The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-02-02

is Warned,-to be holden on TUESDAY, the
9Th inst. at the Presbyterian Church. The
object of the meeting is to consult upon the
propriety of voting call to the Rev. G. Howe
of Andover, Mass. to settle as pastor of the
Society. A general attendance of members
is expected.
The Annual Meeting Of the LITcHFIELD
COUNTY FoREIGN Mission SOCIETY will be
holden in this town Oh Wednesday the 14th
instant. In our paper of Dec. &c, 1926, we
published a circular address to the friends Of
Missions in this county, which we doubt not
will have the desired effect of discriminating them
to greater efforts in favour Of the glorious
cause in which the society is engaged. 1t is
easyt to convince the understanding of candid
men, in favour of good cause but it is more
difficult to wakcn spirit of liberaIity in its
favour. Most people seem to feel as though
they had performed their whole duty if they
support the gospel in their own parish, and
accompany their good wishes with few cents
in assisting to send the news of salvation to
those who are sitting in darkness and ignor-
ance. We know not how general the senti-
ment is among our readers that the cause of
Missions is the cause of God; but this we do
know,-for in the nature of the case it cannot
be otherwise,-that every ardent friend fthe
gospel, is friend to missions. The records
of our Society for the fourteen years of its ex-
istence, proves that there are mutitudes in
Ltchfeld coenty who desire the spiritual wei
fare of the heather; and the sum annually
vested by them in the heavenlike object Of
outstanding the heather, will compare well
with what has been given in other similar dis
tricts of our country. But what has been Civ
en- compared with what might have been Civ
en- what has been given compared with
what ought to have been given what has
been given compared with what will be given
when the spirit of primitive Christianity shall
visit and dwell in this section Of country
S1354,51 only was given last year,in this great
county, to a cause in which all heaven feels in
tcrested-to a cause calculated to raise earth
w W liiic more t'U city ITttNS ItNi
sum was expended for that which makes earth
like the suburbs of he'll VIC might double
the sum,-and then be within ds,-which
has been spent the last year in this county
for ardent spirits and for luXuries destructive
to health and happiness. And is it So that
money is considered too valuable to be part
ed with only by those who profess to have
consecrated themselves and all they possess
to the service of the Lord Can the Christian,
who reflects on the many sums he has, here
tofore, expended upon "triAes light as air."
content himself with putting annually into the
mission treasury solitary dollar, and posi-
bly, a less sum, while by the blessing of heav-
en-, he is surrounded not only with the conven-
fences, but even with the luxuries of life
Does he, when giving so small a sum believe
that the property he bestows in charities is
the only portion of his estate which shall re-
main unhurt by the general confagration-
that charities bestowed in the name of de-
ciple," will be the only part of his possessions
which shall shine bright and untarnished when
the "heavens and. the earth shall be no more?"
Does he believe that by faithfully consecra-
ting himself as the steward of the Lord, he
will want neither here nor hereafter? The
Gospel of Jesus Christ is every thing, or it is
nothing 1T is infinitely above all praise, or
it is beneath contempt and shall those who
believe it TO be the former, and who trust
their all for time and eternity upon its promi-
ses, act as though they doubted the validity of
those numerous declarations. which say " give
! and it shall he given to you again." Sc.
Bring We all the tythes into the storehouse,
\ and prove me now herewith. saith the Lord,
if will not open the windows of heaven and
pour you out blessing that there shall not be
room to receive it."-Can such like promises
fail If so, then may the hopes of the right
eous man fail, and he be yet subject to all the
terrors of that curse which is denounced a
against the dying transgressor. Ifreligion be
every thing, we who enjoy its meridian light,
with every facility for imparting it to others,