...heathenism in India. We maintain no principles that lead to such monstrous conclusions. Our principle is, that it is the duty of a Christian government to provide for the propagation of that religion which it believes to be true, not for that which it knows to be false....

...us, we shall feel it our duty to persevere. We can never give up the principle that it is the part of a Christian government to provide for the religious instruction of its subjects ; and neither shall we be deterred by the resistance of those enemies to our Church, whose voice has been...

...founding of the Dutch Colony in 1662, a new era was inaugurated. From the first the Dutch accepted the principle that it is the duty of a Christian Government to interpret the Christian religion to its heathen subjects. At a council held on one of the Dutch vessels...

...are avowed, hope cannot be extinguished. The very existence of a national establishment recognizes the principle, that it is the duty of a Christian...blessings of the gospel to this class of men, was recognized in the constitution of the ' Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,'...