Excerpt from Christianity the Means of Civilization: Shown in the Evidence Given Before a Committee of the House of Commons, on Aborigines The evidence laid before the Committee having now been printed by order of the House of Commons, it has appeared to many friends of Missions, that it would be advantageous that that part of it should be published separately for general circula tion, which was given by the Secretaries. Of the Missionary Societies who were ex amined, - hence the appearance of the pre sent volume. It is conceived that this evidence embodies a series of facts derived from the proceedings of modern Protestant Missions, calculated to evince their beni ficent influence in promoting the temporal well-being of man, as well as in imparting to him the inestimably greater blessing of eternal life through faith in the merits of a crucified Redeemer. In deference to. The judgment Of friends thus expressed, the Secretaries of the three Missionary Soci eties who were examined have been in duced to lay the present volume before the public. To their own evidence, they have added extracts from the evidence of other witnesses, illustrating the influence of Christianity in promoting civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.