Wayland, F., Jun. The Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise. A Sermon delivered before The Boston Baptist Foreign Missionary Society on the Evening of October 26, and before The Salem Bible Translation Society on the Evening of November 4, 1823. Boston: James Loring, 1826. Fourth Edition. [11357]
Removed, no wrapper, newly stab-sewn, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 33 pages, one page with faint brown ink writing. Good. Pamphlet.
A sermon in support of foreign missions from a time when Baptists were divided over the issue.
The text is Matthew 13:38, "The field is the world."
"This enterprise of mercy the Son of God came down from heaven to commence, and in commencing it, he laid down his life. To us he has granted the high privilege of carrying it forward. The legacy which he has left us, as he was ascending to his Father and our Father, and to his God and our God, was, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature; and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world...Each one of you will anxiously inquire, how he may become a co-worker with the Son of God, in the glorious design of rescuing a world from the miseries of the fall!" p. 31.
Francis Wayland, D.D., LL.D. (1796-1865), born in New York city to parents who emigrated from England in 1793. He was one of the foremost Baptist ministers and educators of the 19th century. His father, shortly after arriving in this country, entered the ministry. Francis graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1813 and studied medicine with the goal of entering that profession. Sometime before 1816 he was converted, and in that year entered Andover to study for the ministry, benefiting from the oversight of Moses Stuart. He was made tutor in Union College, and, in 1821, was called to and ordained in the First Baptist Church of Boston. Dr. Wayland next served as Professor of Moral Philosophy in Union College, and in 1827 was appointed President of Brown University at which post he served faithfully for 28 years.
