The Joint Work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
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! ! Men said a single ship that was wrecked last year, with provi- sions of war on board, cost the country twice as much as both these Societies gather in a year for souls, precious souls : yet for that ship and her lading that was lost the country has ordered twenty, fifty times as much to be provided straightway. But these two Societies have no such increase, scarce any increase, rather a decrease. Consider what they have in hand ! It is a sad cry which comes from the idol temples of those na...tions which still lie in darkness and death's awful shadow : and it is a blessed thinof when God strenofthens the arm of a poor missionary to cause one of those idols to be abolished, and the bloody rites and filthy abomina- tions of that worship to cease. And the records of the Church IMissionary Society vn\\ tell you that not in one, but in a hundred instances, it has been so done. But the case of our convict settlers is to my mind more piteous and touching than even this. To think that, when we had purged the land of them for our own peace and safety's sake, and sent them, either for a long term of years or for life, to a distant shore, we at one time wholly neglected their spiritual condition, till there came a voice from over the sea to tell us that in one of our penal settle- ments a state of moral debasement had grown up, which came up to St.
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