PRINTED FOR THE BRETHREN'S SOCIETY FOR THE No. 10, NEVIL'S COURT, FETTER LANE. 1790.. 7.1 17.90-1796 ANDOVER, HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE, MASO. ADVERTISEMENT. HESE accounts are printed with a view to give to all well-wishers of the caufe of God on earth, who have hitherto affifted the Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, in promoting a work fo much beyond their own abilities, a more early account of the progress of the Missions, established by the Brethren, than could be done hitherto by the communication of the manufcript extracts of letters and diaries received from the Miffionaries. The Brethren do not wifh, by a publication of this kind, to emblazon their own deeds, or to exhibit to the world a picture of their atchievements. The demand made upon them by their friends and affiftants in the caufe, to be furnished with an early account of its progress, is but just, and the compliance therewith nothing but a duty dictated to them by gratitude. These confiderations have at length overcome their objections to print, and they hope that the following fheets will be no unwelcome prefent to their friends, and perhaps 'caufe fome well-difpofed perfons, hitherto unacquainted with the fubject, and into whofe hands. they may accidentally fall, to glorify God, and magnify his faving grace. In full confidence therefore that He, in whose service we stand, will also bless this endeavour to promote His glory on earth, this First Number is prefented to all that pray for the coming A 2 |