The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-18 00:00:00

THE SPECIAL REAVICES.

Day after day these special services, in connexion with
the Pan-Anglican Synod, and which are held in the parish
church of St. Lawrence, by Ceilidhs% are increasing in
interest, and what is to be done for the congregations
during the remainder of the week it is difficult to foreman
No sooner are the doors than the church is well
f filed ; daring the nax hour crowds come flocking in,
until nave and aisles are crammed, and people begin to
wonder by what marvellous process the procession will
make its way from the western door to the altar. The
Bishop of Cape Town, Bishop Tozer, and Bishop
Twells are amongst the week-day preachers to octant,
and it is but reasonable to suppose that hundreds of
persons who admire those prelates and appreciate their
greatlabours will be added to the already overflowing con-
gregation.. It has beenthought that probabl7 the rector
may be induced to continue the services during the next
week, or, at all events, that there might be services on the
days when the Synod of Bishops is actually sitting at Lam-
both. Asuggestionhas been leaden% influential quartersthat
it would be a mark of respect to the church in the colonies
if on Sunday next, when the Bishop of New Zealand
(Dr. Selwyn) is to preach, the Lord Mayor and Corporation
should attend. Dr. Parry, Bishop of Barbadoes, de-
livered a short address at the 7 o'clock service yesterday
morning, being the Bth of the series standing at the altar
rails. The Holy Communion was then proceeded with,
and the bishop dismissed the congregation with the bene-
diction. The Bishop of Antigua was present at the service,
but not in his episcopal robes.
At one o'clock the second service of the day (the eighth
of the series) commenced. The church was terribly
crowded, nine out of every ten of the congregation being
men. The "Te Deism" was sung, and the Right Rev. Dr.
F. F. M'Dougall, bishop of Labuan, ascended the pulpit.
The history of the right rev. prelate is a somewhat curious
one. He is the son of an officer of the 42nd Foot, was
born in 1817, and educated for the medical profession
at King's College, London, where he obtained the
gold medal in 1837. He subsequently became •
member and fellow of the Royal College of Sur-
geons, and demonstrator of anatomy at King's College.
Abandoning the medical profession be entered at
Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he proceeded to the degree
of M.A. and D.C.L. Having received ordination he went
with Sir J. Brooke to Borneo, in 1847, as chief missionary,
and was consecrated to the bishopric of Labium, in that
islands in 1856. In his new position his knowledge of
medicine and surgery has been of immense advantage to
hint. The right rev. prelate who has become thoroughly
bronzed, and who wears a heavy beard and moustache,
selected for his text the 11th verse of the Ist chapter of
Malachi. He spoke feelingly of the dangers and difficulties
which a missionary has to undergo, and said that those
who sneered at the result of missionary operations in India
were very partial observers, persons who it might be had only
seen an inefficient missionary, or had bad experience of an
ill-managed mission, and had shut their eyes to all that
was good in the system. He was bound to say that
missions, not alone the missions of the church of England,
but others, great results bad been achieved, and that if
Schwartz, Martyn, Heber, and others, could see what pro-
gress had been made in the work they had begun
they would be astonished. They must re-
member that the condition of beta and China
was very different from what it was in the
days of the old East India Company, when intercourse with
the natives was prevented. European civilisation was re-
presented only by officers of the civil and military depart.
manta, and perhaps by soma successful planters. But still
enough was done by one or another to convert some, and
to induce others to look favourably on the Christian system,
enough to arouse the enmity of the Brahmins, who by
exciting the populace arrested the progress of the work.
But these difficulties had been surmounted to a great ex-
tent, in India especially, where besides direct Christian
teaching in schools, much religious instruction was given
in the government schools. He strongly urged the ap-
pointment of ruissimuiry bishops in India, who might, In
addition to other duties, undertake translations and other
literary work, so that missionaries who went out might
get to work at once, instead of waiting two or three years
to learn how they were to begin. This applied still more
forcibly to China and the eastern islands of the Archi-
pelago. He spoke ho fully of the people of Borneo,
amongst whom he was lihouring. During the last twenty
years large numbers of them had become Christians
who before were powerful pirates and bloodthirsty
head hunters, always at war with themselves,
and a terror to all within their reach. The
bishop gave much interesting information in reference to
Manilla and other places, derived from his own personal
experience, which it is to be hoped he may be able to give
to the public in a more permanent form. So dense was
the crowd at the close of the service that difficulty was
found in making room for the procession to wove out of
the church.

Another large crowd assembled at the tenth service (at
eight o'clock last evening), and many struggled in vain for
admission into the church. There was an immense pro-
cession, consisting of choristers, priests, and two bishops,
the Bishop of Central Africa (Dr. Tozer), and Dr. Kelly,
Coadjutor Bishop of Newfoundland. The prayers were in-
toned by the Rev. Edmund Ibbotrion, M.A., commissary of
the 1.4.h0p of Honolulu. The first lesson was read by the
Rev. C. B. Dalton, M.A., incumbent of Ilighgate (son-in-
law of the late Bishop of London); and the second by the
Rev. Morgan Cowie, B.D. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. James Hunter, M.A., minister of St. Matthew's
church, Bayswater, formerly archdeacon of Rupert's Land,
who selected for his text the Ist chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles, verse $, " And re shall be witnesses unto me,"
Ho said that the Church Missionary Society, for
which he bad to plead, had been established 70 years, and
sent 200 sons of the church into foreign lands to reach
the gospel On that occasion he represented the
of Rupert's Land (in which he had laboured 20 years). It
was us large as Europe, extending from Canada to the
Arctic Sea. He himself had preached the gospel from the
Red River to the Arctic circle. The society hail
established missions in Africa, India, China, New
Zealand, and other parts of the world, and bad been the
honoured instrument of eatabli-hing some colonial dioceses.
It was the means of raising a little escaped slave boy, and
educating him for the ministry. That lad was ordained
at the same time with himself by the late Bishop of Lon-
don, and was now Bishop Crowther, who was labouring
with his black clergy on the banks of the Niger, and
gathering in converts to the church. Through the exer-
tions of the Bible Societytlie Bible had been translated into
the language of the Indians, and he hail himself translated
for them the Prayer-book of the church. He regretted to
say that the Church Missionary Society war in immediate
want of soother 12,000 f., without which it would be
obliged to withdraw some of its agents. This arose not
from say failures, but because its successes had been too
great. The rev. gentleman concluded with an earnest
appeal on its behalf. The offertory collection vvov received
by the Bishop Coadjutor of Newfoundland, and the bene-
diction was pronounced by Bishop Tozer, who will preach
at to-night's eight o'clock service.

THIt QUELNAT BAL11011AL:1011 Friday last her
Majesty, who was amompasied by the Princess Helene,
Baron and Baroness Van de Weyer, the Belgian Ambse-
ardor and his lady, and Dr. Jenner, drove from Raiment
along the south side of the Dee to Braemar. After chang-
ing horses the royal corMge proceeded, via. Corriemulde
Falls, New Mar Lodge, and Inverey, to the Linn of Dee.
As the river was partially flooded, the grand scenery of
the Lien was eons to the beet possible advantage by the
royal visitors. After a considerable stay made here her
Majesty and party returned via lime:ear to Balmoral
about b p.m. On Sunday the Queen attended divine
worship in the church of Crathie. Her Majesty was as
companied by Prince and Princess Christian,
Prance Louise, and Priam Leopold, and attended
by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, includ-
ing Lady Churchill, the Hon. Herriot Phipps, Lady
Susan Melville, General Hood, Major-General Sir T. DI.
Biddulph, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Au. Madame
Van de Weyer and family were also present. The Rev. A.
Charter's, of the West Park Church, Glasgow, preached
from John i. 29, the last clause of the verse, " Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
The church was well filled. Hie Royal Highness Prince
Arthur, accompanied by Major Ephindone, MR., arrived
is Perth on Monday morning, and after partaking of break-
fist in the British Hotel proceeded in an open suriage,via
Blairgowrie and Spitted of °leashes, to Balmoral.
Dow NINO-SITREEr, SepT. 16.—The t:tieen has
been pleased to appoint John Pope Hennessy. Rap, to be
Governor and Commander-imChiefof the Island of Labuan
and its depOndenities.—Ggaik.