American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-07-12
WILMINGTON,
rhe following article from the New Hampshirs

Sentinel, hbits instance OF the grossest dlsnon-
.sty and hypocrisy and strengthens in the belief
we have hithrto entertained, that spiritual pride,
love of fame, and other equally impure motives,
are the incentives which influence the greater part
Of those engaged in educating men for the mnistry,
and sending missionaries to the heather.
For our part, we cannot see any charity in squan-
deripg thousands of dollars, in buying the time of
apprentice boys, and sending them, with swarms of
other strong ard hearty young men, who are, many
Of them, too lazy or too proud to work, 10 spend
FIVE or six years in Theological Seminary in &C
curing that wisdom which is foolishness with God;
flor alas in too many instances, their knowledge
penetrates no farther than the brain,) end then
sending them forth to make merchandise OF the
gospel and Offering themselves to the highest bid
ders to teach them The way to Heaven task which
they are incompetent to perform, because it is a
road in which they themselves have never walked ;
and nothing short of an experimental acquaintance
with this path, can enable man to say to his fellow
creatures, This is the way, walk ye in it, This is
the wisdom which cometh from above ! to attain
which, it is not necessary spend the prime of life
in porting over theological works, the authors of
many Of which, were as blind, and knew little OF
| pure and undehled religion as those who are
seeking counsel of them.
Whilst there is so much ado about the heather,
and such professions of love for their souls, made
by persons who do little ifany good at home; who
suffer the widow to anguish in poverty and distress
and turn deaf ear to the cries Of her fatherless
children who enter not the abodes of misery and
wo, to heal the sick to cheer the dsconsolate, and
to administer Joy and consolation 10 the broken
hearted we must believe that those persons are
destitute of that charity which dweit in the bosom
Of the good Samaritan; and that all their professions
are but as sounding brass, and tinklng cymbal.'
From The Nrzu Hampshire Sentinel
GRINDING THE FACE OF THE POOR
The New York Missionary Register has publish
ed letter from Mr.. Bliss to the Treasurer OF the
United Foreign Missionary Society, enclosing |
dollars, handed him by the Rev A. Peters, OF Ben
nington, from 'aboring man, with request that
he would transmit it, and conceal his name. This
poor man, it seems, saved 70 cents by working on
the 9TH Of JULY dollar by not wearing neck
handkerchief-1 dollar by denying himself and ia
mly the OF ardent spirits-Sl % by having his
fulled cloth only coored, not dressed, and another
item Of dollars by wearing, himself and family
thick shoes The motive for publishing, as avowed
BY the editors is, 'that others may be induced to
follow so zvorthy an example, have often been
led to think, that those who so pertnaciously hold
the doctrine that the heather in India must be eter-
naIly lost for slack OF knowledge IN their sense oil
the term--i G. lost forever, unless individuals OF
more enlightened nation, 10000 miles off, contri-
butte money to support such preachers as their sect
select the abettors and supporters OF such deu
sion were douhly guilty in not setting proper ex
ample for others. We don't see them wearing
cozv hide shoes summer and winter working f'ide-
headent day, wearing coarse cloth ufdressed going
without handkerchief Ito say nothing about arden
spirits,) and denying themselves the comforts o
life. 20 enable them to send money to India. No
no. They leave it to this poor man, who doubles
believed literally their declarations, to set the 'worth
example,
This man wished to have his name coneca'ed.--
The editor of the Bennington Gazette informs thai
while thus doing penance and starving MS oooy
he sold piece oil land and fooh his nay, but oeior
the grantee could get his deed recorded, credIto
of the donor attached the same piece OF land, an
secured his title, leaving the honest PURCHASE
without remedy.
This simple relation is not recorded to dscouI
age missionary contrbutions-far from 1t. But
shew the effects Of holding out improper motives
action. say boldly, that those who believe III the
hearts, as Mr.. Newell once wrote home from bon
bay, that whole nations were sinking into NELL VI
cause they have not the Knowledge OF the oosPe
ought to deny themselves even the cohNe"ene'e'
life, and live sparngly upon the necessar'es; 'nat
in fact, the cowhide shoe finches, they ought
summer to go barefoot! This man had no right
devote the proceeds either of his labor or econon
in this way, to the injury of his family or his CT
diiors. Let those who have and to spare' coht'
butte as their conscences dictate. Heaven 10 not
be bought with money. We have heather to co
vert, and worse than heather at home, to REFORM
trust the nearly exploded system OF urging coh'r
buttons from the motive which probably inhuenc
this poor man, will be followed by one more rator
and enlimhtened. and more worthy the Character