The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

INDLIN MISSIONS IXTENSION FUND.

An adjourned meeting, having for ito object the
enemies and enlereement of the minion of the Society for
the Propeonan of Gospel in Foreign Perti, in India,
was held yesterday, at Willis'e-rooms, King-street, St.
James's ; the Bishop of Lemnos in the chair. Amoopt
the gentlemen present we observed the Biehop of Janne%
Lord J. Ibeacern M.P., Hes. Hr. Justice Coleridge; Rev.
Pennon Mater, of Bishop's College, Calcutta' Ten. Arch-
deacon Abraham, of New Zealand ; Rev. W. H. Foy, of
Owelior, North Wen India • J. Ct. Hubbard, Esq., J.
Boodle, Hsu. T. P. W4ht, Rent T. J. Rowell,
3. V. Pondi, R. C. Smith, J. C. Cowen, Dr. Either, H.
Mend, N. Wads, B. Belcher, A. Joseph, B. Tynrhitt, J.
Milsorj. Fits,
The Eff. B. H•WILINI, having opened the proceedings
wlth_penyer, read the following report
1 " The present adjourned meeting has ban celled, with the
election of his grace the mondani of the society, and of the
Bishop of Lance, who now occupies the chair,--la collee-
Crn the general interest which wee manifested la our
annies@ at the former meeting, and out of 01111thilirl-
tke of the numbers who were unable to obtain admission on
that oecasios. The society thankfully avails itself of the pro.
mat Avoureble opportunity, when the thoughts of all INS
an drawn towards India, to fasten public attention an the
=go:condition of that distracted country, god as the boot
introducing the truths of Christienty a ru-
tin of Ilindoos and Mahan/tans. The report wee
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reed et the per** ose*& and which *ince/ boa slat
to leery perish* Oft* Miede and Ireland, spoiled the
hatiolag mos do pled* intessine which the noddy
elver nap
1. To hob* tie ggiiimbieed
No hid* sad to primes the
eduorglea, *Mob god sedirtiou of a aid* ofaistay.
i To establish ego of awe*/ kind * the gebelpel
dot, with a view b {hi eareeeiea al the Meese alei more
wheat* clam.deeelaaa. & To pros epos the allodea
of the Indies the urgent notedly etas km=
in the dad 4. To promote Christi* edrallea
and the dfollasuiel boentirreelleols. The
mile= la be prepaid Lava mho** to the fret
toe sreoesue ady. Moro the WNW a
Oad, tresqufflity sad order shell hese eulsod 'Arta
the society- will be prepared to room Ile mplikellsea M the
crmatahorities (applicationa already twice omit within
Mr years) for the subdivision of heeler sad the
loaldrdhalitat of bishop. in India ; but it is met proposed to
say portion of the special hod new to be
=ribrethe endowment of ephoopal rem, for yid&
porellelea may reaeonably be expected from elbsr sources.
igh4the time he lordly arrived for detemoielet whet may
be the MO p add maratoe for the prosaralso 4/Christie
eileestios ad the opetleedea
of v eizieder oho* ad
wary ataserhr saw& Me gems* seed the
It odds, le sea ea iregrositadisa of lasone as will amble
bo deals he weissiostry serdl, hi soar both to strengths@
lte proem puller sod la '
.find /round. The addi-
tion to the reelety's bormiu he present appeal is
made, Is UMW. e-yeer, a use which, though tnfniw
email la milks to the income of the country or even of thh
aatmarib, caseot be raised and kept up without the active
sod endow or-operation of friends in ell parts of the king •
don. The society, therefore, looka in the first instance to*
loorporaled and associated members, but also be-
yond thin to • much larger circle to enroll new
sraboelhoe kr lie funds; and so eliseturilly to aid its present
O&M aft the diffosion of the light of Christianity over that
gre•
litathea dependency which the God of notices bee
sad preserved to the British empire. It may be
later etlig to know that two young clergymen, one hem
east et ow adversities, have oared their minims en ode-
sierorlo fir lad* and have been already approved by the
bored saasiesse. The society bee also determined upon
adelifshig a oinks et Mee**** Blois* for which Mr.
Cooley, bather d the warned catechist of Cawripore, who
he *raft Resided there KOMI time, and acquired the La-
goes, hear ordained by the Bishop of Calcutta. The
monad nes** ou socount of the overall special funds is se
follows :—Adis Missions Ex • 3,3001. • Mimics of
• 9001. ; Memorial Churches of Delhi and Cawnpore,
5001. • total, 4,7001. The coatributions received lace the
lost Meeting have averaged lOU a day." _

Lord lone Yi,soi s, M.P., moved the bet resole-
ties That the Church of England is called, by the late
tolerations events in ladle, to adopt more energetic msesures
for the diffunon of the Gospel in that benighted lend; and
that this meeting will give its honey support to the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in its Warts to strengthen
and extend its wisdom among the Wisdom and Ida-
hornetans." It was a trite and well-known saying
that our nib in India depends upon our prestige. But pres-
tige was of two kind., the premise of our Enna andetchdes
tin taL. oer justice. The faner, am might proudly
.. or whomever impaired, bad been
triumphantly, -and permeneetly reatered—(bear, hear)—!
but of the latter what could be said ? There was no one pre-
sent who could put his hand upon his heart, and, reading the
records of our pest tramactions with the native state' and the
L atiiLeirrinces of India, soy that they wen wrong who, like
saw in the uprising of the whole population of Gude
mtat the invading force, the answer to the imprecation
the solemn service of the Church on every
Ash Wednesday denounces as justly de'to those
who remove their neighbour's landmark. (Hear, hear.)
Entertaining as he did that CODViC2IO4 moat deeply,
he should be playing the pert of a hypocrite if he wire to
stand forward and advocate a great extension of Christina
missions in India, and at the same time conceal his pro-
found belief that a continuance of such conduct on the part
of the state must either junly mar. if not altogether annihi-
late, the sitcom of them extended Chelan= missions ,• or
that the exteosion of such missions most terminate, and for
ever, the rule of such injustice in India. (Hear, hear.) He
thought he bad said enough in support of the first clause of
the resolution, end would now make a few remarks in favour
of the second paragraph, which might be taken sea corollary
of the first, and which pointed to the Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel as the means through which intended
and droners's efforts for missionary exertion should be made,
It was founded by William the Third, neither imponng nor
submitting to any party teat, tolerant as that church of which
It claimed to be the faithful handmaid, and was supported by
all the arehbishope and bishops of the mother sad sister
churches; and even if it had no pan efforts sod no former
triumphs in India to refer to, still he thought it would be
well to entrust the nascent cam of the Gospel in such wine
sad faithful hands ; but when against all kinds of dismunge-
Dents and difficulties it had for a long aerie* of years meta-
-1 tained sad increased its missionary force Is India,
until it numbered some fifty clamant sad some
30,000 native convert*, there was every reason on
practical grounds to respond to the appeal which it now
made to the public. (Hear, hear.) BM, beide@ those
claims, the society now shed from the charnel-houses of
Delhi and Cawnpors to avenge, as our Lord and Redeemer
would have ns avenge, the murder of its slaughtered and
martyred missionaries—not by Are and sword, but by preach-
ing on the very site, and among the ohms.. of their
martyrdom, the truths of • purer faith the gospel of P
mercy, and goodwill. (Hear, hear.) It was ties dutyitira
Christians, in them days of rebuke, and blasphemy, and in-
halation, to show and prove the truth of the ancient Christie&
saying, " The blood of her martyrs is the seed of the church."
Cut off, indeed, as they wen at the commencement of their
holy labours, with little or no Ina it might be to show for
them, doubtless when the books are opened and all secrets
made knows, them martyrs will be found to head a keg line
of native Christian converts. (Hear, hear.) Encouraged by
these convictions, be exhorted every one to proceed with in-
creased faithfulness, in patience and in hope, in carrying out
the objects of the society, believing and being fully persuaded
that although the eyes might not see and the ears might not
hear the blessed comommation, yet that in God's good pro-
vidence the time would ears when the holy word's diffusing
balm by the menage of the .sonde*arouN be heard within
the glen of ice and peached beneath the cocoa palm. (Cheers.)
Yr. Justice Cotaatoon, In seconding the resolution, said a
times might come whim it would be mild—" I gave you India,
from tier mountains of mow In the north to her mod south-
ward cape—l gave you her boundless plains, her vast rivers,
her gold, her jewels, her *diem commerce—l gave you all
these—for what? Ws it to And places for your
SOW . to find husbands for your dowerless hters, to
build miaow at home, to plan your parks, or to your
apartments? No. For with this I gave you millions upon
millions of immortal souls--eoula benighted in ignorance, lm-
Muted in vice, brought up in the doctrines of evil—l
gave you India to being these into the fold of Christ."
(Hear, hem.) Could any mappens that India wee given
to us be such trifles as thaw to which he had alluded, or that
It cams to us by chance? Could we suppose that accession
alts &comics, and annexation after annexation, wee to be
attributed at one time to the ambition of this man. the eater-
prise °Smoother, or the misconduct of a third ? No. Time
were but 1101:1111101111. Three secessions WWI given by the Al-
mighty for a greet and good purpose. Now he would ask
every one how that purpose had been answered ? It w
impossible that any but one answer could be glven--thst we
failed entirely in performing and carrying out the purpose for
which the Indian empire was given to U, IM impneible
for any one to think carefully upon a matter of this kind
without feeling deeply upon it. He was afraid that many
were satisfied with raying, "I had no particular °puma
with India—it did sot meter to me. I thought nothing
about it—l thought it was rich enough to maintain itself and
its own church, and I addressed myself to other mitten."
If that sort of feeling had ever prevailed, he trusted
that it was now gone for ever. What w the eon-
claim to which all must now some? We mud be•up
and doing. We man from this time forth *amidst one of
our first objects the discharge of our duty towards India. We
had neglected it so long, that them was an el em of Interest
which must be paid off before we could bring ourselves into
anything like a solvent condition. (Hear, bear.) If we
had given a little before, the more must be given now; and
if nothing had been given before, that was a reason for
giving so much the more for the purpose of advancing this
groat and good mime ; and where could it be better placed
thaa in the hands of the ancient and venerable society whose
awashe had in unworthily pleaded? (Cheers.)
The Right Nev. CICLIKII•N then put the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.

The Bev. Professor Birth; of Bishops College, Calcutta,
moved the second resolution :--" That the proposal of the
society to Irtabliab minions in the presidential and other
principal cities, with a view to brag the cm:the of Chris-
tianity before the minds of the upper as well aa the lower
damn of India, is dmmving of the name cordial approbation
and encouragement; and that it 4 deeireble to promote, by
every available means, the educstion, enduing, end or-
dination of the more advanced native andidstes for the
work of the ministry among their own coun
J. G. iiceIARD, Req., aesonded the reaol=hish was
agreed to unanimously.
The Rev. T. J. Rowszt.i. moved that mamma be takes
to give effect to the present appeal by holding meetings mid
opening eutactiption this in every principal town me A-
ke, end that the thanks of the rooming be ~in ins
Bishop of London for the support he ham sfitld es the
The motion was seconded by Alchemies ADILaMAII, of
Auckland, New Zealand, and carried by
_without:ion.
?The Right Rev. Cue Inman having teddy acknowledged
the compliment, pronounced the kemedlellen, and the meet-
ing then separated.