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travels through England and America. The 

 arguments which are justly urged for sending 

 missions to the Heathen, acquire a double force 

 when applied to British Colonists, situated in 

 a land of moral darkness, where they gradually 

 become, in the absence of Christian privileges, 

 and Divine ordinances, more and more in 

 different to the truths of that Bible, which they 

 may have borne with them, in their emigration, 

 from their own country. In no part of the 

 world therefore, do they need the faithful 

 preaching of the gospel, more than in the 

 extensive and newly formed settlements of 

 the British provinces, where thousands are 

 perishing for the want of ministerial labours 

 of Christian missionaries. 



