The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-26 00:00:00

ESSAY ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.

PRIZE OF TWO HUNDRED GUINEAS, 4-c.
DURING the last forty years, many excellent Sermons,
Tracts, and Pamphlets, have appeared on the subject of
Missions to the Heathen ; but the want of a mprehensive
work, embracing all the topics directly an collaterally in-
volved in the general theme, has long b n felt and very
generally acknowledged. It has occurre o a few friends of
the Missionary enterprise in Scotland t t this desideratum
i
in our Christian literature might be supplied by means of
friendly competition, were the theme of Missions proposed as
the subject of a,Prize Essay. Dispensing, for the present,
with the consideration of the causes that may instrumentally
have retarded the progress of Christianity throughout the
world, and with the investigation of the most approved me-
thods of pactically conducting Missions abroad, a PIZE of
TWO HUN r
DRED GUINEAS is hereby offered for theß
Essay,
and another PRIZE of FIFTY GUINEAS for the second best
Essay on " The Duty, Privilege, and Encouragement of
Christians to send the Gospel of Salvation to the unenlight-
ened Nations of the Earth." The grand object of Missions,
viz., the regeneration of a lost world through the all-sufficient
atonement of the Lord of Righteousness and the renewing of
the Holy Ghost, must be distinctly unfolded and vindicated
from the Sacred Scriptures. The buty, Privilege, &c., must
°e illustrated as enjoined or sanctioned by Divine commands,
Evangelical motives, and explicit prophecies, as well as re-
commended by a review of the beneficial effects of Christianity
an the civilization of the world, and the reflex influence of
the Missionary enterprize in improving the spiritual tone and
condition of the Reformed Churches. Under the head of
pay, Must be comprehended the obligation to advance the
4ingdom of the Redeemer by means of prayer, counsel, pe-
cuniary contribution, and personal services. Answers must
also be furnished to all the most plausible objections that
Dave from time to time been urged against the cause of
Missions. .
In order at once to demonstrate the Catholicity of the pre-
sent design, and inspire universal confidence in the rectitude
of the decision, the following gentlemen have been requested,
and have kindly consented, to become adjudicators, viz.:—
The Rev. DAVID WELSH, D.D., Professor of Church
The Rev.
in the Universi of Edinburgh. ,
1 Ile Rev. RALPH WARDLty AW, D.D. Glasgow.
The Rev. HENRY MELVILLE, B.li, Camberwell, late

Fellow and Tutor of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
The Rev. JABEZ BUNTING, D.D., President of the Wes-
leyan Conference, London.
The Rev. THOMAS S. CRISP, President of the Baptist
College, Bristol.
, The Essays will be received on or before Ist June, 1839,
'33' the Secretaries of the Church of England, London, Bap-
tist, and Wesleyan Missionary Societies, at the respective
Mission Houses in London, and by the Rev. Dr. BRUNTON,
(-20ovener, or Rev. Dr. GORDON, Secretary of the General
`tssembly of the Church of Scotland's Comittee for Foreign
Missions, Edinburgh. Each must be amccompanied with a
I,_ealed Letter, enclosing the name and address of the author,—
the Letter and Essay bearing some motto or superscription coin-
Mon to both. No Essay need be forwarded which is not writ-
tell or copied in a clear, distinct, legible hand. The adjudica-
-Iprs are oxpected to make their decision known on or before
Ist June, 1840 ; after which date the Essays will be returned, on
Proper application at the several offices where they were ori-
ginally left, with the letters unopened, except those accom-
Paoying the successful Treatises. Half of the profits arising
from the sale of the Copyright of the Essay, to which the
'rite of Two Hundred Guineas shall be awarded, to be given
to the Author; the other half to be applied to such object,
promotive of the great cause of Missions, as the Contributors
the present Prize may deem most expedient. In the name
of the Contributors,
STEVENSON M`GILL, D.D.,
Professor of Divinity in the University of
Glasgow.
THOMAS CHALMERS, D.D., L.L.D.,
• Professor of Divinity in the University qi
Edinburgh.
ALEXANDER DUFF, D.D.,
Church of Scotland Mission, Calcutta.

MONS LE DRAY, SURGEON-DENTIST, from the
Firm of LE DRAY and CO., London.

''CURVY in the GUMS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED
ARTIFIFICIAL TEETH SUPPLIED
WITHOUT WIRES, SPRINGS, OR CLASPS.
LOOSE TEETH FASTENER.
dnd filling Decayed Teeth with Mineral M 2
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, the following Paris charges
A single Artificial Tooth
A complete Set
A complete Set of Natural Teeth, on fine
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15 0 0
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