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Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Thomas Kendall, 16 December 1814
Reverend
Josiah
Pratt
Author
Reverend
Thomas
Kendall
Receiver
Northampton
The ship that sent the letter
text
Letter
London, England
16 December 1814
Notes about where the letter was created: Midlands, London
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Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretary to Thomas Kendall
Annotations: Copy; Duplicate sent 28 January 1815 by the Dawson
Mr
Kendall
Dwellings
House
London
51.513016,-0.127931
16th
1814
Sir
Woodd
March
11th
June
15th
18th
Hope
Hope
New Zealand
-41.244772,174.675751
Marsdens
Christmas
Wales
52.133488,-3.780155
Conference proceedings
Proceedings
God
God
Hall
John King
Committees
Committee
Sydney
-33.861293,151.212645
Libraries
Library
Grammar
Grammar
Maori language
Language
Distribution (Economic theory)
Distribution
Andrews
The Active
ship
Lutheran
Pratt
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Letter: Reverend Josiah Pratt to Reverend Thomas Kendall, 16 December 1814
Reverend Josiah Pratt
University of Otago Library
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Collection Number MS-0054/079
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CMS Number 66
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letter
Maori Subject Headings
Reverend Thomas Kendall
16 December 1814
London, England
Northampton
British English
Dwellings
Hope
Conference proceedings
God
Committees
Libraries
Grammar
Maori language
Distribution (Economic theory)
Authority
Kendall
House
London
16th
1814
Woodd
March
11th
June
15th
18th
Hope
New zealand
Marsdens
Christmas
Wales
Proceedings
God
Hall
John king
Committee
Sydney
Library
Grammar
Language
Distribution
Andrews
The active
Authority
Lutheran
Pratt
(Copy)
Secretary to Mr T. Kendall
CM House,
London.
Dec 16th 1814
My Dear Sir
We were very happy to receive yours to Mr Woodd of
Dec.
December
28/13 and March 11/14 with those to me of March 11th and June 15th.
Mine of March 18th last I hope you have received, and will shortly have
another of Aug.18.
It gave me much pleasure in having heard of Mr Hall’s having taken up his work, and that you and he proceeded to New Zealand.
You will see by the Missy Registers what notice we have taken of Mr Marsden’s efforts to rescue the South Sea Islanders from oppression & cruelty.
I have accepted your Draft for £120 for Salaries up to Christmas. As we trust an auxiliary Society will be formed in N.S. Wales, all our concerns must henceforward be placed under its management; as it will be necessary in so distant a quarter often to take important steps before an opinion can be had from home. Nor can we reasonably fear that we shall have cause to rescind the proceedings of men animated by the same views as ourselves, and judging from the best local information.
With respect to yourselves and families give up all to the Glory of God, and be assured of the kind care & protection of the Society. I have urged this on Mr Hall and John King. In proportion to your fidelity, activity, and devotedness in your great work, the Society will feel its obligation to be the protector of all whom you may leave
behind.
The price of various articles is so high that it must be advantageous to have your Salaries sent out in stores. If the Committee of the proposed Society will order an Investment of Goods as part or as the whole of our proposed annual Grants to the Society, you might have your portion of such goods. When you want any little convenience for yourselves we will send it.
Some Crockery and Stationery are sent out for your use; with a very good watch as you desired; also a pocket compass for each of you.
I have sent 3
Vols
volumes
of our Proceedings in boards, which, with those you have, will make 2
setts
Sets
complete; not knowing how the volumes you have are bound, I thought it best to send these in boards, as you can probably get them
bound somewhat uniform at Sydney. The other sett is to be given to Mr Marsden for his Library.
The Moderator Newspaper is sent, with Magazines &c for your general use. I have sent put up also some Reports of different Societies.
A copy of Hints on languages prepared by a friend, may be of some service to you, in preparing a Grammar &c of N.Z. language.
I have sent 12 Copies of Nr 23 of the Missy register for your own distribution, beside those sent as usual; this No containing some statements deservedly in praise of Mr Marsden’s efforts.
Mr Andrews, who has frequently been with me, has given us many interesting particulars respecting New Zealand.
The account which you give, in your Letter of June 15, of the Active and her voyage, is highly pleasing. Mr Marsden’s instructions respecting the voyage were those of a wise man, who well knew what he was doing.
I admire your conciliatory spirit toward Wm Hall. May God ever, by his grace, maintain and
encrease
increase
that spirit in you!
Your account of New Zealand excites
ardent
Ardent
expectation & hope in my mind, that God will condescend to employ us and you as instruments of conveying eternal blessings to that noble race. Go on, my Dear Friend, in the strength of the Lord, possessing your soul in patience, and quietly labouring till your evening of rest shall come. There is no greater honour than to be called employed in increasing
Christ’s
Christ's
Kingdom among men; and especially among the Gentiles.
You feel the want of a regular authority as a Clergyman: but let not that trouble you. You may do every thing in a heathen land, under the character of a Catechist, except the
administring
administering
of the Sacraments and the time may come, at no great distance, when we may send out some Lutheran Clergy to your aid, who may admit you, according to the authority which their Church vests in them, to Holy Orders, if that should be found necessary. But my counsel to you is, to go on contentedly, doing the work in which you can consistently engage.
Believe me, Dear Sir,
With unfeigned regard,
Yours
Josiah Pratt
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Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image.
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Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image.
The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information.
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