Richard Salter Storrs, et al., A Sermon Delivered at North Bridgewater, Oct. 31, 1821, at the Ordination of the Rev. Daniel Temple, and Rev. Isaac Bird, as Evangelists and Missionaries to the Heathen (Boston, MA: Crocker & Brewster, Printers, 1822).

The whole system of Christianity is to be explained, defended, and applied to the actual condition of those to whom the missionary addresses himself. The counteracting systems of idolatry and superstition are to be boldly met – their claims are to be canvassed – their absurdities and their intrinsic abominations exposed. The prejudices that have fastened on the benighted mind, and been confirmed by the unsuspecting confidence of a hundred generations, are to be loosened from their hold, and removed out of the way. The Scriptures establish the principle, and urge the motive, of future rewards proportioned to the attainments made by the children of God, and the good they may have accomplished. The Christian’s interest and happiness are identified with the prosperity of Zion – his heaven begins in his devotion to Christ in the world.