282 LIFE AND CORRESPONDEXCE OF THE [I/SQ 



States, for tlie purpose of devising and executing such measures as, 

 through the blessing of God, may concentre all our future labors in the 

 promotion of truth and rigliteousness, and for preserving our Church in 

 the unity of the Spirit, and the bond of peace. 



We hope that the time to which the Convention had adjourned may 

 be found convenient to you and to your Churches. An early day was 

 necessary, as the members from some of the Southern States could 

 neither be detained long from home, nor return to their respective 

 charges, with any prospect of attending at any more remote day, dur- 

 ing the present year. 



The day to which the adjournment was made, viz., Tuesday, Septem- 

 ber 29th, falls one week before the annual meeting of the Corporation 

 for the Relief of the Widows and Children of tlie Clergy, for the States 

 of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, of which you are a mem- 

 ber; and the very existence of that pious and charitable institution de- 

 pends upon our obtaining a full board for the explaining and amending 

 some of tlie fundamental laws. It was, therefore, proper to make the 

 adjournment of the Convention a week earlier than the meeting of the 

 Corporation, that the business of both might be better transacted with- 

 out interference: and the City of Philadelphia is the place where, ac- 

 cording to Cliaricr, the Corporation is to meet this present year, and, 

 exclusive of this consideration, Philadelphia was considered as more 

 central and convenient, as well as less expensive, perhaps, to the mem- 

 bers, than New York during the sessions of Congress, and the present 

 concourse of strangers to that city. 



We have now only to request your acknowledgment of the receipt of 

 this Address as soon as convenient after it comes to your hand, with 

 which we doubt not to have the agreeable assurance of meeting you 

 (and such representation of your Church as your own rules may provide) 

 in our adjourned Convention at Philadelphia, on the said 29th of Sep- 

 tember nt.\r. We are, with all respect, 



Your affectionate brethren and humble servants, 



AViLLiAM White, 

 William Smith, 

 Samuel Magaw, 

 Francis Hopkinson, 

 Tench Coxe. 



Letters so evincive of a Christian spirit found a ready response 

 in the noble Seabury's heart. He writes, at once: 



I will, God permitting, most willingly join you at your adjourned 

 Convention on the 29th of September next. 



The adjourned meeting of the Convention assembled in Christ 

 Church September 30th, 1789. The minutes say: 



