Memoir of Mrs. Mary Mercy Ellis, Wife of Rev. William Ellis: Missionary in the South Seas, and Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society; Including Notices of Heathen Society, of the Details of Missionary Life, and the Remarkable Display of Divin

Excerpt from Memoir of Mrs. Mary Mercy Ellis, Wife of Rev. William Ellis: Missionary in the South Seas, and Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society; Including Notices of Heathen Society, of the Details of Missionary Life, and the Remarkable Display of Divine Goodness in Severe and Protracted Applications

The examples of merchants and other secular men, who go and reside abroad in great numbers unmarried for the sake of emolument or honor, will not be ad duced in favor of unmarried life in m1ss1onaries by those, who know the lamentable extent to which this class of men violates the laws of purity; and besides, they generally go with the expectation of returning after a few years to their native lands. Missionaries should not ordinarily be led into such temptations and experience has fully shown the inexpediency of sending them forth for a limited period of time. Few mission aries will bring all their powers into action, acquire the language thoroughly, feel as devoted to the cause, and labor as faithfully, on a limited term of service, as when they} engage in it for life.

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