Excerpt from Incentives to Duty in the Work of Missions: A Sermon Preached for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in New York, May 4, 1856 Saviour of the world. Thanks to his name - with the promise before us, Lo, I am with you alway, we cannot doubt that when our beloved missionaries bid adieu to home and kindred, andzgof to the benighted heathen, they are not alone Jesus, the Risen Redeemer, goes with them. He strengthens their faith, animates their courage, and prepares them for their work. He puts thoughts into their hearts, words into their mouths, and enables them to adapt their instructions to the various classes of perishing men whose salvation they seek to promote. In times of embarrassment and trial his arm sustains them, his presence cheers them, his promise inspires them with hope, and his Holy Spirit breathes into their souls an unutterable and heavenly peace. He comforts them under all their afflictions, and carries them through all their difficulties, and makes the gospel they preach a savorof life unto life. They may plant and water, but He gives the increase. He con vinces the heathen of sin, removes their prejudices, dissipates their darkness, and makes them sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Such is the seal of Jesus upon the mis sionary enterprise; such the relation He sustains to it; and such the mighty work He performs for its sustentation and success. This seal he has pledged Himself to give this relation He has pledged himself to sustain; this work He has pledged himself to perform, not for a short and precarious duration, but always, always, even unto the end of the world. With such cooperation, mighty and perpetual, how can we doubt the result? 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.