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[Address on envelope]

Mr Rowland Hassall
Parramatta
New South Wales

to the care of Revd Mr Marsden

[Letter]

My dear Brother

I was highly gratified with your kind letter and
thankful to our covenant God that you have been preserved
with your dear wife and children in the midst of so many
dangers to which you have been exposed, since our affectionate
parting at Coventry. It affords me great pleasure that you
have been kept diligent, and faithful, while many have
deserted the Cause. This my Brother is the Lords doings, and it
is marvellous in our eyes. Knowing what an evil heart
of unbelief we have, our preservation in the good way is
a miracle of Grace. May the Lord continue to smile upon
you and yours, support you under every difficulty and trial 
and grant you strength equal to your day. God is all sufficient.

Thro mercy my wife and self are still preserved. My
health is but indifferent but tho' faint I am still enabled
to pursue my work, and blessed be God not without success
now and then fruit appears, and sometimes the blossom is
cast off, and disappears. Most of our old friends have gone
into eternity since you left, which I suppose you have heard
of Alderman Collett, Mr Brown and Mrs Hewitt friend Summer
and his wife and several more are gone to Heaven. Brother
Pinder is now settled  in London. There is an excellent young
man in his place at Orchard  Chapel one of those taken
in the Ship - Duff on their way to Otaheiti. The Congregation
is flourishing, and things go on comfortably.

Your Salvation is fixed where Satan's Kingdom is amongst
a nest of thieves. I was greived to find that you had suffered
personal loss by their depredations, but the Lord can amply
supply you and I hope will. Another interview on earth would