| CHAPTER I. |
| THE TRUE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS. |
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| Lowliness and condescension, like our Saviour's, essential to missionary character, | | 18 |
| The true Missionary is ready, like Christ, to endure suffering for the good of others, | | 21 |
| The true Missionary, like his Master, waits not to be urged and entreated, | | 24 |
| The true Missionary, like the Saviour, feels no less compassion and love to the heathen on account of their ingratitude and enmity towards him, | | 26 |
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| CHAPTER II. |
| CHRISTIAN STEWARDSHIP. |
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| All we have belongs to God, | | 32 |
| To occupy all our powers for God, we must equal the engagedness and enterprise of worldly men, | | 34 |
| How much faithful stewards may consume on themselves and children, | | 40 |
| The best use of a large capital, | | 46 |
| Money not the main thing needed, | | 50 |
| The luxury and honor of being God's stewards, | | 56 |
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| CHAPTER III. |
| GUILT OF NEGLECTING THE HEATHEN. |
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| Prospects of the heathen for eternity, | | 64 |
| Peculiar advantages of the American churches to carry abroad the Gospel of Christ, | | 69 |
| Do we pray for the heathen as much as we ought? | | 73 |
| Do we give as much as we ought to evangelize the heathen? | | 75 |
| Do we go and instruct the heathen as we ought? | | 81 |
| Why are the heathen lost? | | 85 |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
| THE SAVIOUR'S LAST COMMAND. |
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| Excuses of Christians for not doing more to evangelize the heathen, | | 102 |
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| CHAPTER V. |
| LAYMEN CALLED TO THE FIELD OF MISSIONS. |
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| Labors of the first disciples, dispersed from Jerusalem by persecution, | | 111 |
| To elevate all nations requires a great variety of laborers, | | 116 |
| Feasibility, | | 126 |
| Reasons why laymen should engage in the work of Missions, | | 130 |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
| CLAIMS OF MISSIONS ON MINISTERS OF INFLUENCE. |
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| Separation of Barnabas and Saul for the Missionary work, | | 134 |
| The present distribution of ministers anti-apostolic, | | 141 |
| Insufficient excuses of pastors for remaining at home, | | 147 |
| Other excuses of pastors that have weight, but are not sufficient, | | 155 |
| Necessity that some pastors of influence and talent should become Missionaries, | | 161 |
| Some excuses common to pastors and to candidates for the ministry, | | 169 |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
| IMPORT OF THE GREAT COMMISSION. |
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| Responsibility not peculiar to Missionaries, | | 178 |
| The fallacy of endeavoring to convert the world by proxy, | | 181 |
| No cheap or easy way of converting the world, | | 191 |
| Some rules that may be of use in agitating the question of becoming Missionaries, | | 194 |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
| TRIALS TO BE MET. |
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| Difficulties in the way of training children on heathen ground, | | 201 |
| Reasons in the minds of Missionaries for not sending their children home, | | 210 |
| Other thoughts about Missionaries' children, | | 218 |
| Entire consecration of children, not a duty peculiar to Missionaries, | | 222 |
