I am not at all disabled yet for the work, which I am making haste to finish because the time is Short ~
We shall desire the Capt Blyth furnish you with any thing he can spare, and you may want, for which you will give him Credit upon us, if you cannot by Supplying his wants make a mutually advantageous Exchange.
It gives me peculiar Satisfaction now near the end of my Journey - to depart in the reviving Hope that you brethren, are sent to usher in the great day of the Lord by turning the disobedient unto the Wisdom of the Just, & as we probably may never meet, till our work is done and we stand before the Throne to give an account of ourselves To the great Shepherd & Bishop of Souls. if I go before you, I shall at his right hand wait for & welcome you with delight & if any of you get the start of me & reach the Goal before me, I hope, I shall hobble after you, & that we shall eternally rejoice together, and how momentary, how insignificant every other consideration?
the Lord bless & keep you, and lift up the light of his countenance upon you, & fill you with Joy& peace in believing! The Blood is speaking before the Throne, and I trust in our consciences sealed by the Holy Ghost unto the day of Redemption - Finally, Brethren