letter xxii.] MISSIONARY MATTERS. 



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depository of doctrine and discipline, and even were it all it 

 ought to be, it would lack the power to repress the lax morality 

 which is ruining the nation. Probably each year will render 

 the overhaste of this course more apparent, and it is likely that 

 some other mode of upholding pure Christianity will have to 

 be adopted, when the venerable men who now sustain and 

 guide the native pastors by their influence shall have been 

 gathered to their rest 



L L. B, 



