The evangelisation of the world : a missionary band: a record of consecration, and an appeal . What afeeble response to His command, and what a feeble replyto His challenge, If ye love Me, keep My command-ments. The slave trade still cruelly burns, starves, chains,and kills its victims ; still the civilised Europeans barteruseless gin and brandy for valuable goods ; and even thegreat International African Treaty of Berlin, though someof the Powers opposed, authorises the introduction of thisfire-water, that will destroy such noble fellows as thosewho faithfully and affectionately bore Livingst
The evangelisation of the world : a missionary band: a record of consecration, and an appeal . What afeeble response to His command, and what a feeble replyto His challenge, If ye love Me, keep My command-ments. The slave trade still cruelly burns, starves, chains,and kills its victims ; still the civilised Europeans barteruseless gin and brandy for valuable goods ; and even thegreat International African Treaty of Berlin, though someof the Powers opposed, authorises the introduction of thisfire-water, that will destroy such noble fellows as thosewho faithfully and affectionately bore Livingstones re-mains from the interior of their bleeding country. Yet, ifthe Word of Livingstones great Master were introducedand lived, the slave trade would vanish like smoke. Who will go ? Many are wanted. Yet better far GODSthree hundred than CJideons thirty-two thousand. Yea,should any go who cannot from his heart write his nameunder Livingstones secret, My jESirs, my King, myLi I I., my All, I now dedicate my whole self to Thee . See Modem Heroes of the Mission Field. Hoddcr and From Photoiiraph by\ [KiHgsbu/y (S* Sokutt, Knightshridge, REV. C. J. VAUQHyVN, , nniil cf Lhtiiiliiff, Milslcr of the inul<k. Know, and yoii will feci. Kiioiv, ami you aill pray. Kitotu, and you ivill help. Yon ivill beashamed of the sluggishness, of the isolativn, of the selfishness, which has you think only ofyour own people and your fathers house The Church at home must learn to give up without a murmur to foreign service, not her meanest,but her miglitiest. She must never speak of any man as too learned, or too eloquent, or too useful, or(in any sense) loo good to be sent aliroail. On the contrnry, she must impress early iijnni the heartsof her children, of those ztho arc to be hereafter her chiefest and her foremost ones, the dignity, thehonour, the sanctity, of that most responsible trust, of that indeed highest preferment. —JorgelThine Own People. BENEFIT TO THE
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