The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People.Weylland, John Matthias
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The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People.
Weylland, John Matthias
City missions; London City Mission
Are you a Scotchman? There are about as many Scotch people and their
descendants in London, as there are in Edinburgh? Are you an Irishman?
There are more Irish and their descendants in London, than there are in
Dublin! Are you a Welshman? The Welsh and their descendants living in
London about equal the united populations of six of the principal Welsh
towns? Or are you an Englishman? The population of six, eight, or ten
towns in some of the English counties, represent the number of persons
_born in those counties_, who now live in the great city! You may thus
act upon almost every city, town, and village in the United Kingdom by
means of their own representatives now living in London.
And if you should specially pity the poor Jew, because he rejects the
great Messiah;--then you should remember that there are more Jews in
London than there are in Palestine! If, again, you regard Popery as the
great Antichrist; you are reminded that there are more Roman Catholics
in London than there are in Rome! Its 2,000 ITALIANS can here be
prepared to carry home to their countrymen the glad tidings of a
completed salvation! Are German Neology and French Infidelity the foes
to the Redeemer which you would oppose? It is affirmed that above 60,000
GERMANS, or their descendants, and about 40,000 FRENCH and their
children, are now to be found in London! The mighty Russian Empire, with
its Sclavonian races, sunk in ignorance, or in the corruptions of the
Greek Church, is numerously represented in London! Some 6,000
MOHAMMEDANS AND EAST INDIAN idolaters are also found yearly in London!
and _there_, with perfect safety, can be taught that there is one God,
and one atoning sacrifice. _There_ also are found vast numbers of Danes,
Dutch, Swedes, Swiss, Spaniards, Portuguese, Greeks, Turks, Africans,
Arabians, Persians, Chinese, Brazilians, Americans, American Indians,
West-Indian, and South Sea Islanders, and probably from every other
nation under heaven! These are brought together by Divine Providence, no
doubt, that they may be instructed in the wonderful works of God. THESE
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH ARE BROUGHT WITHIN YOUR
REACH; AND THROUGH THEM, BY THE AID OF THE LONDON CITY MISSION, YOU CAN
INFLUENCE THE WORLD FOR CHRIST. Alas, that these representative bodies
should have entered a city in which a million and three-quarters of its
people cannot find room to worship God in its Protestant Churches and
Chapels!--a city in which myriads of its inhabitants are addicted to
crime.
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