The venerable fathers and founders of the London Missionary Society, after having aroused the attention of the Christian public to the important duty of extending the knowledge and blessings of the Gospel, proceeded to the consideration of the very important and difficult question, “In what part of the world they should commence their work of mercy?” The late excellent Dr. Haweis, Rector of All Saints, Aldwinkle, also Chaplain to the late Countess of Huntingdon, who was one of the founders of the Society, and among its most liberal supporters, was requested to prepare a “Memorial” upon the subject, which was delivered at Surrey Chapel. In the course of his address, he says, “The field before us is immense! O that we could enter at a thousand gates!–that every limb were a tongue, and every tongue a trumpet, to spread the joyful sound! Where so considerable a part of the habitable globe on every side calls for our efforts, and, like the man of Macedonia, cries, ‘Come over and help us,’ it is not a little difficult to decide at what part to begin.” The learned and venerable doctor then proceeded, with all the warmth of his ardent and cultivated mind, in a lucid and masterly style, to draw a comparison between the climates, the means of support, the government, the language, and the religion of heathen countries; and concludes that, of all the “dark places of the earth,” the South Sea Islands presented the fewest difficulties, and the fairest prospects of success.