h impression."

_No such impression!_ Did then the command of our ascended Lord, his
_last_ command, delivered under the most solemn circumstances, make no
impression upon you? Did the temporal and eternal miseries of six
hundred millions of your fellow men make no impression upon you? Did
their groans and sighs, which came over the waters like the voice of
seven thunders, peal after peal, make no impression upon you? And could
you remain at home with comfort and peace of mind, with the weeping and
wailing of millions of dying souls in your ears, backed up with the
command of Christ to go and seek their salvation? While Jesus plead,
"Lo, I died for them, go, preach my Gospel to them, that they may
live;" could you remain unimpressed and unmoved? And have all these
considerations, and a hundred more, been urged upon you for years, and
yet failed to make an _impression_? Alas! of what is your heart made,
that it does not feel? Look for no _supernatural_ impression.
Missionaries have none. There is no need of any. He that can live and
not be impressed, may well tremble for his own salvation. It appears
that you are easily impressed that it is your duty to remain at home.
The motives, I fear, that come before your mind are well suited to make
an impression. You quickly perceive a _call_, when country, home,
friends, the endearments of society, and the like considerations crowd
upon your mind. O, dear brethren, let us be _entirely honest_, as we
expect soon to meet the Saviour and the world of perishing souls for
whom he died.

Another similar excuse is often made: "Did I possess the requisite
attainments in holiness, I should delight to go abroad. But as the case
is, I cannot become a missionary: I have not piety enough."

_Not piety enough!_ Then be entreated to become more pious without
delay. As you value the souls of dying men, defer not to become more
holy. Through your want of piety the heathen may be left to perish. But
what is holiness? Is it not obedience to the commands of Christ? Obey,
then, his last command: _that will be becoming more holy_. Go forth to
the heathen from love to Christ: that will be becoming more pious. "NOT
PIETY ENOUGH!" Will you presume to offer that excuse to the Lord Jesus,
when you shall stand before him to render account for the blood of the
heathen? And when you shall see multitudes of the heathen sinking into
hell, whom, under the blessing of the Spirit, you might have saved; and
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