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MISSIONARY LIFE 
and rights of others than do the oppressed people 
of the land of Ham. 
We are indebted to the Bible for all the intelli- 
gence, enterprise, and refinement we have above 
the heathen; and take from ns the Bible and its 
infiuences, and in a very few centuries our condi- 
tion would in every respect be as wretched as that 
of the most degraded race on the face of the globe. 
Mankind, the world over, are much alike when 
left to the degrading tendencies of their corrupt 
natures; for ‘^they are all gone aside, they are all 
together become filthy : there is none that doeth 
good, no, not one.’’ They profess that they 
know God; but in works they deny him, being 
abominable, disobedient, and to every good work 
reprobate.” 
Could Christian women in this, land, and all 
Christians, realize how much they are indebted to 
the gospel for the unnumbered and exceeding high 
privileges they enjoy, surely they would make 
greater efforts to give the bread of life to the 
thousands who are perishing. 
Should we not all be missionaries, in sympathy, 
feeling, action? And should not the burdening in- 
quiry of our life be, ^^How can I best promote 
this great work ? ” 
If the consolations and hopes of religion are to 
ITS of more value than all the world, will we not 
