University of Otago Library Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to Francis Hall, 5 April 1820 Reverend Edward Bickersteth Author Reverend Josiah Pratt Author Francis Hall Receiver text Letter London, England 5 April 1820 Notes about where the letter was created: Church Missionary House, London eng text/html 319 x 198 mm 1 leaves 2 pages reformatted digital Hocken Collections' Title: CMS Secretaries to F. Hall Annotations: Copy Dwellings House Hall August Dromedary ship July 19th Diaries Journal Feb 25th New South Wales -31.16581,147.034149 God God Captain Lamb Committees Committee Mr Butler Missions Mission Tooi Teeterree Gospel Prisoners Convicts Milners Church History Reid Sir Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_205 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_205_001 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_205_002 http://www.marsdenarchive.otago.ac.nz/MS_0056_205_003 MS_0056_205 Trimble 205 CMS Number 226 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 2015-06-11T14:17:39+12:00 machine generated eng Letter: Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt to Francis Hall, 5 April 1820 Reverend Edward Bickersteth and Reverend Josiah Pratt University of Otago Library Digitised from the Hocken Library Collection Number MS-0056/205 Trimble 205 CMS Number 226 Digitised by the Marsden Online Archive Library of Congress Subject Headings Letter Maori Subject Headings Francis Hall 5 April 1820 London, England British English Dwellings Diaries God Committees Missions Prisoners House Hall August Dromedary July 19th Journal Feb 25th New south wales God Lamb Committee Butler Mission Tooi Teeterree Gospel Convicts Milners church history Reid Josiah Pratt Bickersteth Church Missionary House April 5/20 Dear Brother Hall— We wrote you on the 3d of August by the Dromedary, and have now received your Letter of July 19th and your Journal from Feb 25th to July 9/19. The favourable termination of your voyage to New South Wales, demands our grateful acknowledgments acknowledgements of the care and goodness of God, so graciously manifested toward you. The conduct of Captain Lamb on the Voyage, was so improper in itself, and such a breach of his engagements with the Society, the Committee having paid him liberally for the passage and accommodation of yourself and companions, that you could not have suppressed the statement of the particulars of it, contained in your Journal, without a breach of duty to the Society. It was the more incumbent on you to give us those details which more particularly relate to Capt Captain Lamb’s behaviour to Mr. Butler, as you might have presumed what proves to be the fact that Mr Butler would, from a commendable feeling on his part, omit the mention of them in his own Journal. We dwell on this point, to shew you the importance of your recording every material circumstance respecting the Mission which comes within your knowledge, so that it be done with fidelity, impartiality, and charity. The kind and paternal manner in which you watched over Tooi and Teeterree, and laboured to promote their best interests, has been peculiarly gratifying to the Committee. May the God of all grace give you, at length, to witness their passion of the salvation of the Gospel, in all its happy effects! A continuance of that patience, forbearance, and kindness, combined with unceasing prayer to God for his blessing on your endeavours for their good is the only method of dealing with them that affords any probability of success. We are glad to have again to express to you the approbation of the Committee of your efforts to instruct the Convicts in the knowledge of God and of Christ. Go forward, acting on the same principles, and in the same spirit, and we do not doubt but that, “through the tender mercy of our God,” you will, “in due season:, see your labours crowned with such a measure of success, as will evidence the faithfulness of Jehovah’s promise, and the efficacy of His grace to subdue the rebellious heart of Man to the obedience of Christ: and, though the scene be now greatly changed around you, the end is the same; and the same, substantially, the means for its attainment— Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Stand fast, then, in the Lord— neither terrified by dangers, nor discouraged by unbelief; but “casting all your care on Him, for He careth cares for you.” The Committee approves of your having presented your copy of Milner’s Church History to Dr reid, for the kindness of his medical attention to our friends on the Voyage, and will replace it by another for yourself. Though the Committee would have you ever cultivate a spirit of meekness and forbearance toward all men, yet your firmness and faithfulness, in the conversations which you had with Capt. Captain Lamb relative to his conduct, were, they conceive, consistent with this spirit, and called for and justified by the circumstances of the case. The regularity and fulness fullness of your Journal has afforded us much satisfaction; and we trust that it will be continued in the same manner, and transmitted home at every favourable opportunity. Praying that you may be enabled to walk closely with God, and find His blessing resting on your labours, We are ever, Dear Sir, Your affectionate friends (signed) Josiah Pratt Edwd Bickersteth Hocken Archive Reference Number MS-0056/205 35MB image/tif 6.0 Uncompressed MD5 01578566f629dfea22af28c9243f32b6 ACEMC 2796 4470 RGB manuscript Hakena MS-0056/205 198 mm 319 mm 2014:04:08 14:59:49.25 University of Otago Library, Reprographics Unit digital still camera Canon Canon EOS 6D 11.0 1.3 Manual 0220 1.3 11.0 6.5 1.4 Multi-segment tungsten flash did not fire 50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 62.4 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 2014:04:15 13:03:16 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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