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

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

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uPAGATION OF this branch of our work without feeling its importance,
and without admitting that the time has not come for dis-
T TIE GOSPEL' continuing our aid tceour colonial brethren. (Hear, hear.)
If the c olonists are obliged to depend on the matter of
the gr, ----- their temporal wants to a certain degree on extraneous help
t
which is readily furnished by the mother country,. we. mils
qe 00 emial Meeting of the Soci tv far the Pro Propagation of feel that is also our duty to minister to their religions
/Nit. seel in
11. aon. at Foreign Pgrts,
,wase held irt the pColleeiate
l' Pebli Iwants, and that England is not the less bound to give
. , ii•past six 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
eitt 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 the 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 ?
beee eyfure the
ee s Right non. W. E. Gladstone, M.P , the Its emigrants are as much England's children in the
Ilep,'B 19', areewn, Archdeacon Jones, Rector Campbell, colonies as they were when in the counties of England..
i-an% . 11- °zrell) G. W. Warr, J. North, T. Redhead, The blood of England still flows in their veins; their
iote., 4.
,e-etin.on, etre
Calder, H. Jones, J. Hindley, Gil- British 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; Garde en, e • Ilindley, J. Stewart, T. Nowenham, Powell, were when in the mother country. But, my lord,. I remember
Vree Carel Bark, H. II• Wyatt, T C Cowan,e Paine, that we are rich in representatives of the colonies this night.
oitli' '''-r,Puj'e,lire' 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 tee,Prao,,. EN., 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.
eta., o en. 1-k ~,..
et, ustobe it , le. W. Preston, Esq , H. Halhead. Hutchison,
A. the introduction of Christianity into the heathen possessions
wei 1) ' 5c1.1 J. Hubback, Esq., J. Kitchen, Esq., of this country. Our mission to the heathen is found in
Thembert -t,
chair °°) -,,5q., Henry Bremner, Esq., &c., &c. widely sundered countries in the earth, and, in reference to
Chen'er. Was taken by his Lordship, the Bishop of this resolution, I may remind you that we have already
The
tate proceed. , entered. on that mission of love in the capital of the Ottoman
1., the 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
geeeete 4, before I call upon the ' secretary,as well as the the Mauritius, and that we are beginning to forward our
t4eihaei nelltewh° have undertaken to address you on this missionary work iii the islands of the Pacific ; but our great
elesei'eee eonie forward in order, I wish merely to say a work is to be found in our most splendid portion of our
ere thie 11. t° express my own pleasure in meeting you empire—in British India. The society is unremitting in
OfroPagti3.o„-"rcagath, in the cause of the Society for the its endeavours for the maintenance and extension_bt
le 04 frie-,°' the Gospel. lam truly glad to see so many of its missions among our Asiatic fellow-subjects.
jec st.
eat than I'S gathered together here, and I am happy, It feels that it is the duty of England. to u ertitselfthean say, to find that the attractions of the forth more vigorous efforts for the evangelisation of the
iteng, haveg°l3e, and the attractions of its advocates this Flinches ; and it also feels that that unique people avtebsautcit
eheeeeteee 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 mesa, iien,crY quarter of it as it is. On former occasions of work. For many years past India has a personatlointateerebs!
tee.kines ,-;e„rseries we have listened to very eloquent for me. It was once my home. It is endeared
IsV froo,-;e‘ue socie d received very efficient depute- the most sacred ties, and the circumstances of my life havet)o
elici,l'et.ecelv'eude
..Pagent boay.n, but I thiu.k I may say that we caused me to devote considerable labour and study
yetir Ates the 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,,art gear. ° welcome here on the present occasion. my own interest
.and inclinations lead me to the East.
tilat-14 gentiend cheers.) I sec that we are to be addressed. India has a special claim on the regard of all thinking
acei °f the Re'nen in succession. The first name, I find, is people. It has been observed by a great European writer,
statieattYit Wheeve.lifir. Wyatt, the travelling secretary of the Schlezger, ttheadt,
in if findyaoupeoplo, these three elements of
they deserve a large
to he Lel 4000,,ns ,
_n? doubt, furnish. you with somealso interest um
Who,
Nato "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. the tg.._ here in
are united in
England, may be welcomed by lised. Now, these three conditions of interest.
kr, tAl,te als,,Pre,e_elitative of the colonial church. (Cheers.) an eminent degree. in the Hindoo. India is a populous
1 oders" '4l the pleasure of hearing the Rev, country. It is more populous than any European .
.empire,
erinee'ton jltT' Whorepnts the parent society ; and when and its population is more than double the population of
hi ''4 rile "s•l'anle, lam sure many of you, my friends the whole Continent of Africa. It has still further claims
's h "1111
Isa ere 84 recollect that we had the pleasure of seeing on our regard, by reason of its people being an intellectual
Ye ekeiet Ine 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 etafei tllBnce, and with what temperate judgment Boer or Negro. Shall we say that, when we know the
that that eeeed,sitles, and advocated the cause of the society decimal notationb is the acknowledged invention. of the
ll " ewe a-ZeTat (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 -es`i, 3et joined our circle, we are to solve the great mysteries of human existence .
abound
nide
Ant 4 onlye ''at he is already in Liverpool, and not possible to turn to the speculative writings which. u
tePt the I,
Will °111,,, e "asty journey he has made he re which among Hindoo philosophers without seeing that the minds that
Of :at be To'rone being in the room at this moment. It can discuss those questions must be minds of no common
se, :kll himng, hope, before you will have the pleasure order. (Hear, hear). Then, again, in no literature of any
one sir 11g
here- Maderstand how welcome is his presence in
tikJeetleka„ (near, hear.) But I have on my left hand Hindoo writings. For instance, can
that
yhioisb tehxetsr.teitnotbbee found such magnificent imigery as
toeption, ' present here whose name, from hereditary lal ' wMati have • d him kindest
Perla weleae, 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 eh„ e here in Liverpool, but, I may add, whose
4117 claims ;teeter, and whose public eminence, have given vivid power of
of thunder to his voice, or to describe the. progress of time
heir 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,
~eleoille h /Om
. cheers.) I need not bid him rile
therefore, they
yeektee boeer° 'la Jour name for you have bade him deserve our regards. One of our old writers, Mr.
aPdrveasncocettd,
observes that a complete architecture is a sign of a
Dill
owne; erself in the most' unmistakeable manner, by state of civilisation ; and in India. architecture oncen. reached
elle "monstr t*
fhi. Ov tile t a ton. (Cheers.) But I hope that he
lie Foe tsit, 8,,2 say that I think Liverpool is not unworthy its perfect point, though what is to be now seen is but that
col, 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
ogtslatie bed there is in the civilised world, the greatest
eles. e as, of our society's increasing efforts. Southern India is the
part of that empire in which our missions are on the largest
tee Os leete—inlo°4_ —the British House of Commons. He
and he will " 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 by
missionariesin the diocese of Madras, and they are. supported
%ills elooenause, and, I think, a cause not unworthy 264 native agents—our operations then extending over 286 k
loge silre ehl'ence, or of the eloquence of any man.
villages. The testimony which the Bishop bears to our work the ed, 1
ma will he will feel it is worthy of his eloquence; in the report of the present year, which I hold in
the lv'rasee and aY for myself, I think that it crowns all y hand, is full of interest ; but I see the time is
segat°l46 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
Ofthies, its his been nommand the applause of listening
the 4 aiet as done, is raised hero to plead the cause my purpose to !rtarkmoefdouvrouopewrailtlionhsavien
the Southern India,
the ore 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 iwnhrothwaas laboured in the mission there, but
remarks on our operations in the
C44,lrPoot n„:entUre, therefore, to say to him that I think I shall make e
eloquencee 1 which''worthY 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 heeeneteear, 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
pie tom a„_ , ampneys, regret yiouring to raise up a netived(miniAry, and give a high class
u cation too the native Hin oo . ete4..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
thateu end, the college, called " Bishop's College," was
fillteg tiovvo36 111 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.fthtat
tiekiletti•lat thisengh some channel it will be made known to nobliemipnosrtittauntcioe.n.
Aft wcoonusldidebie.abdleifficnunlmt
btoerovoefr-ellstitaimdaes
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)—
that 44 sure • •
tih,„,°o ttan„ ~1_ will be some consolation to him to know asnative clergy of the Church of lenglaud—(applausbe):-
not more good through their knowledge of t
deir
1)4.4111g, 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 is 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.
-1411. -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
sngliei literature, soon came to see the simple absurdities
NI 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'opontt, —_":,e gentlemen whom I have named, the Rev. trymenh in abandoning his old religion, he became a deist.
undertook the office of a periodical entitled the
•qta, 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 the e will pro
minism and Christianity. Soon afterwards. a courseot
af
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.bertoof our communion, but one who has done signald
the cause of Christ—Dr. Duff—(applause)—an
litaPed to HieY lord, ladies and gentlemen, it has been sthltheeer 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 religiontbthatatcould4tri Rafe
eetta! the new fields for missionary exertion substantiate its claim to a Divine origin was that Chris-
tilto! oppen.°._lete been providentally opened, afford favour- and he
eelitet
neegeuity for extending the kingdom of Christ embraced it. He was
tian religion which he was
afterwardse ordained, and became a
N,:nhreiho7cllo:s to whom His name is still unknown." On minister of the Churchst of England, and, next to the Bishop
teat i4ted to obf the remarks I shall have to offer, I may be himself', he islthelamuose. popular and powerful preacher in
)pelle has also done service to the
14 „ a ecee, serve that the scene on which my eyes now Calcutta.
his( translations,pp and he has won the prize for
et ittle tah'orted indeed to gladden the hearts of all engaged cause by
!eel been aeY let the sacred cause of Christian missions. an Eiliftltiosnheslsay on the ducation 'of the female native
must observe, that there are many abate.
nienave yearoY fortune, during the space of between four
pepu
to be made with regard to Christian prospects in
eoebleed;rsi to have travelled over most parts of this
meatsdia. Sometimes the case is not fairly stated, and an
one of theg 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
t4rtaof 1.1,1 tat in its behalf ; but I can fairly say, that in no Gospel is rapidly spreading over the length and.breadthion
India. It is very far from being so. Veryblittletimpraetsisves,
of ,i'illy lild, not even excepting Wolverhampton, where has as yet been made with the hig cas e n
eoneeg 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
oh Within
to ,
will be rejoiced
sttree . elied , . these 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 for a
Its ee_ at we , 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(4:44, as :aye a noble and inspiriting meeting before
smaelyr,ea short time since, that the total number of native
the
tee. efv'ess observed by the Right Rev. Chairman, the
Protestants te the tentienu'l; of the_greatest causes that can engage f
in British India, is estimated at 108,000—a
ltd besir, °I Men. (Hear, hear' and cheers). My share mere fraction of the population.as.yet turned rom
.idolsthtoo
lipt ejelveB-"3 of the night, is simply and clearly defined, serve the living God. The missionaries employed in
work are insufficient for the purpose, and__e there are nematny
Will :4114y to 4 me. not to address myself to missionary 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 onee g‘ in the minute glass by which ifonly another be per-
for one generationgo sow,
the esociet Proeeed 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 he t'reseni which is to-night addressing itself to us is, in
,(.10„res eetejear, 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 tber,.,, summarily, 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
rieeiemteathe4 1 Our colonies, or with its introdu.etion into towards that end, for it is impossible that the native
Nears eineePPsseseion, And first, with respect to the mind can be unaffected by such changes. Such an effect
elenit,;l°,4 are'lei work, I may observe that its colonial is even to be witnessed at. present. Whereb Christianityan
tele ' eeca are, Year by year, being confined within narrower has not been embraced, Hindooism has rejected,gen..
God,
gs case
%014 Year bWe are blessed now with seeing that state of they are now fogthe mostrov part deists, believing in a
revelation of His will, or in a God
/.11104id "lon 3"lear, approaching, which it has been our but not in a written
testit„ 8 , bring about, namely, that the colonies existing in a trinity of persona. But it is something to
tos4 'Nee. sr
-supporting, in regard to their religious
n hear)—and )1,--e4.n du
to 0313rees, ~ It has been the societ's aim to stimulate, notthe more especially as Hindooism is being now
have shaken
thefoundations" of the old belief—(hear,
,attacked. Very recently, also, an important i
ie "el that 414 local church, and stria due to the coloniesalso
change ins.theelaw has been effected. Down to the year
Tores,lf-exeet”'s for the most part, have not been wanting 1850. any native who departed from his religion, incurred
thite;fee. es,l"—as witness, the noble instance of
severe legal penalties. He was considered dead, and was
p 01l - twelve toinp y rais.,, years the people of Canada prevented fron? inheriting ;
.and, if married,
his wife was
Neat 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
ne, it noon
_ e we C a enge any par o uropa
teed_ ertien e and extent, to give a stronger instance ofnot here oing to inveih against the' British authorities
tlratv• (If 13re (Rear, hear.) The result of the society's their gapathy in the missionary , for I know that
for
;a 11l fromCee(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
7ktlia "toVa . . , year our society s eal ►e t will be 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
sloe think reduced to the small amount of £5O a year ; is iessenine its grants from the Poblic 'treasury towards
eelee°f the You will rejoice further to hear, that, after the the maintenancer 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
he_ oto,to ?leer Canada all assistance, and that the dieceee the Aateemen at home are now beginning to take a
Ivi,") u wlld be independent of all external help. (Hear, different view of our duty towards India, and are adopt-
' tleed ere is the '
Co4_ no, result of our mode of operation, so that tone singularly in contrast to that in use years back,
in,, vered ,', fear that, by the assistance which has been when a statesman, yvhose name . .
I will not mention
I. uotene irora the
his d cl,
forth 1 e has been Parentchurch the branchchurches,because it has been rendered illustrious in eseen -
to
. .
11 °eat _O.O fostered; on the contrary, we are calling 1
an s,declared, that were 100,000. 'yes converted, he
that could befall India.
thetili, te7i..rt to an extent that must win the sympathies should feel it the greatest calamity
*4l:late of Tewinust be known to all intelligent persons that In conclusion,lv i the the rev. gentle contrasted that tan.
hmanlate President of the
Arnejaw from eoruCanada is not so advanced that we can snagsßoaid of Controlst.atement of
.t e .
in introducing Indian measures, when
ee
eitlea ;
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,!4tee 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
£lsin ter before last, the colonial par- o Ca etown
The Dean f p then came forward for the
for an PePulati ' ,000 for the relief of the large purpose of second log the resolution, in doing wh.ch he
el think: 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 managers 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 growing activity, 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 fundamental changes, which touch the heart and
the character 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. This is a moral work. You' must be content
to see it go forward, according to the laws of moral
works, and I think we are justified in saying, of the time
that has elapsed, 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—for we must see the colonial part of its oper-
ations reach its close in the natural course of events—l
do pot
Mean toleubh upon that interesting portion of its
our shomreasy in
labours which is connected with the heathen. But I wish
to refer to that which is an especial characteristic of this
distant '
society, because I find myself attracted to it by the terms
of the resolution which has been placed in my hands.
There
be impressionaenrdertnfind rid tthhaeti,rafhtnenriaialltitehn i those
foreign
e quitgn
lands—l should not indeed say foreigu lands, but i landid—eand who continue to be subjects of the
British
there glad' cro
osvin, in their new character of colonists—
be a suppition that these men
ought to bear for themselves the burthen of
providing themselves with religious ordinances.
Well, now, I think the true principle is, that temporary
support and aid should be lent to them from home.
(Hear, hear.)
I do not hesitate even to go as far as to
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." We 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 Society for 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 faorgtohoedo, rbdult-
noaf
ntcheesir
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
pale
eotgmAdni
fi
son:
ft.
byednhneoiyl
this great
loontsgunhafr:ipeyennai
awketort
thh,tyycal ourtmocthhahueernrniwddes,
ltoi
merely
eciaf
saaonal
aisfngterohregt
agree
heeueeornvpuwetperlq:
proportion
ph.
piety,
although
emelr:staebhti
tohouivt
nl
them,
thel
mgraooi very
hard one, even if we threw our alms away, for the
wia!tashhrl
hmeeeh
a:feot
raxbswrjpdheebhueeneittcyddt
!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 have
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 are children 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, and that 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 -
ybceeitaeinressf.oarnmTdehedemrepwiiiratehsniunatretthhgeerosswi
that it is anproachitiT, its
term. You have rather to expect, if anything, an accele-
ratedit a
progress
r heretoforeo
gres witnessed.iit
h a a
reahln nd Australia,ur
.iancge of little more thin fitly
ihguhmt easnt
bsei
nngtahpartnidnurceegaaoridt
utlou
earth-more
rate—moreaod andmo more
r more
exp
expansion given to commerce—
more and more wealth 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
ednoomuignhiontsh?at
Iysouit
eandodugwhitdheart and
ewxiudietrinsptaheineskituog yourhow
menlaws
—that
aratoe hawtnatusepgeiaankeeyotu lan
guage~
at yonugrusaogve--e,
thatreign, yo broearye
thate ys ouo fr
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 to be 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. She 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 iniltllstietosectuohusenmatrnayi,ritlhle,:yget: will be faith and Beal enough to supply in abundance the
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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 ilm
of our commois Master, they are repaying us for athe
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.laan
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

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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 of the 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
ipassing frons among ourselves,
from the bosoms of our ia.rnittes, 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, and how 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, and ever, I hope, to continue ou;
friends—(cheers)—what has that great nation to do at this
moment with the colonisation 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 is, to pass vote of thanks to the Lord Bishop for
occasion, and for his conduct in the 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 required, for it is well
kinsocwarncetlhyatthhiniskltohrdatshariy
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.

moHstissiLneoerrdeslatihpa,ninksr,etaunrdniingd
o thanks,assure you said id : I return you my
that I have great
pleasure in supportinm l. lam also thankful that we have
had the assistance of t the claims of this society, as it is one
which I hold very de
he right hoe. gentleman who 1113 so
eloquently addressed you, and also that we have been,
honoured with the presence of the Alnyor of this town
(Cheers.) I beg to !helk you. Ms lordship concluded byeetu
passing the benediction, and the m •
ag separated.
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