Lectures on medical missions : delivered at the instance of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society.

Date:
1849
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    I tinguished ere it can be replaced by a steady beacon, II submit, in the firm and humble assurance that His iways are better than my ways,^and that the tei'm of I my life is better in His hands than my own. At :all hazards, I am resolved to enfoi-ce justice and ] protect property, and whatever the results may be, I to leave them in God's hands. Without this there ican be no stability or permanent prosperity to this K country ; and my own character would be that of a imere adventurer, rather than what I hope it has been, is, and shall be, that of a man of honour and : integrity, who is wiUing to sacrifice and suffer in a : good cause.—Brookes' Nan'ative of Events in Bor- neo and Celebes, vol. i. pp. 273-279. Now, a similar emancipation from the paralyzing effects of tyranny and oppression—that is, from the ' effects of human pride, vice, and selfishness—attends, in a gi-eater or less degree, the extension of British rule and British influence in all parts of the East; and must continue to attend it, if the spirit of Chris- tianity shall really and practically animate the councils of our rulers and the minds of our leaders. But for this practically beneficial influence, that power could not possibly have extended itself as it has done, over an empire believed to include nearly a fifth of the human race. And when we look to the present condition of mankind m the earliest resi-