Daniel Shepardson
Published: 2018-08-31
Total Pages: 30
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Excerpt from The Home Mission Field, Its Speedy and Perfect Cultivation Urged: A Discourse in Behalf of the Am. Baptist Home Mission Society, Preached at the Anniversary in Troy, May, 1853 One obstacle exists in. The.-faet, that society is a medley. Every community, large or small, is madeup of, peoplefrom almost-eifery tongue and nation under heaven. N or'this alone. They are almost endlessly diverse among: themselves. Thrown together, from the city and the country, from this section of a country and'that, with diverse views of religion, government, education, every thing pertaining to this world, or that to come, they constitute a kind of moral Babel. Thus, two Germans are not much alike;. Two Englishmen quite as diverse; and two Americans, perchance, of Opposite opinions, and so of all the rest. Much time, toil, and grace, are necessary to modify peculiarities, overcome prejudices, knit into union and mould into form such discordant materials. Selfishness impels many? To settle in the. West. They go, as Lot went to Sodom, who chose the plain of Jor dan, because he saw that it was rich and fertile, everywhere even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt Once there, strangl ersamongstrangers, without the. Restraints of home andfriends, and religious associations, they are often swept. Awayby overwhelming: temptations What a grave - aye, what a very. Gate of hell is the West to cold-hearted professors and mere formalists, Their vows and covenants broken, their birthrights sold, and their sinful passions; wrought into! Frenzied excitement, many of them are soon drowned in destruction and perdition. To men of this. Stamp, goaded round and 1 round in the Whirlpools of the world, -o.ur dear missionaries must preach; and. That, too, often under circumstances. That would ahnost. Have made a Paul quail, flinch and blench away, lest he had run, orig should run in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.