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Show seated principle, founded upon religious conviction and definite knowledge of the unevangelized nations. He read the command, ' Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,' as if it were addressed to him personally. He felt an individual responsibihty; and to the utmost of his abiUty, and in no small measure, he did go, by gifts, by prayer, by counsel, and by words of encouragement and hope, into almost every corner of the globe. He began early to think and work for missions. Nurtured by parents of deep piety and wide views, especially by a mother full of zeal for the conversion of the heathen, and growing up when the missionary spirit was beginning to pervade the churches and homes of New England, he became penetrated with the motives and aspirations of the great commission. " His first practical effort was a ' missionary potato - patch.' When about thirteen years of age, he heard |