University of Otago Library Letter: William Hall to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 10 January 1817 William Hall Author Reverend Josiah Pratt Receiver Harriet The ship that sent the letter Baring The ship that returned the reply text Letter Bay of Islands, New Zealand 10 January 1817 24 June 1818 26 June 1818 14 December 1818 Notes about where the letter was created: Bay of Islands, New Zealand eng text/html 313 x 206 mm 2 leaves 4 pages reformatted digital Letter was sent to London, England Notes about the destination address: Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, London Hocken Collections' Title: William Hall to CMS Secretary Annotations: Mr Moore [delivered by] Bay Of Islands -35.17886,174.169586 June 10th 1817 Sir Mr Kendall Peace Peace England 52.456009,-1.189957 Satan God God Heathens Fences Fences Schools School Children Children Carlisle Perseverance ship Marsdens Dwellings House Wythangee -35.269729,174.080375 Abraham Faith Faith Gospel Plows Plough Hall Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_057 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_057_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_057_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_057_003 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_057_004 MS_0056_057 Trimble 57 CMS Number 75 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/). 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University of Otago Library 2015-06-11T13:49:10+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: William Hall to Reverend Josiah Pratt, 10 January 1817 William Hall University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/057 Trimble 57 CMS Number 75 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Reverend Josiah Pratt 10 January 1817 Bay of Islands, New Zealand Harriet Baring 24 June 1818 London, England 26 June 1818 British English Peace God Fences Schools Children Dwellings Faith Plows Bay of islands June 10th 1817 Kendall Peace England Satan God Heathens Fences School Children Carlisle Perseverance Marsdens House Wythangee Abraham Faith Gospel Plough Hall Bay of Islands June 10th 1817 Revd & Dear Sir/ Having seen your letter to Mr Kendall I confess that I am heartily sorry that any disagreement should have taken place amongst us, and much more so, that the report of it should have been circulated so wide, not considering that peace and friendship might be restored before the letters could reach England, as if proved afterwards— We must acknowledge with regret, that through a number of trials privations and crosses taking place that we were unexperienced inexperienced with, that Satan in some measure gained his end amongst us at the beginning. But we can rejoice now through the grace of God, that he has lost his ground very much and not only amongst ourselves, but also amongst the poor Dark minded heathens, we have some of them living with us that formerly used to break down our fences and abuse us, and steal and carry away every article they could get hold of. But now we can see a wonderful alteration in them they are become quite familiar and sociable, they live amongst us and works with us, and we can almost say of some of them, that he that stole steals no more.— Mr Kendall has got a very good School, and plenty of victuals and rewards for the Children, he has also got Mr Carlisle to assist him, the means are fully obtained and through the blessing of God upon it, the effect will shew itself in time.— Mr King has got a Rope walk made and is teaching some of the natives to spin twine and lay up small Cords, and by patience and perseverance there is no doubt but they will improve.— I am at present cultivating land for Wheat, agreable to Mr Marsdens instructions; I have kept five or six men at work these six months past, Clearing ground breaking up and fencing. I victual them constantly in my house, and pay them for their labour.— I take the hoe myself and litterally break up the fallow ground, along with them. If I could do as easily do it spiritually upon their hearts I should rejoice. I have got an Acre and a half nearly fenced round and ready for the seed, and as soon as it is sown and finished I mean to teach the natives to Saw Timber. I made a beginning upon that work when I was at Wythangee and they seemed to offer very well, but they will require a great deal of patience and perseverance.— But the Lord that can furnish a table in the wilderness, can furnish his instruments with qualifications requisite for their work.— I must acknowledge myself a very improper and worthless Character, especially if as bad as represented, but the Lord has often done great works by very unlikely instruments.— He can when He pleases out of Stones raise up Children to Abraham.— But as I expect nothing from man, and all good things from God, I shall never be disapointed , because he does and will do all things well in his own way and time.— The prayers of the people of God hath been visibly answered to an eye of faith on our behalf.— I myself have literally as well as spiritually [been] saved as a brand from the burning, and we must acknowledge Gods hand in all things as well as all things in Gods hand.— I am silent with astonishment when I think that so unworthy an Instrument as I should be employed in so great a work, but He that made the World out of nothing, can when he pleases without the use of means, raise up a seed to serve him, and call his name blessed. And that the Lord may bless the labours of you and all those that have set their hearts and hands to the Gospel plough is the sincere and fervent prayer of Revd & Dear Sir Your most unworthy servant And labourer in Christ Wm Hall Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/057 36MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 d83fb957772898b6e696bdc0cf6cc187 ACEMC 2868 4398 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/057 206 mm 313 mm 2014:03:27 08:38:31.38 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 62.6 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:03:27 10:02:10 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. 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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. Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/057 37MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 bed17696d72e14e703c287ba69aec970 ACEMC 2964 4416 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/057 206 mm 313 mm 2014:03:27 08:38:57.10 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.8 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. 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Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. hocken@otago.ac.nz Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/057 38MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 8eb80999343ed082ce31624905075608 ACEMC 3084 4416 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/057 206 mm 313 mm 2014:03:27 08:37:32.80 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1 Manual 0220 1 11.0 6.9 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 61.0 mm) 0 Subject is illuminated from the front side. Auto Focus Used Normal Digitised as part of the Mining Marsden Project in 2013/2014 8, 8, 8 integer 3 2014:03:27 10:01:45 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit Processing actions undertaken to: prepare the image for online digital use and maintain the integrity of the image. Adobe Photoshop CS6 Windows 7 Cropped item to remove excess border and straightened the image. 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