_Resolved unanimously_—
III. That the establishment of Provident Funds, whose tendency is to
give a powerful impulse to the promotion of habits of providence,
frugality, and self-reliance, at the same time that they confer immediate
benefit on the poor, is a most important auxiliary to the operations of
this Society, and contributes in a high degree to the effecting of that
moral and religious improvement which is the great end and object of all
its endeavours.
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