The Evangelical Magazine & Missionary Chronicle, June 1825 : extract from the Section headed "Missionary Chronicle".
Missionary Chronicle:
[ Report of ] The Thirty-First General Meeting of the London Missionary Society. Held on the 11th, 12th and 13th days of May, 1825.
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The Annual Meeting of the SOCIETY was held in Great Queen Street Chapel on Thursday, the 12th of May. . . .
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The Rev. James Bennett, Theological Tutor of Rotherham Academy, moved the second Resolution: viz.
II "That this Meeting most cordially approves the measures adopted by the Directors during the past year, for promoting the study of the Chinese language, and other Oriental Literature, and by the means taken for imparting to the Missionaries of the Society previously to their quitting England, an acquaintance with the languages spoken in the countries to which they have respectively been appointed."
[ . . . report of James Bennett's speech . . . ]
Seconded by Rev. Thomas Mortimer, A.M. Lecturer of St Olave's, Southwark, and Afternoon Lecturer of St Leonard's, Shoreditch.
[ . . . report of Thomas Mortimer's speech . . . ]
Mr Mortimer concluded by repeating, with much devotional feeling, the following appropriate verses: -
- Thou whose eternal word
- Chaos and darkness heard,
- And took their flight,
- Hear us, we humbly pray,
- And where thy Gospel's day
- Sheds not its glorious ray,
- Let there be light!
- Thou who didst come to bring
- On thy redeeming wing
- Healing and sight,
- Health to the sick in mind,
- Sight to the inly blind,
- O now, to all mankind,
- Let there be light!
- Spirit of truth and love,
- Life-giving, holy Dove,
- Speed forth thy flight;
- Moving on ocean's space,
- Bearing the lamp of grace,
- And in earth's darkest place
- Let there be light!
- Blessed and Holy, [sic]
- And glorious Trinity,
- Wisdom, Love, Might,
- Boundless as ocean's tide
- Rolling in fullest pride,
- O'er the earth, far and wide,
- Let there be light!
[ a version of John Marriott's hymn, later known as "Thou, whose almighty word" ]
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