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Morea Feb 25th 1813

Dear Brother H. 

        May God bless you and yours with grace mercy and peace health of body and mind. Holyness in heart and life love to his name and zeal for his glory. We have been exercised in various ways yet all in loving kindness and all needfull, you might have heard of our voyage here. It is hit or miss with many people that go to sea, it was our lot to miss the Island as many miss heaven when they die though they expect to find it while they live, and then it is to late to run, East, West, North, or South, as we did and made it at length, Mr Kable is shure to miss heaven if he goes on in a course of sin till death; tell him that I say so.
I am glad we are here. I think it is the path of duty and at length comfort. Mr K can inform you of the state of the Island, and how very little is don by the hole towards the instruction of the natives very often not more than one discourse and one catechiseing the boys about us is don by seven Missionaries in one week and the school attended to. Yet in general when there are people near us we preach to them on the sabbath and then they hear 7 or 8 times I find them very attentive in general when I was at Tahiti the other day I found them I think more attentive than usual. I should like to see you take a voyage this way but I do not expect it. I hope we shall not have occation to visit the Colony again things are now in place in this Island. If it should come in your way to dispose of [indecipherable]
 

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