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his help might be more substantial ; and for himself he 

 would make his old clothes serve for another year. The 

 emigration scheme, which he thought would have added 

 to the comfort of his parents and sisters, was not, how- 

 ever, carried into effect. The advice to his family to 

 emigrate proceeded from deep convictions. In a subse- 

 quent letter (4th December 1850) he writes: — "If I 

 could only be with you for a week, you would soon be 

 pushing on in the world. The world is ours. Our 

 Father made it to be inhabited, and many shall run to 

 and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. It ivill be 

 increased more by emigration than by missionaries" 

 He held it to be God's wish that the unoccupied parts 

 of the earth should be possessed, and he believed in 

 Christian colonisation as a great means of spreading the 

 gospel. We shall see afterwards that to plant English 

 and Scotch colonies in Africa became one of his master 

 ideas and favourite schemes. 



