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humble heart. ----------- The prosperity and happiness
of the Unity of the Brethren (that great and wonderful work
of our Lord in this our day among Christians and Heathen) <emotion>has
always laid very near my heart,</emotion> and it had been, and shall
ever remain my very earnest prayer to our Saviour, that the
precious Treasure of his atoning blood and the grace of living
in a true enjoyment of it, and in a confidential intercourse 
and communion with him, which treasure we carry in brittle
earthen vessels, so liable to be broken, and the treasure lost; may
be preserved whole and unhurt, till he comes to us, or we to him,
This I pray, may likewise in particular be my happy case, for
I am very sensible, that misfortune and mischief may <sic>befal</sic>  <corr>befall</corr>
such a poor <sic>traveller</sic>  <corr>traveler</corr> as I am, as well at the end of my
Journey, as at any time during it; but my whole trust
is in Jesus alone. (who gave it me and is able to preserve
it to me) and in nothing else. My constant prayer
shall also be for the dear Brethren of the Unity's Elder's
Conference, who have that momentous and great charge
upon them to bear the concerns of the whole Unity upon
their hearts, and to execute our Lord's testament, and to
care for it, that his will be done on earth as it is in -
heaven. O may our gracious Lord be powerfully with
them, and be always in their midst, and preside himself
in all their consultations, and guide and counsel them
in all their deliberations by his own Good Spirit, May
he likewise give them that strength of body and mind 
which they stand so much in need of. May also the
growth in grace of the respect in Cong<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">n's</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> and Missions among
the heathen, and the preservation of the whole unity from