ishes, when that moral desert should rejoice
and blossom as the rose; but God has seen fit to cross our
expectations, in calling from his station this laborious
missionary. It becomes us to bow with submission to the stroke,
and to realize the saying of the apostle, "how unsearchable are
his judgments, and his ways past finding out." Although we were
not permitted to receive his dying testimony to the trust, we
have the fullest assurance that our loss is his unspeakable and
eternal gain.

At the sixth triennial meeting of the General Missionary Convention,
1829, the committee on the African Mission made this report[191] which
in some particulars was paradoxical:

This excellent man (it began) went to Africa, under the patronage
of the American Colonization Society, as well as of this
convention.... Could he have devoted his whole time to our
service much good might have been expected to have resulted from
his labors. But he was under necessity to assist in its
government and defense, as well as to act as its physician.

It is a source of consolation to the friends of Mr. Cary that
though his life was terminated in an unexpected moment and in a
most distressing manner, the unwearied diligence and fidelity
with which he discharged the important trust confided to his
care--his zeal for the honor of religion, and the purity and
piety of his general conduct have gained him a reputation which
must live in grateful remembrance, as long as the interesting
colony exists, in whose service he lived and died.

Your committee cannot help expressing their regret that so small
a portion of benevolent feeling has been exercised towards this
mission, and that so little has been accomplished during the
eight years of its existence.

The next item of this report is an appeal for "some brethren of
competent talents" to go and labor there.

There surely was ground for regret that so small a portion of
benevolent feeling was exercised towards this mission. Some
individuals did contribute now and then; "A Georgia Planter" sent a
part of $10;[192] a "poor woman" of the Rev. H. Malcom's congregation
sent $3 for the African mission;[193] "a friend to Africa avails of
jewelry for mission to Liberia, per Mr. E. Lincoln, $6";[194] the
Negroes connected with the First Baptist Church, Washington, sent
$15[195] and,