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those who were instrumental in originating their 
emancipation, would desire to leave them. They 
never can be expected to advance beyond those 
who are their models, their preceptors, and their 
guides ; and if the successors of the first Mission¬ 
aries be in any respect inferior to their predecessors, 
the progress of the nation must, in regard to im¬ 
provement, be retrograde—unless this deficiency 
be supplied from some other source. 
On this account, it does appear exceedingly de¬ 
sirable that the successors to the first Missionaries 
among an uncivilized people, who may even 
renounce idolatry, should be in every respect 
equally qualified for this office with those by 
whom they were preceded, and that even the chil¬ 
dren of the Missionaries should be able to carry on, 
to a greater degree of perfection, that work which 
their parents were privileged to commence. 
I am aware that the expense attending a mea¬ 
sure of this kind will probably prevent its adoption 
in those Institutions by whom the first Missionaries 
are sent out; but this does not render the measure 
less desirable or important in its immediate or 
remote and permanent influence upon the con¬ 
verted nations. The same difficulties occur with 
regard to the promotion of civilization, and the 
culture of the mechanic arts, among the barbarous 
nations. The primary design of all Missionary 
contributions is the communication of Christianity 
to the heathen; and it is to be regretted that the 
smallest portion of the pecuniary means furnished 
by Christian liberality for this purpose, should be 
appropriated to any other purpose than the direct 
promulgation of the gospel. 
The difficulties already alluded to, connected 
with the Missionary stations, are not the only ones 
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