Horrid conjunction! America, the land of the free! And that America, the greatest slaveholder, man-seller, man-slayer, in the universe! Monstrous inconsistency! Cruel abomination! Men of Massachusetts! and all Americans who value the honour of a British origin, and who dread to disgrace their Pilgrim parentage, stand forth, and cleanse your hands from the foul fellowship of dealers in human flesh! And, ye Commissioners of the American Board of Missions, awake from your dream! Lay aside your fine distinctions about slavery in the "abstract," or slavery in the concrete! Slavery is slavery, disguise it as you may. Slavery is injustice-is cruelty-is murder! Your duty as members of the family of man, and still more of the family of Christians, is prior, and paramount to your duty as members of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Purify your society, whatever may be the consequences. Reject at once the planter, and his ill-acquired substance! Can the pure eye of Heaven look with satisfaction on the chains of bondage, and the price of blood? In the name of justice, humanity, and religion, we implore you, send not into the field of missions, men clothed and fed with the product of tears, torture, and death!
Academic honours due to mission- aries, 286.
Achilles, Mr. Foster's opinion of, 383.
Addison's character and writings, 354, 355; - his comparison of military and moral greatness, 394. Address to Christians of England on the effect of missions, 67 ;-to voyagers, 68;-to the young men of England, 84.
Address to the American Board, on
slave contribution, 515, 516. Admirals of England compared with Williams, 33.
Advocates of peace, 390.
Aitutaki, effects of the gospel at, 23. Africa, Sir T. F. Buxton's work on the slave trade of, 72;-effect of missions in, 88;-missions alone can rectify the disorders of its con- dition, 371; anticipated state, ib.
Army, British, depravity of, 439 composed of the bad only, 452 ;- feel nothing but corporal punish- ment, 453;-Portuguese, 439;— Spanish, 440;-French, 451. Asia, no hope for, but in missions, 372.
Aunra, wonderful history of, 20.
Bacon, Lord, powers and achieve- ments of, 351–353. Battle-field considered in relation to the world of spirits, 392. Battles, method of counting at Ma- nono, 57.
Battle-ground in the South Seas, 63. Bayle, character of, 353.
Bible, its condemnation of war, 135. Bishop of Chester's view of Wil- liams's "Enterprises," 401. Bolingbroke's genius and ambition, 226.
British teachers, great influence of,
2;-may oppose the spirit of war, and foster that of missions, 3. Brougham, Right Hon. Lord, his character a subject of interest, 114;- - attempts to delineate it, 115;-his position, 116;-in ad- vance of his age, 117;-has much to hope from posterity, 118;-re- flections on his religious charac- ter, 119;-speeches for the mis- sionary Smith, 120; greatness of the occasion, ib. ;-his description of the missionary character, 122;- correction of his Lordship's view,
123;-dedication to Earl Spencer, 124; wrong views of the gospel mission, 125, 126;-account of the gospel mission, 126, 127;- eulogium on the schoolmaster, 130;-was early filled with a sense of the glory of peace and of civil- ization, ib.;-invective against wars, 132;-his "Colonial Policy," 133, 134;- his resemblance to Cicero, 134; anti-scriptural cha- racter of his Lordship's views, 150;-observations on education, 151; erroneous ideas of, 152, 153; -aversion to evangelical doctrine, 154;-
—inaugural oration at Glas- gow, ib.; mistakes concerning the nature of faith, 155;-deistical character of his Lordship's views, 156; errors relative to faith and unbelief, 184, 185; - "Great Truth," ib. ;-his letter to Mr. Williams, 191;-why urged to support missions, 192; great senatorial promoter of education, 197;-defective view of educa- tion, 198; urged to espouse the cause of missions, 201;-will be in good company, 202;-entitled to repose, ib. ;-reminded of the folly of this world's great men, 203;-is pointed to the example of his predecessors, 212;-em- ployments suggested, 213. Burke's opinion of the power of Christianity, 107.
Buteve, extraordinary character of, 40; his dialogue with Williams,
Chalmers, Dr., fine apostrophe by,
Charles XII., death of, 249 ;-his character and wars, 417, 418. Character of the age, the leading, the missionary, 479.
Chatham, Lord, compared with Pe- ricles, 276.
Christ's person, character, and work, 179, 180.
Christians, the first and chief anta- gonists of slavery, 192, 193. Christianity, effects of, on Makea, 64, 65; testimony to, by the So- ciety for civilizing Africa, 71;— alone able to crush slavery, 75;— grand support of civil govern- ment, 76;-reveals the true cha- racter of heathen institutions, ib. ; -not to be promoted by force, 78;
progress in Polynesia arose not from the aid of the civil power, 80;-despotism incompatible with, 88;-how it operates, 106;-grand civilizer of man, 107;-Burke's testimony to, ib. ;-only remedy for the distress of our world, 111; -impotency of legislation and morality,112;-unspeakable bless- ings of, 113;-wonderful effects on mankind during the apostolic age, 333; become enfeebled through the corruption of after ages, ib.
Churches of Great Britain, Ireland,
and America, address to the, 483. Cicero's love of peace, and resem- blance to Brougham, 134;—on ambition, 226;-on philanthropy, 229; his preface to Atticus, 257; -his description of moral great- ness, 270;-his definition of true glory, 272.
Civilization the result of missionary labour, 107;-wonderful instance of, 107, 108; - all friends of, should support missions, 191;— picture of its progress, 335-348; ought to be the prime pursuit of all nations, 399;-question of, mainly a question of missions, 400;-Williams's " Enterprises' demonstrate that the gospel is the only instrument of civilization, 401.
Classic writers compared with the
Enterprises" of Williams, 284; benefits of studying the, 289, 290; utility of, to missionaries, 290;— anti-Christian spirit of the, 291;- views of Dr. Thomson and Mr. Foster relative to, 293;-sug- gestions for averting the evil of the study of, 294-296. Code of Laws framed by the Mis- sionary for the Raiateans and Rarotongans, 79.
Colonization will create new centres
for missionary enterprise, 478. Contemner of missions, an address to the, 51.
Cook, Captain, the death of, 249 ;- compared with Williams, 250. Co-operation, condition of, with slaveholders, 506. Cowper's excessive devotion to Ho- mer, 292.
David's condemnation of war, 135. Death-beds of great men, 204 ;-of Curran, Sheridan, Fox, Erskine, Burke, Johnson, ib. ;-of Sir J. Mackintosh and Sir W. Scott, 206. Debt, frightful progress of the na- tional, 479, 480.
Discord, dreadful picture of, 465. Douglas, James, of Cavers, works and studies of, 90;-his profound views in relation to missions, 91; -his great capabilities of serving the cause of missious, 103;- urged to address the higher classes, 104.
East, Rev. T., life of, signalized by two events, 215. Edinburgh Review, great services of the, to the cause of Peace, 376;— a fine passage from the, on Peace, 379;-importance of its embrac- ing the cause of missions, 402;— its early hostility and injury to missions, ib. 405;-its favourable notice of Tyerman and Bennet,
Education, Lord Brougham's ideas of, 152, 153;—in Polynesia, 198; -chiefly promoted by missions, ib. Emigration indispensable to Eng- land, 476-478.
England, Admirals of, 33;-Chris- tians of, address to, on the effect of missions, 67;-ships of, sent for destruction, ib. ;-noble efforts of, against slavery, 74;-condi- tion of, under the Normans, 86;- present state of law in, 87 ;-her naval rejoicings, 101;-her chief glory the promotion of missions, 408; her war-debt and taxes, 423;-owes every thing to mis- sions, 471;—her superiority to all the continental nations, 472;- her colonial territory, 473, 474. England and America, fearful posi- tion of, 507, 508.
English, the, not a military people,
Essays, the American Prize, 53. Experiment, a grand, in relation to missions, 509.
Faith of the gospel, what it is, and what it is not, 182;-apostolic view of it, ib. ;-hurtful distinc- tions, 183;-duty of believing, 184;-error of Lord Brougham relative to, ib. ;-how Divine in- fluence becomes necessary to, 186; -ground of man's obligation to believe the truth, ib. ;-purifying influence of, 188;-source of good works, 189.
Finau's threat of destruction to such as become Christians, 80. Force not to be used to promote Christianity, 78.
Foster, Rev. John, opinions of, on the Classics, 293, 294; 66 'Essays" of, 298;-appeal to, in behalf of the missionary character, 349 ;- his capabilities of advancing the cause of missions, 372, 373. Frederick the Great, character and wars of, 419, 420.
Genius defined, 268. Gillespie, the Rev. Dr., 256;-pre- face to Atticus applied to, 257 ;- claims of missions on chartered colleges, submitted to, 286. Glory, what constitutes, 272;-true, attains its utmost height only in the missionary character, ib. God, the idea of, comprehends all others, 28;-the knowledge of, the only true renovator of human nature, 152;-wherein the know- ledge of, consists, 174;-how the knowledge of, is diffused, 175; -the knowledge of, can be dif- fused only by missions, ib. ;-the knowledge of, differs much from that of the mere philosopher, 176, 177;-things comprehended in the knowledge of, ib. Government, British, baffled in at-
tempts to civilize the Indians, 109 Government, blessings of, secured by the labours of missionaries, 76; influence of missionaries upon, 77.
Governments, all will be changed or improved, 139, 140;-effects of righteous and pacific, 171. Gospel, Sir T. F. Buxton on the power of, 70;-case for the, now closed and waiting for judgment, 73; the restorer of lost happi- ness, ib. ;-mission, the, 127;— the faith of, what, 181;--simpli- city of the, 183;-what the, con- sists of, ib. ;-the, believed upon evidence, 186;-the, remedy for all evil, 191.
Grand experiment in relation to missions, 509. Greatness, moral, the highest ele- vation of, attained in the mis- sionary character, 13;-entitled to first distinction, ib.;—moral and intellectual, compared, 223, 224;-popular errors respecting, 224;-magnanimity, 225; -in- stances of, in Alexander, Cæsar, Columbus, and Napoleon, 227 ;- intellectual and moral, not neces- sarily connected, 268;-intellec- tual, defined, ib.;-intellectual, not an object of moral approbation
or disapprobation, 269 ;-Cicero s description of, 270;-most fully exemplified in the missionary cha- racter, 271;-M'Combie's defini- tion, ib. ;-Divine Influence ne- cessary to, 273;-Christianity im- parts to its receivers the elements of, 274;-Tyrian Hercules an ex- ample of, ib. ;-Minos, Lycurgus, and Solon, examples of, 276;- Pericles distinguished for, ib.;— Socrates the most remarkable hea- then example, 277;-illustrations of, among Old Testament wor- thies, 299-318;-illustration of, in John Baptist and the Apostles, 318-320;-in Paul, 321. Greatness, military, what, 393. Greek poets, characters of the, 282, 283.
Greek prose writers, characters of the, 279-282.
Ground of battle in Polynesia, 63.
Hesiod, qualities of, as a poet, 93;- preferred to Homer, ib. ;—his view of man, 94.
Holy Spirit, influence of, not a mat- ter of debt, 186
Hope of the future depends on mis- sions, 368.
Howard, Burke's eulogium on, 129;
-not to be compared with the missionary, ib.
Human Nature, a description of, by Juvenal, 96.
Idolatry, a crime and a calamity, 16;-its horrors described, 17;- eternal consequences of, 18;-re- nounced at three islands, 30. Idols, interesting exhibition of, 21— 31;-burdens of rejected, brought to Williams, 27. Infanticide, 99.
Infidelity, spirit of the age opposed to, 72.
Intellect, the great academic idol, 257;-of European worship, 350.
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