d in sending their
ships around the globe. No port seems too distant, no depth too deep, no
height too high, no difficulty too great, and no obstacle too
formidable. They scarcely shrink from any business on account of its
magnitude, its arduousness, or its hazard. A man is no longer famous for
circumnavigating the globe. To sail round the world is a common trading
voyage, and ships now visit almost every port of the whole earth. A
business is no longer called great, where merely thousands of dollars
are adventured; but in great undertakings, money is counted by millions.
Such is the spirit of enterprise in worldly matters.

Now, I ask, are we not capable of as much enterprise in using the means
ordained by Christ for rescuing souls from eternal burnings, and raising
them to a seat at his right hand? Had the same enterprise been required
of men in some former century, they might have plead incapacity. But it
is too late now to plead incapacity. Unless we choose to keep back from
God a very important talent, we must put forth this enterprise to its
full extent in the great work of the world's conversion.

Such enterprise is needed. If the latter day glory is to take place
through human instrumentality, can it be expected without some mighty
movement on the part of the church? Can a work of such inconceivable
magnitude be effected, till every redeemed sinner shall lay himself out
in the enterprise, as worldly men do in their projects? If the promises
of God are to be fulfilled through the efforts of men, what hope can
there be of the glorious day, till men are resolute to undertake great
things--not for themselves merely, but for God, their Maker and
Redeemer.

Is it not a fact that will strike us dumb in the judgment, that it is
the love of money, and not zeal for God, that digs canals, lays
railroads, runs steamboats and packets, and, in short, is the main
spring of every great undertaking? The love of money has explored the
land and the seas, traced rivers in all their windings, found an
entrance to almost every port, Christian or heathen, studied the
character of almost every people, ascertained the products of every
clime and the treasures of the deep, stationed agents in all the
principal places, and in not a few ports, a hemisphere distant, erected
shops, factories, and even sumptuous palaces.

Men exhibit no such enterprise in serving God. How many ships sail the
ocean to carry the Gospel of Christ? And in por