Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-03-03

incipient operations in all undertakings are
the most slow aud embarrassed; and afford
no correct standard for future results?--
Suppose your mode Of calculation had been
piled to the early movements of our il
luslrious revolution, and there was set of
politicians much of your description, they
could tell OF the iength of time and the
amount OF furts which oGr liberty and in
dependence would cost us, and advise -;
but when the bal Of the evolution had once
acquired il, proper impetus, how soon did
Brother jonathan tell them different sto-
ry and give them more convincing demon
stration!
Again, you apply your magic powers of
arithmetic to the case of the wretched
struggling Greeks; year after ear passes
away, campaign after campaign proves
abortive; armies and funds, To all appear
ance are, wasted in their truItless contests
to regain their freedom IL we were to
Judge Of their coming pros ects rom their
past success, your thousands and millions
woula hardly be extrayag mt with respect
to the time and pice OF their emancipation
But the friends of this injured nation are
influenced by no such considerations; they
are led along b. faith and affection, hope
aud 'xpectatiOn, 10 continue to them their
kind and generous donations, having full
confidence o.! their ultimate success
So the friends oi missions, noi"Ihstand-
ing all the appalling prospects which you
complain have Affected Or endangered your
br ms, have thu fullest assui ance o. the
linal and complete success OF the mission
ary enterprise They anticipate tho pc
Rod With the m st delight vi sensations,
when Ethiopia shall stretch out her hand
unto God, when the wilderness shall BIOS
som like the rose; "when the habitatlons
of cruelty shall become the temples OF the
living God; when the roaming savages Of
the desert shall become the sober followers
of the Lamb; when the banner of the cross
shall wave OIL the splre O St. sophia, and
the temple Of Juggernautn' or to use the
poetic description of Cowper, as quoted by
Mr. Wayland
when the dwellers in the wales and on the rocks
Shout to each other, a.
Til nation after nation taught the strain,
Earth rolls the rarturous hosa iD@a round F"
4 If we take the minimum t your COM
putation of the heashen who are truly con-
verted, and remain firm in the faith, viz.
twenty-five annually, which, by the way,
would exceed the actual result among the
Moravians for many years after they began
| their missionary efforts, | contend even
| that small am unl would furnish sufficient
Undue cements for all the missionary Cost and
labour Of the present day; and | am con-
tdent of being seconded IN this statement
by all the friends of missions throughout
the world
The painful task Of your cutting retO,t
own resources to add to his stock ol inior-
nation, might al have been spared had you
reflected that P,oiestaa Missions only, and
those Of more recent date, are had in
view, in all my discussions Of this subject,
all OF which, if we except the Molayians,
have originated within the last thirty ears
Besides your history OF father Hennipen,
sc SC. of the correctness of which ! have
no manner of doubt, the Catholics eXullng-
ly declare ',at ali the nations which have
been converted nom inEdoity to christian
ity, rom the aposIoIIc age to the present.
time, have been brought TO the light Of
| faith, by men either sent from RoIue for
that purpose, or IN communi, N with it.
They begin with the great conversions la
Africa, GauI, and Brian, in The second
century; and 80 travel on with long ac-
count, which, to spare YOUR columns, 1 will
now omit, through all succeeding centuries,
detailing tn vast amour: Of their misslona-
ry labours, and bring up with Francis
Xavier IN the 10Th century, who is said to
have brought many hundreds ofthousands TO
the Roman Catholic ianh III different parts
of India and japan, with Murtnus, a
preacher oi the Franciscan order, who,
with twelve companions, in the course oil
seven years, in the empire OF Mexico, bap-
,ised upwards Of million, and an other
monk OF the Dominican order, who is said
TO have converted an innumerable multi
tude Of hatbarians, in the southern confi-
nent of America IN the same century. They
also inform us in the same narr alton, of
great numbers who were brought to the
Roman Catholic faith in the 18th century
by their Jealous missionaries, in China, and
in the Kingdoms OF Tonquln, of Cochin
China, of Madure, of Thibet, and the Ma.
rian Islands, "a well AS in New Mexico,
Canada, California, and several other parts
Of the intidel world
This is but n scanty epitome Of the grand
results of that vast missionary establish
ment, at Rome. The College de propaganda
fde, which was founded by Pope Gregory
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