I am not pleading that missionaries should be eased of their burdens, or alleviated in their sacrifices. I love the missionary work with all its burdens and sacrifices;—no, I plead with Christians that they would act consistently;—I entreat them to behold in what they require of their missionaries, the measure of their own duty to Christ and to the heathen. Let them impartially bring home to their own hearts, the last mandate of their risen Savior, and do as much for advancing his cause, and the conversion of the world, as they most reasonably require of missionaries. Most solemnly do I beseech them deliberately to examine, whether by requiring so much of missionaries, they do not virtually admit, that Christ requires of themselves corresponding sacrifices and exertions in the same cause.

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