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pointed to be holden at Bristol , where the Rev . Dr . Carpenter , will be expected to preach , or in case of failure the Rev . Mr . Aspland . D . J . The EPISTLE from the YEARLY MEETING , held in LONDON , "by Adjournments , from the ^ othjto the apth of the fifth month , 1807 , inclusive , to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of FRIENDS , in Great Britain , Ireland ,
and elsewhere . Dear Friends , Receive , we beseech you , the salutation of our undiminished and renewed love : may we not reverently say , of our love in the gospel of Christ . For we desire to be as the messengers of good tidings , to allure you to increasing degrees of dedication to the cause of truth ,
and to make you partake of the encouragement which we are mercifully allowed to feel , by meeting thus together as with one accord . But though we have again cause to confess that there is strength in the union of exercise , in a joint engagement of spirit , we also entreat you to remember that «\ " the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call
upon him . ' Rom , x . iz . We believe , as a frequent application of heart to the Lord is the practice of friends in their remote allotments , that he will enrich them 'with due portions of his wisdom and strength . Thus will he restrain in
them the dispositions which tend towards the world , he will invigorate those which have their origin and accomplishment in heaven , and he will even < c make glad for them the solitary place . * ' lsa . xxkv . r .
On the particular inspectibn this year into the state of our religious society , various objects tending to its welfare have engaged our attention ; some of which we shall endeavour briefly to lay before you . But first we are inclined to express our thankfulness for an event which concerns not us only , but incalculable multitudes of our fellow
creatures—our fellow-possessors of the faculty or reason—our fellow-objectfc of the redemption which conies by Christ . We scarcely need name the Abolition of the Slave Trade . We view it as one of the most important acts of public , national righteousness , which ever dignified the councils of any government ; and •^ r minds have been directed in secret
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prayer to the Almighty Parent of the universe , that he may be pleased to re * gard this kingdom for good ; and direct its future councils to such further acts of justice and mercy a 9 may promote his glory , in the harmony of hi * rational creation .
We may also here mention that we learn by the accounts which we have received from our brethren in America , that their attention in assisting some of the Indian nations to attain to the benefits of civilization , is still continued with vigour and with increasing success . We are gratified with being informed of the contribution which friends in this nation
have raised in ord ^ r participate in this work of benevolence . Six thousand pounds © f it are already put in train to be remitted to America ; about nine hundred more are ready to follow , and we have cordial assurances from our friends abroad that they will readily take upon them " the administration of this ser *
vice : ° which we trust will not only prosper , to the advancement of our Indian brethren in the scale of civil life ; but , like the gift of old , mentioned by the apostle , may be abundant also , by many thanksgivings unto God . ' % Cor . ix . 12 .
Now , dear friends , seeing Christian duty is not a complex system , but consists of a few and simple parts , it cannot be expected that great variety should be found in the subjects , on which , from time to time , we arc induced to address you . It is a peculiar glory of the gospeL that it remains the same , kove to God and love to our neighbour are its
grand and primary divisions ; each harmonizing with the other ; neither subsisting apart . To the latter we immediately refer the general care which our Christian discipline promotes ; and we beLeve it is also the ground of that more private , but not less beneficial care , which we long to see subsisting in vigour in Christian families . You know our annual
inquiry , u Do Friends endeavour , b / example and prece pt , to train up their children , servants , and those under their care , in a religious life and conversation , consistent with our Christian profession ? ' * The qnery then descends to , four particulars , all of them indeed important , but we now hint at ; them
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Intelligence . —Quakers * Yearly Epistle . 44 f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/51/
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