The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-10

Missionaries sent out by the Board.
DR. DE WITT then addressed the meeting instead
OF DR.. Wyckotf of Albany, who had been invited 10
address the meeting, but did not attend His re-
marks had reference to the necessity of action, &c
among the Christian churches He was followed
by the
who, abiding to the many trials, NC, which await
the missionary in the field of his labors, said that
the missionary receives call from Christ to go and
preach the gospel and he goes forth nothing doubtng
with perlls by land and perils by before him. and
though the heather harden his heart and perish re-
fnsing the tender Of salvation, he knows that he has
discharged his duty and will receive his reward
| Immediate success is not the expectation OF the
missionary he is content to labor In the hope Of
ultimately seeing his exerons blessed to the saliva
ton of the ,perishing heathcn A missionary who
has labored for thirty years among the destitute OF
foreign countries, has said that he considered HIM
self amply repaid if he had only hearing at first
II the missionary leaves his home, his friends his
early associations and all that Is near and dear to
HIM, to labor In the residential cline OF lndlato
work himself OUT he surely has Alright to expect that
you will sustain him with your prayers and property
that In the morning you will SOW, your, seed and
IN the evening you will not withhold your hand At At
God; now they pay for Christian teaching, and
many of them are training their children in the way
they should go, and when they are old they will
not depart from it. Is not this success :! The
| Brahmin priests WELD an iron sceptre over the
people. In one district containing population OF
one million, there are 5000 Brahmins, 500 attend
ant Brahmlns, and 1000 bayadercs engaged in their
! religious ceremonies. The amount expended by
Christians for secular purposess altogether too dis
! proporoned to the amount given to promote the
cause of Christianity. That is not the case with the
Hindoo they give largely Of their effects to advance
the cause of their god. 1t is common occurrence
TO see 600 spent IN celebrating an ordinary festi-
val; and it is said that one million of dollars was
expended in the erection of lIindoo temple. One
man In Hlndostan gave one million and half OF
dollars to spread Brahmanism. have myself
between thirty and forty carloads of money pass
through the street on Its way to support heathenism
In short, when look at the small number in the
field the cold support given them-the want of
spirit among Christians, and the nature of the OBJ
| staces with which we have to contend, | almost
wonder how we have effected so much; After some
further remarks, Mr.. Hutchng's called upon the
Church to arise and take possession Of the land in
the name OF their King-to give Literally, as. God
may have prospered theni-and idolatry would be
abolished, and Gods name goriiied among men.
After the singing OF the following hymn Ill which
the whole audience joined
Behold tho mountain of the Lord
In latter days shall rise;
Shall tow'r above the meaner hills,
And draw the woncring eyes.
TO this the joyful nations round
And distant tribes shall flow
"Ascend the hill Of God" they cry
And to his temple go.
The beams that shine on lions hill
Shall Tighten every land
The King that reigns in Zion's tow'rs
Shall all the world command.
Come them o come from every land
To worship at his shrne
And walking i'll the light Of God,
In holy beauty shine.
Rev. ]. Topp, of Psfeld Mass, addressed the meet
Ag, and offered resolution the subject of the rec
procang influence that Foreign and Home, Missions had
| on one another. He was, he said the audience
would be sorry to him at this time when they knew
not able to address them IN consequence Of his being in
weak state. Here Dr. Beecher and said he pre-.
the first he knew of it. but he presumed it was all right
MIR. Todd continued by saying that he hoped the time
might when he should be too old to oicate if with
that time his absence should be regretted his
BILE friends and his place honorcd his The
compliment of calling on him paid to Massachusetts,
and not to him. The State had to be proud for
various things and he hoped that they would he nercas
ed The position Of the gentleman at home peculiar
to the region where he dwet The audience were doubt
less that Berkshire contained the highest land
Massachusetts, and the iron horse had to climb 1900 feet
before reaching the altitude from whence they imagined
they could great way, and they could the beau
ful mountains and valleys and the pure streams and in
hale the fresh air Sometimes was interesting to trace
out the spot where individuals born, and mark the
peculares of their early days. and old Berkshire has
three children whom she loves much heart love-
Oldest child born there's and before any other
organized in the land and there 1t still exists and even
was the oldest Bible soclsty in the land il
was born there and there Il still exists, and it
Snds IT'S oTis bs, e Of all
~. J. Mills consecrated himself beside the Hoosack
river and hv he movement gave rise to the Berkshire
association of Ministers, which in turn gave rise to
general association of ministers and to this Board,
(and he may be excused. perhaps down from
his hcghts feeling that God has especially honored
them-hey dwell alone amidst their hs and waters but
they embems Of the water Of life We claim not to
be thankcd to God be all the thanks are honored
enough in laboring for him. He not surprised that
spirit OF love and honor for Missionary enterprise should
be developed in Massachusetts that State there were.
he going to say thousands but there of
pray mothers and pious fathers who have consccra
ted their and also their daughters to the work of
preaching Christ to the heathen Ccylon Bombay Siam,
Africa, the prares and logcabins Of far West
bore testimony to the work OF sons reared with prayers
scs who have had their beloved slain in the
else of their calling slaughtered by disgusting cannba;
and yet those mothers have daily prayed for the
of God to be extended TO the benghted heather
In his congregation he had mothers who had
in various parts OF the world and in western praiic,
and daughters also and looking abroad to China and India
to the many benghted souls her wandering the ways
odarllness though they may allowed to feel thatomc
and Foreign Missions were the same love- Still we
must consecratc all have to Foreign Missions
Drs Bcecher and breth from the West gave account
of young giant its cradle and one which promises to
increase in strength every year They said they wanted
the New England Primer and School Instructors that the
Romish faith is there and that its threatcnngs will
be heard in tones OF thunder not to be mistaken These
point out that we must sustain Home Missions aud while
VIC love both home and foreign, wish We had
one hundred fold assistance to bestow on
them. The Home Missions anxious to main.
tain for three reasons our kindred have gone west and
part and we want the Home Missionary to preach Christ
to them Secondly, wish through the fundamentally
OF the Gospel OF Christ, which can it, to extend
salvation to the country. Thirdly, want the whole
country and the strength OF the nation to engage
work Of salvation AMI must have it to enable to
perform task which cannot do, unless the whole
country is baptized in Christ stranger voice yestcr-
day said. that they were not Saxons We claim to be
Saxons and there great destiny marked out for
time when Caucasus contained the Saxon race
and when they down and Numbered the gates OF
Rome, the Roman Senate looked in their maps for the
region whence these invaders, but could not find
IT, STILL insignificant as they thought them, they hurled
the proud Romans from their place of power and empire
and proceeded in their march Of tyranny and rapine
| umphanty. Their gods idols, Thor and Wooden