"Constrained by the love of Christ, that love which induced him to humble himself even to the agonies and the death of the cross to rescue us from unutterable wo, we are to prove our faithfulness by a deep and abiding interest for the spiritual welfare of our follow beings. God has commanded—and he who has tasted and knows that the Lord is gracious, will delight to fulfil his will. Actuated by the high and lofty views, and the sacred and endearing motives which the scriptures continually inculcate, we cannot but feel, intensely feel for the degraded state of all who are aliens from the hopes and the consolations of the gospel. Sympathy must sway our bosoms when we behold those who were destined to immortality, selfish, wicked and hardened. Daily do we pray thy kingdom come—to come with power and peace to every heart, as well as to our own. And who is not anxiously solicitous for the honor of his Lord,—who does not cherish an intense desire to enlarge his Master's kingdom—who is not ready to make some sacrifices for Him who died that we might live?"
--- Jackson Kemper, The Duty of the Church with Respect to Missions:
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