History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . n-dications that this voice addresses itself to me. 4. A man in high healthwould run a far greater hazard of life, humanly speaking, than I Though my health does not warrant much in expectation, yet, by theblessing of God, I may do great good. The race is not to the swift, nor thebattle to the strong. There is much, very much to be done in a mission ofthe kind, which would not tax my voice at all. Praying that God success to the enterprise, I am, affectionately, your son in the gospe
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . n-dications that this voice addresses itself to me. 4. A man in high healthwould run a far greater hazard of life, humanly speaking, than I Though my health does not warrant much in expectation, yet, by theblessing of God, I may do great good. The race is not to the swift, nor thebattle to the strong. There is much, very much to be done in a mission ofthe kind, which would not tax my voice at all. Praying that God success to the enterprise, I am, affectionately, your son in the gospel. He was appointed to the oversight of the mission in Liberia, by BishopsRoberts and Hedding. The spirit breathed in the letters written to hisfriends, while pref)aring for, and on his passage to the scene of his antici-pated labors, manifested the deep devotion-of his whole soul to the made a report to the Missionary Society of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, dated Monrovia, April 8th, 1833. It was a document of great in»terest to the friends of missions. AFRICAN MISSION- 553. Other missionaries were appointed as assistants to Mr. Cox. The Spaulding and Wright of the New England Conference, with theirwives, and Miss Farrington, sailed for Liberia. But they were not permit-ted to see their beloved brother Cox. He had departed this life July 21st,1833, full of peace and holy hope, having written for his dying mottoes, nevergive up the, mission ; and Africa must be redeemed though thousandsperish, Mr. Cox was a man of a devoted mind and self-sacrificing had well weighed the subject of his undertaking. It had occupied hiathoughts, and. prayers, his tongue and pen. His views were clear, his judg-ment judicious, his feelings ardent, and his zeal unquenchable. Pie hadcommenced his work in earnest. ? No sooner did his eyes meet the shores ofAfrica, than he began to ijotice with a discriminating mind, all its scenery,physical and moral. His Sketches will
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