These once formidable enemies have, hke the army of Sennacherib, melted away. We went to sleep, as it were, surrounded with these inveterate foes, and…when we ‘arose in the morning, they were dead men’.

It will perhaps be found, that the most active friends to missions, are also the most diligent in promoting Christianity at home.

By inviting [the humbler orders] to subscribe their smaller sums…you present to them a noble stimulus for their endeavours, you promote a higher tone of general morals, you raise them to a participation in all the good that is now on foot in the nation.

The British and Foreign Bible Society have had the honour of commencing a new era in the Christian world.

The public mind is gradually undergoing a great moral revolution. Christians are acquiring enlarged views of the nature of their religion, and the obligation to impart it.… Incalculable is the national good which is daily springing up from such exertions. It now appears capable of demonstration, that the moral wilderness will eventually blossom as the rose, through the blessing of God on Bible and Missionary institutions. The opposition of error and prejudice seems to languish and decay; while the triumphant career of sacred benevolence conveys life, light, peace, and love.