xpect, that a speedy
and complete triumph is to be effected by a few missionaries of the
right stamp going through the length and breadth of Satan's extensive
and dark empire, and sounding as they go the trumpet of the Gospel
around his strong fortifications and deep intrenchments. Such an
expectation places an immeasurable disparity between the means and the
end. It supposes it to be so easy to effect a transformation of heathen
society, heathen habits, heathen minds, and heathen character, and to
raise them up from a degradation many ages deep, that a few sounds only
from the herald of salvation, as he passes on his way, are sufficient.
"Leviathan is not thus tamed." The prince of the power of the air is not
thus vanquished.

Neither can the work be effected by a small number of preachers,
stationed at different posts, in the midst of the wide domains of
darkness and death. Like specks of light, few and far between, how can
they illumine the broad canopy of darkness? To commit the work of the
world's conversion to a few missionaries is, in effect, to leave the
heathen to perish. A large company of preachers must go forth, and a
large company too of other laborers. There must be among the whole body
of Christians, not only an interest in the work, but to a greater extent
than is imagined, _a personal enlistment_--an actual going forth to
foreign lands.

Again, laymen must go abroad; for no less a movement than this will
convince them that the work of saving the heathen presses upon them
individually, and with all its weight and responsibility. Mere giving
does not seem to answer the purpose. Very few laymen at home seem to
imagine that they, individually, are as responsible for the life and
death of the heathen, as the laborers abroad. Many seem to act only as
they are acted upon. This _passive_ state will not answer: there must be
a more general feeling of personal responsibility. And how is such a
feeling of equal and individual responsibility to be induced, till
laymen in great numbers begin to go abroad? Till then, there will be a
spirit of luxury in the church; a spirit of worldly-mindedness, and a
spirit of committing the world's conversion to other hands. To destroy
this spirit, which is evidently eating out the piety of the churches,
laymen must be urged to arise; to break off their luxuries, to bury
their covetousness--to make an entire devotement of body, soul and
spirit, to the _direct_ and arduous work of