[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Divine Worship in.,,,,, t-. i ■ i i i-i t i Brazil. pious clergymen have not been sent to L-xbor at Brazil in the harvest ot the Lord; di3dpiinr " *° also that church discipline has not been duly introduced, much less practiced ^outh^""" "' ""^ there, nor even order taken for the establishment of schools for the education of the rising youth, that they may be brought up in religion and piet)'. Colonies in New Secondly, their High Mightinesses receive additional information that the Netherland. •' ' o o Population. population in New Netherland does not only not increase as it ought, but even that the population which had been commenced is decreasing, and appears to be neglected by the West India Company, so that the inhabitants of foreign princes and potentates, are endeavoring to incorporate New Netherland, and if not seasonably attended to, will at once entirely overrun it. Therefore their High Mightinesses, after previous deliberation, have resolved and concluded on the first point, hereby to instruct and authorize their deputies to the Assembly of the XIX., that in conjunction with the present delegates from the respective Chambers to said Assembly, they assist in making and enacting such order, that Divine Worship in Brazil be duly attended to, church ordinance and discipline introduced and practiced, and the rising youth educated and brought up in the fear of the Lord and in the Christian Reformed religion.