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LETTERS

1.4.1830

ON

MISSIONS,

BY

WILLIAM SWAN,

MISSIONARY IN SIBERIA

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PREFACE,

BY

WILLIAM ORME,

FOREIGN SECRETARY TO THE LONDON MISSIONARY
SOCIETY.

LONDON:

WESTLEY AND DAVIS, STATIONERS' COURT;
HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1830.

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL, CHEAPSIDE.

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INTRODUCTORY PREFACE.

MISSIONS for the Propagation of Christianity among the Heathen can no longer be regarded as doubtful experiments. The grounds of attack and defence, therefore, have undergone an entire change. Thirty or forty years ago, such undertakings were represented by those who opposed them, as fanatical and utopian; as begun under the influence of a misguided zeal, and never likely to answer the purpose, or reward the benevolent exertions and sacrifices of their projectors.

The friends who espoused the cause, knew too well the nature of the work in which they had embarked, to be put down or discouraged by this mode of assailing them. Their enterprise was founded on a correct knowledge of the nature of christianity, as a message from God to man, and as adapted to all the diversified evils which belong to his fallen nature. They were fully persuaded that it was the will

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