Church Missy House
Salisbury Square, London
August, 18. 1814
My Dear Sir
	Since my last of March 18th we have not heard from you; but are now in expectation of soon receiving intelligence, if it so please God, of your arrival at Port Jackson.
	The Missionary Registers, Magazines, Newspapers &c. are continued to the present time. The Magazines, and the Volumes of Annual Registers, should be preserved as constant additions to our Missionary Library, which we shall augment from time to time.
	You will see that God graciously continues to prosper us; and will be much edified, I doubt not, and encouraged by the Journal of Abdool Messee.
	I refer to my last respecting New Zealand. Should an Auxiliary Society be formed in N.S. Wales, as we have suggested, there will be a body on the spot representing us, to whom you and all others sent out by us may look for direction and countenance.
	Remember me kindly to Mr and Mrs Hall [f] and Mr King. We trust that no considerations of present interest will delay the work in New Zealand. We should wish to hear fully from Wm Hall. He has seldom written any thing to me on the great subject which ought to be uppermost in all our thoughts. May our Blessed Master maintain and increase in your mind that regard to his glory among the Heathen, which led you, I trust, to leave your native land! and may He recover the minds of our friends to that love if it is in them decayed! It is a poor and pitiful thing to advance our interests in this world, however high, if it lead us to retard or abandon His interests whom it is the highest honour of a creature to serve. Remember us very sincerely to Mrs Kendall, and believe me
Ever yours
(signed) Josiah Pratt







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