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Excerpt from Plea for the American Colonization Society: A Sermon, Preached in St. George's Church, New-York, on Sunday, July 9, 1826
Effectual by the grace Of the Spirit, and the di rection of providential events, to. The production Of the designed result. The redemption of this extensive region of our earth from the midnight darkness of Paganism, and the illumination of its untutored millions with the light of truth, are already begun. We adore the goodness of that God who has brought into activity so much of Christian benevolence, as we have already seen exerted in the commencement and most encon raging progress of this good work. The prac ticability of its ultimate full achievement is Opened with undoubted clearness to the eye of Christian faith. They who would'have denied even the declaration of God himself, that he has made of one blood all the nations of the earth, are compelled, by the developments of a few years past, to acknowledge that Ethiopia's swar thy sons are rational beings like themselves; awfully ingulphed, it is true, in ignorance and sin, but endowed with intellects capable of re ceiving, with interest and affection, God's mes sage of mercy to our fallen world, and of appre ciating and seeking the improvements of learn ing and civilization. It was the success which had followed the pious exertions of the friends of Christ in Great Britain, more especially on the western coast Of Africa, that led the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.