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 your liberal ^„ s™"'"l acknow»dffm-„,. /• 
 / iioerai contributioiu ■ ^"''■B'l'ents for 
 
 miflions to tlie Weft ^^^ ' '\J"Pmc of our 
 Newfoundland. I til LI ^°^* S""\ Td 
 d-fburfements before a J •'"'' ««ipts and 
 '^'""ce, having tL,r'K"" ""^ 'h' con- 
 "^e than I receivS^^''"' ''"'"' «% pounds 
 
 r-cc^rtr^t^rerttTr^-fo-r 
 
 offmsU&ion. '^' ^'^ yo" fome degree 
 
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 " three .weeks ago. We met brother Clarke at 
 " Kingfton ; and the next day wept to fee the 
 ** Und above mentioned. TheXarribbs are 
 « willing to receive us as miffionarics, and to 
 /' give up- their children to be taught by us. 
 " This undertaking will be attended with ex- 
 " pence at prefcnt, in which I truft, our Eng- 
 « lifli friends will affift us, as we have no re- 
 « fources yet in the Weft Indies. Ahtigua, in- 
 " deed, can fupport its own expence j but there 
 " IS no provifion made yet for a preacher at St. 
 " Vincent's. Brother Warrener is Well received. 
 " and his labours much blcfled at Aotiguftj but 
 " is in a poor ftate^ of health at prefent. Our fociety 
 •' ^t Antigua> confifts of farty*thrce whites, and 
 •' one thoufand nine hundred and iifty-fcvcn 
 •* blacks, befides thofe we have on trial, 1 blcfs 
 «' God I ftill dcfirq tp be entirely' devcwed to his 
 " fervice. I feel much my Qwn,weakne6, and 
 •« want of abilities and grace for /o important a 
 " work. Wilhing you. all fpiritval bleffings. in 
 " Chrift Jefus, and hoping thatypur life will be" 
 « fpared, far thtgood of the church, I rd^iain 
 " Your affedionate brother in Chrift, 
 
 . " JOHN BAXTER." 
 
 " St.Chriflopher^JunflSyiyty, 
 " Dear and reverend Sh-, 
 «MF I do not get fome affiftj»nce fmm Eu- 
 « rope or America, I muft incvjeabiy- giyp up 
 « St. Euflratiusj as the work at Sc Kitt's, is of 
 « much greater importance at''i:(fffent. I have 
 « occafionally vifitcd St. feuftatw* fince your 
 « departure. Our nuinbe'rs thtrn arc incrcafcd, 
 " ^hQ|T^Ihave put ^ntb regu'lai; A^^ I. whined' 
 ~«=ofrTt!cneaptain of theTlUn^wW i^ccivcd me" 
 
 *» co/dially, and gave me ap invitation to dinner. 
 
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 ; ni^t a gentleman from Mmtfirra, vifiied me 
 
 ' who .5 under conviftion, and longs forlrof 
 
 « o»r miffionaries to go to that idaSd. He has 
 
 . "•«'«; h'. mfluence two hundred negroef, „S 
 
 he told me. that the perfon we lould fend 
 
 ^" ""g"" freely make ufe of to houfe as hU 
 
 home, and moreover, that he would give ten 
 
 Part''of'*hi^rr'^''*?^°^'"»°*" P«^fe «« 
 part of his falary, and that he might preach 
 
 round the .fland, wherever he pleafedf 5e 
 « heard me preach twice with grL attention 
 About two year, ago he was%t BaTZd 
 hea«l fome gofpel,mi„ifter,, which was of ufe 
 to him. He tells me his wife and children are 
 "• ?: ' Wi*"'''-. This -may be'an op" i^l . 
 
 " fh t^^ hav, .'"J:,(<'™«J'«" I "><ntioned 
 
 .. fift. **a''?™ '" '•;« "land one hundred and 
 
 fifty., and ,n St. Euftatius fixty-two, Hnce I 
 
 hundred. ,ndudin\ Catechumens. The «"! 
 
 of the miffionaries, which, with- fome Sdre 
 
 ::Po/^^l:^u^^dtr;^fthl7e? 
 
 _ " When I wa. at St..Euftatius laft.^ had ^.n 
 »PP?"'"».tyof f„i„g two B^,JiZ (men of 
 
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 « „^ u ^ "8 <<»"= ""« '0 their illand to 
 ^ asach^^ve me aB^n«i<atioB » theh^Si^ 
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 vifit at St. Kttt's, left their addrefg at ^atid^ 
 Point, on iliearing of meAand cxprcflTed a de- 
 fine that I (hould go there tb preach* I feel a 
 great d«lre that the Grenado^, BarbaJoes, and 
 Jamaica^ fliould be vifited. 0\that God would 
 difpofe fomc zealous, pious young men to come 
 here to fcek and to favc tlie wandering children 
 of CanaaHi many of whom are \ready to re- 
 ceive the truth I In Si, Kittys, I Have begotten 
 Alawyer^'m the gofpel, who formeirly refidcd in 
 London ; who had been a mocker jof the truth, 
 but was cut to the heart on hearing me preach 
 fromMarkviii.38.and heisnowjuftified. One 
 of the fcarchers in the cuftom-houfe is alfo 
 begotten to a lively hope, and is now a clafs- 
 leader, whom, I truft, God dcfigns for the 
 miniftry. 
 
 " 1 am, dear and rWerend Sir, &c. 
 
 " WILLIAM HAMMETT."* 
 
 Our preachers have alfo in thofe iflands a large 
 number of Catechumtns^ or perfons under injiruffton 
 for baptifm, who are not accounted members of 
 our focicty.. Our infant-work in Nova Scotia 
 profpers alfo much : we have about fix hundred 
 (chiefly whites) in fociety, who maintain the few 
 preachers we have there at prefcnt. In Newfound- 
 land we proceed but flowly. Our great harveft 
 in the ^ritifh dominions in America, is in the 
 Weft India iflands, which contain, according to 
 the exadleft computation that has been made, not 
 lefs than half a million of negroes, who fcem to 
 be all ready to receive the gofpel. There the 
 fields are ripe indeed: but for fomc year* the ex- 
 pence will be very great, efpccially in fupporting 
 -the mtffion amoggthe poor €w ribbszt St.P ^ nnnfs T^ 
 the converfion of whom will be an unfpeakable 
 
 9 blelTing 
 
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 them for the /«^/J» '^" "">P<:nlition to 
 enabli„7u to 1X11'*"''^'.'??' "dure, b, 
 
 know, thaf" (3„otT«"^-"f • ^"'' ^^ "'» 
 " vourwnrlr . J 1 1 *" ""fighteous, to forcct • 
 
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 I am. dearly beloved in the Lord 
 Your truly ,ffeai„„„, trotherlnd fervanr. 
 
 THOMAS COKE. 
 
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 ypon the earth ! Jt a|| ?C ' '1°'" '° "-"'k 
 inftant in Prayer, that h?/?' '"™ "ntinue 
 filled with £is ^loV. *'**»"'' """y be 
 
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