Thoughts on Missions

In early days, ministers of the greatest influence were called to the work of missions. To prove this assertion, let us read the first verse of the 13th chapter of the Acts of t...

On account of heavy domestic afflictions, and the failure of my own health, I was induced, a few years since, to visit the United States. Full well I remember my feelings when r...

During all the years that I have been allowed to labor for the heathen, my mind has been led to contemplate, constantly and intensely, the obligations of Christian nations towar...

Common trials need not be named: we allude only to a few of those that are most severe. Take then first, the trial of leaving friends. The Saviour says, "He that loveth father o...

In Acts, 8:4, it is said, _Therefore they that were scattered abroad, went everywhere preaching the word_. And from the previous verses it seems that these persons, who were sca...

The Founder of the church was a missionary. The church is a _missionary band_, professedly aiming to carry out the design of its Founder, in the wide field of the WORLD. The com...

Let us suppose that all kindreds and people of the earth are assembled, and that the inhabitants of Africa, Asia, the Isles of the Pacific and the wilds of America, are called u...

The apostles, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, uniformly enforce their exhortations by tender appeals to the example, sufferings, and death of their ascended Lord. Is humi...

DEAR BRETHREN IN CHRIST:--Few periods of our lives can be called to mind with so much ease and distinctness, as the years which we spent together in theological studies. The eve...