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attends their efforts^ have no alternative, but are, from 
circumstances, under the necessity of attending to these 
departments of effort. They must either supply the appa¬ 
ratus and sustain the heavy expense of carrying on the 
vrork of civilization, or leave those on whom they have 
been instrumental in bestowing the light of revelation a 
prey to indolence, or to unprincipled individuals, whose 
influence will be exerted to neutralize the advantage 
Christian instruction may have conferred. 
Christianity and civilization ought never to be sepa¬ 
rated, and although we rejoice in the temporal advantages 
which follow the former, by the introduction of the 
arts and comforts of society, it is to be regretted that the 
Missionary Societies should be prevented from sending 
the gospel to waiting nations, by the drafts made upon 
their resources for the establishing and maintaining agen¬ 
cies for the purpose of attending only to temporal con¬ 
cerns. Civilization never precedes, but invariably follows 
Christianity, and until some other means of facilitating 
its progress be supplied, it will not be neglected by those 
who are employed in the propagation of the gospel 
throughout the world. The difficulties already alluded 
to, connected with the Missionary stations, are not the 
only ones that exist. They would operate powerfully, 
supposing the children were all that the parents could 
wish ; supposing they were qualified by talent, disposed 
by deliberate choice, and prepared by Divine grace, 
for the work of a Christian Missionary; but these 
indispensable requisites, it is unnecessary to remark, a 
parent, with all his solicitude and care, cannot always 
secure. God may see fit to withhold those decisive 
evidences of genuine piety, without which the fondest 
parent would tremble at the idea of introducing even his 
