But my present concern is with the gospel ministry. To me it is a self-evident truth, that ministers at home are as much bound to do what they can, in their circumstances, for the vigorous extension of Christ's kingdom, as are those brother ministers, whose sense of personal duty calls them to go abroad. The ministers of Jesus Christ, wherever their post of duty, stand related to the whole work on the broad scale of the earth. Foreign missions have, therefore, a claim upon all Christian ministers, according to their means of affording aid. Not the pastoral work alone, not home missions alone, not foreign missions alone, but laboring to make the gospel known "to every creature," at home and abroad, is our proper business as the ministers of Christ.

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