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unprofitable way. This is the more necessary as the time 

 is rapidly approaching when the process of missionary 

 enterprise must be carried on in modes, and on principles, 

 veiy different from those wliich were recognised when they 

 devoted themselves to theii' task. If it be necessary to give 

 a proof of this I will refer to the Dean of Westminster's 

 remarkable sermon on the Day of Intercession — that day set 

 apart for summoning England to the support of missionary 

 enterprise. He there warns the missionary that dogmatic 

 teaching is not to be the sole or principal lever by wliich 

 the civiUsation of those he is in contact' with is to be 

 upraised. In earlier times, he says, it was the practice to 

 send forth to the heathen, missionaries whose special object 

 was religious teaching ; but the time, he tells us, has arrived 

 when a mucli more comprehensive and practical scheme of 

 instruction is requisite. ' Let us not,' he observes, ' measure, 

 as has been well said, this great work by the number 

 of communicants and converts,' But this is precisely the 

 measure whicli is too often employed by the missionaries 

 when estimating and proving the amount of their civilising 

 success. 



But of what avail caia be the fittest missionary, though 

 using the fittest means of civilising, when the ground 

 he has to till is bristhng with passionate recollections, and 

 fierce resentments that thwart liim at every step ? In the 

 Western Pacific Ocean there is hardly an island the tradi- 

 tions of which do not record, or the existing generations of 

 which have not experienced, outrages that cause their 



