s forward after wealth, and profess to be accumulating it for
Christ; but in the end, spend it on themselves and on their children.
Now what, under God, shall break up this covetousness, and luxurious
manner of life? What shall bring them back to the pure and unadulterated
principles of the Gospel--to live, labor, and die for Christ, as did the
primitive disciples? Let pastors, like the apostles, go into all the
world and preach the Gospel to every creature. There is reason to hope
that the church members would likewise imbibe the right spirit, and act
on right principles. Then we should hear no more of schools disbanded
and missionaries detained, but troops of heralds would be carrying out
the news of salvation and sending back tidings of success. There is much
philosophical and Bible truth in the proverb, "Like people like priest."
O, what responsibility rests on the ministers of Christ!

Again, if all settled ministers of talent and influence remain at home,
how can such a number of missionaries be secured as seem needed for the
world's conversion? If many of those already in the sacred office do
not go, it is absolutely certain, that the present generation of heathen
must die without the Gospel. The angel of death continues hovering over
the dying nations, mowing down his twenty millions a year; and before
ministers can be raised up from among the youth and children, will be
drawing a stroke at the last man of all that are now heathen. The
present generation of ministers must preach the Gospel to the present
generation of mankind. It will be the duty of the next generation of
ministers to preach to the inhabitants that shall be then on the globe.
To look for missionaries from among the young alone, is making no
provision for the present generation of heathen. If the heathen are to
be left till missionaries can be trained up, they are to be left--the
soul shudders at the thought--till they shall be in hell! By making this
postponement, the churches, in effect, though certainly without
intending it, sign the death warrant of a great portion of the present
six hundred millions of perishing heathen; relinquish all effort for
this vast multitude, and only dream of saving the next generation--of
whom it would be a mercy never to be born, unless there shall be more
hope of their salvation than can be seen at present--_dream_, I say, of
saving the next generation; for to think much of raising up the young to
be missionaries,