This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ... watered garden. O how sweet is sailing to heaven, when we are wafted along by divine influence, and freighted with humble love and holy zeal. Surely these were times of the Son of Man. Never was my bible more sweet, or my Saviour more precious, the Lord was my light and ray salvation, and 1 walked upon my high places. Perhaps, sir, you will say, that this was the true missionary spirit, and that into which every foreign missionary ought to be baptised. I am, however, sorry to say, that I was not always thus diligent on my different missionary stations: sometimes weakness of body, sometimes unbelief, and not unfrequently a desire after upprofitable knowledge, and curious and pleasing books and studies, would slacken my ardour, and repress the spirit of holy diligent exertion. I have before remarked, that a missionary to a foreign land should rather be a diligent, than a contemplative man; his great object should be more to save souls, than to gain knowledge; activity is the soul of a mission. I would rather see a preacher travel ten. miles to preach to a few enquiring souls in a thicket of trees, than descant never so elegantly on polite learning, A diligent man, may glean much rare and profitable knowledge while in the active prosecution of his duty; the light from above will not suffer him to walk in darkness, who is pursuing that path of duty, on which the sun shines all the year round. He who cultivates the spirit of zeal, power, and humble love, shall have wise discernment and convincing speech, added, or thrown into the scale. I would have a foreign missionary let nothing that is » interesting escape his observation, but make minutes in his pocket memorandum-book, of all useful and lively incidents. I have often in a log-cottage, heard the most s...