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THOUGHTS ON MISSIONS.
BY THE LATE
REV. SHELDON DIBBLE,
MISSIONARY IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.—Mark 16:15.
Go—teach all nations.—Matt. 28:19.
Prove all things—hold fast that which is good.—1 Thes. 5:21.
PUBLISHED BY THE
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW-YORK.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | ||
|---|---|---|
| THE TRUE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS. | ||
| Page. | ||
| Lowliness and condescension, like our Saviour's, essential to missionary character, | 18 | |
| The true Missionary is ready, like Christ, to endure suffering for the good of others, | 21 | |
| The true Missionary, like his Master, waits not to be urged and entreated, | 24 | |
| The true Missionary, like the Saviour, feels no less compassion and love to the heathen on account of their ingratitude and enmity towards him, | 26 | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP. | ||
| All we have belongs to God, | 32 | |
| To occupy all our powers for God, we must equal the engagedness and enterprise of worldly men, | 34 | |
| How much faithful stewards may consume on themselves and children, | 40 | |
| The best use of a large capital, | 46 | |
| Money not the main thing needed, | 50 | |
| The luxury and honor of being God's stewards, | 56 | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
| GUILT OF NEGLECTING THE HEATHEN. | ||
| Prospects of the heathen for eternity, | 64 | |
| Peculiar advantages of the American churches to carry abroad the Gospel of Christ, | 69 | |
| Do we pray for the heathen as much as we ought? | 73 | |
| Do we give as much as we ought to evangelize the heathen? | 75 | |
| Do we go and instruct the heathen as we ought? | 81 | |
| Why are the heathen lost? | 85 | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| THE SAVIOUR'S LAST COMMAND. | ||
| Excuses of Christians for not doing more to evangelize the heathen, | 102 | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| LAYMEN CALLED TO THE FIELD OF MISSIONS. | ||
| Labors of the first disciples, dispersed from Jerusalem by persecution, | 111 | |
| To elevate all nations requires a great variety of laborers, | 116 | |
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