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THE

MISSIONARY CONVENTION

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JERUSALEM;

OR AN

EXHIBITION

OF THE

CLAIMS OF THE WORLD

TO THE

GOSPEL.

"THE Prophets used much by metaphors
To set forth truth. Yea, whoso considers
Christ-his Apostles too, shall plainly see,
That truths, to this day in such mantles be."
John Bunyan.

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PUBLISHED BY JOHN S. TAYLOR,

THEOLOGICAL AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL BOOKSELLER, BRICK CHURCH
CHAPEL, CORNER PARK-ROW AND SPRUCE-STREET.

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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.

ANDOVER

42.775

THEOL

ост 22 1889

LIBRARY

G. F. HOPKINS, Printer, 2 Ann-street.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

CHAPTER I.- -Description of the Assembly. -Opened with reading the
Scriptures expressive of God's purpose to convert all nations, and
the means of its accomplishment,...

CHAPTER II.- Speech of an Oriental; his own ignorance especially
of the subjects referred to in the texts cited,-how can they be recon-
ciled with the history of the church? Disobedience to Christ's com-
mands. Its effects upon his relatives and friends,...

CHAPTER III An Englishman. Attempts to reconcile the discrepan-

cies alleged.Greatest exertions to be given to the most important

places. England most important;- -therefore the command not

disobeyed,..

CHAPTER IV. - American, applies the same reasoning to his own

country,.....

CHAPTER V. -German to his,...........

Other Christians, same reasoning. -A converted Chi-

nese-exposes the absurdity of such interpretation,
have not carried out their own principles,..
CHAPTER VII.-A native of India, of European parents.

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CHAPTER XIV. -Third day. Subject of the day, sectarian distinc-

tion. Speakers contending that the church must first be purified,

each in his own way.-A converted Brahmin. - Effects of this sec-

tarian spirit upon himself and the church. -Greatest hinderance to

Missions,..

CHAPTER XV. — Liberal-minded Christian.-

concert in evangelizing the world,.

CHAPTER XVI.- Objections to Missions by a Millenarian, answered by
one of the same school. No other speaker. - Old man who first
spoke surprised at what he had heard, asked what grand laws had
been enacted for extending the kingdom of Christ. This to be the
subject of future discussion,.....

CHAPTER XVII. First principle admitted by the assembly. - Second
principle. A heathen inquired why so many young men remained
at home. Many replies,..

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CHAPTER XIX.-A returned missionary, his personal history, -re-
futes the objections of his brethren.- Call to missionary service, and
impediments,

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CHAPTER XX.-A minister who had married a wife and could not go,
-objects to the above reasoning,..

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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. -Compares the
effects of the gospel in Christian and in heathen countries,.
CHAPTER XXIII.-Professor of theology,

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approves the most liberal
Great hon-

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scale of missionary operations. -Futility of objections.
our of the service,..

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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,...
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,.

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CHAPTER XXVI.-The next principle. - Speech of a physician who had
renounced a lucrative practice and gone to the heathen.-Reasons
for his course,.

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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.....

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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.,....

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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,....

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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,..

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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

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