l8oo] REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. ^2^ 



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finish those sermons in the way he proposes, they will be at least ac- 

 ceptable to those who have desired the publication of any of them. He 

 further trusts that if his design should meet with that approbation and 

 countenance which he affectionately solicits from the members of the 

 convention, they will be of use to all well-disposed Christians, and es- 

 pecially to those of the following descriptions, viz. : 



1. To heads of families who may think it their duty to devote the 

 evenings of the Lord's Day to the instruction of their own households. 



2. To pious and well-disposed persons (remote from places of public 

 worship, or unprovided with ministers or pastors) who may wish to 

 collect their neighbors and friends to spend some parts of a Sunday in 

 public worship, and in reading sermons and books of devotion. 



3. To young clergymen and preachers, who, being ill-supplied with 

 books, or a variety of sermons on proper subjects, may be assisted in 

 their earlier compositions by the present work, which it is proposed to 

 comprise in four or five octavo volumes, in the same sized paper and 

 letter as this address; two volumes to be published yearly, at the rate 

 of one dollar per volume on the delivery of the same, in boards, to the 

 subscribers. William Smith. 



This communication was followed by a unanimous resolution 

 of the body, made on motion of Mr. J. Cox, a principal lay deputy 

 from New Jersey. 



Resolved, iinaniinously, That the members of this Convention, being 

 fully persuaded that the interests of religion and practical godliness 

 may be greatly promoted by the publication of a body of sermons, 

 upon the plan proposed above, and being well satisfied of the author's 

 soundness in the faith, and eminent abilities for such a work, do testify 

 their approbation of the same, and their desire to encourage it by annex- 

 ing their names thereto as subscribers. 



William White, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church 



in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and President of the 



Convention. 

 Benjamin Moore, D. D., Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, in the 



city of New York; now Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church 



in that State. 

 Abraham Beach, D. D., now Senior Minister of Trinity Church, in the 



city of New York. 

 Moses Rogers, Lay Deputy from the State of New York. 

 William Frazer, A. M., Rector of St. Michael's Church, in Trenton, 



New Jersey. 

 Uzal Ogden, Rector of Trinity Church, in Newark. 

 Henry Waddel, Rector of the churches of Shrewsbury and INIiddle- 



town, now of Trenton, New Jersey. 



