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Less in your debt I thank you for your kind attention to my
dear afflicted sister - letting her know of the means of sending to
me, I also feel obliged for your mention of the kind Silver
[indecipherable] friends I can assure you my Dear Brother it would
afford us no small pleasure to be able to spend a few
hours with you and to hear of them from you, the very men
-tion of the names of many of them in your letters was reviving to our
[indecipherable] However for the present I must forego so great a
pleasure as I appear called to direct my [indecipherable] to the
Sandwich Islands instead of paying a short visit to N S Wales

When our Brother Williams returned from the Colony and [indecipherable]
the intelligence of your arrival [indecipherable] I was [indecipherable]
the Sandwich Islands. I found Kona a most interesting
and extensive field open to the sickle of the labourers. The
King Tammeamea together with all the Chiefs [indecipherable]
unanimous in requesting me to continue there or fetch
my family from the Society Islands return and
take up my permanent abode among them, &
which [indecipherable]I consented having received the [indecipherable]
of each of the American Missionaries there with houses
also written officially to the Brethren [indecipherable] requesting
them to comply with their wishes and allow us to proceed
to Hawaii, the proper name of [indecipherable]
481
The wages of Divine Providence are often mysterious but
always ordered by unerring wisdom, although he is frequently
inexplicable, I had [indecipherable] the Society Islands. [indecipherable]
of action which I was called to move [indecipherable]
of my labour in the vinyard of the Great Head of the [indecipherable]
and looked upon [indecipherable] as my second home. & which I
was and came by a [indecipherable] and London ties. But so new
appears the will of him who called us to leave our
native land and direct our course to Islands of the
[indecipherable] the first instance, [indecipherable]
lead us still [indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable]
Pacific; this land [indecipherable] to [indecipherable] been remarkedly
complicated the way has been made as plain
that it seems almost impossible to mistake it
I trust he has a work for us to do there or [indecipherable]
he will [indecipherable] lead us [indecipherable] We shall be called to
make many temporal sacrifices & suffer many new
privations from the [indecipherable] of society there and [indecipherable]
[indecipherable] of the Sail, as the [indecipherable]of the Sandwich Islands
is a [indecipherable] compared with the [indecipherable] we now reside