O let the love of Christ constrain!
Why should we need a rod?
Few e’er such blessed means obtain
Of leading them to God.
Besides these hymns, they generally sing a grace before and after meat, and are taught so to vary their exercises, that they may not be cloyed by a too frequent repetition of the same things on the one hand, and yet are kept in such a general method, that they may not learn to be desultory and fickle on the other.
God only knows the concern that lies upon me on account of this family, not only in respect to their bodily, but their spiritual provision. And therefore I hope all that wish well to Zion, will help me with prayers, as well as their alms, that it may grow up a holy temple to the Lord, and be blessed; that it may rightly be stiled Pietas Georgiensis, and like the Pietas Hallensis, or Professor Franck’s Orphan-House at Glaucha, near Hall, become the joy of the whole earth. Even so, Lord Jesus, Amen, and Amen.
G. W.
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Continuation of the Account of the Orphan-House in Georgia.
Edinburgh, September 14, 1742.