Transcribed from the 1841 L. and G. Seeley edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet cover] LETTER TO THE FRIENDS AND SUBSCRIBERS OF THE CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY. OCCASIONED BY A LETTER FROM THE REV. DR. MOLESWORTH TO THE LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER, CONTAINING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE SOCIETY. * * * * * BY THE REV. CALEB WHITEFOORD A.M. CHAPLAIN TO THE INFIRMARY OF ST. JAMES’S, WESTMINSTER, DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ROXBURGHE AND TO THE MOST HON. THE MARQUESS OF BUTE. * * * * * Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now, therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. _NEHEMIAH_, VI. 8. 9. * * * * * LONDON: L. AND G. SEELEY, 169 FLEET STREET; AND NISBET, BERNERS STREET. 1841. _Price Sixpence_. * * * * * SYNOPSIS OF THE SOCIETY. OBJECT.—The salvation of souls, with a single eye to the glory of God, and in humble dependence on His blessing, by granting aid toward maintaining faithful and devoted men to assist the Incumbents of Parishes in their pastoral charge. PRINCIPLES.—That, in a Christian land, a Church established should adequately provide for the spiritual instruction of all the people; and that it is part of the duty of a Christian Legislature to furnish the Church with means to this end: but that, if the Legislature should fail of this duty, then, rather than souls should perish, Christians must join together, to supply the deficiency, and make the Church as effective as it is in their power to do.