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persons now live who well remember the contest, in England, concerning the duty of attempting the work of evangelizing the world. But since the day when John Foster laid his heavy hand on Sydney Smith, the question has been virtually settled. Christianity was then born into a higher, purer, freer mode of existence than the cold obstruction in which it lay before. English piety then demonstrated that English power had a nobler mission to heathen nations than that of plunder, war, and oppression. American Christianity, enjoying a freedom unknown since the days of Constantine, not only admits her whole duty to the heathen world, but is dealing with the largest ideas, and probably, in the evolution of God's Providence, is destined to achieve the mightiest results in the restoration of ruined man, of all the nations of Christendom. The judgment, conscience, and affections of Christian people in our land are fairly won in favour of universal missions. They need only to be stimulated and guided.