The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-12-19

OOmmenCeu an attack upon tne mlSsIohary
cause. In this department the editor does not
display as much ability as when writing pO-
litical essays-he is here very lame, and for
this simple reason he is attacking an inyul-
nerable point.-His principal argument is that
foreign missions should not be supported un-
til the poor and destitute of our own country
are all amply supplied with the good things
of this life, and the means of securing hap
pier life hereafter.-When this shall be the
case, and when there is nothing but the voice
of Joy and gladness heard from one end of
the country to the other, then, and not till
then, will it be just and right to send money
to help Christianize the heather. This is an
old thread bare argument, and would never
be used by any person who valued the pre-
cepts of Christianity as much as he does the
principles of liberty, and the means of tempo
raj enjoyment. 1t is an argument which e.
ven the editor Of the Cadet would not use if
call were made upon the American people
! to assist the struggling Greeks, or to relieve
| the pressing wants of foreigners when in
state of absolute restitution. The same ar
gument would forbid the inhabitants of one
state to afford relief to the necessities of those
of another state, or the inhabitants of one
town making up purse for the destitute Of
J another, and even of one family rigidly refil-
sing relief to poor neighbour, until all its own
members are amply supplied with the conf
forts of life. Such an argument is founded
upon selfshness and the person who uses it
| forgets that all the inhabitants of the earth
| are of one blood, and ought to be brethren
and that the local boundaries of nations should
not estrange the inhabitants from each other,
but that the spirit of benevolence should and
will cross boundaries and seas to administer
( relief to the distressed. Let man love the
( Christian religion as Paul loved it, and he
will not bound his feelings by natioual land
marks-he will seek the prosperity of the ho-
| ly cause in his own land, and he willalso seek
| toextend its blessings to the benighted in for
eign lands. AS the editor of the Cadet has
attempted to fortiry his arguments by intro
ducing anecdotes of certain poor people who
have contributed to the missionary cause, and
who for SO doing "snou!d have been put in
the house Of correction, and he who received
such donations should have been put in the
Stocks" our object in noticing his article is
to give him a few more anecdotes which he
may if he pleases embody in his next essay a
gainst the Missionary cause. The first we
| shall mention is of poor-very poor, icido,c,
who upon a certain time, threw trifle into
charity box; upon which very important
parsonage who stood near, called the atten-
ton of the by ISLANDERS to the generous act, &
declared that she had done more and better
| than all the donors of the day, because she
had given all her living ! Another is of poor
woman who spent two hundred pence worth
! of ointment "a large sum in that day. in a
charitable act, and upon her being reproyed
by certain who thought the poor Of the
land, ought to have received the gift, the
above mentioned important parsonage justii-
ed the act of the giyer. and moreover declar-
ed that it should be told throughout all gene
|
rations for a memorial of her. We believe it
is thus told in an ancient writing, which the
| Cadet editor, and the ''many professors
whom he speaks OF, would do well to hunt up.
We have one more aneedote of more mod
ern date which we will tell, and then drop the
subject for the present. A society was form
ed in one of our country towns few years
since, in which every member was to pay ff-
| ty cents year, to help increase the funds Of
the parent society. Among other annual sub
scribers was poor widot6, who had several
small children to support, and nothing but
the labour of her hands to depend upon. The
treasurer expressed doubts upon the proprie-
| ty of calling upon her for her subscription;
but these doubts were overruled by the unan-
inaous voice of several ladies in the neighbor-
hood, who thought it would be cruel to deny
the poor woman the pleasure of giving to the
good cause. She was called upon; and had
the sum subscribed been six times as large as
| it was, she would have been able to have met
it cheerfully, through the kindness of several
! of her female friends.