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and administer to you thro' our medium the assistance which
the prosecution of your labours in this way may require
ever therefore commend you to God who is able to keep you
from falling, and admonish you that great temptations -
difficulties and dangers must necessarily await you in this
work. You did not enter into it in search of ease & competance
but you embraced it in the contemplation of trials and the
probability of Death - the Martyrs Cross as well as crown was
placed before you, and you were taught that if you sealed your
testimony with your blood, it would be the occasion of your
everlasting triumph, which on the other hand unfaithfullness
to the Work. accompanied with awkward prosperity which
be of all calamity the most to be defended.

By order of the Directors

Thos Hawers
Joseph Hardcastle
John Eyre

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Society to Missionaries
At Port Jackson
Sept. 3. 1799

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London Sep. 3 .99.

My dear Madam,

Notwithstanding you will receive a letter
from the Msy [Missionary] Society by this conveyance I cannot for-
bear in a private capacity dropping you a line and
by the same means forward you for common use the
magazines, by which you will learn what we
have been doing since you left England. Before
this reaches you the Hillsborough, who carried Dr Van der
Kemp & brethren to the Cape, will have informed
you of the re equipment of the Duff under Capt Robson, 
and of her having sailed in company almost to 
Madiera. But on just entering the Harbour of Rio Janiero
she was captured by the French. In the Number
of these Missionaries was my daughter Mary
married & going to reside with her husband Mr.
Vardy (at Otaheite) who had been attending to missionaries.

When the news of this disaster reached England
it is not easy to conceive the afflictive impulse 
it gave to the religious friends who flew to repair