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endeavours they might .... fortify both them 

 selves and others against the attempts of those 

 sons of darkness, who make it their business to 

 root out (if possible) the very notions of Divine 

 things and all differences of good and evil.&quot; One 

 of the leaders of this Movement, which spread 

 widely, was Dr. Thomas Bray, who received the 

 Bishop of London s appointment as his Com- Dr Thomas 

 missary for Maryland. Dr. Bray s efforts re- Bray 169G 

 suited in the establishment of the &quot;Society for 

 Promoting Christian Knowledge,&quot; for &quot;the s. p. c. K., 

 fixing Parochial Libraries throughout the 169T 

 Plantations (especially on the Continent of North 

 America).&quot; 



The adage that &quot;God removes His workers, 

 but carries on His work&quot; was demonstrated in the 

 case of Eliot s efforts on behalf of the Indians. 

 David Brainerd, &quot;gave up himself entirely to his 

 work, abandoning everything for it. While he Oct - 9th &amp;gt; i747 

 himself underwent all sorts of privations, he 

 surrendered his own private property without 

 reserve to educate others.&quot; The introduction to 

 the life of Brainerd, written at Watton Rectory, 

 by Edward Bickersteth, contains this statement : 

 &quot;Missionary biography since the days of the 

 Apostles is comparatively of recent origin. The 

 life of Eliot was published in 1691, by Cotton 

 Mather. The success attending his labours and JJ C orpora?ed 

 those of Mayhew and Sheppard who laboured at 1701 

 the same period, gave rise, (Dean Pearson has 

 remarked) to the Society for the Propagation of 

 the Gospel in Foreign parts.&quot; What the grounds 



