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[[MS 310]

To Mr. Rowland Hassall
Parramatta

Mr Nott
Received 24th Feby 1810

[MS 311] 

My dear Bro,

I understand that a ship is about to leave this port for Nw. Holland, I therefore take this opportunity of addressing to you a few lines, especially because I desire that the most perfect cordiality and affection may subsist between all the Brethren belonging to the London Missionary Society and ourselves. We are all brethren and have the same object in view. It therefore becomes us to strengthen each others hands in the work of the Lord; and I trust it will, to the end of my days, be the object of my life to labour for that purpose.
You, my dear brother, are placed in a very important station and it is probable that you and your colleagues may ultimately be the instrument of making known the word of life to  the native inhabitants of the vast country where you reside. Our Countrymen claim our labours, and we ought to labour to our utmost to bring them to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus; but the heathens are in a still more deplorable situation having no-one to care for their souls, and therefore have the first claim to our labours.
     Were I to say that the Lord has done nothing for India, I'm must interdict the plainest facts. I have myself, used the goings forth of the Lord in a very encouraging manner; and not withstanding there are many millions who are in the depths of heathen ?, it would be ? not to give God the glory of what he has done. When I first arrived in Bengal in 1793 there was not ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 

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