13698.3 MISSIONS: THEIR AUTHORITY, SCOPE, AND ENCOURAGEMENT. AN ESSAY: TO WHICH THE SECOND PRIZE, PROPOSED BY A RECENT BY THE REV. RICHARD WINTER HAMILTON, MINISTER OF BELGRAVE CHAPEL, LEEDS. к LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., PATERNOSTER-ROW; LEEDS: J. Y. KNIGHT; EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT & SON. 1842, [The following Announcements will explain the History of the present Work.] ESSAY ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. PRIZE OF TWO HUNDRED GUINEAS. DURING the last forty years, many excellent Sermons, Tracts, and Pamphlets, have appeared on the subject of Missions to the Heathen; but the want of a comprehensive work, embracing all the topics directly and collaterally involved in the general theme, has long been felt and very generally acknowledged. It has occurred to a few friends of the Missionary enterprise in Scotland, that this desideratum in our Christian literature might be supplied by means of friendly competition, were the theme of Missions proposed as the subject of a Prize Essay. Dispensing, for the present, with the consideration of the causes that may instrumentally have retarded the progress of Christianity throughout the world, and with the investigation of the most approved methods of practically conducting Missions abroad, a Prize of Two HUNDRED GUINEAS is hereby offered for the best Essay; and another Prize of FIFTY GUINEAS for the second best Essay, on "The Duty, Privilege, and Encouragement of Christians to send the Gospel of Salvation to the unenlightened Nations of the Earth." The grand object of Missions, viz., the regeneration of a lost world, through the allsufficient atonement of the Lord our Righteousness and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, must be distinctly unfolded, and vindicated from the Sacred Scriptures. The Duty, Privilege, &c., must be illustrated as enjoined or sanctioned by Divine commands, Evangelical motives, and explicit prophecies, as well as recommended by a review of the beneficial effects of Christianity on the civili |