The journal of the stated preacher to the Hospital and Almshouse in the city of New-York : for the year of our Lord 1811.

  • Ely, Ezra Styles, 1786-1861.
Date:
1812
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Credit: The journal of the stated preacher to the Hospital and Almshouse in the city of New-York : for the year of our Lord 1811. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and has laboured in the charge assigned him, from that time to the present, with approved, ability, and indefatigable zeal. Of the nature and success of his labours, some estimate may be formed from the in- teresting journal contained in this book. The writer of this address has not read the whole journal, but judges from what he has seen, that it will excite greater attention to the subject of which it treats, than has ever yet existed. These documents prove their author to have taken a deep interest in his work. They prove also, with overwhelming conviction, the importance of missionary la- bour, in those asylums of wretchedness and wo, with which he has been conversant. It is w;ith extreme regret, that we have witnessed the failure of pecuniary resources in the prosecution of his designs. It is a fact, however, which ought not to be con- cealed, although he has requested me to be silent on this subject, that our missionary has hitherto laboured in that point, under the most distressing embarrasvsments. Solely de- pendant on a precarious subscription, which he has now entirely relinquished, his receipts have never exceeded half the necessary sup- port of a single man. For want of proper arrangements at the outset, he has been un- der the disagreeable necessity of being his own solicitor, accountant, and collector. Having commenced his labours under a plan radically defective, he has submitted to all the evils growing out of it; and for two
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