The Panoplist, and Missionary Herald (Volume 16) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: churches, than on the poor heathen, thus abandoned to their doom?will settle upon the prospect. It must not fail. If the friends of missions are true to the cause, it will not fail. The word of the everlasting God is sure, and his grace is sufficient. In the name of the Prudential Committee, and with most affectionate and grateful salutations. S Worcester, Carres. Sec. of the A. B. C. F. M. Boston, March, IS':-; MISSIONARY LETTER FROM SWITZERLAND. H ii peculiarly delightful to contemplate the holy union, which is now taking place through- oat Christendom, among the enlightened friends of their Lord anil of his (iospel, in the great work of diffusing its blessings nniveraally. The following letter has beeu received lately by tbc Cor. See. of the A. B. C. F. M.J Basil in Switzerland, Sefit. 30, 1819. Reverend Sir, It is with the greatest satisfaction, that we have been informed, by the accounts of the British Missionary Register and the other Missionary Tracts, of the propagation of the missionary spirit in the Western Hemisphere, and of the formation, of several Boards for foreign and domestic missions, and seminaries for the education of African and other youth, for the service of our living God and Savior among the benighted Heathen world. This heartily welcome joy and lively interest in the propagation of the kingdom of our God in your blessed quarter, let us avail ourselves of the opportunity furnished to us by the voyage of a young pious Swiss to your country, to express to you as the sincere feelings of our sympathizing hearts; and to transmit to you some account of a similar Missionary Seminary, which, since the year 1816, several warm hearted friends of the Missionary cause have established in our city, for the purpose of furnishing the different evang...