LITCHFIELD COUNTY FOREIGN MIS-

 SION SOCIETY.
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As the time for holding the annual meeting oi the Foreign Mission Society of Litch6ed County draws near, it may be proper to suggest to the friends of Missions the necessity ofincreased exerons on the'r part for the effecIua advancement Of the cause m which they are engaged. The multiplication of mis- sion stations abroad necessarily calls for increased b- eralisy tn those who have heretofore contributed Iste of their abundance for the furherance of the grand moral scheme of evangesing the heather world And where is the in this age of liberal ity and benevolent enterprise who is so cod-hearted and covetous as refuse to throw his mite into that treasury which is dispense the beams of the Gospel light which shines so brightly upon hIm among those who arc gropng in the darkness of organism? Show us such an one, any there and let us see wheth- CT he is phianthropist, or man whose soul IS bound up in his purse-strings, and upon whose ada mantine heart the cries of the widow and orphan have no more effect than do the calls of charity and beneyolence in favor ot missionary enterprise. Let all who are not only determined not to join the ranks oftose who are marshalled in the cause of missions, but also oppose their progress, raise as great an outcrv as they choose, and ascrbe selfish and merce- nary motives to the who ''take their lives in their hands," and go forth from their native country to epend their days toiling and laborng in foreign and uucyilizcd land for the conversion of heather; the march of benevolent enterprise is forward, and they may az well attempt to stay the current of the mighty river which rolls its waters irresstiby onward to- ,yard. inc ocean in which it is ns-In our next we aha,l publish the annual circular ofthe Society