A Memoir of Robert Hall Author:Olinthus Gregory General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Original Publisher: Henry G. Bohn Description: "Printed separately from the complete edition of his works in six volumes." Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General... more » Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 256 LETTER THE COMMITTEE OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. To the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, convened in London on the 15th instant. Bristol, March 12, 1827. Gentlemen, It is with much diffidence that I presume to address you on the present occasion, nor am I certain whether I am perfectly in order in so doing; but conceiving this to be a crisis in the mission, and not being able to be present at the meeting, I could not satisfy myself without communicating the result of my reflections on the important business which has called you together. Dr. Marshman, it seems, as the representative of the brethren at Serampore, has instituted a demand of one- sixth of all the money collected or subscribed towards the society, to be paid annually in aid of the missionary operations going on there. It must strike every one as strange, that this demand should almost immediately follow a preceding one which was acceded to, which he then professed to consider as perfectly satisfactory, and as putting a final termination to all dispute or discussion on the subject of pecuniary claims -- that, notwithstanding this, he should now bring forward a fresh requisition of one-sixth of the same amount, accompanied, as I am informed, by an intimation, that it is possible this may not be his ultimatum. This proceeding has all the appearance of a tentative process, designed to ascertain how far our anxiety to avoid a breach will prompt us to submit to his encroachments. What security h...« less