AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW-YORK.
CONTENTS.
| [CHAPTER I.] | ||
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| THE TRUE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS. | ||
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| Lowliness and condescension, like our Saviour's,essential to missionary character, | [18] | |
| The true Missionary is ready, like Christ, to enduresuffering for the good of others, | [21] | |
| The true Missionary, like his Master, waits not to beurged and entreated, | [24] | |
| The true Missionary, like the Saviour, feels no lesscompassion and love to the heathen on account of their ingratitude andenmity towards him, | [26] | |
| [CHAPTER II.] | ||
| CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP. | ||
| All we have belongs to God, | [32] | |
| To occupy all our powers for God, we must equal theengagedness and enterprise of worldly men, | [34] | |
| How much faithful stewards may consume on themselvesand children, | [40] | |
| The best use of a large capital, | [46] | |
| Money not the main thing needed, | [50] | |
| The luxury and honor of being God's stewards, | [56] | |
| [CHAPTER III.] | ||
| GUILT OF NEGLECTING THE HEATHEN. | ||
| Prospects of the heathen for eternity, | [64] | |
| Peculiar advantages of the American churches tocarry abroad the Gospel of Christ, | [69] | |
| Do we pray for the heathen as much as we ought? | [73] | |
| Do we give as much as we ought to evangelize theheathen? | [75] | |
| Do we go and instruct the heathen as we ought? | [81] | |
| Why are the heathen lost? | [85] | |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | ||
| THE SAVIOUR'S LAST COMMAND. | ||
| Excuses of Christians for not doing more to evangelizethe heathen, | [102] | |
| [CHAPTER V.] | ||
| LAYMEN CALLED TO THE FIELD OF MISSIONS. | ||
| Labors of the first disciples, dispersed from Jerusalemby persecution, | [111] | |
| To elevate all nations requires a great variety oflaborers, | [116] | |
| Feasibility, | [126] | |
| Reasons why laymen should engage in the work ofMissions, | [130] | |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | ||
| CLAIMS OF MISSIONS ON MINISTERS OF INFLUENCE. | ||
| Separation of Barnabas and Saul for the Missionarywork, | [134] | |
| The present distribution of ministers anti-apostolic, | [141] | |
| Insufficient excuses of pastors for remaining athome, | [147] | |
| Other excuses of pastors that have weight, but arenot sufficient, | [155] | |
| Necessity that some pastors of influence and talentshould become Missionaries, | [161] | |
| Some excuses common to pastors and to candidatesfor the ministry, | [169] | |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | ||
| IMPORT OF THE GREAT COMMISSION. | ||
| Responsibility not peculiar to Missionaries, | [178] | |
| The fallacy of endeavoring to convert the world byproxy, | [181] | |
| No cheap or easy way of converting the world, | [191] | |
| Some rules that may be of use in agitating the questionof becoming Missionaries, | [194] | |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | ||
| TRIALS TO BE MET. | ||
| Difficulties in the way of training children on heathenground, | [201] | |
| Reasons in the minds of Missionaries for not sendingtheir children home, | [210] | |
| Other thoughts about Missionaries' children, | [218] | |
| Entire consecration of children, not a duty peculiarto Missionaries, | [222] | |
INTRODUCTORY LETTER.
To my Classmates in Theology.
Dear Brethren in Christ:—Few periods of our lives can be called to mind with so much ease and distinctness, as the years which we spent together in theological studies. The events of that short season, and the sentiments we then indulged, are clothed with a freshness and interest which the lapse of time cannot efface.
Among the questions that occupied our thoughts, no one perhaps was so absorbing, or attended with such deep and anxious feeling, as that which respected the field of labor to which each should devote his life. And many of us then, I remember, made a mutual engagement, that if spared and permitted for years to labor in different portions of the vineyard of the Lord, we would communicate to each other our mature views in regard to the claims of different fields.