WHAT ARE THE OBJECTS OF SUCH MISSIONS? Are they not to make known the glorious Gospel of the blessed God; to institute Christian Schools; to erect places of Christian worship; to collect Christian societies; and thus to banish Pagan ignorance, Pagan vices, and Pagan cruelties, from the earth? HAVE NOT SUCH OBJECTS BEEN ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE HEATHEN WORLD?—This is indisputable. Many in Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia, no longer worship idols; no longer destroy each other. Many mothers no more cast their children to the crocodiles, or drown them in rivers. Many aged and sick persons, who would have been cast out into the woods in age and infirmity, are now cherished by their children. Many thousands of children, in the different Mission Schools in India, Africa, the South-Sea inlands, and other places, are now reading the word of God, worshipping our Saviour, and singing his praises; who would otherwise have been trained up in idolatry, and all its polluting and degrading superstitions. Many adults have been brought to the knowledge of Christ; and many have died in peace and in the hope of heaven, whose sun would otherwise have set amid the dark and lowering clouds of Heathenism. Finally, the work, though in some places feeble, has been begun; it is spreading its enlightening and sanctifying influence among surrounding millions; and it exhibits to our faith and hope the dawn of the universal salvation. ARE YOU A MAN?—Do you not then shudder at the miseries, and oppressions, and murders, which Heathenism is daily practising, and which Christianity brings to an end wherever it prevails? On the principle of common humanity and sympathy, you will then surely feel an interest in Missions, nor suffer the cry of slaughtered widows and children, and the voice of distress, pouring out its wailings from all lands, to reach your ears in vain. ARE YOU A BRITON? Think of the vastness of the British Empire, comprising, at a low calculation, upwards of a HUNDRED MILLIONS of subjects, most of whom are Pagan idolaters. Why has Providence given us power, but to employ it so that, wherever it is felt, “mankind may feel our mercy too?” Shall we enjoy the advantages of that extensive commerce which so vast an empire gives to us; shall we revel in the luxuries of the West and of the East; shall we turn every colony to gain? and shall we neglect the souls of our fellow-subject? If we do so, we cannot be guiltless before Him who governs the world, and who will bless our blessings, or wither them, as we are faithful or unfaithful to the behests of His Providence. As a Briton, therefore, you are bound to support Missions, and by them to fill the whole empire with the blessings of that Christianity we enjoy at home.