Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . d with most limited larder. The existing congregations felt the inspiration of hispresence. He visited the Sunday-schools, set in motionthe first camp-meeting at Caldwell, had many special ap-pointments, and was unremitting in his private labors. Under date of April 8, 1833, one month after his ar-rival, he addressed the Board as follows:— Sure I am, could they see our colony as it is—couldthey have but one birds-eye view of the magnitude ofour mission, as seen from Cape Montserrado, in Africa,and the millions that are perishi
Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . d with most limited larder. The existing congregations felt the inspiration of hispresence. He visited the Sunday-schools, set in motionthe first camp-meeting at Caldwell, had many special ap-pointments, and was unremitting in his private labors. Under date of April 8, 1833, one month after his ar-rival, he addressed the Board as follows:— Sure I am, could they see our colony as it is—couldthey have but one birds-eye view of the magnitude ofour mission, as seen from Cape Montserrado, in Africa,and the millions that are perishing for the lack of knowl-edge in its vast wilderness—they might take up as manythousand dollars in New York alone as you now dohundreds. There is not in the wide world such a field foimissionary enterprise. There is not in the wide world afield that promises the sincere efforts of a Christian com-munity a richer harvest. There is not in the wide world aspot to which Americans owe so much to human beingsas to this same degraded Africa. She has toiled for our. The First Missionary. 187 comfort; she has borne a galling yoke for our ease andindulgence; she has driven our plows, has tilled oursoil, and gathered our harvests, while our children havelived in ease, and been educated with the fruits thereofShall we make her no returns ? If she has given to us carnal things,* can we do less than return her intellect-ual and spiritual things ? God help us to do it, nor tothink we have done enough till Africa is redeemed. What I want to do. I want to establish a missionat Grand Bassa, a very promising settlement, aboutseventy miles to the eastward of Monrovia. Our Churchhas children already there, who have emigrated fromAmerica. They need our care—our instruction. Re-ligion in our colored friends from home has not beensufficiently fortified with principle to withstand thetemptations and to meet the difficulties which will nec-essarily occur in a land of pagan idolatry and heathensu
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