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My dear Brother
I consider it a very gra - / cious providence wh. has allowed me / the privilege of your services in / St. Georges, during my absence / from home _ I commit the charge / of my flock to your care, with en - / tire confidence that your minis - / try will prove acceptable + a / blessing to them. _ To preach Christ / simply, freely, constantly, fearless / ly, as every thing to every [–??] / who will receive him, is the great / privilege of the ministry, + the great / instrument of its powers _ This I
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Have no doubt, you will have / grace given you to do, faithfully, / + if God shall please, effectually - / Two services on the Sabbath, in the / morning at 10 ½, - + in the afternoon / at 4, - will be your rule, until / the 1st of October, - when the after - / oon changes to 3 ½ _ The lecture / on Friday Evening, _ the Bible / class of Wednesday Evening [^ at 7 ½ ] I / should like to have Kept up, un - / till the 1st of May _ I have no / objection to you continuing either, / or both of them as much longer as / you please _ The communion will / be administered on the first Sun - / day
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Of eerie month _ I have requested / Mr [Winston] to take charge of the / Collections taken up on these occa - / sions _ I have also desired him to / take charge of the monthly collec - / tions for our various appointed objects / according to a list of directions / who I have given him _ These coll - / ections are to be made on the third / Sunday of every month, notive of / them , + their object being given on / the previous Sunday - Mr. W will / inform you, of the purpose of each, / + I will save you the trouble of / Keeping them in your own mind _ / My private, parochial duties which / you may be able to perform, will be /
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Always acceptable to me + the people / Mr [Dugan] - will inform you of any / special calls which may be made - / I have but few in circumstances of / peculiar need _ Mr Dominick at / no. 5. Market St, is confined with / a cancer in his face, _ wh. I fear / may be fatal. _ His sufferings are / great, + he will be very grateful / for the consolations of your occa - / sional visits _ Mrs [Moore?] at the / corner of Thompson + Canal Street / is lying very low in a consumption / She is hardly susceptible of further / visits. _ You will be some called / upon I presume to attend her fune - / ral _ She has been eminently blessed
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In her enjoyment of the Saviours / presence + love _ + departs in joyful / hope _ It could be highly gratify - / ing, if upon the occasion of her / funeral, you should be led to / make a suitable address to such / an occasion _ I love to catch the / opportunities thus afforded, to speak / a word in season to those who are / assembled together _ I shall be / glad if you will Keep a record / of all your special administra - / tions, to be transcribed in the Parish / Register on my return _ It will / give me great pleasure to hear / from you, as you have opportuni - / ty _ Mr Whitlock will forward
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Your letters to me. _ I shall feel / greatly obliged to you, if I may / have an interest in your habitual / prayers _
And now I commend you / my dear Brother, to God, who will / enable you to feed the precious / charge which I commit to you
Every affectionately
Your friend + brother
Stephen H. Tyng
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Rev. [IW?] Irving
St. Georges -
April 12, 18[47]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
