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difeafe that threatened to terminate in a confumption, he could 
not be prevailed upon to delert them, when urged by his 
friends to accept of a vacant living of one of the colonial 
churches, which was offered to him by the government. 
When one refle<£ls for a moment on the toils and hardfhips, the 
dangers and the difficulties, that thefe religious enthufiafts volun- 
tarily undergo, without any profpedl of reward, or even repu- 
tation, in this world, it is impoffible to withhold admiration at a 
conduft fo feemingly difmterefted, and whofe motives appear to 
be under an influence fo different from that by which moft 
human adlions are governed. Whatever degree of merit may 
be due to this clafs of miffionaries, the pradical philofopher 
will, unqueftionably, give the preference to the plan of the 
Moravians, which unites with precepts of religion and morality 
a fpirit of ufeful labour ; and whofe grand aim is to make their 
difciples comfortable in this world, as a token or earneft of that 
^yhich is to come. But after all the toil and anxiety which the 
worthy charader above mentioned cheerfully underwent in 
the caufe of fuffering humanity, what muft his feelings be, if 
he ftill be living, and happens to perufe the following letter, to 
find that his only reward is that of being confidered by the vile 
people of the Cape as the abettor of murder, and that he has 
been with others the innocent caufe of fifteen of his inoffen» 
five difciples being inhumanly butchered in cold blood by thofe 
remorfelefs colonifts w^ho dare to call themfelves by the facred 
name of Chriftians. This letter, which juft reached me as 
the prefent work was going to the prefs, will ferve to fhew, 
among other fads I fhall have occafion to Hate, of what de- 
liberate 
