106 MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XXXI. 
ENCOURAOEMENTS TO LABOR. 
From the experiment already made in the 
colony of Sierra Leone, we are fully warranted in 
the assertion that missionaries have a great influ- 
ence over that people for good, and that they may 
do much to elevate them from a state of degrada- 
tion to a state of moral purity. True, there yet 
remains much to be done where missionaries have 
operated for years ; but is there not also much to 
be done yet among the people of this country, who 
have heard the gospel, and have had its restrain- 
ing and purifying influences thrown around them 
from childhood ? 
Some half-hearted religionists, and wicked per- 
sons who neither fear God nor regard the rights 
of man, there will be, in despite of all that Chris- 
tianity can do to prevent it. Were all the clergy- 
men of Ohio to concentrate their eflbrts in one 
county, and were they all much better men than 
