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“...having the veflel, each contending for
his own exclufive manner of performing the intend-
ed fervice, or (hall they, with open franknefs ac-
commodating one another as far as poflible, unite
at once, and endeavour to fave their brethren ?
The application is obvious. To enter upon it
would be to infult common fenfe.
The preacher hopes this morning that it will
not be deemed egotifm for him frankly to declare
his own motives for affording his afliftance on this
occaflon. Behold before you then, a Mission-
ary ; a Miflionary he repeats in the ftriXeft
fenfe of the word. He is not a native of thefe
climes, being born a Weft-Indian. His family
connexions are in general abroad. He was fent
originally to Great Britain for education, which
he received at one of our public fchools. He
was intended by his connexions, nay, even by
himfelf, for a far different line of life from that
in which he now appears before this auditory. His
thoughts had been directed to the bar. But be-
hold 1—when it pleafed God...”
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