rule of their life!

Several of you, some to my knowledge, have left affectionate, tender,
and serious friends, husbands, wives, parents, brothers, sisters, or
children, in your native country, to lament your misconduct, the
sufferings you have brought upon yourselves, and the disgrace in
which you have involved your families. Let me intreat you, FOR THE
SAKE OF THESE, to consider your ways. Great comfort it will
afford to those who are now almost overwhelmed with grief on your
account, to hear of your reformation and conversion. These would be
glad tidings, indeed, from a far country. The hopes they might then
form of seeing you again, would be truly pleasing; it would be little
less than receiving you again from the dead. Or if they never see you
in this world, the prospect of meeting with you in heaven, would add
comfort to their dying hours. Oh! let not their prayers and their tears
be lost upon you!

Attend to these things, FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS, who may follow you
hither, in the like unhappy circumstances. When they see your
reformation, and that in consequence of it, you are more comfortable
here than you were at home, they may be induced and encouraged to
follow your examples. Thus you will be instrumental in saving souls
from death.

I would farther plead with you, for the sake of the poor
unenlightened savages, who daily visit us, or who reside amongst us. If
these ignorant natives, as they become more and more acquainted with
our language and manners, hear you, many of you, curse, swear, lie,
abound in every kind of obscene and profane conversation; and if they
observe, that it is common with you to steal, to break the sabbath, to