Excerpt from The Old Brewery, and the New Mission House at the Five Points

A clergyman, full of worldly wisdom, or philosophy falsely so called, asked the Duke of Wellington, who had resided some years in India, whether he thought it likely that the preaching of the gospel to the natives of that country could do them any material good. "That, sir, " replied the old soldier, "is none of your business. How reads your commission? Go preach the gospel to every creature."

The clergyman had been making his calculations aside from the great commission. He had been estimating the probabilities of success upon philosophical principles, and he found that according to the general experience, in relation to cause and effect, the gospel was not adequate to the conversion of the natives of India. But he had lost sight of the gospel commission, and of Him who gave it. He forgot that it was written, "not by might nor by power" in the Messengers, is the gospel to accomplish its design, "but by my spirit saith the Lord." He who ordained his gospel to be the means of deliverance from the guilt, power and consequences of sin, whatever be the condition of the sinner, accompanies it with a power unknown to human philosophy, and makes it adequate to the end he has proposed. Of this truth, the success which has already crowned the efforts of the Mission at the Five Points, adds one more to the many glorious demonstrations which are found in the history of the Church.

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