Excerpt from The Influence of Missions on People and Nations: A Discourse Preached by the Appointment of the Synod of Nashville, at Their Meeting in the City of Nashville, October 4th, 1854Under the figure Of a desert Covered with vegetation and adorned with ¿owers, we have, in the text, a prediction of the vocation Of the Gentiles, and of the glorious triumphs of the Christian dispensation. Long, indeed, did the nations remain as a bleak and barren desert, without any blossoms of piety or fruits of holiness, but when God's own Son died on the cross, the just for the unjust, the wilderness and solitary place were made glad.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.