Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-05

senulnS MISSIONARIES TO Kansas and urgently
appealed for friends to aid in this effort He
said that there are already, missionaries in
Kansas, both anti-slavery and pro-slavery.
The Friends and Baptists have missionaries
there, and so have the Roman Catholics and
the Methodist Church South. Five Baptist
missionaries have recently gone to that terrific
ry. He said he was happy to learn that Mr.
James, Church, in Worcester, had recently
undertaken to sustain missionary there, who
is on his way, to be under the direction of
the American Home Missionary Society,
and he hoped that the example of sustaining
missionaries there would be generally follow
ed by the churches. lie alluded to the address
of Eli Thayer Esq, at New York in behalf of
the Massachusetts Emigration Aid Society,
and of the Importance of laying broad and
righteous foundation in Kansas, which was,
geographically, the centre of the United States
and might, ere long, be the centre as it re-
garded population, and moral and political in
fuence.
Mr.. J. concluded by portraying the proba-
rito1ies and the region beyond, and the mag
nifcent prospect before the nation if educa-
ton, freedom, and christianity prevail there.
He also drew picture of the desolation and
ruin, for time and eternity, of the people who
would inhabit that vast area if ignorance, in
temperance, irreligion and slavery are to blast
the hopes Of the virtuous and good. He ex-
horted those who are blessed with influence
and wealth to consecrate these forces to the
cause Of Christ, and to do all in their power
to lay broad foundation for true national
glory in the territory yet to be peopled in the
far West. lie invited all to unite in spread
ing salvation over the world, looking to the
Holy Spirit for power, and to rely, prayerful-
ly, upon the promises of God. He also ex-
pressed his thankfulness for the opportunity
afforded by the ministers and churches Of this
city to present the claims of the American
Missionary Association and cause of ministers
generally, in this city, commencing his hear
ers while laboring in the great cause of Free
dom and Salvation to the Great Head of the
Church.
Rev. Mr.. James made brief and impress
sive address, in which he expressed his APP
probation of what had been said by the speak
ers. He believed the time had come when
ministers Of the Gospel would take decided
ground on the great question of American
Slavery. "They have been forced to do it,
said he, ''but 1 will not say forced, they will
do it from principle, because the Bible author
ICES and enjoins ii, because the veal or woe of
the country depends, in a great measure, upon
the course they pursue. In early times, the
names and efforts OF Hopkins and the young
er Edwards were tower of strength. They,
and the clergy of their day, stood up manfully
for the rights of man, and i'll opposition to
slavery. Their labors were decided and infu-
entail. So must ministers of the present day
act. He believed they would thus act, and be
either for or against Slavery. There can be
no neutrality on the subject He wished for
none.
AT the conclusion of this spirited address,
Mr.. James led in prayer, commencing the
American Missionary Society and its officers
who had addressed the meeting, to the guild
ance and blessing of the Great Head of the
Church.
The Doxology was then sung; the Bene-
diction pronounced; and the large congrega-
ton separated,apparen highly gratiied with
the services of the evening.
We learn that the next Annual Meeting of
the Association is to be held, on the 9th and
2Sth inst, at Meriden, Conn.