DUTY OF THE PRESENT GENERATION TO EVANGELIZE THE WORLD: AN APPEAL FROM THE MISSIONARIES AT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS TO THEIR FRIENDS IN THE UNITED STATES. Honolulu : MISSION PRESS. 1836. INTRODUCTION. THE following resolutions, and the remarks connected with them, are designed for all the friends of Christ, but more particularly for his MINISTERS in the United States. The members of the Sandwich Islands' Mission, at a meeting in June, 1836, were led to consider their duty in relation to the churches in Christian lands, who, possessing the means for saving a lost world, do not employ them. Almost none of the settled ministry hear the command, GO TEACH ALL NATIONS. Almost none of the candidates hear it. The number is very small who go abroad, notwithstanding agents at home and from the different missions have been laboring to awake the slumbering churches. The directors of the work are looking for help from the youth yet to be educated. Forty-one tracts have been written "ON THE MANNER IN WHICH CHRISTIANS SHOULD SHOW THE SPIRIT OF THEIR MASTER IN LABORS AND SACRIFICES FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD." The committee to decide on the merits of these tracts, adjudged the premium of $250 to none. No one has written worthily. They could not; for they, like Archimedes in lifting the world, had no suitable spot to stand on. The churches are perceiving 、more and more clearly their duty to the heathen, while their efforts do not correspond with their convictions; thus rendering their own salvation doubtful, exposing their country to divine displeasure, and leaving the heathen to perish. In addition to all this, we see little hope of better things on the present plan of missionary operations. Therefore we cannot be silent. We must speak. If what we say is right, men in the ministry ought to go among the heathen; if wrong, the necessity of other and better |