They have learned from the Quakers to consider it as a mark of an avaricious & venal spirit for a minister to receive any thing of his people by way of support & while they continue in these sentiments (& it wiU be hard to bring them to a better way of thinking because their temporal interest is against it) I fear little can be done wilh tliem in that particular
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Jamaica AprU 17th 1766. Rev^ Sir
We have lately had a most affecting ace* of the loss of Mess* Giles & Wilson the Society's Missionaries ; the sliip they were in being wrecked near the entrance of Delaware Bay & only 4 persons saved out of 28, their death is a great loss in the present
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want of Clergymen in these Colonies, & indeed I believe one great reason why so few from tliis Continent oiler themselves for Holy orders, is because it is evident from experience that not more than 4 out of 5 who have gone from the Northern Colonies have returned ; this is an unanswerable argument for the absolute necessity of Eishops in the Colonies. The poor Cliurch of England in America is the only instance that ever happened of an Episcopal Church without a Bishop & in which no Orders could be obtained without crossing an Ocean of 3000 miles in extent, without Eishops the Church cannot flourish in America & unless the Church be well supported & prevail, this whole Continent will be overrun with Infidelity & deism, Methodism & New Light with every species & every degree of Scepticism & Enthusiasm, and without a Eishop upon the spot I fertr it will be impossible to keep the Church herself pure & undefiied.