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Kingdom of Christ. May the entire church be baptized with the spirit of missions.
We, your committee to whom was referred the cause of missions, do most respectively report the following as the result of our labor.
After a strict examination into the subject of missions, we are satisfied that it is the duty of every christian in the land to go to work with hand and heart for the purpose of diffusing the glorious truths of the religion of Jesus Christ.
The grand injunction given to the first ministers of the Methodist Church was a missionary one: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not, shall be damned."
The command to the ministry to go to all nations and teach them the way of salvation is full of missionary thought. Our attention is turned to the importance of our Rev. C. Morsell, who we believe is doing a great work. May the blessing of God rest upon him and his family. The whole church is called upon to work in this great cause of missions, through the influence of a concentrated ministry and an holy intelligence, and finally let the motto of the church be "Onward" till the earth's remotest nation has learned Messiah's name.
The New Jersey Conference has a mission work demanding our attention and prayers, that souls may be brought into the fold. It is our duty to speak in the highest terms of the Mite
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