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SAMUEL MARSDEN. 
funds for its completion, and those too without asking or 
receiving any interest ; the sum lent was, I believe, £500, the 
church, which but for this opportune aid, its founder could not 
have completed, was erected. So likewise, when the Wes- 
ley ans were talking of a chapel at Windsor, where Mr. Marsden 
had land, he gave a sufficient extent on which to erect a mission 
house and chapel as his donation. 
The following is an extract of his letter on the occasion, 
which is equally creditable to both parties To give you 
the right hand of fellowship, is no more than my indispensable 
duty. You may rely with confidence on my continued sup- 
port and co-operation in all you* dable attempts to benefit 
the inhabitants of this pop 1 ’ 1 n-\ I am fully persuaded 
that your ministerial k 1 . o promote the welfare 
of these settlemer eternal interests of im- 
mortal souls of convicts from Europe is 
very grp" • audreds have just landed on our 
sho^" u os of the British Empire ; hundreds 
^>our, ready to disembark ; and hundreds 
o bosom of the great deep, and hourly expected, 
not expect that governors, magistrates, and police- 
> can find a remedy for the moral diseases with which 
mose convicts are infected. Heaven itself has provided the 
only remedy, which is the blessed Balm of Gilead. We must 
expect great discouragements ; but let us go on sounding the 
rams’ horns ; the walls of Jericho will and must fall in time. 
We are feeble ; but the Lord is mighty, and will bring Israel 
to Mount Zion. I pray that the Divine blessing may attend 
all your labors for the salvation of souls in this colony.” 
When his funeral sermon was preached at Parramatta, the 
Wesleyan superintendent wrote : — Next Sunday morning we 
intend to close our chapel ; and, as a mark of respect to the 
memory of this venerable man, go to church to hear his funeral 
sermon.* 
The testimony of the first Bishop of New Zealand, Dr. 
Selwyn, on his arrival in 1842, may be added by way of 
epitaph: — “We see here a whole nation of pagans converted 
* See Life of Rev. S. Leigh , page 105. 
