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THE MISSIONARY ARGUMENT 
 
 A SERMON 
 
 BEFORE THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
 OF THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 
 
 PHILADELPHIA, MAT 11, ISM. 
 
 [Second Edition.] 
 
 THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT: 
 
 INTRODUCTORY TO 
 
 THE EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY LECTURE; 
 
 BOSTON, NOVEMBER 27, 1831. 
 
 [ Second Edition.] 
 
Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, in- 
 fidels and heretics, and take from them 
 all ignorance, hardness of heart, and 
 contempt of thy word, and so fetch 
 them home, blessed Lord, to thy flock, 
 that they may be saved among the 
 remnant of the true Israelites, and 
 be made one fold under one Shep- 
 herd, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
THE MISSIONARY ARGUMENT: 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE W. DOANE, A.M., 
 
 ASSISTANT MINISTER OF TRINITY CHURCH, BOSTON. 
 
 BOSTON, PRINTED : M DCCC XXX. 
 
 BURLINGTON, N. J. REPRINTED: M DCCC IXI7. 
 
 J. L. POWELL; MISSIONARY PRESS. 
 
How then shall they call on 
 him in whom they have not 
 believed ? And how shall they 
 believe in him of whom they 
 have not heard? And how 
 shall they hear without a prea- 
 cher? And how shall they 
 preach except they be sent ? 
 
TIIE MISSIONARY ARGUMENT. 
 
 ST. MARK, XVI. — IS. 
 
 GO YE INTO All THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. 
 
 This was the parting precept of the Saviour of mankind. He 
 came into the world that all, even as many as should believe in him, 
 should not perish, but have everlasting life. During all his pain- 
 ful sojourning on earth he proclaimed himself, in word and in deed, 
 the light of the world . And he died, that he might be the propitia- 
 tion for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the 
 whole world. In perfect and entire consistency, then, with the 
 original purpose of his incarnation, with the teaching and practice 
 of his life, with the motive and object of his death, was the parting 
 precept of the Saviour, — Go ye into all the world, and preach 
 the gospel to every crlature ! It was addressed originally to 
 the Apostles ; and the same page which records it, records also 
 their prompt, implicit, and persevering obedience — they went forth, 
 and preached every where, the Lord working ivith them, and con- 
 firming the word with signs following. Did they fulfil the Sa- 
 viour’s precept? Was the Gospel preached by them?o every crea- 
 ture? Alas, no! They were but mortal men. And though they 
 gave themselves, body and spirit, to the work, they did but sow 
 the precious seed, before they were compelled, by cruel persecu- 
 tion, to enrich it with their blood. The work which they began, 
 they entrusted to faithful men, with power to send others after them ; 
 so that from their time until now the sacred line has never once 
 been broken, nor the divine husbandry been interrupted, nor the 
 vineyard of the Lord of hosts ceased to extend to all valleys its gra- 
 cious roots, and to spread over all hills its comfortable shadow, and 
 to extend to nation after nation, and to kingdom after kingdom, its 
 life-sustaining, life-restoring cup. Still, is the Saviour’s purpose 
 yet accomplished ? Has it yet gone into all the world? Is the 
 
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 Gospel yet preached to every creature? Alas, no! There are 
 myriads of human hearts that are fainting for the protection of its 
 shadow. There are millions of immortal souls that are perishing 
 for the refreshment of its cup of life. 
 
 Why is it so ? 
 
 Ought it to be so ? 
 
 Shall it continue to be so ? 
 
 I. Why is it so ? Are the means which God has appointed for 
 the extension of his kingdom inadequate to the result? Is his car 
 heavy , that it cannot hear? Or his hand shortened , that it cannot 
 save? The supposition is alike injurious to his power and wisdom, 
 his holiness and goodness. He has proclaimed the everlasting 
 Gospel. He has founded the universal Church. The leaves of 
 the one are given for the healing of the nations. The gates of 
 the other are open to kingdoms, and tongues, and kindreds, and 
 people. In her divinely instituted, and perpetuated ministry, the 
 glorious vision of the Seer of the Apocalypse is realized — and I 
 saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven , having the everlast- 
 ing Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to 
 every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a 
 loud voice, fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his 
 judgment has come! In her divinely instituted and perpetuated 
 sacraments, the gracious voice, that, on the Isle of Patmos, won 
 his favoured ear, addresses all mankind — the Spirit and the Bride 
 say, come! and let him that heareth, say to his neighbour, come! 
 and let him that is athirst come! and whosoever will, let him take 
 the ivater of life freely ! Why then, the question returns — why, 
 since God has made provision so ample for the spiritual wants of 
 all, his holy Church freely opened, his holy word freely offered, 
 why is it that all are not participants of its precious privileges, sub- 
 jects of its constraining love, heirs of its immortal hopes? The 
 noble argument of the great first Missionary to the Gentiles will 
 supply our answer. True, he says, whosoever shall call on the 
 name of the Lord shall be saved. For the same Lord over all, is 
 rich unto all that call upon him, and there is no difference between 
 the Jew and the Greek. But how shall they call on him in whom 
 they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of 
 whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a 
 
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 preacher ? And how shall they preach except they be sent ? Alas ! 
 brethren, that it should be so— but so it is — the lapse of nearly two 
 thousand years has abated scarce a single jot from this unanswer- 
 able apostolic reasoning for the claims of Missions. There are yet 
 whole nations, and I had almost said whole continents, of them 
 who call not npon God because they do not believe on him, who 
 believe not on him because they never heard of him, who cannot 
 hear of him without a preacher, and who can have no preacher un- 
 less he shall be sent. And there are others, countless others, of 
 our flesh and of our bone, who, though, in the pleasant land of 
 their fathers they may have heard of God, and, even among the 
 heathen who know him not, or the wicked who disregard him, do 
 still believe in him and fear him, are losing, as the rainbow fades, 
 the impressions which even we, with all our means of grace, so 
 faintly and so feebly hold, and, far from home, and all its holy and 
 delightful sympathies, are longing till their very heart is sick with- 
 in them, for those sacred ministrations of comfort and of hope, 
 which, without a preacher they cannot have, and to whom no 
 preacher can go unless he shall be sent. The subject, then, you 
 see, my Christian brethren, is brought home to us — to you, and to 
 me — and, when we ask, why it is that souls are perishing for lack 
 of saving knowledge, it becomes us also to ask, — and that solemnly, 
 and anxiously, as in the presence of Him who has declared, all 
 souls are mine — are we doing what we can for their relief? Have 
 we given according to the ability with which God has blessed us ? 
 Have we exerted, in the furtherance of his own cause, the ability 
 and influence with which God has endowed us ? Have we poured 
 out upon it — this at least all of us can do, and God forbid that any 
 of us should not ! — have we poured out upon it, warm from the 
 heart, our fondest and most fervent prayers ? If it be not so, if for 
 Christ’s own cause, the cause in which he shed his precious blood, 
 the Christian’s wealth, the Christian’s efforts, the Christian’s prayers 
 are stinted, there needs, assuredly, no further question why it does 
 not triumph, to God’s glory, and the good of men. 
 
 II. But we ask, secondly, ought it to be so ? Is there any thing 
 that can excuse the believer for being a laggard in his Master’s ser- 
 vice ? Let us speak plainly out ! — the occasion calls for plainness 
 — is it possible that he can be sincere in his profession of the Chris- 
 
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 tian faith, who hesitates to promote, to the utmost of his ability, re- 
 membering that to God the heart is as open as the hand, the ex- 
 tension of its privileges and blessings to all who have them not at 
 all, or who have them in inferior measure to himself? We answer 
 boldly, no! And we rest our answer on the warrant of God’s word 
 — he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he 
 love God whom he hath not seen? And, again, whoso hath this 
 world ’s goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up 
 his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 
 — For consider, I beseech you, brethren, the worth, as God him- 
 self has rated it, even of a single soul ; — what shall it profit a man, 
 if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? — Consider, 
 next, the state of all souls by nature ; — we have all sinned, and 
 come short of the glory of God. When we have done all, we are 
 unprofitable servants. There is none that doeth good, no, not one! 
 — Consider, then, the sure punishment of sin; — the soul that sin- 
 neth, it shall die. Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish 
 upon every soul of man that doeth evil! — Take then into considera- 
 tion the price at which all souls were ransomed ;—God so loved the 
 world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
 in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life — who bare our 
 sins in his own body on the tree — and, by the grace of God, tasted 
 death for every man! — Consider, lastly, the conditions of the law 
 of Gospel love ; — thou shalt love thy'neighbour as thyself. Look 
 not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things 
 of others— for no man liveth to himself, and no man dieth to him- 
 self. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of 
 Christ. For we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every 
 one members one of another ! Consider well, my brethren, this 
 affecting exhibition of true Christian fellowship, as a relation so in- 
 timate that the vitality of its union can only be expressed by repre- 
 senting Jesus as the head, the Church as his body, and individual 
 Christians as members in particular, one in feeling and interest, 
 one in joy and grief, one in fears and hopes ; and then say, if the 
 love of Christ should not — nay, if, where it exists in purity and 
 power, it certainly will not — constrain all who breathe and feel it, 
 to the same anxiety, the same exertions, the same intense, unspar- 
 ing, and agonizing devotion for the salvation of other souls as of 
 
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 their own ! Say, finally, if that man who has neglected any effort, 
 spared of his perishable treasure, or remitted in his effectual, fer- 
 vent intercession for the souls of all mankind, and much more of 
 those who fall within the sphere of his immediate influence, can 
 justly entertain the slightest hope of acceptance with Him, who 
 has declared that he will judge all men according as they have 
 judged, and by that strict, yet equitable, rule, of doing unto others 
 as they would have others do to them ! 
 
 III. Having seen clearly why it is that the extension of the Sa- 
 viour’s kingdom upon earth has been, and is, so slow ; and that, by 
 every principle of Christian duty and of Christian charity, it ought 
 not so to be, we are prepared for our third question — Shall it con- 
 tinue to be so? That the march of our religion shall go on, that 
 the triumphs of Christianity shall continue and increase in glory, 
 that the kingdom of the Saviour shall not be stayed, as it were, in 
 mid-air, but shall come down to earth, and spread its peaceful sway 
 from the one end of it to the other, filling it all with the glory of 
 God , as the waters cover the sea, enabling all to know the Lord, 
 from the least to the greatest, and pouring into all hearts the bless- 
 ing of peace, quietness and assurance forever, is among the clear- 
 est convictions to which the word of God gives warrant. God’s 
 work, then, will go on. His cause will prosper. Christianity 
 will triumph. And our question is thus narrowed down to this — 
 shall his work be done by us ? Shall his cause prosper in our 
 hands? Shall we share in the triumphs and partake the glories of 
 the Cross? Or, laggards in our exertions, and niggards of our 
 bounty, in the day of trial and of toil, shall we be rejected in that 
 day when the spoils of victory shall be divided, and its glorious 
 golden crowns bestowed ? For, brethren, understand me well. I 
 come not here to summon you to duties, which, with unwilling 
 hand, you may, upon compulsion, do. I come not here to call on 
 you for sacrifices, which, with reluctant heart, you may surrender 
 by constraint. But, no ! I come to lead your free and fervent 
 spirits to the most glorious and inviting enterprize of which mortals 
 ever were allowed to hear; to give you the offer of privileges which 
 no price can estimate, and of rewards which will endure forever; 
 to ask you but to turn the light of that blessed Gospel, which 
 cheers and guides your way, towards the groping multitudes that 
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 wander on in darkness, and the shadow of the grave, and to tell 
 you that God has declared, that they who thus turn sinners to 
 righteousness, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and 
 as the stars forever and forever. And, though I repeat it, that Je- 
 sus Christ will have nothing of you in this behalf as matter of mere 
 necessity and duty, nothing which is not won from you by the 
 soft persuasion of your constraining love of him, nothing that is 
 not done by you for his sake and for the love of souls ; and that all 
 that is so given and done will be acknowledged and rewarded as 
 given and done to him, inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of 
 these, my brethren, ye did unto me; — 1 am also bound to add, that 
 he will frown in his indignant anger, and repel from him forever, 
 all those, who, disregarding the cry of the poor, darkened souls 
 for whom he died, shall in effect despise his Cross, and disregard 
 the offering of his blood — verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye 
 did it not unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye did it not 
 unto me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, 
 but the righteous into life eternal. 
 
 My Christian brethren, in coming before you to-night as the ad- 
 vocate of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the 
 Church, I am well aware that with some — of you we are persuaded 
 better things — the office is unhonoured, and the errand thankless; 
 — that, to the infidel, the whole Missionary scheme is odious; — 
 and that there are even Christians who will abate somewhat from 
 their estimate of his discretion and intelligence, who bears and 
 owns a love and zeal for Missions. But 1 remember, and am not 
 discouraged, that the Cross of Jesus was to the Jews a stumbling 
 block, and to the Greeks foolishness. 1 remember, and am not 
 discouraged, that Paul, for his Christian earnestness and boldness, 
 was accounted mad. And that with the heathen of the first ages of 
 the Church, it was a current taunt, “a very good man that, only 
 he is a Christian !” Now, from the infidel, these things are rea- 
 sonably to be expected. He has declared war against Christianity, 
 and he is, of course, opposed to all that is part and parcel of it; 
 and with a degree of violence exactly in proportion to its intrinsic 
 excellence, and its importance to the cause. But, when the re- 
 proach is heard from Christian lips, is it from ignorance — an igno- 
 rance, how needless and unpardonable! — or is it from entire and 
 
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 utter selfishness, hardening the heart, till it can 6eek to save of the 
 perishable dross of earth, even at the price of other souls, and of 
 its own ? For, brethren, what is the meaning of this mystic and 
 misrepresented term? What is a Mission? What is a Missiona- 
 ry? What is the Missionary enterprize ? — Was not the Son of 
 God the great first Missionary, from the bosom of his Father, to 
 our fallen race? Is not the world one great, dark, devious Mis- 
 sionary field? Were not the holy city, the hill of Calvary, the 
 mountain Olivet, the earliest Missionary stations? Are not the 
 ministers of Jesus Missionaries all? And is not our religion all a 
 Mission — a message, so denominated by the angels, of glad tidings 
 to all people — a mission sent from heaven, the endearing proof of 
 God’s paternal love — a mission sent to men, his erring children, to 
 guide their feet here in the way of peace, and lead them through 
 the darkness of the grave to happiness in heaven? — And is the 
 Missionary enterprize, then, an idle undertaking? Is the name of 
 Missionary a dishonourable name ? Is it a reproach to be the friend, 
 the advocate, the humblest of the servants of Missions? — Then 
 welcome dishonour, if it be incurred in Jesus’ cause! Welcome 
 reproach, if it be shared with Luke and Barnabas and Paul! God 
 forbid that we should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ! God forbid that we should count labour unwelcome, or 
 reproach opprobrious, or our life itself dear unto us, so we may but 
 proclaim to sinners, poor and needy, the unsearchable riches of the 
 Gospel of Christ ! 
 
 It ought not to be withheld that there is, by those who discoun- 
 tenance the cause of Missions — strange indeed that in a Christian 
 land there should be any such ! — some show of seeming argument. 
 For, say they, if the heathen have not the Gospel, or if some Chris- 
 tians live less in the light of it than others, then they have less to 
 answer for; since a God of justice and of mercy will never judge 
 them by a rule of which they could not know. We account as 
 highly as they can of the justice and of the goodness of God. We 
 believe, and we tremble to believe it, that the rule of His judgment 
 will strictly be, of him to whom much is given much will be re- 
 quired. We doubt not that in every nation he who feareth God 
 and worketh righteousness will be accepted with Him. But we 
 repeat with emphasis the searching and decisive question which 
 
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 has been often asked before, where, in a heathen nation, is he found 
 who feareth God and worketh righteousness? We ask, if, in our 
 high, meridian, Gospel day, there is too much light upon the path 
 of duty, or the bed of death? And we ask, if, with all the advan- 
 tages and consolations which he enjoys, the Christian scarcely be 
 saved, how shall the poor heathen, or the half enlightened convert, 
 or the forest exile from his father’s home and house of prayer, pre- 
 pare to meet his God? But the argument proves too much, and so 
 proves nothing. It might with as much reason be contended that 
 the whole world needed not the Gospel — that God has sent his 
 Son to die for men who might have been saved as well without 
 the sacrifice — and that the Holy Spirit, poured out from heaven to 
 sanctify the faithful, is poured out all to waste. My brethren, it is 
 not so. The heathen, bowing down to wood and stone, are per- 
 ishing for lack of knowledge. Our brethren, pioneers of civiliza- 
 tion and of the Church, are languishing in sorrow for the want of 
 spiritual light and spiritual consolation. Even in the midst of us, 
 the poor are famishing for the bread, and thirsting for the water, of 
 life. 
 
 Now surely, brethren, if these things are so, and if they are of 
 concern to us, they are of urgent concern, they press for our imme- 
 diate attention, there is no time to be lost. While we are thinking, 
 or, perhaps, not thinking, of the matter, thousands of heathens are 
 going down to the grave, without a ray of hope to light its passage ; 
 and others, who, in better days have known and valued the con- 
 solations of religion, are falling from their hold upon its precious 
 truths, — are fainting and dying, alone and unconsoled. And besides, 
 brethren, let it not be forgotten, our own time is short. While we 
 have opportunity, then, let us do good. What we do we must do 
 quickly, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wis- 
 dom, in the grave, to which we hasten. 
 
 In the plea which I have thus sought to urge before you in be- 
 half of Missions, I have not recognized any distinction of foreign 
 or domestic operations. Why should I? Is not the field, the 
 world? Let every man choose his portion of it to reap for the 
 Lord’s garner. Only let all choose some. Whatever is done, 
 is done for God’s glory, and the good of souls. Done with a sin- 
 gle eye to those great ends, God will accept it, and bless it with in- 
 
crease. The Society which claims our prayers wisely and happily 
 combines in one the foreign and the domestic interest. God forbid 
 that they should ever be divided ! God forbid that where his bles- 
 sed Son made no distinction, we should think it needful ! He died 
 alike for all the souls of men. God forbid that our bounty, our la- 
 bours, our intercessions should not also comprehend them all ! In- 
 dividual designation, and the force of circumstances, may give to 
 the one object or to the other occasional predominance. But the 
 constraining love of Jesus is a motive which prompts alike to both, 
 and both look but to a common end, the salvation of sinners for 
 whom Jesus died. With “ ample room, and verge enough” in 
 each direction, to engage us all, let us give to each its full propor- 
 tion of our best and most disinterested zeal. Ages must pass, even 
 were the whole strength of Christendom brought out, before the 
 fulness of the Gentiles can come in. Generations must be num- 
 bered before the Church, in her best human enterprize, can over- 
 take, with her Master’s holy word’and ordinances, the rapid march 
 of civilization towards the ocean of the West. 
 
 Meanwhile, what are we, Protestant Episcopalians, doing in this 
 great cause of God and man? What regions of the dark Pagan 
 world have we undertaken to enlighten? What portion of our 
 own vast wilderness have we pledged ourselves to reclaim? On 
 what part of the dreary African coast are our Missionary stations 
 set, as light-bearers to the degraded Ethiopian? Where, in the 
 barren wastes of Asia, or in our own magnificent and verdant woods, 
 is the voice of our Missionary heard, speaking peace to the sorrow- 
 ing, and pardon to the sinful soul? What is the number of socie- 
 ties, to spread the Gospel to all who have it not, that, like a con- 
 stellation, gladden with their concentrated glory all our land? And 
 by what sums, in thousands and in tens of thousands, is their in- 
 come told? — Had these questions been asked twelve months ago, I 
 must have hung my head to answer them. I must have told you, 
 that in all the world, Christian or heathen, there was not an effort 
 making that deserved the name, which had its origin with us ; and 
 must have been compelled to the confession, full of sorrow and of 
 shame, that the average annual income of the only institution in the 
 whole American Church for general Missionary purposes, had been, 
 in the last nine years, but fifteen hundred dollars ! But, blessed 
 
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 be the name of God, a day of better things has dawned ! The 
 favour of the Holy One has crowned with signal mercy the exer- 
 tions which his own gracious Spirit has put it into the hearts of the 
 faithful servants of his Church to make. The adoption of a plan, 
 not more to be admired for its beautiful simplicity, than for its com- 
 prehensiveness and power, has breathed into the seat of central life 
 a new vitality, and sent to every limb, and member, and organ of 
 the whole frame a more intense, concentrated and vigorous action. 
 There is the beginning of an organization made, which soon, we 
 fondly trust, will be commensurate with our whole communion ; and 
 like the circumambient air, while, by its moderate and equal pres- 
 sure, it is nowhere felt, shall stimulate to healthful and enduring 
 energy the universal system, even in its minutest portions. The 
 reproach is wiped away — thank God ! the reproach is wiped away 
 — that Protestant Episcopalians are indifferent to the extension of 
 the blessings of the Gospel; — I do not say to their brethren and 
 immediate neighbours alone, — but to any, to all, who have them 
 not. The spirit of Missions has gone abroad. We mark its first, 
 we frankly own its faintest symptom, in the replenishing treasury 
 of the Lord. I say, its faintest symptom. For, needful as the gold 
 is and the silver to the preaching of the priceless Gospel, these are 
 not the ends to which we look, nor the results for which we labour, 
 nor the blessings for which we pray. No ! — there are treasures 
 far more rare, far more precious, far more desirable. The heart, 
 filled with the love of God and man, prompting the gift, the act, the 
 prayer of charity — this is the choicest jewel, out of the mediatorial 
 diadem of Jesus. The spirit of Missions, the spirit of celestial, of 
 evangelical love, the flame enkindled by the Holy Ghost, the Sancti- 
 fier — this is the ray by which, as gold is ripened in the mine, such 
 hearts are formed. Give it free course, then, brethren, that it may 
 be fully glorified! Prompt it by wish, and word, and act. Seek 
 its promotion by the kindling breath of fervent prayer, till it fill all 
 hearts, and burn in every soul. It will pour you out treasures freely, 
 as the water is poured out from heaven. It will do more than 
 this. It will pour you out hearts — hearts like the martyr Stephen’s, 
 filled full with faith and with the Holy Ghost, to labour in the 
 work of saving souls, to bear every where the word and bread of 
 life, to live and die, true Christian soldiers, beneath the banner of 
 the Cross. 
 
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 My Christian brethren, the spirit of Missions is the spirit of our 
 religion — emphatically, it is the spirit of our Church. It fired the 
 Apostles’ hearts at first to plant it. It ever since has fired the hearts 
 of their successors to tend and water it. It has been kept like a 
 pure vestal flame upon the altars of the Church of England. It 
 sent her Middleton and Heberto India. It has carried her evange- 
 lists and teachers wherever the foot of man has trod. It brought 
 to the land which we inherit, and inhabit, the faith and worship in 
 which our souls rejoice. Friends, brethren, and fathers, shall we 
 not acknowledge, shall we not repay the pious debt? Shall we not 
 transmit to others, and still to others, even to generations unnum- 
 bered and unborn, the rich inheritance which we enjoy? Let us 
 arise, then, in the strength and name of God, and gird ourselves, 
 like men, for the performance of this most glorious, this most 
 charitable work! The experience of the year just closed demon- 
 strates that there is not wanting the ability, nor yet the inclination 
 to discharge it. It is knowledge that we need — it is system — it is 
 union, and purpose, and untiring perseverance in action. The plan 
 before us offers them. Its success, thus far, gives pledge and prom- 
 ise of its future efficacy. Let us accept, let 11s pursue, the glorious, 
 the auspicious omen. For Zion's sake let us not hold our peace , 
 and for Jerusalem’s sake let us not rest, until the righteousness 
 thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp 
 that burneth! Above all, brethren and fathers, let us pour out be- 
 fore the Giver of increase our fervent and untiring prayers, that he 
 would be pleased to make his ways known unto all men, his saving 
 health to all nations ; — that the light of his glorious Gospel may 
 shine unto all lands, and that, “ all who receive it may live as be- 
 comes it; ” — that He would “ have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, 
 Infidels, and heretics, and take from them all ignorance, hardness 
 of heart, and contempt of his word, and so fetch them home to his 
 flock, that they,” and we, may be saved with the remnant of the 
 true Israelites, and made one fold under the “one ” great “Shep- 
 herd, Jesus Christ our Lord ! ” 
 
Let the light of the 
 Gospel shine upon all 
 nations, and may as 
 many as have received 
 it, live as becomes it.