History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . rightly, my brother, when you say, I have not looked, forexample, to professors of religion, nor regulated my course by theirs. Ihave not; or I should never have come to my present resolution. No ; Ihave long wept over the desolations of Zion, caused by the avarice of pro-fessed Christians, and sought to learn my duty from Gods word. Neitherare you mistaken in supposing that I devote my all, unreservedly, to thecause of foreign missions. For the Hindoo my heart has bled; for themwould I toil J for them w
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . rightly, my brother, when you say, I have not looked, forexample, to professors of religion, nor regulated my course by theirs. Ihave not; or I should never have come to my present resolution. No ; Ihave long wept over the desolations of Zion, caused by the avarice of pro-fessed Christians, and sought to learn my duty from Gods word. Neitherare you mistaken in supposing that I devote my all, unreservedly, to thecause of foreign missions. For the Hindoo my heart has bled; for themwould I toil J for them would I die ; and for them, my brother, I ask leave to toil Although it has seemed to me, that the press is to be the medium through which the light of the gospel, like the Aurora, is to shootup from the shores of Hindustan, and illuminate the interior of that darkregion; yet I would not be thought to dictate in any thing. But, as saidour much lamented sister Phillips, so say I— Had I thousands of gold andsilver, I would lay it ail on the altar of missions, and that to the last HISTORY OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND OF ITS MISSIONS. BY JOSEPH TRACY. [The author, ahcr becoming responsible for the preparation of this History, transmitted a re-quest to the Hon. Waller Lowrie, Corresponding Secretary of the Board, to prepare it. declined, on account of his numerous duties; but kindly offered the use of any ducumenlsin his department, which it should be necessary to examine ; remarking, at ihe same time, that thearchives of the Board contain little unpublished matter, if any, which could be of use in the pre-paration of such a work. It has not been practicable for the author to avail himself of this History has therefore been compiled wholly from the seven volumes of the Foreign Mis-sionary Chronicle, published at first by the Western Foreign Missionary Society, and
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