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been to produce the greatest results from the smallest beginnings; 

 and that He chooses, as his instruments, "The weak things of .the 

 world," to bring about his great designs ; in order that " The excel- 

 lency of the power might be of God and not of Man." a 

 I have the honour to remain, 



Your obedient and faithful Servant, 



JOHN WABNES, Jun. 

 Trimingham, April 5th, 1845. 



NOTE. 



A THOUSAND copies of this tract were circulated, principally amongst 

 the most influential parties in the city. 



Soon after, a deputation was sent by Joseph John Gurney, Esq., of 

 Earlham Hall, to Leeds, for the purpose of collecting information on 

 the subject ; and several new and expensive looms, with other machinery, 

 were in consequence erected. 



Thus, at the sole expense of the above-named gentleman, the linen 

 trade was introduced into Norwich. But, through the apathy of those 

 intrusted with the management of the business, success is for the pre- 

 sent retarded. 



I inspected this incipient establishment myself, and am convinced 

 that nothing is required but a zealous and patriotic co-operation to 

 ensure the realization of the benefits comprised in Mr. Gurney 's 

 philanthropic design. 



But the hopes that I had ventured to cherish through this gentle- 

 man's assistance and influence, are now for ever destroyed, as the 

 following brief extracts from the record of his death, by the Editor of 

 the Norfolk Chronicle, too truly depict : 



" Mr. GURNEY died on Monday, the 4th of January, 1847, at the age 

 of 59. This melancholy event invested the city of Norwich with the 

 outward signs of universal mourning a mark of public sympathy and 

 sorrow, unprecedented with regard to this or perhaps to any other 

 populous place. Such are the inscrutable dispensations of Providence, 

 that an eminently gifted and good man is snatched away from amongst 

 us at a moment than at which the benign influence of his character 

 was never more urgently needed, nor ever with more efficient useful- 



