Excerpt from Arguments in Favor of Missions: A Discourse Delivered in Portland, June 26, 1833, Before the Maine Missionary Society, at Its Twenty-Sixth Anniversary
Every attentive reader of the New Testament must have Observed the very emphatic manner in which our Saviour ex presses his regard for his followers. Whosoever, says he, shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. He solemnly affirms that the man who shall give a cup of cold water only to one of his disciples, in the name of a disciple, shall in no wise lose his reward. He represents the issues of the final Judgment as depending on the treatment which he himself receives in the person of his disciples. When the righteous in their amaze ment inquire, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and min istered unto thee The King answers, Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least Of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. When about to leave his disciples, and return to his Father, he enjoined it upon them to love one another, even as he had loved them. The apostles inculcate the same duty with great force and frequency. They Insist upon a special regard to them who are Of the household of faith. The beloved John even says, that we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren, and I take it that, in regard to this thing, the New Testament re cognizes no distinction Of name or sect, except what is implied in the terms, disciples, brethren, Christians. Here then I rest an argument for Home Missions. Christ has many humble followers dwelling in the desolate places of our Zion.
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