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[MS 22]

in your favour, and inclines us to the persuasion that these apprehensions not only existed in a strong degree in your Minds, but that you also took great pains to ascertain their foundations and were not actuated by groundless fears - while however an affection for you inclines us to the favourable construction, we yet think it right in faithfulness to you Brethren from our consciences; and to the sacred cause in which we are mutually engaged; to [?] we do not consider ourselves so fully possessed of all the circumstances which bear upon this subject as to be able to form an adequate judgement - or pronounce a decisive sentence - this matter therefore rests betwixt your own consciences; and the omniscient Judge, and we trust you can with chearfull confidence reflect that your "record is on high"- We regret that you did not give us some idea of the intercourse you had with the natives - the steps you took to gain their confidence, and to impart to them the great subject of your mission among them, as we presume you had acquired as much of the language as to be able to converse intelligibly with them. It might have been very useful in our future arrangements to have known what probability there appears of success among them - or what are the principal impediments in our way - your silence on these subjects, connected with your early apprehensions - danger from them, incline us to conclude that your intercourse with them was not so frequent & familiar as to produce any material effect we [ [ also very anxious for the safety of the Brethren you left behind, who are now entirely in
the power of the natives, and exposed to the effects of their prejudices, their resentments
or their caprices - we earnestly implore the divine protection on their behalf, and the affecacious blessing of God to accompany their courageous & faithful labour among the heathens.

[MS 23] 

Having suggested these observations  we proceeded to consider the occurrence of your removal in the light of a providential dispensation - and we perceive with satisfaction that you receive your present situation to admit of a considerable scope for your exertions in promoting the interests of religion - and we hope your expectations of extensive usefulness may be realised - the great head of the church best knows how to dispose of his servants and you shoud be instrumental in promoting materially the progress of his Kingdom,as will furnish some ground to conclude that you have been inclined by a superior impulse to [outside of margins] remove to the station you now occupy - in every situation however great humility and self denial as well as zeal and activity are requisite, and a Christian [indecipherable] ought to calculate on opposition difficulty and danger rather than ease and applause in the execution of his work - you are now indeed placed under the wing of British protection, and may perhaps be secure from personal danger, yet the faithfull discharge of your duty will probably expose you to persecution in some shape or other, and will require the exercise of the same despositions as [indecipherable] enable you to submit to it in its most horrifying forms - The Colony in which you now reside is rapidly increasing in population, and from its peculiar construction, presents an inviting opening for evangelical labours - you are connected with a state of society peculiarly depraved, but yet so circumstanced as to render the Gospel prose especially seasonable and suitable to them, and you will seriously consider by what plan of proceeding your residence among them can promote the [present?] extensions good - there are some of your [outside of margins] upon whom the exalted Saviour has conferred gifts adapted from the work of the 

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