The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions The institution whose Jubilee this volume commemorates was one of those providential institutions which are not made, but grow, - are not formed in accordance with any antecedent plan or theory, but shaped by the work that they find to do. This mode of development is an essential condition of success. Had a body of enterprising Christian philanthropists, fired with the hope of the worlds regeneration, assembled in 1810, and established an extensive, ambitious organization, sending emissaries through the churches to arouse zeal and collect funds, and proclaiming a grand crusade against heathenism, the flourish of trumpets that heralded their undertaking would hardly have died away before it was dishonored and abandoned. But in this case the organization was modestly framed to meet an exigency which justly assumed the form of a divine mandate. Of an incredulous world it hardly obtained "leave to be." It enlarged its proportions only as its work and the means of performing it accumulated upon its hands. It grew from within outward, claiming increased confidence and subsidies by meeting the trust already reposed in it, and by using to the best advantage the funds already in its treasury. It has become the most noble charity in our land, simply because it has given so full proof of its efficiency as to refute skepticism, disarm opposition, and conciliate lukewarmness. The virtual author of this association was Samuel J. Mills, who was graduated at Williams College in 1809. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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