4 mankind, is increasing in its means and its efforts. Let it not be our reproach, that the people of the United States, more favored by Providence through the whole course of their history than any other people, should linger, and hesitate, in this great work of benevolence. We congratulate the Christian public on the general excitement, in reference to the great duty of supplying Christian teachers for the millions of our countrymen, who are now destitute. The number of persons who feel this excitement, is daily increasing; and may it still increase, till every man, who enjoys the ordinances of the Gospel, shall be roused to vigorous action, and shall refuse to intermit his exertions so long as they shall be needed; so long as a single log-house can be found without a Bible, or a single neighborhood without a spiritual guide. When we look over the pages of those religious magazines, which are edited and patronized by some of the best men in Great Britain and in the world; and when we clearly discern, that the objects which lie nearest their hearts, and which they strenuously labor to accomplish, are the same with those to which our columns have been principally devoted, it is a perpetual source of gratification and of encouragement. encouragement. However comparatively feeble our efforts may have been, it is a pleasure of which we can never be deprived, if our hearts have not deceiv ed us, that we have spontaneously and sincerely endeavored to promote the best of causes, and have been cordially united in purpose, and in feeling, with many of the most intelligent, the wisest, and the most pious men, on both sides of the Atlantic. With these remarks we commend the volume, which is now closed, to the candor of the public. While we regret its imperfections, we earnestly desire that it may be succeeded by other volumes more worthy of the times in which we live, and more efficacious in promoting the permanent welfare of mankind. Boston, Dec. 2, 1815. Messrs. Nott, and Hall, 162 Keith, Rev. Isaac Stockton, D. D. 297 Hampshire, annual meet- London,twentieth annual the same, twenty-first an- Narrative of the state of religion Lascars, efforts to instruct the, 26,369 Naudi, Dr. letter from, journal of, 257,281 New-England Tract Society, first Newfoundland, mission at, 123,207 124,163 375 27 286 294 New Hampshire, missions in, by New Works, New York, missions in, by Massa- Le Resouvenir, mission at, Legacy, Mrs. Norris's, 28 Letter from the Rev. Mr. Burder to the Rev. Dr. Worcester, 57 to a father, 205 from Mr. Harington, 215 from a lady to her brother, 274 the Rev. Samuel Newell, 207 Sir Gore Ousely, 167 London Missionary Society, twenti- eth annual report of the, 23 twenty-first annual report of 285 Lovell, Dea. Asa, memoir of, 259 Notice to friends of the missionaries, 136 27,372 Massachusetts Society for promoting Nott, Rev. Samuel, letters from, 123 162 Christian Knowledge, 284,372 missionaries employed by,285 Obituary, 32,62,94,222,259,357,383 |