Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-01-13

ohnrcho. in an adjacent county (Sbeby) they be-
came auite impatient with my indoience' hss",'"S
me n | would only stir up the people to Miss'o"s
and Bible Socety matters, ! should hnd grea'
change IN money affairs ia favor oi the rrsdch
urgins ty questions like this-Do you not kno"
when The springs are once opened they VIII always
run. Only said they. get the people III 'ne n"o,. "
giving their money for any religious use' anu '"ey
will continue ~ appropriate Tor all sac'e' P"'
Reipv in my own house, and these respec'"oie |
voung men being stcnngers, as also not oi my own |
society common modesty forbade my "aA'ns 's
tree as | should have done AT another place anu
time But surely it will he thought mol uncharna-
hle 10 say that lid begin strongly I" suspect tne
n1rity Of their motives. Ii may he well rememoe
red that these were educated IN 'he sa"e
.chool-sent on a mission iIon the same ooaio 'nal
I,,I.on and Rice were, though 10 different paris OF
he world Their being baptized at Calcutta IS no
evidence Of their religious or political prho'p'es
being changed, only IN the use oi much water
!, would not be worth one. while to stop to com
ment on the foregoing extr"ct-h speaks wen
enough, itself; and tius we leave IT, i"r 'he eo'-
alteration of our worthy correspondent anu Vehe-
rated friend.
Returning from this episode. to the " main qoes-
ton" we shall proceed to no. ce some oi Inc less
important paragraphs contained 10 the commuh'ca-
ton Of our espolient. lie has INDUCED nm
self to say that the friends oi foreign missions
have no apprehen,ions that any injurious ehee''
will follow their con buttons TO ITS their ana anu
that il i. highly probable that they VIII dispose o'
thar proueny in great or small Sums, ms they
deem most expcdicut; and that our exertions to
prevent their doing 50, viii avail us nothing. we
admit the iact--apd whilst "e do so, we cannot loo
sincerely deplorc, that they who make their uona
tio., to the ouuse, DO not in the iuIness oi the'
charity. make tt.n where they will be OF
beAeft to the suiferius children OF n"rt"l'y' WHO
inha blt our own ores, aud w'o, IN language not
TO he ulisuudc,s,oo appeal to ir'sid chn'ty '"r
as. st,pce--and before we close shal present to
them an object worthy of their notice anu where
their surplus mean, Can be used, to the promotion
of one of the uohlest aud most God.lilSe purposes
The gentleman has in the iulness OF his zeal 10
p,esent No,srs CAREY, NAEsnMAN and WARD
,iu the mos, favorable light, attempted TO ho'o
them up as he original founders OF foreign MISSIONS
and 10 grace them with all the merit that can IN
an, event grow out OF those projects, which we
have said, and now repeat, were undoubtedly con-
ceiyed by onorable and vrtuous men. we are
sorry to retort-bu. we must here beg to be X
cused if we tell cur friend, that he has uisplayea
IN. most gross aud uppardonah.e isno, apcc IN mus
attempting that, which, if effected, even by SUD-
tely and er, ,oncous statements, cannot IN the
least tend to the advantage OF the part he wou'u
advocate. For his express Information, we shal
tel hIm, that foreign missions were coh'empa'eu
anJ eommeoceI. mauy centuries before Merrs
CAREY, MAasuM,s and WARD came into exist
ence-if we allow the Crusades to be what they
really were-and that more than two centuries ago
Father HENnIPEN took up his Cross, and lenV'n;
the fertile and deligh.ful wales OF France. anu ne
stately eini.tors n,,xrated to America-and aseend
i.y the St. Lawrence, crossed the great lakes
then e descending the Mississippi, visited the vas
re.."as OF tnat mighty river, sought the conversion
OF the Abor,ginais, and atenpted to induct then
into the paths of Christianity. The Jesui,s, man
years bei,re the birth OF the personases in qnes
ton, also had Missionaries in Paraguay; and IN
Moray,ans had theirs in those regions OF the earth
where Others would GOT hove penetrated. All u,
exeitions OF the Jesut and Moravans terminate
equally as favorable, as have those who have bee
engaged IN the BuIman Mission-and yet nothing
thus far has been done, 10 justify the eXtraord'nu
ry means that have been resorieL 20, to carry thel
into execution.
There are several paragraphs OF the essay und'
ideratiun whirh we have been compeiiei
pas. unuoticed, for we ud that space begins TO IL
MS aud we must be as brief As possible.
Our correspondent has attempted to support wh
he n.uy perhaps call his arsumen's-and II he n
ofer,4 any, they have been Of u nature so sinsai
that they have escaped our KEN by stating On u
authority of the London Missionary Register
kind oi authority that comes in very" question
BILE sha pe"-that the number OF Missionaries IN I
world amount 10 five hundred aud elghty-lout,
cluding, Of course, toseisn aud domeste-and III
the schools unier their care, contain thirty -eis
thousand souls, mostly OF converted heathen.'
The qualification he has been pleased TO make
inserting the word mostly" leaves u altooe'i
in the dark as to the definite number, that hi
been converted under the AUSPICES OF the tore
missiops--and we make a call upon him for ini
nation for persous and papers" We ask hin
,ho " to u.s. that through the agency of foreign q
,,ou., ,ne thousand have been converted, aud II
does mat we will give him credit for the SUN t.
he MA, demand.
IL I,h h.o ot,ttra