“TO THE CLERKS, SORTERS, CARRIERS, AND OTHER
AGENTS OF THE POST OFFICE.
“Fellow Men! especially to ye ‘who fear God and work righteousness,’—
“You ought, you must obey God rather than man!
This is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.
Trust in the Lord, and do good, and verily ye shall be fed.
“Strike!—Every one of ye to a man. Strike!—Make a passive resistance to the adversaries of your souls. Strike! and let Mr. Rowland Hill, and Lords Clanricarde and John Russell, see that there is One mightier than they whose commands you reverence supremely.
“Unite if you can, but let no man defer to the timid or compromising spirit of a fellow-servant.
“Honour and observe the Word of God.
“Unless you stand, the public cannot at this juncture do much more than they have done.
“Stand ye, and then the entire nation, every one in it whose voice is habitually raised up to the King of kings, will hold you up, and in due time will strive for the freedom of every postal servant throughout the kingdom on the Sabbath day; but you must be bold in the name of the Lord, in order to engage His mighty favour and the sympathy of His people universally.
“What an impudent daring is this by creatures of mere circumstance and pomp.
“God is defied, and the genuine execrating outcry of a Christian nation is set at naught!