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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1839 Excerpt:... CHAPTER III. DR WAUGIl's CONNEXION WITH PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Remarks on associations for the spread of the Gospel. Dr Bogue's appeal. Co-operation of Dr Waugh in establishing the London Missionary Society. His sermon on the second anniversary of that institution. Notices of its proceedings, from his correspondence. Journal of his tour to Paris in 1802. Missionary tours to various parts of England and Ireland; letters. Interview with the Synod of Ulster. Letters from Rev. Dr Baird. Tours in Scotland in 1815 and 1819; letters. Circular letter to brethren in Scotland. Addresses to Missionaries. Sketch of his character as a director and associate labourer of the Missionary Society. Connexion with the British and Foreign Bible Society. Speech at the formation of an auxiliary association. His support of the Scottish Hospital, and of other philanthropic and charitable institutions. Anecdotes. It has been justly observed by Mr Douglas, on voluntary associations of good men for advancing the kingdom of Christ, "That there is no object to which this power cannot adapt itself, no resources which it may not ultimately command; and that a few individuals, if the public mind be gradually prepared to favour them, can lay the foundations of undertakings which would have baffled the might of those who reared the Pyramids." "The times" of the subject of this memoir are intimately connected with the great transactions of the last forty years,--a period in which the power of voluntary associations for promoting the kingdom of Christ has been remarkably exemplified, and carried to a higher pitch, and applied to more important objects, than had ever been contemplated at any former period. This power has produced effects which, while they astonish the mind, prepare it for greater...