FIRST   ADDEESS

OF

THE   EDUCATION   SOCIETY,

IN   1817.  M


To  the  Baptist  Denomination  throughout  the  State  of  New  York,

Beloved  Beethben,

It  has  pleased  tlie  God  of  all  grace  to  call  his  children  to  a  con-
current operation  with  himself,  in  transmitting  the  Gospel,  with
all  its  saving  benefits,  to  the  perishing  inhabitants  of  this  fallen
world.  He  has  lodged  with  his  militant  church  the  volume  of
inspiration,  which  contains  the  purposes  of  his  grace  to  millionS'^^
for  whom  the  Saviour  has  died,  discloses  the  eternal  destinies  of
his  incorrigible  foes,  and  reveals  the  ultimate  end  of  all  his  opera-
tions. This  book  of  God  is  now  circulating  through  the  world,  1
by  the  zeal  and  agency  of  men,  with  a  rapidity  hitherto  unknown.
