2) if the pupils had the opportunity to make acquaintances and friendships with at least the religious part of the students, they would therefore count many a friend among their fellow ministers at home; and from this the advantage would undoubtedly arise, firstly, that many a student would decide for the service of Christ among the Gentiles, for whom the matter is now too remote, and then, that those who remained at home would be moved by personal acquaintance with our Gentile messengers, [and] would suggest this important matter to their future congregations.

3) The Gentile messengers themselves, raised in the mother church just like their fellow ministers, would feel themselves to be on an equal level and more closely connected to it, whereas they would now be viewed as inferior both by others and by themselves.

4) They would have access to those educational resources which are not offered to them in the constantly changing mission institutions, namely to the teaching of capable, thorough and lasting teachers, and to the books that are usually found in the university, as well as finally to the encouraging and educational company of hardworking and clever students. ( 027 ) It is not difficult to see that this is actually the greatest and most influential advantage.

5) If a Gentile messenger were, through the influence of foreign climes, or through age, or through something else, to be unable to proclaim the Gospel among the Gentiles any longer, he could, having been educated at a college, accept an office in the church of his fatherland; and it would have the great double advantage, firstly, that such a weak person could use his gifts and experiences to bring about great blessings at home. and secondly, society would not need to ensure the preservation of him and his family, which it is undoubtedly obliged to do in the opposite case, when the Gentile messenger is excluded from ecclesiastical offices because of the nature of his education. This exclusion of the Gentile messenger, who was educated in a crooked institution, shows that the missionary matter, as it currently stands, is not ecclesiastical according to the judgment of the entire Protestant Church.

Answering the objections that are usually made against it.

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( 030 ) August 3rd, 1838.
We arrived at the port of Rio de Janeiro(38) at 9 o'clock in the evening. Although it was already getting dark when we got so close to the land that we could distinguish objects, the starlit sky gave us enough light that we could see the wonderful peaks and jagged rocks of the coast. The entrance to the harbor is narrow, about three times as wide as the Elbe near Dresden, and does not give the impression of a large, magnificent harbor, which behind it stretches for hours to the west. To the right and left of the entrance are small islands, on one of which there is a