CHAPTER XIX.-A returned missionary, his personal history, - re-
futes the objections of his brethren. Call to missionary service, and
impediments,
CHAPTER XX.-A minister who had married a wife and could not go,
-objects to the above reasoning,....
CHAPTER XXI. Reply of a young clergyman who had left a congrega-
tion to go. Every indication pointing to the foreign field,....
CHAPTER XXII.- Secretary of a missionary society.
effects of the gospel in Christian and in heathen countries,.
CHAPTER XXIII.-Professor of theology, -approves the most liberal
scale of missionary operations. -Futility of objections. Great hon-
our of the service,.
CHAPTER XXIV.-President of a college. Young men who have de-
termined upon this course easily distinguished. Approves of an
early determination. No danger of sending too many abroad,.... 146
CHAPTER XXV. - Fifth day.-The third principle adopted by the as-
sembly. Converted Jew. Even this principle perverted, or Chris-
tianity would have universally prevailed,..
CHAPTER XXVI.-The next principle. - Speech of a physician who had
renounced a lucrative practice and gone to the heathen.- Reasons
for his course,.
CHAPTER XXVII.A merchant,-how brought to think and act cor-
rectly. A new object. -Advice to others,.
CHAPTER XXVIII.A Christian of reduced fortune..
giving liberally.-Motives,.....
CHAPTER XXIX. - A ship-master. The advantage of men of secular
pursuits engaging in missionary labour. - His own observation.
Missionary communities. - Missionary ships.....
CHAPTER XXX. A surgeon of a ship.- Female usefulness. - Letter
from missionary ladies. His own observations,.
CHAPTER XXXI.-The next principle. — The principal speaker was an
aged missionary.- Refers to apostolic rule of action. - Urges Chris-
tians to read and pray,.
CHAPTER XXXII. - Sixth day. -Miscellaneous addresses and appeals.
First address, a young man who in quest of health had visited sev-
eral of the Polynesian and Australasian islands. Contradictory re-
ports. Effects of the gospel in the Sandwich islands and many oth-
ers.Necessities of many large, populous islands, New Guinea, Bo-
reno, &c.
CHAPTER XXXIII. - Caffree chief. - Power of the gospel among his
own people. Pleads for oppressed Africa,...
CHAPTER XXXIV.-Speeches of several from different parts of the
world. The triumphs of Christianity and the necessity of increased
exertion. A Hindoo devotee, his own efforts to obtain peace, and
how he found it. Condition of India. Appeal to British Chris-
tians,.
CHAPTER XXXV.-A Chinese. How far China is open, and what
may be done.—
Applies for young men and pleads for much prayer, 221
CHAPTER XXXVI. A convert from a corrupt branch of the Christian
church. The condition of many who call themselves Christians, but
know nothing of the essential doctrines of grace. What has recently
been effected.-Call for help,..
CHAPTER XXXVII. An officer of the Indian army. The collateral
influence of missions.- Conversion of many who went to India as
thoughtless as the heathen,..
CHAPTER XXXVIII. An aged minister. Approaching millennium. —
Exhorts all to diligence. -Necessity of dependence upon the divine
spirit. Advises them to look once more at our Lord's last com-
mand issued from this position, and then to go and fulfil it. — Hymn, 239
WE will imagine that at the expiration of eighteen hundred years from the ascension of the Saviour, a grand assembly convened at the ancient city of Jerusalem, to discuss the relative claims of the various nations of the world to "the gospel of the grace of God." Representatives from all the different countries of the earth were present. Jews, Mahometans, Pagans, Christians, in every variety of their numerous sects had each their respective delegates at the meeting. Among this mingled multitude, so different in national peculiarity and early education, there was one common feature. Though they were the representatives, or rather the advocates, of all the nations and classes of men in the world, they themselves had been "delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son." Convinced of the absolute necessity of the gospel, they were all desirous that their countrymen should enjoy that measure of its blessings which its great author designed for them.
"THE Prophets used much by metaphors
To set forth truth. Yea, woso considers
Christ his Apostles too, shall plainly see,
That truths, to this day in such mantles be."
John Bunyan.
PUBLISHED BY JOHN S. TAYLOR,
THEOLOGICAL AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL BOOKSELLER, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, CORNER PARK-ROW AND SPRUCE-STREET.
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of the Semer Class,
from Groten, Mass
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by
JOHN S. TAYLOR,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New-York.
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