New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-05

hand TO satisfy the wan,s of every living thing. He
addressed TO every human being the charg which
the apostle made 70 the human race, What hast Il
that thou hast not rcceivcd'-for all dressings and
erjOyments ore obtained from him, the fountain Of
light and JOY gwen TO all-but wLo would Claim that
they could give to him The incarnation and
iedcoming rniseCn of Jesus Christ furnished
still more glorious Illustration OF the prin-
cipe that il was more blessed 10 give than to
receive, f il sacrifice on hs part uncompeled
uncomIeI sated, ard unappreciated by the world He
len III aven to give men pardon for their sins aud eter
nal life not that He needed for hrnsef happiness
but that man needed it. not to be miniseTed unto but
TO minister. His death and incarnation were needed
to ransom ruined race, and he addressed himself 10
tbs great work gyu his back to the smtcr. Christ
in his incarnation, in biz metatoria work. and in the
history Of His church. has furnished US q most Won
der1u and Striking Illustration Of the text that il s
" mere blessed to give than to receive IL the
Christian world have elevated views and extended
horizon, il must be By losing sight Of the world
and t0kng hold Of infnity and God-bead If be look
elsewhere, his horizon would become at once res
trced anO circumscrbed one, and he would find the ali
growing noisome and pestlential. Looking inward
upon biz own heart and upon the world around him.
how narrow and confined was bis view but looking
Upward, what unsurpassable wisdom and goodness
met his view. Looking from the creature TO the Crea
tor man learned from God the JOY OF giving and dong
good to all men, and giving to the world the bright
ness reflected from the throne of the Redeemer hen
he saw what in the old East and in the new found
West Christian missions have attempted TO achieve,
and then survey the vast mass OF Pagan wretched
ness and see how scanty the contributions were III ad
Of this vast enterprise, his soul was often stirred 10
sadness anG despair The world sindctment wnat didh
say? 1t said at missionaries were living 10 pOmp among
heather paupers; that they were incompetent men
and unfit for pastoral duties that they made their island
friends drudges and beasts Of burden 1t said that
they morose and gloomy, and that they were in
the habit of sending home exaggerated accounts of
their success. IL said that they were busy attending
to agricultural and mechanical labOrs instead OF evan
geziDg their fOcks; and said, also, that they were
"a I,I.o - tkn, Oh
neglectDg vice Mt home, to drain the purse Of sympa
thy for foreign barJarians upon the opposite side OF
the globe. II said that they were squanderng talent
ard untold treasure upon distant and romantic schemes
that could not succeed and which, if successful would
not rebound in good to the human race These wer
some Of the motley counts of the indictment He
would not undertake to reconcile the jangling
Of these statements with each other. Was it true
that the labOrers were all needed at home7
Shall the graves of an Elliott, Martin and
hOssOf other missionaries who had served i'll foreign
lands be opened and they be summoned to reply to
this impeachment Should Paul be asked to revise
his epises and blot out the record of his mission
airy toll? The field of missionary effort has deeper
roots than oil this, and higher parentage than
the Apostle could give. The words pronounced by
Christ himself Just before the Ascension furnished the
charter of the missionary work. The Gospel sent
abroad or sustained at home was worth more than It
cost to their homes chips, warehouses law courts and
senate chambers. Was it of no account that the mis-
sonary should give bis days to exkausting toll and
consuming care that he should be wounded in
his feelings by the frivolous and rude; that he
should folego competency, worldly distinction and
honor? The Presidential chairs of their own
country had been occupied more. than once
by men inferior in intellect, attainments and
moral worth to Timothy Dwight, Archibald Alexander
John M. Mason, Jonathan Edmonds; and when these
Christian teachers and philosophers foreswore for their
work of benefting soul the pathway Of worldly pro-
motion, did they give nothing When the Chistrian
missionary renounced his home, friends, country, cvi
zation political freedom and general intelligence for
life among Pagan denominations, did he give nothing
There had been some defects and mistakes made, no
doubt, among the class Of missionaries in their own
time in former times but the aborers in the mass
had been true to their missionary work and the cause
of worldly science too The best scholars had testified
tother Invaluable contributions to geographical ethno-
logical and pathological discovery and to the true in,
teiests of educationl How will the world answer and
how will his enemies face him when the Redeemer
shat appear in turn with his indictment for neglect of
duty How will they reply when he shall impeach
them for neglectng his mission to their hearts and
conscences when he shall npeach them for neglect of
duty to their brethren and the neglect of the duty en-
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