In the Peninsular war, for every Frenchman killed there was sent
out by England the weight of a man in lead and eight times his
weight in iron, not to speak of the cost in blood and treasure.
In the Indian wars in this country it has sometimes cost on the
average a million dollars to kill an Indian, while an average
expenditure of $200 was spent in converting them. There is
no lack of money nor means to compass the evangelization of
the world within the present century if there were but the
spirit of enterprise to dare and undertake for our Redeemer.
Talleyrand boasted that he “kept his watch ten minutes ahead
of the rest of mankind.” The Christian Church should surpass
rather than be surpast by others in her enterprise. The time
will come when disciples will look back to this age of missions
with as much surprize as we now look back to those days when
a learned prelate in the House of Lords, and a defender of
orthodoxy too, could calmly argue against sending missionaries
to the Orient! or as we contemplate with amazement speeches
against the suppression of the slave-trade that have no interest
to us except as fossils and petrifactions of an antediluvian
era!--A. T. PIERSON, _Missionary Review of the
World_.
(2068)