Excerpt from The Emigrants: An Allegory: Or, Christians Vs, The WorldThe leading idea of the following pages occurred to me some years ago, when writing a series of articles for a newspaper, urging the importance of individual exertion for the salvation of souls. The idea was striking to my mind, that the influence exerted by emigrants flocking to the American shores, over their countrymen behind, to induce them to follow, is like that of Christians to gain the wicked over to a life of piety. This analogy, in its leading and applicable points, I have endeavored to maintain throughout the work, especially to bring out such aspects of it, as might impress the responsibility upon Christians of throwing the influence of their whole lives in a course of promoting the conversion of their neighbors. With what success I have maintained this difficult style of allegory, others may judge. I have the satisfaction of positiveness, that the rousing of Christians aimed at, is very important to the final triumph of the Gospel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.