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confutations of infidelity, what accurate inves- 

 tigation of moral duties, what vehement re- 

 commendation of Christian graces employ the 

 press * And who would not think that among 

 the many who write and speak such things a 

 sufficient number of enlightened and well qua- 

 lified Christian missionaries should be found 

 to propagate in foreign parts a religion which 

 we so justly prize at home." # It is said 

 that when a Moravian Bishop was at Beth- 

 lehem, in North America, letters were read in 

 the Brethren's congregation, stating, that 

 several of their missionaries had been carried 

 off by sickness, in the Island of St. Thomas, in 

 the West Indies, that very day seven brethren 

 offered to go and replace them. When will 

 there be as little difficulty in supplying the 

 calls of the heathen from among the ministers 

 and friends of missions in the Church of 

 England, as divine truth advances, and the 

 great Captain of Salvation is seen carrying his 

 conquests far to the east and to the west, to 

 the north and to the south ? 



I would ever cherish in my heart those 

 feelings which led me across the waters, — 

 may they never leave me. Every where 



* See Melvill Home's Letters on Missions. 



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