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degree of enthusiasm is necessary vigorously to carry on 

 any difficult and important cause. 



Good preaching and the power of speaking are indis- 

 pensable. It is to be remembered that many savages, 

 especially North American Indians, and central Africans, 

 are eloquent speakers, and hence in a controversy, would 

 have the advantage of a bad speaker. 



Dr Livingstone has put the case truly, when he says that 

 we want our best, most able, and greatest men to do the 

 highest and most important of all work, the making Christ's 

 Gospel known where it has not been hitherto heard. Paul 

 was a great man before he became a missionary. He was 

 a man of mighty spirit and capacious soul, a good scholar, 

 and in high repute among his own nation. His missionary 

 character made him a greater man still; it did not demean 

 him. Many of the greatest men in the early Church were 

 missionaries; and some were men of affluence. We mean 

 great in moral and spiritual goodness and grandeur of 

 character, as well as noble in intellect. Not many learned, 

 not many wise, not many noble, not many rich, now carry 

 the standard of the Prince of Peace into the enemy's coun- 

 try of heathen darkness. The time will arrive when the 

 Lord's service and badge will become the most honourable 

 and the most desired of all. The army and navy, in every 

 land, can find their willing warriors in abundance, to go to 

 the ends of the earth, and brave death unquailingly, while 

 mammon sends forth her worshippers in shoals; not so the 

 church of Christ: her soldiers hang back. How long shall 

 this be? 



Many of the natural qualifications needed by missionaries 

 when actually engaged in their work, are centred in the 

 character of our great missionary traveller. With reference 

 to these the Bishop of Oxford eloquently observes; " Truly 

 it does need the combination of different men and different 

 faculties before any such vast undertaking as this can be 



