DEAR YOUNG MISSIONARIES,

1 trust these feelings are yours. You have devoted your lives to the work of making known among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. We know you do not leave your native land, because you have not the fairest prospect of reputation, usefulness, and comfort here. You go, we believe, because the love of God is shed abroad in your hearts by the Holy Ghost. We fondly look upon you, as chosen vessels unto Christ, to bear his name before the Gentiles. Blessed be the Lord God of the Gentiles, that he hath put this design into your hearts. The cause in which you have enlisted, is the cause of divine love. You have chosen the noblest and most honorable work on earth; more honorable than the laurels of conquerors, or the diadems of kings. But it is also arduous and perilous. Who is sufficient to do the work of an apostle to the heathen? When you have seriously contemplated the greatness of this work, you have often cried out; "Lord, if thy presence go not with us, carry us not hence." I hope you will never forget, that without Christ, you can do nothing. Without the help of Christ, you can no more advance his kingdom among idolaters, than you can scatter midnight darkness by a word. He * that planteth is nothing, and he that watereth is noth`ing.. The increase is wholly of God. Without his assistance, you will not only fail of success, but of fidelity and perseverance. If you should be forsaken of God, what would your conduct be? and what would become of your mission? - The precious name of Jesus would be blasphemed among the pagans. Your light would go out in darkness. Shame and blushing would cover the faces of your patrons and friends; and their hearts would die within them. The bright and celestial flame, which has been kindling up among us, how would it be extinguished!- My dear friends, I would not distress you; but you know this would be the dreadful result of your mission, if the special help of God should not be granted you. But if you go forth in the strength of Christ, you will be burning and shining lights in regions of darkness and death. We hope to hear good tidings of great joy from the EAST. - Your personal exertions can indeed go but a little way. But be not discouraged on this account. Think how it will be in Asia a century or two hence. The kingdom of Christ, which you are sent to promote toward the rising of the sun, will be like a little leaven, which a woman took and hid in. three measures of meal till the whole was leavened. It will be like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. But when it is sown it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth forth great branches, so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. In some chosen regions, the Lord enable you to plant this precious seed. To see young men, who have been my beloved pupils, faithfully preaching Christ among the heathen, shall be my joy and my crown. Oh may the first fruits of our Seminary in pagan lands be to the praise of the glory of divine grace.

Dear young men, I will not break your hearts and my own by dwelling on the affecting circumstances of this parting scene. If you must go, I will animate and comfort you. Remember, then, though we must leave you, HE, whom your soul loveth, will not. The God, you will worship on the plains of Hindostan, will be the same God, whom you have here worshipped in our Seminary, in the Sanctuary, and in the closet. The Savior, whom you will adore and trust

in there, will be the very Savior, whose glory you have seen, and of whose fulness you have received here. Go then, dear missionaries, with the partners of your life, the objects of your tenderest affection; and may GOD ALMIGHTY be your PRESERVER. Go, and remember you are not your own. Go, and "declare the glory of the Lord among the heathen, his wonders among all people." Esteem the reproach of CHRIST greater riches, than all the wealth of INDIA. The parents and friends you leave behind will never, never forget you, till their hearts are cold in death. Our earnest affections and prayers will constantly attend you. We shall share with you, in every peril you will encounter by sea and by land. All the success you obtain, and all the joy you partake, will be ours. Every sorrow that melts you, and every pang that distresses you, will also be ours. We shall often meet you at the mercy seat, where you and we may find grace to help in time of need. You will be as dear to our hearts, and as near to God and to heaven in Asia, as in America.-If we are friends of God, our separation will not be forever, At the glorious appearing of the Son of God, we hope to see you, dearly be loved, and those whom your labors may rescue from pagan darkness, at his right hand. The God of mercy grant, that we may then join with you, and with a great multitude which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, whỏ will stand before the throne and before the Lamb, and cry with a loud voice, saying, salvation to our God, who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb. With 'this joyful anticipation, I do, my dear friends, cheerfully, and most affectionately, bid you, farewell.

Brethren and friends, these dear young men are going to preach to the heathen that religion, which is

your comfort in life, your hope in death, your guide to heaven. Consider yourselves now looking upon them for the last time, before you shall meet them at the tribunal of Christ. Assist them in their arduous office by your substance, and by your prayers. Bear them on your hearts when you draw near to God. The decisions of the judgment day will show, how cold has been our warmest zeal, how trifling our best exertions, how languid our most fervent prayers, compared to the greatness of the object now before us.The Lord of the universe, in these last days, is about to do a marvellous work; a work of astonishing power and grace. The time of his glory is come. He will soon destroy all idol worship. The thrones of wickedness he will level with the dust. He will dissipate the gross darkness, which covers the nations. He will send out his light and truth, shed down his quickening Spirit, and renovate the world. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. My hearers, God offers you the privilege of aiding in this great work of converting the nations; a work, which he has reserved to these last, best days; a work, which the holy apostles would almost wish to live again to promote; and in which the hosts of heaven exceedingly rejoice. The God of love offers you the honor and happiness of taking a part in this blessed work. Nothing else is worth living for. But who would not live, labor, and die for this? "Arise, shine, Oh ZION, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." Amen.