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FIVE SERMONS (NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED)
FIVE SERMONS (NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED)
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THE following Sermons of Henry Martyn, which now, for the first time after the lapse of more than half a century, are presented to the public eye, I rejoice to have the opportunity of connecting with your name-not merely on the score of personal friendship, but because I feel that there is a peculiar propriety in so doing, for I cannot otherwise regard you than as the most fitting person to whom this dedication could be addressed, when publishing the Sermons of him who gave the most vigorous impulse to missionary enterprise which our Church ever received.
The prominent position you have for many years filled as Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, the entire dedication of your time, talents, and energies gratuitously to the interests of that noble Institution, have long marked you out as the great leader in missionary enterprise, and have put a stamp upon your name, which attaches to none else, in connexion with the Evangelistic efforts of our Church towards the heathen world.
It is a pleasing task to take a review of the past, and to contrast the present state of missionary enterprise with that which prevailed at the beginning of the century when Henry Martyn tore himself away from friends and country to dedicate his talents and his life to the interests of Christianity in India.
The first point of contrast is to be traced in the change of feeling at home.
So nearly complete had been the abandonment of missionary enterprise and missionary principle up to the commencement of the present century, that the idea of attempting to evangelize idolaters had not merely passed away, but was regarded as one of those Quixotic schemes, which no one could for a moment entertain, except at the certain loss of all title to good sense, sobriety of mind, and sound principle.
The prominent position you have for many years filled as Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, the entire dedication of your time, talents, and energies gratuitously to the interests of that noble Institution, have long marked you out as the great leader in missionary enterprise, and have put a stamp upon your name, which attaches to none else, in connexion with the Evangelistic efforts of our Church towards the heathen world.
It is a pleasing task to take a review of the past, and to contrast the present state of missionary enterprise with that which prevailed at the beginning of the century when Henry Martyn tore himself away from friends and country to dedicate his talents and his life to the interests of Christianity in India.
The first point of contrast is to be traced in the change of feeling at home.
So nearly complete had been the abandonment of missionary enterprise and missionary principle up to the commencement of the present century, that the idea of attempting to evangelize idolaters had not merely passed away, but was regarded as one of those Quixotic schemes, which no one could for a moment entertain, except at the certain loss of all title to good sense, sobriety of mind, and sound principle.
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