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The Evangelizations of India; A Ser. of Discourses, Addresses,
The Evangelizations of India A Ser of Discourses Addresses Author:John Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 101 III. THE APOSTASY AND CONVERSION OF India: An Address. Moderator, And Reverend Fathers And Brethren, -- Though I am deeply sensible of the loss which our Indian missions have sustained by our voluntary, but necessary, with- drawment of them from a large portion of the ministers and people by whom they have hitherto been supported and directed, I have the conviction that I have now before me the great body of the best and the most tried friends of the propagation of Christianity throughout the world which are to be found within the bounds of Scotland. " The highest mountains catch the first rays of the sun ;" and those men were the most lofty in piety, and the most distinguished by Christian excellence, who first brought, though unsuccessfully, the question of Christian missions before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and who, when theirovertures were rejected by that court, formed themselves into voluntary associations for the purpose of sending the gospel to distant lands, and who joyfully entertained the same overtures, and most powerfully aided in giving them a practical direction when they were afterwards proposed by the best men of that section of the Church, by which, in the first instance, they had been dismissed. When I advert to what you have been privileged to do and to suffer for the Church of Christ in this land, -- for its liberty, its purity, its efficiency, and its extension, I cannot but view you as the worthy successors of its reformers, confessors, martyrs, and covenanted worthies, who proclaimed the gospel with the love and sincerity which are its own characteri...« less