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Mariners to be Missionaries. How to be brought about. 



but will have their wives and children vested 

 here and there, in some neat cottage among the 

 hills, to be to them, when abroad, the anchor 

 of their affections, and the security of their 

 virtue ; when they will go forth also to distant 

 climes and barbarous shores, with all their no- 

 ble and generous traits sanctified by religion, to 

 represent the beauty of Christ to men, and be- 

 come examples of all that is good and beneficent 

 in his Gospel. Be it ours to aid a purpose so 

 desirable, theirs to realize it in their conduct 

 and character." 



Realized, we believe, it will be in the world's 

 cheering progress, and that ere long, when MAR- 

 INERS shall be missionaries from shore to shore, 

 from the river to the ends of the earth ; when 

 the isles shall wait God's law at their hands, 

 and continents, long wrapped in the darkness 

 of paganism, shall be thrown wide open to mes- 

 sengers of salvation, borne and backed by those 

 that go down to the sea in ships, and do busi- 

 ness in the great waters! 



Lord ! for those days we wait ; those days 



Are in thy word foretold. 

 Fly swifter, sun and stars, and bring 



This promised age of gold. 



