Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-10-19

comparatively neglected! Is not here
vast fertile field broken up and ready
for the casting 10 the seed? And is
not the seed already in the field wait.
ing for the sewers TO scatter III What
should we say TO the farmer, who
would turn away from such field
and leave the seed in the field to per
ish unscaaered, and go to some com.
paraiively desolate heath, where much
must be done before even that can be
prepared for the seed?
Surely no one can understandiBgly
answer the question 'e0heTe sit best to
send the missionaries without duly
considering the comparative population
of the places in question, andthe com.
parative facilities for imparting Christ
ian knowledge to that population. On
this score, plead that justice should
be shown to these 1900 00o Of heath
en-. Here l ground my plea. Let
the facts speak. Twelve millions of
your race are PROSTATE at your feet
You cannot need no deIiDeation of their
moral character. 1t is enough TO know
they are your brethren, bGtare HEATH
EN,--that they are idolaterS and in ig-
norance OF their Maker and Redeem
er that you CAN, if you WILL, send
them she gospel. Their untold mise.
rics supplicate you to open your hands,
and give them that salvation which
yoar Redeemer and your Judge has en-
trusted you for them and SO long ago
charged you to giue them. You see
also what are the facilities for e1ow Civ.
ing them that salvation which you have
so long held in trust for them, bu. so
long ,Uithheld from them. What will
you do? Will you spurn them from your
feet; and command them TO let you
alone, and wait as they are, till the
judgment day? Is this the beauty OF
the Lord upon his holy zionf Where
are the hundreds of students in theoi0
gy? Where are the tens of hundreds
of blooming, pious, well educated
youth, the protested followers of the
Lamb? Is there none among you who
have love, sympathy, a compass.
sion, for all These your long neglected,
your dying, your perishing fellow men?
o remember, there is dead love, a |
dead sympathy, a dead compassion, as
well as dead faith; being without |
works. o. was no! dead love, or /,
sympathy, or compassion, which |
brought your Redeemer to the cross. |
That was not idle breath which he ut
tered, "Goye into all the world and
preach the gospel TO every creature"
nor yet that iDterceding appeal To The |
Father, "As thou hast sent me into the |
world, even so have also sent them |
into the world" o contemplate on the |
cross, your bleeding Saviour, tasting |
death for every man, and the survey |
the speritual mseries and prospects of |
these millions OF heather souls dying
IN ignorance of that only name by
which it is possible for them TO be sa.
we'd; and then lay upoa your hearts |
Your Redeemer.s farewell charge, and |
when you have faithfully done this, |
Judge Of your love and regard of Jesus, |
and OF your compassion for immortal |
souls, by your t0orks.
But ask again, must these eminent
facilities for your djhusing amsng |!
these millions the knowledge of saliva |
ton, still remain neglected at such a |
fearful rate? II our Board cannot |
send Us help, is there no other Society |
in America that will send US help? Or
must we in future turn our hopes TO
England only? Before missionaries |
can leave America--come here, and
acquire the language SO as TO be well a.
bic to prepare Christian books, and to |
preach, nearly three years must elapse.
But should God send death among
Us for the next fifteen months, as he
has in the past fifteen, the Board would
not, at the expiration of those months,
have asingle missionary on the ground. !
In such case must the chapel and |
printing Office be shut up, more than
thirty schools dissolved, and our other
operations terminated? Or into whose
hands shall all tins property and es
tabiishment be transferred Do not |
these peculiar circumstances call for
peculiar Efforts
will endeavour, as God shall ena |
bic me, so to labour here on the spot, |
that the blood of these souls shall not |
be found in my skirts; and while / |