ill need no other motive
to forward an undertaking calculated for the service of both: I shall,
nevertheless, beg leave to observe, that whoever would be glad to cover
a multitude of sins by an extensive and well judged charity, or
whoever, from an excellent and godlike temper of mind, seeks
opportunities of doing good in his generation, will be pleased to meet
with a scheme that so peculiarly puts it in his power, with small
trouble or expence to procure a great and lasting benefit to the world.

Ten pounds a year, would (if I mistake not) be sufficient to defray the
expence of a young American in the college of Bermuda, as to dyet,
lodging, clothes, books, and education: And if so, the interest of two
hundred pounds may be a perpetual fund for maintaining one missionary
at the college for ever; and in this succession, many, it is to be
hoped, may become powerful instruments for converting to Christianity
and civil life whole nations, who now sit in darkness and the shadow of
death, and whose cruel brutal manners are a disgrace to humane nature.

A benefaction of this kind seems to enlarge the very being of a man,
extending it to distant places and to future times; inasmuch as unseen
countries, and after ages, may feel the effects of his bounty, while he
himself reaps the reward in the blessed society of all those, who,
_having turned many to righteousness, shine as the stars for ever and
ever_.

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P.S.

_Since the foregoing proposal was first made publick, His MAJESTY hath
been graciously pleased to grant a charter for erecting a college by
the name of St. PAUL's college in Bermuda, for the uses abovementioned.
Which college is to contain a president and nine fellows. The first
president appointed by charter is George Berkeley, D.D. and Dean of
Derry. The three fellows named in the charter, are William Thompson,
Jonathan Rogers, and James King, Masters of Arts and Fellows of Trinity
College near Dublin. The nomination of a_ _president is reserved to the
Crown. The election of fellows is vested in the president and the
majority of the fellows; as is likewise the government of the society.
The Lord Bishop of London for the time being is appointed visitor: and
such of His MAJESTY's principal Secretaries of State for the time being
as hath America in his province, is appointed chancellor of the said
college. The president and fellows have the power of making statutes