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intercourse with them peculiarly seasonable and we hope abundant
efficacious, thus it is possible divine providence may have provide
you with a sphere of  usefulness  which you could in no respect
anticipate, and in this or some other way demonstrate that he
produces his own wise and gracious purposes by means of those
events which in themselves appear to us disastrous.

We have endeavoured to obtain a favourable representation in your
behalf from Mr Serle of the Transport Office to Governor Hunter &
Governor King who accompanies this - Governor King is going out to
Norfolk Island, and we see no reasons why this should not,
furnish a station of considerable promise for Missionary work.
By his patronage the introduction would be much facilitated the
protection and influence of the British settlement may be of
singular advantage in such an attempt.  We are therefore not
without hopes, that the great Head of the Church in compassion
to those benighted heathen who are placed in the vicinity of that Island has designed this your means to carry
to them the light of his precious Gospel,  We cannot however at
present enter more particularly into this subject, we think is
probable that in a few months a vessel will sail with Convicts
under the command of Mr Wm Wilson, and as we hope in the
meantime to receive your dispatches we shall then be able to
write you in a more particular manner. We shall therefore
only further observe, that if unhappily you undertook this
Missionary warfare without having counted the cost of a wearing
of the work a feasibleness of dispositions an imprudent conduct
among the Heathens or a pernicious desire to quit the Station appointed
you  has induced you to avail yourself of this single occurrence

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to remove to a more favourable situation. We trust you will seek 
that sincere repentance which so awful a state of Mind, and
so deep and lasting an injury to the cause of Christ requires.
Should the failure of this Mission be owing to yourselves, we need  
not inform you that the friends of the Gospel here would by no
means interfere further in your behalf nor by rendering you any
assistance, reward your unfaithful Conduct and thus encourage 
others to follow the same course but even in this case the prin-
cipal responsibility may lay with a few, whose fatal influence
over the rest may have succeeded in producing this dereliction of
duty, and or embalmed them with subsequent lament.
On their behalf we trust the compassionate High Priest will 
interpose his powerful intercession the faithful Shepherd will
reshareth our Souls or will call back these [indecipherable] into the path
of righteousness, and strengthen them for future usefulness indeed.

Brethren we hope better things of you all, though we thus speak,
we cherish the expectation that God has in his wise and gracious
providence been pleased to change the situation of your labours
with the design of your increasing useffulness, and if it appears
that you quitted your former station from imperious necessity  and
yet persevere in all its ardour the desire  to extend  the Kingdom of
Christ among the heathen, we doubt not a great and effectual
door will be opened to you, and in the faithful presentation of this
work you have every reason to expect that your fellow Christians
in this Country will regard you with the most tender sympathy
bear you continually on their hearts in devout supplication