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[MS 97]
Coventry Feb.5 1803
                                                       
My dear Bror
A few days ago I learn'd from Mr  Hardcastle that a Ship would shortly sail for New Holland. I therefore inform'd your friends, who with me are glad of an opportunity of keeping  our new minister with you, tho' 
[..]    [.......], tho' so distant.     I hope you are still housed in  the narrow way and kept from sin & error, especially from Infidelity which of late years has made such dreadful harm in many countries & by which want many professors of religion have been turned aside
  I hope you see the Evangelical Magazines - they will inform you of what is doing in that part of the world & by this, for other parts of it.  The most promising Mission hitherto has been that near the Cape of good Hope . The [...] of a disposition in France  to hear the [...] The gospel among

[...]negotiating to purchase a church in Paris & to send over gospel ministers there. Indeed there is a great drive in England to spread the gospel both at home & abroad & I do hope that knowledge is increased. At the same time I greatly fear that true piety does not  bear a proportion  to the increase of professors.

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