The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. ---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. ~~_ _ u PAGATION OF this branch of our work without feeling its imp or t ance , and without admitting that the time has not come f or di s - T TIE GOSPEL ' continuing our aid tceour colonial brethren. (Hea r , h ear .) If the c olonists are obliged to depend on th e matter o f the g r , ----- their temporal wants to a certain degree on extraneous help t which is readily furnished by the mother country,. we . mils qe 0 0 emial Meeting of the Soci tv far the Pro Propagation of feel that is also our duty to minister to their religions / Nit. seel i n 11. a on. at Foreign Pgrts, , was e held irt the p Colleeiate l' Pebli I wants, and that England is not the less bound to give . , ii•past si x o clock last night. It having proofs her love and care for her children across the seas, Kele , sea c y inhmated that the Right Eon. W. Ether Glad- than she would do if they continued to live upon her own teet ei tt to be one of the speakers, a very crowded ging soil. If it be not so, and that England is not bound to Amthroel:cre, the entrance of tbe institution having been contribute to the religious as to the temporal wants of her ong th e alf-ariehour before the doors were opened. subjects abroad, we are tempted to ask, does she dissolve the Itrae. gentlemen on the platform were :—His Worship tie or annul the obligation between the parent and child ? bee e e y f ur e the e e s Right non. W. E. Gladstone, M.P , the It s emigrants are as much England's children in the Ile p,' B 19', a r e ewn, Archdeacon Jones, Rect or Campbell, colonies as they were when in the counties of England . . i -an % . 11 - °z r el l) G. W. Warr, J. North, T. Redhead, Th e blood of England still flows in their veins; their i o te . , 4. , e -etin.on, etre Calder, H. Jones, J. Hindley, Gil- B r itish parentage is their glory, and in their new houses, Jet, 4 -i. Browne, S. Sutton, J. Butler, W. Ridnill, W. and in far distant provinces of the Empire, they are not the .V '' 111%,8ennrY.,.8rnokes, T. Redhead, H. Duncan, H. Denny, less dutiful and obedient to the Crown of England than they e ; Gard e e n, e • Ilindley, J. Stewart, T. Nowenham, Powell, were when in the mother country. But, my lord,. I remember V r ee Carel Bark, H. II• Wyatt, T C Cowan,e Paine, that we are rich in representatives of the colonies this night. o itli ' ''' - r, Pu j 'e , li re' J : W. Welsh; Dr. ; Failor, C. laa ' verence, I . am . sensible that you are anxious to enjoy the privilege of A is, )° t twist, Chambers, Redhead, H. Baugh ; A. listening to the ehilesophical views of a statesman, and the 1 t e e,Prao,,. E N. , S. Martin, Esq., C. Turner, Esq., T. D. deep research of a historian, and therefore . I hurry on to the r ' n; "ern, e,"l. R. Gladstone, Esq ,R. Hutchison Esq., second division of our society's ministrations—its efforts . e ta ., o en . 1 - k ~,.. et , usto be it , le. W. Preston, Esq , H. Halhead. Hutchison, A. the introduction of Christianity into the heathen possessions w ei 1 ) ' 5c1. 1 J. Hubback, Esq., J. Kitchen, Esq., of this country. Our mission to the heathen is found in Th e mbert - t , chair °°) - ,, 5q., Henry Bremner, Esq., &c., &c. widely sundered countries in the earth, and, in reference to Ch en ' er . Was taken by his Lordship, the Bishop of this resolution, I may remind you that we have already Th e ta te proc eed . , entered . on that mission of love in the capital of the Ottoman 1., th e D Inge were opened with prayer, by the seers- empire. 41i -Av. k -,,-, I might also bring to your recollection the Y 4 , 1 trod e . r. tv arr. operations of the society in the far South of Africa, in "rieed 8 "'1), the Bishop of Chester then rose and said t Borneo, and that we have this year extended our ;rants to geee ete 4, before I call upon the ' secretary,as well as the the Mauritius, and that we are beginning to forward our t 4e i h a ei n ell t e wh ° have undertaken to address you on this missionary work iii the islands of the Pacific ; but our great ele s e i ' e ee eonie forward in order, I wish merely to say a work is to be found in our most splendid portion of our e re thi e 1 1 . t° express my own pleasure in meeting you empire—in British India. The society is unremitting in Of ro Pagti 3. o „ - " r c agath, in the cause of the Society for the its endeavours for the maintenance and extension_ bt l e 04 fri e - ,°' the Gospel. lam truly glad to see so many of its missions among our Asiatic fellow-subjects. jec s t . ea t th an I'S gathered together here, and I am happy, It feels that it is the duty of England . to u ertitselft h ea n say, to find that the attractions of the forth more vigorous efforts for the evangelisation of the iteng, h ave g°l 3 e, and the attractions of its advocates this Flinches ; and it also feels that that unique people av t e b s a u t c it ehee e eteee ef ,„ more than compensated for the ungenial a strong claim on the regard of all Christian people, into its lee In eye I'LL() Weather. lam truly glad to see the room desires to throw itself more and more energetically m esa , iie n ,c r Y quarter of it as it is. On former occasions of work. For many years past India has a persona t l o in ta te e re b s! te e . kines , - ; e „ r series we have listened to very eloquent for me. It was once my home. It is endeared I sV froo, - ;e‘ue socie d received very efficient depute- the most sacred ties, and the circumstances of my life have t ) o e li c i,l' e t . ec e l v ' e u d e ..Pagent boay . n , but I thiu . k I may say that we caused me to devote considerable labour and study y etir Ates th e more efficient deputation, or more eloquent questions of Oriental interest ; and although I have been as [lle ',eke the gentlemen whom it is my pleasure in yet speaki . ng of the society's work in the Southern world, ey f ,, a rt ge ar. ° welcome here on the present occasion. my own interest . and inclinations lead me to the East. ti lat -1 4 gentiend cheers.) I sec that we are to be addressed . India has a special claim on the regard of all thinking ac ei °f th e R e 'nen in succession. The first name, I find, is people. It has been observed by a great European writer, stati e a t t Y i t Wh e ev e . lif i r. Wyatt, the travelling secretary of the Schlezger, t t h e a d t, in if findy a ou peoplo, these three elements of they deserve a large to he L el 4 000 ,,n s , _n? doubt, furnish . you with some also interest um Who, Na to "fe of its recent proceedings. We are share of attention, namely—if a nation be first .. th a : beia, L 'uth an address from the Dean of Capetown, populous, secondly, ' intellectual, and thirdly, mo tiv. th e tg.._ here in are united in England, may be welcomed by lised. Now, these three conditions of interest . kr, t A l , t e als,, Pre , e _elitative of the colonial church. (Cheers.) an eminent degree . in the Hindoo. India is a populous 1 oder s " ' 4l the pleasure of hearing the Rev, country. It is more populous than any European . .empire, er in e e 'ton j l t T ' Whorep nts t h e parent society ; and when and its population is more than double the population of hi '' 4 rile " s • l ' a nle, lam sure many of you, my friends the whole Continent of Africa. It has still further claims 's h " 1 111 Is a ere 84 recollect that we had the pleasure of seeing on our regard, by reason of its people being an intellectual Ye e keiet I ne three or four years ago, on behalf of the race of people. No greater mistake can be . made than that wittliistiii re7e•en(Rear, heal%) And I make no doubt that sometimes committed by the European. in regarding the hs whet elopet Well, as I myself do, with what ability, Hindoo as belonging to no higher type of humanity then the eii etaf ei tll B nce, and with what temperate judgment Boer or Negro. Shall we say that, when we know the th at that e eee d ,sitles, and advocated the cause of the society decimal notation b is the acknowledged invention . of the ll " e w e a - Z e T a t (Hear, hear.) lam glad to find Hindoo ? Shall we say that, when I remind you that the thel ilea - ,e''' ,e 0 hear him this evening, and although Hindoos have been engaged for centuries in endeavouring the o liver -e s `i, 3et joined our circle, we are to solve the great mysteries of human existence . abound n i d e An t 4 o n ly e ''at he is already in Liverpool, and not possible to turn to the speculative writings which . u tePt th e I, Will °11 1 ,,, e "asty journey he has made he re which among Hindoo philosophers without seeing that the minds that Of :at b e To'rone being in the room at this moment. It can discuss those questions must be minds of no common se, :kll hi m n g , hope, before you will have the pleasure order. (Hear, hear). Then, again, in no literature of any o ne sir 11g here- Maderstand how welcome is his presence in tikJeetle ka „ (near, hear.) But I have on my left hand Hindoo writings. For instance, can that y hio is b t e h x e ts r .t e i t n o tb b e e found such magnificent imigery as to e ptio n , ' present here whose name, from hereditary l al ' w Mati have • d him kindest Per la wele ae , insure our Brahma—to liken the sound there be anything more striking in its way than to call the and most forests of the earth the hair of ki,,_ 4al e h„ e here in Liverpool, but, I may add, whose 411 7 claims ;teeter, and whose public eminence, have given vivid power of of thunder to his voice, or to describe the . progress of time he ir hearty V,higher, and still more his own, not only to as the step of his foot ? Surely here ts , a inagivation unsurpassed in any people go am ;it to our enthusiastic reception. (Hear, Then, thirdly, they area civilised people, and, ~e le oil le h /Om . cheers.) I need not bid him rile therefore, they y ee ktee b o e e r° 'la Jour name for you have bade him deserve our regards. One of our old writers, Mr. a P d r v e a s n co ce tt d , observes that a complete architecture is a sign of a D il l ow n e ; erself in the most ' unmistakeable manner, by state of civilisation ; and in India . architecture once n . reached elle "monstr t* fhi. Ov tile t a ton. (Cheers.) But I hope that he lie F oe tsit, 8 ,,2 say that I think Liverpool is not unworthy its perfect point, though what is to be now seen is but that c ol , 1 It. is"uDerhat We have claims upon him here. (Hear, ravages which has outlived the influences of age, and survived the leeAellee Y true that he has won the triumphs of his of Mahomedan times. This great i, to which England has an evargelising duty to discharge, countryone scene legislative i", a very different scene—before the greatest og t slatie bed there is in the civilised world, the greatest el es . e a s , of our society's increasing efforts. Southern India is the part of that empire in which our missions are on the largest tee Os le ete — i nl o °4_ —the British House of Commons. He an d he wi ll " is true, in a far humbler scheme; but scale. We have, in the present year, a force of 33 ordained Of sacred remember that we are met for a high b y missionariesin the diocese of Madras, and they are . supported % ill s eloo e n ause, and, I think, a cause not unworthy 264 native agents—our operations then extending over 286 k log e s ilre ehl' en ce, or of the eloquence of any man. villages. The testimony which the Bishop bears to our work t he ed , 1 ma will he will feel it is worthy of his eloquence; in the report of the present year, which I hold in th e lv'rasee and aY for myself, I think that it crowns all y hand, is full of interest ; but I see the time is seg at ° l 46 vhieh honours A hich eloquence can win, when Passing rapidly, and it may be better, perhaps, that eshould not occupy your time by reading it It is not Ofth i es, its hi s been nommand the applause of listening t he 4 aiet as done, is raised hero to plead the cause my purpose to !rta r k m o e f d ou v r ou ope w ra il t l ion h s av i e n the Southern India, the o re to Plead the cause of the Gospel, to open because I ampleasure of L 04 %) 1 .. Mercy On mankind. (Loud and long listening to one i w n h r o t h w a a s laboured in the mission there, but remarks on our operations in the C4 4 ,lrPoot n„:entUre, therefore, to say to him that I think I shall make e eloquencee 1 which ' ' w orthY of his visit, and certainly the Northern part of ° lndia, and especially in the presidency of e. (Hear, we have come, not unworthy of his Bengal. We arc there engaged in a work which is not Hear hear.) We are endea the ee h e eenete e ar, hear, and loll' d cheers.) We were showy, but substantia . ley the 0 , „eavoured also with the presence of OngLao . uolombo Dr. Ch but I to s themselves. As a means to p ie tom a „_ , ampneys, regret y i ouring to raise up a netive d ( miniAry, and give a high class u cation too the native Hin oo . ete 4 .. ens . eevere domestic affliction, he is prevented ekeelty to sent vvith . us this evening. He has had the instituted in 1819, and the royal collection in that year, ear which that eu end, the college, called " Bishop's College," was fillteg tiovvo36 11 1 S Soo hi,,_ ,that the " , I think his only son, in the and promise of his early youth. lam amounted to £lO,OOO, was applied to the foundation ' o . fth t at tie k ile t t i • lat thisengh some channel it will be made known to nobl i e m i p n o s r ti t t a u n t c io e. n. A ft w co o n u s ld ide b i e .ab d le iffic n u n l m t b to er ov o e f r-e ll st ita im d ae s d iiion whieleteeetina sympathises with him in the sad its receive their education in it, and are scattered over India Prevents his being here—(hear, hear) — t hat 44 sure • • tih,„,°o tt an „ ~1 _ will be some consolation to him to know asnative clergy of the Church of lenglaud—(applaus b e) : - not more good through their knowledge of t d eir 1 ) 4 . 41 11g, t,,„/,_Kind friends of the society have, on this effecting than by their translations into Oriental la bcit, beCee uere to countrymen . , which he support the cause he has so much at lie,le cause i s prevented himself from advocating lects of works on Christian evidences. I might repeat to Featw that - e I have mentioned. Now, I do not r a I you the history of a very remarkable man in illustration I allude to the Hindoo convert known of this statement. - 1 41 1 . -Nil of have ever been very desirous to occupy a Ben Argee. He, having familiarised himself with . toott ely 0 „, Your time, but, on this occasion, it would be we e'" or place I ' as s ngliei literature, soon came to see the simple absurdities N I vropeaa fort • ,beg leave, therefore, now to say, It, w lip" t, hwitb, of srahminism, but as is the case with many of his corm without any reading of reports, Ill'op o ntt, —_":,e gentlemen whom I have named, the Rev. trymen h in abandoning his old religion, he became a deist. undertook the office of a periodical entitled the •qt a , se and et the Very Rev. Dean of Capetown, to He thenn sill "tone ". second the first resolution—and then Mr. ` Enquire,, and devoted himself to the overthrow of Brah. o P th e e will pr o minism and Christianity. Soon afterwards . a course ot a f Tk Ilres,,,_ ed perm the second resolution. His Lord - lectures was being delivered by an eminent man, n 4 . ge . elev. ,propene his seat amid loud applause. 118;satil ; mullarles Wyatt proposed the first resolution, mem . ber to of our communion, but one who has done signal d the cause of Christ—Dr. Duff—(applause)—an li ta Ped to HieY lord, ladies and gentlemen, it has been s thlth e e e r it pleased God to sold him. The scales then fell 1t,..n0it....,,, to submit to this meeting the following pro- from his eyes ; he saw that the only religiontbthatatcould 4tri Rafe eetta! the new fields for missionary exertion substantiate its claim to a Divine origin was that Chris tilto! opp en . ° ._lete been providentally opened, afford favour- and he e elit et neegeuity f or extending the kingdom of Christ embraced it. He was tian religion which he was afterwards e ordained, and became a N,: n hre i h o 7 c l l o :s to whom His name is still unknown." On minister of the Church st of England, and, next to the Bishop teat i 4te d to obf the remarks I shall have to offer, I may be himself', he is l the la m u o se. popular and powerful preacher in ) pe lle has also done service to the 14 „ a e c ee , serve that the scene on which my eyes now Calcutta. his ( translations, pp and he has won the prize for e t i t tle tah'orted indeed to gladden the hearts of all engaged cause by !eel be en a eY let the sacred cause of Christian missions. an Ei l if t l t i o s n hes l say on the ducation 'of the female native must observe, that there are many abate. ni en av e yearoY fortune, during the space of between four pepu to be made with regard to Christian prospects in eoebleed; rs i to have travelled over most parts of this meats dia. Sometimes the case is not fairly stated, and an one of the g for the mission of our society ; and, in the impression is created in the minds of the people that the f InetNetin 8 ! circuits it has been given to inc to see many t4rta of 1.1, 1 ta t in its behalf ; but I can fairly say, that in no Gos pel is rapidly spreading over the length and . breadth ion India. It is very far from being so. Very b little t impr a e t s i s ves, of , i 'illy l il d, not even excepting Wolverhampton, where has as yet been made with the hig cas e n eon ee g aed splendid gathering, but, sill, no part and the . . " I haws ' in ten It 'led • I seen such a concourse as this I now find caste natives, constitute but a fraction when compared o h Withi n to , will be rejoiced sttr e e . elied , . t hese walls. I am sensible that we are with the whole population. You 14 CtlOn tala night by voice which has irresistible therefore, et, th 8 f or a Its e e _ at w e , Many present; but still there remains this an enlarged usefulness through Bishop's . College, and especially on the higher orders of Indian society. I 4 (4: 4 4, a s :aye a noble and inspiriting meeting before s m a e ly r , e a short time since, that the total number of native the t ee. ef v' e ss observed by the Right Rev. Chairman, the Protestants te t h e t enti en u'l; of the_greatest causes that can engage f in British India, is estimated at 108,000—a ltd besi r , ° I Men. (Hear, hear' and cheers). My share mere fraction of the population . as . yet turned rom . idols th to o lip t e jelv eB - " 3 of the night, is simply and clearly defined, serve the living God. The missionaries employed in work are insufficient for the purpose, a n d__ e there are ne m a t ny Will : 41 14y to 4 me. not to address myself to missi onar y duties, districts still without . a ,missionary. We weler cannot pi isa know that t *l4, a ten conneunicate missionary facts. . As the sand speedy evangelisation of India, bu Ispeak, 1 w the t on ee g‘ in the minute glass by which ifonly another be per for one generationgo sow, the e soci et P r oeeed to the heart of my subject. The work milted to reap, enough enough for this generation to work, if at the last day they find that, through their instrumentality, le h e t'reseni wh ich is to-night addressing itself to us is, in , ( . 1 0„ r e s eet e j e ar, of great magnitude. Its missionary many souls have been added to the Lord. (Hear, hear.) It his %a in over twenty-eight colonial dependencies, The spread of English education, however, is tending to dispel all the prejudices of the country, and . with the . 1 , 4 ay he its said service a force of 450 missionary clergymen. deeper study of history will follow the rejectien of their eh 4 , c 't tbe r ,.,, s ummarily, that the work of this large traditions, and the wild fictions of Hindoo mythology. 0114'41114, ee concerned either with the preservation of The introduction of railroads . will also accomplish much rie eie m t eath e 4 1 Our colonies, or with its introdu.etion into towards that end, for it is impossible that the native N ea rs eineePPsseseion, And first, with respect to the mind can be unaffected by such changes. Such an effect e l enit,; l° ,4 a r e' l ei work, I may observe that its colonial is even to be witnessed at . present. Where b Christianity an tele ' eeca are, Year by year, being confined within narrower has not been embraced, Hindooism has rejected,gen.. God, gs case %014 Year b We are blessed now with seeing that state of they are now fogthe most rov part deists, believing in a revelation of His will, or in a God / . 111 04i d "lo n 3"lear, approaching, which it has been our but not in a written t estit„ 8 , bring about, namely, that the colonies existing in a trinity of persona. But it is something to to s4 'Nee. sr -supporting, in regard to their religious n hear)—and ) 1, -- e4. n d u to 0 3 1 3 ree s, ~ It has been the societ's aim to stimulate, not the more especially as Hindooism is being now have shaken the foundations" of the old belief—(hear, ,attacked. Very recently, also, an important i ie " e l th at 414 local church, and st r ia due to the coloniesalso change in s. the e law has been effected. Down to the year Tor es , l f-ex eet ”'s for the most part, have not been wanting 1850. any native who departed from his religion, incurred thit e ; f ee. es,l"—as witness, the noble instance of severe legal penalties. He was considered dead, and was p 01l - twelve toi n p y rais.,, years the people of Canada prevented fron? inheriting ; .and, if married, his wife was Ne at I tn] he £ 29 ,700, and, as the Bishop of Toronto treated asia widow. That is now altered, and na change s Pon 1,„ ° mieht ll hll tf E eof of religion involves civil disabilities. (Hear, hear.) I Trt n e , it noon _ e we C a enge any par o uropa te ed _ erti en e and extent, to give a stronger instance ofnot here oing to inveih against the' British authorities t lrat v • (I f 1 3 re (Rear, hear.) The result of the society's their g apathy in the missionary , for I know that for ;a 11l from Cee(lig is this, that year by year we are with- the government of 'lndia had wouldserious difficu t esto 1 1 contend nosed; the and that they have endangered our posses easiBtof Colonial colonial church, and eliciting a larger with,. n Ace effort After next • ', sums altogether if they had given direct encouragement 7ktli a "toV a . . , year our society s eal ►e t will b e n Diemen s Land, or the diocese of Tas- Butdi 'is b • to missionary efforts. . flow a 1 erent policy being pursued, and it is gratifying to know that the government sl oe thi nk reduced to the small amount of £5O a year ; is iessenine its grants from the Poblic 'treasury towards eele e °f the Y o u will rejoice further to hear, that, after the the maintenance r of Hindoo and Mahommedan temples. ef /of tr__ear 1858 we shall entirely withdraw from the What however, encourages us most in this . work is, that h e _ ot o , to ?leer Canada all assistance, and that the dieceee the Aateemen at home are now beginning to take a I vi ,") u wlld be ind ependent of a l l external help. (Hear, different view of our duty towards India, and are adopt ' tleed er e is the ' Co 4 _ no, result of our mode of operation, so that tone singularly in contrast to that in use years back, i n ,, ver ed ,', fear that, by the assistance which has been when a statesman, yvhose name . . I will not mention I . uot ene irora t h e his d cl , for th 1 e has been P ar entchurch the branchchurches,because it has been rendered illustrious in eseen - to . . 11 °eat _ O . O f o stered; on the contrary, we are calling 1 an s,declared, that were 100,000 . 'yes converted, he that could befall India. the tili, te 7i .. rt to an extent that must win the sympathies should feel it the greatest calamity *4 l :lat e of T ew inust be known to all intelligent persons that In conclusion,lv i the the rev. gentle contrasted that tan. h man late President of the Arnej a w from eoruCanada is not so advanced that we can snagsßoaid of Controlst.atement of . t e . in introducing Indian measures, when e e ei t l e a ; and _ r operations in that part of British he declared that no danger need be apprehended from to ti. is the same may al,;eart on theeeltinf same be said of Nova Scotia, educating the natives of India, and called on the meeting 3' destitute, and obliged to see that the country fulfilled the sacred mission with z ,! 4 te e in the ep of the mother ceuntry. Ima al which the Almighty evideritly entrusted it, of being God's l' 414 ed same list th y 80 , 14,44 t, where, in the vi" e sea-bound island of New greatest witness ou earth. (Applause.) .. etarvi heti to vote £ls in ter before last, the colonial par- o Ca etown The Dean f p then came forward for the for an PePulati ' ,000 fo r the relief of the large purpose of second log the resolution, in doing wh.ch he el thi nk: on of the island. It will 'ng person to gi,„ A . not be possible said :My Lord Bishop and Christian Friends, I scarcely e slightest attention to • need express to you the great pleasure, I feel in being per- not compare in point of gravity and weight with the interests which are involved in the objects of this society and of this meeting. (Loud cheers.) I rather, my lord, should feel it to be necessary to ask an excuse for taking upon me any share in such a duty. You have listened with merited attention to those who, in this country. have devoted their time, from year to year, to the patient pro secution of their useful labours. You have listened with even more merited attention to the voice of one of that devoted band who, in the name of the English Church, are preaching the Gospel in the far corners of the world. (Cheers.) These, my lord, are the men to whom attention, to whom honour, is due. Any tribute in my power to render—l will not say any information in my :power to give, for I am but an observer like yourselves —any tribute in my power to render, is not worthy to be named for a moment in comparison with the ungrudging sacrifices of those who tear themselves from home and country, who encounter difficulty, hard ship, disease, danger, and death, for the cause of the Gospel in forign lands. (Cheers.) 'My Lord Bishop, it is little indeed that I can offer in the way of service to this society, but, summoned as I have been by those responsible for the conduct of its affairs in this town, I could not decline to appear here in your presence, as the constituted head of the church, to render my testimony, such as it is, in its favour; and in no place could that testimony be rendered, I will not say with more:efficacy, but at least with greater earnestness and zeal, and with greater satisfaction and interest to myself, than it is now rendered in the town where first I saw the light. (Cheers.) My Lord Bishop, we are met, I believe, at a critical period in the history of this society. For a long time its courseihas been one of unremitted assiduity, and of pros perity almost commensurate with that assiduity. For my own part, I feel it due to its man agers to say that, when we hear of, and when we witness the works which it has accomplished, when we see how deep it has struck its roots in many great territories of the aarth ; when we notice, to take only one single instance, what a blessed memory it has left behind it, and what a great and noble trop lee hae erected in the United States of America; and when I then consider how little in com parison to those groat, works are the sums which the society has drawn from this powerful and wealthy country, I feel, indeed, that our debt of gratitude to Providence, which from such small beginnings has reared such great results, is immensely accummulated, but that we are likewise under a debt of gratitude to those who have been the stewards of its affairs, and that we are likewise subjected to the strongest appeal, addressing it-elf to our own minds and hearts, to rouse ourselves at length in order to bear a worthy part in the great office of such an institu tion, (Cheers.) But this is a crisis in the history of the society, because the society—whose means have been increasing, but whose obligations have gone on increasing even faster than its means—has recently suffered a sudden withdrawal of one of the resources to which it had been accustomed to look. That resource consisted, as probably many who hear me are aware, in what is termed a " Queen's Letter," which after all amounted to no more than this— a permission, attended with the dignity of royal sanction, but at the same time a permission only, to the members of the church to offer their free-will offering in all the churches of the land, in behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. I believe that it is a resource which it would have been perfectly competent for the Church of England to make use of with full profit, even irrespective of the sanction of the Crown—but it so happened that that had been the particular form in which the church had been accustomed to make her appeal to her members, and the sudden breaking up of any form whatever, even although it is one of no peculiar virtue in itself, and one which might originally have been easily dispensed with, is usually attended with a momentary inconvenience. That inconvenience in the present instance is, I believe, something like a loss of an average income of £lO,OOO a year. I hope that there is no one of those who hear me, who will for a moment conceive that there is, in this circumstance, any ground for discouragement as to the working of the society. But if there be such a one, it may be well to illustrate the position of the society at the present moment, by a reference to a former chapter in its history, which bears a closer analogy to this circumstance. Up to to the year 1831, it was the custom of Parliament to dispense a large sum of money annually, not less than £16,000, to the society, for the support of the North American clergy. In the year which I have named, that grant was withdrawn. It was subsequently arranged by the present Lord Derby—(cheers) —as colonial minister, and, I must say, in the most considerate manner, that the income of the existing clergy should be continued to them, for their lives, but that as the lives fell in the grants should drop. Well, now, at that period the society had not received the development which it now has. The colonies had not received the development which they now have. The change which has taken place in the political govern ment of the colonies, introducing the principle of self reliance into the management of their temporal affairs, has been ono of infinite advantage to the society, because it has likewise taught them, by the force of irresistible analogy, to introduce the same principle of self-reliance into the management of their spiritual concerns. But at that period of which I now am speaking, these things were in their infancy, and the prospect of the society, in the opinion of many of its wisest friends, was a gloomy one when the parliamentary grant was with How stand the facts ? The withdrawal of the parliamentary grant compelled the society to throw 'ltself more freely and liberally upon the spontaneous liberality of Christian men. At the period when the grant was withdrawn, the grant itself, as I have said, was £16,000 a year, and the income of the society was £5,000 or 4.6,000, together making something like £21,000 or £22,000. At the period when I now speak, the income of the society has passed £60,000 a-year, amounting to ten times the free and independent income which it possessed at the time when it was accustomed to lean upon Parliament, and amounting to three times the aggregate of that which it then collected for itself, and that which it received from the bounty of the nation. (Cheers.) Well, under these circumstances, I think we shall be agreed that there is no reason for despondency, and no reason for despair, in the circumstances in which we now stand, (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I will venture to go further. I will venture to soar—without giving any opinion upon the withdrawal of that peculiar instrument of support, the manner of which I certainly regret—l will venture to express a strong opinion that that withdrawal will prove ultimately —aye, and speedily—to have been beneficial to the society ; for again will happen that which has happened already, that - the energies of the society will receive a new stimulus in consequence of the removal of artificial props. (Cries of hear, and cheers.) She will fall back more unreservedly upon her faith, her zeal, her prayers, her appeals to the faith, the love, the zeal, the Prayers, the alms, the services of Christian people—and for every pound which she obtained through the machinery of which she now loses the use. She will gain many pounds without being indebted for them to any one, excepting to the love of the members'of the Chdrch of England. (Great cheering.) I was glad to hear from those who have addressed us to night, a warning and a caution, with respect to the expectations which we are to entertain from the works of the missionaries of this society in foreign lands. It is the business of this insti tution, if I understand it rightly—l do not mean to say, that it is not likewise the business and the practice of other institutions—but it is the business of this institu tion, if I understand it rightly, to make her works :re semble the nation to which she belongs —to take care that her proceedings are governed, not so much by the love of show, as by a solid prudence—to see that she lays her foundations broad and deep, as those who have to do with God, and not with man, as those who are to obey His commands, and to trust to Him for the issue. Reckoning as to the time when the fruits are to become visible, scarcely belong to us. It is the work of faith and patience, to wait for the fruits —and oftentimes it happens, that the longer they are before they appear above the surface, the more precious, and the more enduring they are, when once they have appeared. Solidity, I venture to say, has been, up to the present time, the eminent and peculiar cha racteristic of the works of the society. (Hear, hear.) For this society, although a private institution, yet has had to do with great communities of men ; and, as I have already noticed, there is now a great community of men, a religious persuaeion, beginning be count its members by millions—l mean the Episcopal Church of the United States of America—(cheers)—and that church, with the simplicity of its laws, with its apostolic doctrines and discipline, with its constantly gro w i ng act i v i ty, with its incessantly rising tone of spiritual life—looks back upon this society as its parent. (Cheers.) You are not build ing—you are not labonring for a day. Your labours are chiefly to expect their consumation beyond the grave ; but looking at them even in their temporal operation, you are labouring for all time. You are seeking to found that which shall be the blessing, not only of those which now live, but of all succeeding generations. It is true that Christianity itself, in the first impulse which it received from the hand of its Divine author, appeared to make rapid progress but how soon was that progress stayed I How many centuries elapsed before any considerable masses of Europeans could be called Christians 1 It is a true analogy which you draw from the vegetable world. The oak does not grow in the same time as the poplar, and great and f un d amental changes, which touch the heart and the charact er of man, cannot be operated with the seine rapidity as the sword of the warrior deVastates a country, and seems to produce in the shortest time the most terrible, and, as one would suppose, the most endur ing effects. T his is a moral work. You' must be content to see it go forward, according to the laws of moral works, and I thi nk we are justified in saying, of the time that has el apsed, that the fruits which have been borne warrant you, always in humble submission to the Divine will, in entertaining sanguine anticipAtiens for the future. (Cheers,) Now, my lord, I have presumed to say that solid prudence has governed the operations of this society. I do not intend to touch upon that interesting portion of its labours —perhaps the only portion of them which will be permanent—fo r we must see the colon i al part of its oper ations reach its close in the natural course o f events — l do pot Mean toleubh upon that interesting portion of its our shomreasy in l abours which is connected with the heathen. B u t I w i s h to refer t o that which is an especial characteristi c o f th i s distant ' society, becau se I find myself attracted to it by th e terms of the resoluti on w hi ch h as b een p l aced in my hands. There be impressionaenrdertnfind rid tthhaeti,rafhtnenriaialltitehn i those foreign e q uit gn lands—l s h ould not indeed say foreigu lands, but i l and id —eand who continue to be subjects of the British there glad' cro os vin, in their new character o f colonists— be a suppition that these men ought to bear for themselves the burthen of providing th emse l ves with religious ordinances. Well, now, I think the true principle is, that temporary support and a id should b e l ent to them from home. (Hear, h ear. ) I do not hesitate even to go as far as t o say that permanent support, in the shape of money, to the colonial communities, with a view to the sustentation mitted to second the resolution which has just been proposed. That resolution has been read, therefore I need not trouble you with repeating it. I have been deputed to second the adoption of that resolution. You have heard it stated that there is a great field yet open for our missionary labours, ; R of all the new fields for missionary exertion, now provi dentially opening before us, I believe there is none f Inn which so touching and so powerful an appeal is made to our branch of Christ's Church herein England, as from that in South Africa. I say a touching appeal—because it comes to us as almost the last words—'hs dying charge—of one who has been cut off at the very outset of his labours there. It has recently pleased God, in the mysterious wisdom of his Providence, to deprive the branch of His church in South Africa, of itszealous and devoted bishop, Bishop Armstrong, in the prime of life, when only just entering upon plans, whose future is full of hope, has been suddenly called to his rest. That tongue, which so eloquently and persuasively pleaded for the penitent at home, and for the emigrant and heathen abroad, can now plead no more. That once generous heart which promoted his earnest appeals, has ceased to beat with the tender emotion of love, with the warm throbbings of life. That hand which was ever active to do whatever work was before it, with all diligence, is cold and still, it has just let go the plough of missionary labour when it was breaking up fall ive ground. That earnestness and that wisdom, which undertook to direct so many good works to man's welfare and God's glory, are now arrested:; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whether he has gone. Yet he being dead still speaketh, we can well nigh hear his last appeal, it comes to us as a solemn voice from the spot where he rests from his labours, and its burden is, as he gave it in testimony to this venerable society for the Propagation of the Gospel, fur I give his own words : "I feel that I am not pleading for my own diocese alone, but for the Church of England at home, when I ask her, through the society, to offer noble offerings, both of men —earnest, self-devoted men—and of money, at sucb a time as this. Half measures at such a time will not do. We must make a great stride in missionary efforts, and I must ask the society at once to dore a good deal, though they may not see the way to do a great and extraordinary work. I must ask them to run a great risk, and I feel sure, if they give me great and imme diate aid, without seeing their way to pay it, that the church, stirred up by a special appeal, will not disappoint them, nor leave them in difficulty. It is just that one opportunity upon which the whole character and career as a missionary, church loving, and seeking the souls of the heathen, may in all likelihood rest." W e have, then, my Christian friends, this touching appeal, calling to us to help and do Christ's work in the vast mission field which is now opening before us in South Africa. But I have said there is also a most powerful to us to undertake it. In 1835 ended a war trifling as compared with that of from 1850 to 1853. In the more than ten years peace which intervened between those two wars, had we sought to subdue the Kaffirs by other weapons than those of war and bloodshed, the last war might have been averted To subdue, permanently, the Kaffirs by arms, as long as they have their mountain fastnesses and dense bush to flee into, is impossible. To hope to drive them to those more inland tracts, from which they have been urged by drought, or compelled by tribes more savage than themselves, is vain ; and that we should be unmerciful and unchristian enough to attempt to exterminate them in an age like this, God forbid, or may He turn back our arms in defeat on ourselves, if we would attempt it. But as there are no means yet untried to redeem and save this noble people, we have expended a great amount of money in attempting to subdue them. In that we have been defeated. Now, I ask, why may we not learn wisdom from the fact ? May we not ask, have our acts, for the fifty years or more that we have possessed the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, been those of a great people ? Have they been those of a Christian people ? Why has God raised us up to ride upon the high places of the earth ? Why has He given us in many lands the places of the heathen in possession? Why has he brought us into such close borderhood to millions of those who know not God ? That we may convert the heathen to his faith, and their now fierce hearts to the love of his dear Son. Hitherto we have only been known to the Hairs through our petty trader taking every advantage of him, or through our troops repelling him by the rifle and the bayonet. Let us show them that we, as a great civilised nation, seek to raise them in the scale of men. Let us show them that we, like great immercial people, we teach him industry, agriculture, by turning his assegai into a pruning hook, and his land of sunshine and verdure into a land of fertility. Let us now show that we, as a great Christian people, seek not theirs, but them—them to be fellow worshippers with ourselves of Jesus our Lord, them to be fellow heirs with ourselves of glory and the immortality of joy. Now, the fitting time for this is around us, the door is open—this is the very junc ture of events, the very crisis of opportunity, the very cardo reruns—let us neglect the spring, and the door may be for ever closed. But why do Iso urge this at the very time of all others ? Why, as a church, we must bestir ourselves ? The Rev. Speaker then r ferred to how the missionaries had been received by the Kaffirs, and read an abstract from a work, in which one of the natives is reported to have stated—he received with thankfulness the missions as a fulfillment of the promise made to_ him by the Bishop of Capetown, and he would show his thankfulness by receiving the missionaries and protecting them, and making his people his children and their families attend the missions. He himself had always attended the mission, and would continue to do so, for he was glad that the missions had been establishe'd, as he and his people preferred missionaries to soldiers, because they believed . the missionaries to be their great friends, and the soldiers their enemies. This ,is going on in the right direction, but much still remains for us to do. The learned Bishop, in his last letter, wrote as to the _ _ future, when he said While I show you what, so far, has been done, I must tell you that lam learning day by day the vastness of the works committed to us, and the need of immediate and still greater efforts. After all we are only ploughing, as it were, a few acres with almost a whole country before us. For what is more remarkable than the real wild Kaffir land, with its thousands and thousands of Kaffirs without scarcely a mission station except our own. —the other religious bo'clies, the Wesleyans and the Baptists, chiefly confining their exertions amon the Fingoes or the Kaffirs that locate near the English towns. The rev, gentle man concluded by observing that the society has now promised £2,500 towards the good work, and I am sure that we shall back that response ; but, my dear friends, there is „ one 'point on which I must caution you, and that is, not to be too sanguine as to the result. We must not all at once expect too great things. In the days when 2,000 and 3,000 souls were added to the Lord, the Holy Spirit was poured forth (in a large measure, the church was one of heart and mind, Christians had all things in common, and the churches prayed to the apostles to receive their gifts. This was encouraging, but still, in the present day, we have much to encourage us—one of which was, that the church, by one of her great societies, is entering on the work. Well, then, let us come forward boldly, faithfully, and extensively, _ . , and we may yet take possession of that vast country in the name of Christ. It is not enough that the colours of this nation are planted on the fort, for we must not rest, if we would have our work fulfilled, until the cross of our redemption, the standard of our faith, is placed within the land The rev. gentleman concluded his address amidst the most enthusiastic applause: The following missionary hymn was then sung while the collection was being made : From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though ev'ry prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The:heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone ! Can we, whose souls 4re lighted With wisdom from on high ; Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny P Salvation ! yea, Salvation ! The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation Has learn'd Messiah's name. Waft, waft, ye winds, the story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a eca of glory, It spreads from polo to pole ; Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamh for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, Jn bliss returns to reign ! • The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., then came forward, and was received "with enthusiastic bursts of cheering, which were again and again repeated. When silence had been restored, the right hon. gentleman said ; My lord Bishop, I venture to assure this great assemblage that if, on account of the connection of my family with the great community of Liverpoil, my appearance here is a matter of inter eat to any of those who hear me, it is not less so to myself. My lbrd Bishop„ You were pleased to speak of my share in the pious labedrs 'of this evening as if assuming that that share denoted something in the nature of condescension. I assure you, my lord, I feel much rather that it is not a condescension; but if it be any simple sentiment of my own mind, it rather would be ambition—it might be presumption—which should induce me tP place myself before you as the advocate of the cause of the S oc i e t y f or the Propagation of the Gospel. (Cheers.) The matters ivith which I and accustomed to deal are, indeed, widely different from these—:ano3; perbaps , descending for a moment from the seriousness of the subject—l may venture, my lord, to say that you have spoken to-night of the usual strain of debate in the assembly with which I am familiar in terms, far more compliment ary than those which are sometimes employed respecting it. (Laughter.) But, however, that may be, and grave and weighty . as are the subjects to which, within those walls the representatives of a free people address them selves, they cannot be more grave or weighty—they eau oorwrnelcigleiorng,y,waonudldthneaduoenlpyrnovoitsibone f a or g t o h o e d o , rbdult noaf n t c h e e s ir would be an evil—(hear, hear)—because it would separate between them and the true, proper, natural discharge of their duties. The function of this society is to cherish them in their infancy. Believe me, every com munity has its state of infancy and of helplessness. There are, no doubt, belonging to the British crown great and powerful colonies. There is not one of them which has not arisen out of the smallest beginnings. Every com munity which has ever been founded since the day of our first parents has had first to go through its crisis of difficulties and of dangers. There is a period when the state finds it necessary to make provision for the civil wants of the early settlers. There is also a period when assistance should be rendered them with regard to their spiritual wants. The wise policy of the state has been for many years to shorten the period as much as possible, not merely out of a sense of justice to the British people— although justice to the British people requires it—but likewise because it is right that those who, in the political sphere enjoy the rights of freemen, should bear the burdens of freemen, and because, in point of fact, there can be no such thing in the long run as the privileges of freemen without the burthens of freemen. (Cheers.) The very same thing applies to this society. (Hear, hear.) If the society were to promise permanent aid to the support of the churches of the colonies, she would abandon her duty not less to you, than to them. She would be asking you to bestow your alms upon an object which did not require them—she would be enervating and emasculating the tone of religion in the colonies—she would be preventing the growth of a due sense of its inestimable value, if she treated the colonists in their Christian capacity as mere children, and not as grown up men ; and presumed to imagine that they had so little sense of the value of religious ordinances, that they were unwilling to discharge, in regard to those religious ordin ances, that which they did for themselves with respect to every other and every temporal blessing. (Hear, hear.) Now, I think we have received assurances in the form of facts that that is the principle, the wise principle, upon which the society is acting. You have been told that in one important diocese, that of Tasmania, within a couple of years the grant of the society will be practically abol- ished. You have been told that it will be absolutely abolished in another diocese, much :more important, the great diocese of Toronto. As I have said, it is not for me to oresume to give you information which I scantily possess. But it may be well worth mentioning to you, that not only has the principle of a sub scription for the support of the parochial clergy made great way in the colonies, but as we have now seen, within the last two years, that the principle of suppoi t for the episcopal heads of the church is likewise recog nised as a burthen, which the colonies ought to take upon themselves, and unless I am much mistaken, there are at this moment, either completed, or greatly advanced towards maturity, two funds in Upper Canada raised exclusively from colonial sources, with a view to the foundation of two bishoprics in that colony. (Rear, hear,) I may also venture to say what has been done by the Bishop of New Zealand. (Cheers.) Unless lam greatly mistaken, that admirable man, as prudent and practical in all his measures, as he is fervent in his zeal and un bounded in his sacrifices to God—(hear, hear, and cheers) —that admirable man, from the very first moment when he went to take charge of that missionary church, has been contemplating and preparing for the moment of time when it would have to depend only on its own resources ; and by his prudent acquisitions of land he has been forming - a fund, the object of which is entirely to relieve this society, after a limited period, of all care, or at least of all pecuniary charge with regard to the church of New Zealand. (Hear, hear.) I trust, therefore, that you will feel £that the object for which you are asked to contribute is a just, a prudent, and a reasonable object. (Hear, hear.) htooiettf eauros them sshee pa l e eotgmA d ni fi s o n: ft. byednhneoiyl this great loont s gunh a fr:ipe y ennai awke t ort t h h,tyyc a l our tmoc t hhahueernrniwddes, ltoi merely e c iaf sa a onal aisfngterohregt agree heeueeornvpuwetperlq: proportion ph. piety, although e melr:st a ebhti tohoui v t nl them, th e l mg r aooi v ery hard one, even if we threw our alms away, for the wia! t a sh h r l h m ee e h a : fe o t rax b s w r j pdh e eb h ue e ne i t t c yddt !s not tor the society to proceed upon that principle. It the ,thorough reasonableness, justice, and prudence of she at once does what is just and fair towards the people of England, who support her, and that which is most for the interest of the settlers of the colonies, whose spiritual nurse she has been for so many generations. When she adopts the rule which is adopted by the state, in regard to its own sphere, namely, that during the period of the first difficulty and pressure, the liberal offerings of the people of England should be given to prevent the want of religious ordinances, the lapse and destruction of religious habits ; but after the difficulties of the first stage of colo nial existence had been surmounted, she demands of them, not so much for our sakes as for their own sakes, that they shall take upon themselves the burthen of support ing their own colonial ministry. (Hear, hear, and cheers). Well now, my Lord Bishop, standing in the town of and of elasticity. But if you look to those which hav e sprung from the loins of England, how marked is the difference ! Only 250 years have elapsed since a few British settlers landed in Virginia. Now the inhabitants of that vast region are 30 millions of men ! Yon know them in the rela tions of commerce—you see how proudly their ships ride upon the waters. You know their wealth, their enterprise; you know the progress they have made, and you know that that progress continues at an undiminished rate. You know, also, that they ar e c hild ren sprung from the loins of England. (Cheers.) Nor is it only so in the United States—it is the same thing in your colonies. Instinct, with the principles of freedom, they are full of the same vital energy, they show the same tendency to rapid expan sion; and, looking to the lessons which experience has already given, and the results already attained, it is not, my Lord Bishop, I believe, presumption ; but it is simply availing myself of the instruction which the actual state of the world offered, when I say that it is plain that the function of colonising the earth upon which we live, of occupying its waste spaces, has been com mitted to that race to which we belong, a n d t h at a large and commanding share of it belongs t) the crown, the state, and the people of England. (Bear, hear, and loud cheers.) Now, does that fact carry with it no conse quences ? It seems plain, that all over the world gre itahlmaosrtapidity - yb c ee it ae i nr e s s f.o a r n mT d eh e de m re p w i ii r at e h s niun a t re tthh g ee ro ss w i that it is anproachitiT, its term. You have ra th er to expect, i f anyt h ing, an accele ratedit a progress r heretoforeo gres witnessed. iit h a a reah ln n d Australia, ur . i a n c g e of little more thin fitly i h g u h m t e a s n t b s e i n n g t a h p a r t n i d n u r c e e g a a o r i d t u t l o u earth-more rate—more aod and mo more r more exp expansion given to commerce— more and more w ea lth generated for the comfort of man— teeming cities reared where now it is a howling wilder ness, and green fields and wide crops of corn waving in places that are now waste and barren. Material progress of the earth seems to be a decree of Providence in this our day. The changes that have taken place in our commercial legislation have a moral, as well as an economical bearing, and there cannot be a doubt, when you see these figures so rapidly rising which indicate the magnitude of your trade, that in every million added to that trade there is a moral and spiritual purpose of Almighty God, because it means the opening of fresh opportunities for carrying to mankind the inestim able blessings of the Gospel. (Applause.) This work cannot be stayed. It cannot be resisted. It has received an impulse which propels it on in such a manner that its after -results must be anticipated in general with humility —indeed, but with great confidence. What are these after-results, I ask you, to be ? Is it enough that you multiply the inhabitants of the earth ? Is it enough that you provide them with the meat that perisheth ? Is it e d n o o m u i g n h ion t s h ? at I y s ou it e a n d o d ug w h i t d h e a r t and e w x i u d i e t r in sp t a h e in es ki t u o g your how men laws —that ar ato e ha w t na t u s e p g e ia a n k ee yo t u lan guage~ at yonugrusaogve--e, thatreign, y o broearye thate y s ou o f r ill any single particular of social or human life recall perpetually the origin from which they sprung ? Is this enough, or is it not ? It was beautifully said by a writer of great imagina tion, that if you reared up men with cultivated tastes—with the knowledge and habits of civilisation gave them the means of indulging those tastes, and of surrounding themselves with the comforts of life, and if, at the same time, they remained ignorant of that goodness which leads men heavenwards, you were only preparing a more costly banquet to satiate the appetite of death —and that is time. These empires it is reasonable to believe will exist ; these cities will be reared ; they will be in the closest relation with you. The net-work of your com merce reaches over the whole earth. You know your selves how incessantly both its extent and the intimacy of its relations are increasing, but shall these people be a people rejoicing, and, above all things, in the knowledge of the living God? That is the question which, humanly speaking, we have to answer. It is the function of this society—it is her peculiar privilege to minister to their spiritual wants at that season of weakness and infancy to which I have endeavoured to call your attention. It is her business to prevent a fatal interval. during which the name of God shall be forgotten. Well does she know how difficult it is' to restore the dominions of -Christianity, when once it has been extinguished. She oalls upon you to aid her in this great work. She shows you the nature of the rules by which she is governed. Her voice comes to you—her voice, sounding from her agents in this country, is likewise a voice that comes across every sea that washes the four corners of the globe. It is the voice of the settler who leaves your shore, your children, your brethren, your nearest and your dearest friends; it is the voice of that devoted clergy which is now discharging all the spiritual duties of the British colonies In such a man , ner as, without the smallest inviduous comparison draws down upon them the respect and the admiration of all amongst whom they live. (Applause.) It is the voice in some cases we know of the dead who, having fairly and deliberately, and not without counting the cost, given up all on earth t o b e enrolled among the soldier* of the crass, have been early called to their round, not too early for themselves —not too early we may perhaps in faith believe either for us, because it is our pri vilege to hope that their bright example will coati draw forth more and more warriors into the field, moo tna the arms ()EGA will multiply under its beneficent irate - Lice. Do not, I beseech you, remain deaf to a call like this, Do not hesitate to examine the claims and history of the cause of this society. Sh e wants n,:tlkirm lam persuaded, excepting to bring the knowledge of that history and of that function, with which she is charged, home to every hearth--every fireside in En gl and. It isnot the love of money that will check the flow of Christian liberality. We may not venture, indeed, to hope that all men will emancipate themselves from that miserable passion ; hut doubtless, among the people of God in il t l l s ti eto s e c tu o h u se n ma tr na y i , ri t l h l e , : yg e t: will be faith and Beal enough to supply in abundance the wo d matters t it) : b e ec e y rh sepfsrt presumptuous reflectingws w uhm b i c i p e h t h us sohhuueesphaotasnosk founded, oas and tdy that,e i ci n return, f yo u 1 willbelieve look transmitting you w which we might do well to admire and copy. In their not merely hearing the aspect of children in relation to the Church of England, as their mother, but in many imp rtaut in their love, in their unity, in their discipline 'n the resemblance which they are seeking to bear to the i l m of our commois Master, they are repaying us for a the temporal treasures which you have given, in order to their foundation and extension. (The right' hon. gentleman resumed his seat, amid the most enthusiastic applause) Mr. Anderson, at the request of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, then canoe forward to second the resolution ; in doing so he said : From the manner in which the resol22.la an has been proposed to the meeting by our honnred friend, who sits to the left of the chairman, wer:a to detain you with any remarks it would seem !.; if I wished to protrude on your time, particular)' at this late hour. I am, how ever, well aware tioat the resolution requires a second speech,s thSretore, what I say shall be said in all sincerity, it shall be said briefly. But allow me to say that Idq most deeply sympathise in that portion of the resolution which states that there is great encouragement to be felt at, the position in which the society is placed. I will not dwell on the special works of this society, but will merely allude to a few points which I think have not been noticed by any of the previous speakers. Allusion has been made to the progre s that has been made in our colonial churches, to what it did some few years ago. Years gone by, all oppo sition was offered to our colonial system —even by the governments of the day—but in the present day ho - such opposition was offered. Ile then traced the progress that had been made in establishing missionary stations in all parts of the world, which he attributed to external nausea that had been at work during the greater part of the eighteenth century, which showed the religious zeal and enthusiasm that had been manifested in the cause of good. He next directed attention to the fact that the governments had, in the days of Walpole, and of the Duke of Newcastle, opposed the extension of the c,olonial church, and contrasted that state of things with the present occasion, when they had the hon. gentleman, who sat next the chairman, coming forward aod using his energy and eloquence on behalf of the society. Ile next adverted to the oppositions which the church had always met with—even in the time of St. Paul it had its adveraions--was it then to bik wondered at that there should be opposition to it in the present day? To do away with tho opposition they must be faithful to each other, and persevere. lie believed that the great hindrance to its progresa was the self-seeking. and self-loving minds, and, therefore, it behove them to. be. watchful, and imitate the example of St. Paul, and then, they would gain increased power. He concluded by making. An earnest appeal on behalf of the society, and cordially seconded the resolution, The motion was then put and duly carried. t:a t Liverpool, and addressing a fraction, indeed, a small fraction of its population, but yet an assemblage so large, and of such a character, that its influence must be felt throughout the :whole of the gigantic mass—standing in the town of Liverpool, I venture to beseeih this assembly . . well to lay to heart both the dignity and the necessity of the work, and likewise well to consider what are the peculiar relations in which it stands, first to our functions as Christians, and next as to our place in the world as Englishmen; and, lastly, I would even venture to say your place as members of a commercial community almost unrivalled for its enterprise and its daring-,,almost unrivalled for its marvellous elcpansian arid its great prosperity, what is the society of which we speak ? What are its claims upon you ? When was it founded ? More than a century and a half has elapsed since it commenced its unobtrusive labours. It was founded at a time which, with reference to the highest purposes of our nature, I am afraid we must call an evil time. Tor undoubtedly, although the Revolution of 1688 was in the hands of God, the means of preserving the inestimable blessings of our civil and religious freedom—(cheers)—yet we cannot but think, we cannot but see that (in no just relation to the Revolution or its causes, yet as a matter of fact), during the cqurse of the last century, and from its very commencement, there came on a rapid decline in the religion and the morality of the British people, as a consequence of the great relaxation of the discipline of the:eh:arch, the material lowering of the standard of its a La , ion aually piety, and, as a first result again; or, at least, a necessary result of these lamentable circumstances, the great multiplication of the religious divisions of t 1 country. it a time when darkness had begun to gather in, and certainly at a time when it was about rapidly to increase, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospal was founded by some of those who were the elect of their generation. The men who endeavoured to stem the tide of ungodliness at home, were likewise the men who endeavoured for many years to provide for the wants or their fellow subjects and fellow Christians abroad. During all these generations — during the weary years of the last century the society never ceased from its work. I will not say, indeed, that it was carried on with all the energy and zeal whioh now characterise its operations; but this I do say, that wherever it was, it was the source and the fountain of blessings to mankind, and that, if it did no more than to remind the Church of England of the duty of missionary operations, in a time when that ditty was forgotten among us, and when no other warning or witnessing voice was raised for the purpose, I say that that, and that alone, irrespective of all present promise, irrespective of all past performance. entitles it to the name which it enjoys by common courtesy, of a venerable society—entitles it to our deep veneration, for having prevented us from falling away from one of our most capital and most blessed duties as members of the church of Christ. (Cries of hear, hear, and loud cheer.) It was a society fbr the Propagation of the gospel, under whose operations the first impression! was made during the last century upon the heathenism of India. (Hear, hear.) It was to her that our North American fellow subjects owed almost the whole of the scanty provision accorded to them for the maintenance of their religion. It was she who kept the snark alive in the time of winter, and of frost, until the better season should arrive, when others should light the flame of their zeal, from that spark which she had so pre served, and when it should become, as it is becoming, a great and wide illumination, to overspread and to bless the world. (Cheers.) But above all, tile ociety far the Propagation of the gospel, is society having reference to the supply of emigrants, with the ordinances of religion. The resolution whioh has been placed in my hands, says— ‘, That the growth and organisation of the colonial churches, and the efforts which they are making for the support of their own clergy and institutions, aro au encouragement to the society to persevere in its own special work of following tha British emigrants and settlers, with the ministration and the ordinances of religion.' That is the special work of the society.. Let us consider for a few minutes, before I cease to trouble you, what that special work meana, and what claim it constitutes upon us as members of the British nation, and of the British Church. Now, the great work of emi gration' what is it ? It is at any rate , one o f th e most marked characteristics of the nineteenth century. It had even reached, a few years back, the enormous amount of 400,000 souls carried annually from these little islands, to settle in all the various quarters of the glob,e— above 1,000 souls every day i passing frons among ourselves, from the bosoms of our ia.rni t tes, from close ties and kindred With us, to found or to join new communities. Now, is that a fact of slight moment, or of slight meaning ? Is it not the truth that, within the last two centuries, Europe has made, as it were, a great spring outwards? Various countries attempted to appropriate large portions of the fertile, but, up to that time, unoccupied portions of the earth. We were not the first in the field. There were other countries which had then either greater power or greater opportunities. Spin and Portugal, in par. ticular, appropriated to themselves vast regions beyond the oceans. France likewise was, at least, our rival in that respect. We were in the race, but we were by no means ' foremost in it. It has, however, continued, an d h ow do matters now stand? Vhiit has Portugal to do at the present moment with the colonisation of the world ? What has Spain to do at this time with the colonisation of the world D What has Germany, what has Italy, to do with the colonisation of the world ? What has that great, powerful, civilised, enlightened people, the French nation our nearest neighbours, a n d ever, I hope, to continue ou; friends—(cheers)—what has th a t great nation to do at this moment with the coloni sat i on of the world ? Un dotibtedly, she occupies a foremost place in the ranks of civilisation. Undoubtedly, she has important duties to discharge in reference_ . to her own people reference to Eu Europe. But it is plain, from experience, that colonisation is not the function ich it 'has and in pleased Providence to commit, either to that great country or to any other, among the leading and most faMous European nations. (Rear, hear.) And yet has colonisation stopped ? It has stopped in the States which were founded from these sources. They appear to carry within them no principles of vigour The Rev. Archdeacon zones said : At this late hour in the evening it is not my intention to make many observations, hut we have another duty to perform, and that i s , t o pass vote of thanks to the Lord Bishop for occasion, and for his conduct in th e chair, preiiding on t`a. The Rev. Rector Campbell seconded the reholntion and said : J have been requested to second the resolution ; but seconder is requ i red, for it is well k i n s o c w ar n ce t l h y a t t h h in is k l t o h rd at sh ariy ip is always foremost in supporting all good works, and had often rendered grttat and valuable assistance to that society, 1 am sure that the vote -will be carried by acclamation, therefore I will not say any more. (Applause)., The motion was then put, and carried by acclamation. mo H st is si L ne o e r r d e sla t i h p a , n in ks r , et a u n r d ni i ng d o thanks,assure you said id : I return you my that I have gr ea t pleasure i n supportinm l. lam also thankful that we ha ve had the assi s t ance o f t the claims of this society, as it i s one which I hold very de he right hoe. gentleman who 111 3 so eloquently a dd resse d y ou , and also that we h ave been, honoured with the presence of the Alnyor of thi s t own (Cheers.) I beg to !helk you. Ms lord s hi p concluded by eetu passing the benediction, and the m • ag sep arate d. s coßNs.—lt will be seen by advertisement in another column, that Mr. Renda,ll, che ro p o dist, is on a short professional visit to this town. 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