The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-01
l)iseejiapeoqs.
Missionary to Kansas.

E1lSsiCndfy 10 Kansas.
We give below, at the request of s.
friend, the Charge to Rev. E. MUTE now
81 this city. by the American Unitarian
Association. in Chicopee, Massachusetts,,
on the eve of his leaving New England
for Kansas in April last It is pleas
ant document, and contrasts forcibly with
the .blood and thunder times in which
We live =
Ny DEAR BROTHER The part in
these services which fails to me, requires
course of remark somewhat different
from that usually followed in an ordina-
ton charge 1t is not in the name of an
ecclesiastical council that address You.
The American Unitarian Association in
whose service you DOW enter, have re-
gaested nae to explain to you the princi-
pies upon which your mission is estab-
lished, and the labors which will call for
your faith and courage; and to state
ment of these, in a few and simple words,
the duty of this service will be confined.
With the enlarged growth and increas-
ed means of the body of Christians to
which we belong, there have come de-
sires Of wider and more earnest useful
ness, and deeper sense of responsible
ness under the trusts which have been
confded TO our hands. We see that We
must look outside of our home, and be-
yond the circumference of our inherited
domain. As individuals, and as socie-
ties of men, we live under this law. that
we can get at the full good there is in our
blessings only as We generously strive To
share them With others. You have seen
this law in your observations of life dur
ing your ministry You have marked
the entirely opposite course of two par
ishioners. One has lived for himself
alone; but you have seen that though he
had gathered up ever SO much, somehow
or other he could not break the shell and
get at the meat of his blessings. while
another has extracted thousand fold
more satisfaction from far inferior BOT
because his spirit has been generous and
difu$iye. You remember that this same
law of life was noticed three thousand
years ago, and was expressed in the prov
erb.cf the wise Prcacher-"t there is that
withholdeth, and vet tendeth to poverty,
there is that scattereth and yet increas-
eth.' So deeply has God stamped the
nature of his own diffusiye beneyolencC
into the very substance of all our bless
ings.
Hearty and earnest action for the pro.
motion of Christian truth will furnish an
illustration of this law. Preach the gos-
pei to every creature, and new sense Of
its preeiousness and power shall enter
your soul. Give and it shall be.given
unto you. For this cause lose yGur life
and you shall find it. Never has the
Christian faith been so loved, and been
so deeply felt to be glory and a crown,
as In ages ofpersecution and martyrdom
and those denominations have entered
most deeply into the spirit of the gospel
who have done the most to impart this
unspeakable gift to others. Indeed, how
can Ie have the spirit of Him who en-
dured the cross that we might be saved,
#, content with our comfortable lot, We
fold our arms and care not whether 9th.
ers hear of the great salvation or not.
1t Is well known TO you, my brother,
that feelings like these have for some
time been moving in many hearts among
us. And when, few weeks ago, two
missionaries went forth from the Room.
OF the Association, to stand on opposite
sides of the globe, enc to labor for the
conversion of the idolatrons people of In
dia, the other to try to gather into the
fold of the Redeemer the neglected chill
dren of our far western forests, there
were many who reioiced that We had un-
dertaEen these missions of Christian faith,
and who prayed that we might 60 on till
we had encompassed the globe by our
works of Christian love.
With such feelings as these animating
the breasts of our friends, it was hot
strange that desire should spring up to
send forth missionary to. that new Ter
ritory which is rapidly being settled,
where Christian Influences now set at
work may be expected to have an endur-
ing and eyer-widening circle OF power
Ii is now nearly year since. inquiries
looking to this result were officially insti-
;uted by the Association. Tie attention
or committees had been directed to three
or four persons. with whom, however
for various causes. engagements eouio
net be made. At length eur Thoughts
were centered upon you; and the sam'
Providence which without presumptio.
we may believe guided ourchoice, moveC
your heart to yield to it We thank th'
religious society, worshipping in thi
house, which, though with. sorrow ye
with naagnaninaity. gives up useful, be
loved, and devoted pastor for this service
we honor the enterprise, courage, and
self-sacrifice which resigas united anC
cherished parish here to enter upon al
untried and laborious service in that re
mote field. And now you will permi
me to state, with great plainness and sim
plicity. and speaking not from oficia
dietation, but only what know IS already
in your heart, what you go to that fiels
for.
Ny brother, you go to carry there tn
Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. No
the dogmas of a party, not the eontro
versies of scot, not the articles Of a hu
manly devised creed, not the specula
tons of philosophy, not the iniaitions o
judgments Of Jour mind; but the Cos
pei, in the comprehensive and authorize
i've sense Of that word You go TO car
ry there, in your preaching, conyersa
ton, and life, a portion of that new spir
itual force which came into the world b,
the advent of the Son of God. You g
TO make men feel that to our benighte
and guilty race Messenger has com
from the bosom Of the Father. bringini