Excerpt from Our Country; Its Capabilities, Its Perils, and Its Hope: Being a Plea for the Early Establishment of Gospel Institutions in the Destitute Portions of the United States
It is the object of the following pages, to present a condensed view of the facts which constitute our country"s claim on all her sons to promote the moral improvement of society at home. This claim, which every hour is rendering more urgent, is believed to be strangely overlooked amid the exciting topics of the day. Some of the following statements have been published in other forms; but they are here brought together and arranged so as to furnish a connected argument for Home Missions.
We solicit every pastor, under whose eye this pamphlet may fall, to present an outline of these facts to his people, and ask them to inquire at the mercy-seat what the Lord will have them to do. They are matters of deep and solemn interest to him and to his flock.
We ask every individual who may take up this paper to read it - to read it through. There are facts - there is an argument, we are persuaded, embodied here, however imperfectly it may be presented, that ought to make every Christian ear to tingle, and nerve every Christian arm in effort. Read it, Christian, read it, patriot, philanthropist, citizen of this republic, read it through; make, if you please, every deduction that incredulity itself can ask for, and say, even then, if the work of evangelizing this land, while yet it may be done, is not one of amazing moment!
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