The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

TILE SCOTCH CHURCH, CROWN-COURT.

Tar REV. Da. 6.14M1N0.
Genesis lie., v. 36.—" All these things are against me."
The preacher showed that we often draw untrue
comb:alone from true premiss, and interpret es permanently
disaitiocui what is only temporarily painful. This arose from the
imperfection of our knowledge, the precipitancy of our
judgment. and the omission of God in all our thoughts and
calculations. We ahould look at our afflictions as chastise-
mente—not petudties—a... preparatory to purer lives here and
eternal joys hereafter. He expressed his conviction that the
awful baptism of suffertege, and morrows, and death, that
had sprinkled the soil of India, was, deplorable and heart-
rending am we felt it to be, the introduction to enduring
bleasings. The blood of so many victims was the seed of the
church. It wes no vain sacrifice. There was • meaning
and a mission in it, end what we know sot new we shall
know hereafter. A voice come. from Cawnpore, and Luck-
now, and Delhi, and from either bank of the Ganges, " Be
still, and know that lam God;" " I will be exalted in the
earth ;" " God bath said I will never lease thee nor forsake
thee ;" and therefore every fugitive and captive in India
may with the apostle boldly say, " The Lord fa my helper, I
will not fear what man shall do unto me." This was not a
time to enter on 'Amsted discussions as to how far all thin
suffering might have been foresees, or who were the parties
guilty of culpable blindness and neglect. It was our present
duty to enlist, an behalf of the powers that be, all the dis-
posable might and resources of the empire, bloater to rush
this sanguinary insurrection—this murderous (=gads against
helpless babes and =offending women. They were not
demanding vengeance; but. surely, just and due retri-
bution was merry as well as justice. They invoked not
the sword against a single Hlndoo or Mahommedan
woman or child ; but was it unjust to require that every
gem found armed against our Queen and her authority in
India should meet the traitors and the murderers' doom
That wee not mere justice to the guilty, it was mercy to the
rest of the empire. Here the highest political expediency
and the purest justice were one. It was our duty, and he was
RUM it was our instinctive impulse, to pray, ae with one
heart and coke, that God, who is as near to every acre of
India as of England, would be pleased in great merry to
epee= his protecting shield over our countrymen and their
wives 'and children, now exposed to savage and relentless
proscription and cruelties. Aware that those who escape
ere homeless and penniless, that luxury now pines in want
and Min= is hungry, and the possessor of wardrobes stored
with goodly apparel is naked, it was alike our duty and our
privilege to visit or minister to the widow and the fatherless
while wo keep ourselves unspotted from the world. Let
every heart be a fountain of sympathy, and every puree a
source of tmccour. Numbers of soldiers, victims of pasti-
lance and battle, whose widows and orphans are bequeathed
to us—engineers and clerks, and countless employes in the
civil departments—children at school in England, now
orphans, and the schools unable to continue to m-
oms them—constitute together an amount of destitution
and suffering of which we had no precedent in the
late Crimean campaign. As if providentially meant to
enable us to respond to this appeal from India, we have had
a beuntsrue harvest, a lightening of taxation, and plenty
of employment. As to the causes of this terrible outbreak,
he believed they were not owing to the crimes nor the ava-
rice, nor the misgovernment of our country in India—the
canoes were deeper far. It was :the;maturity of deep-seated
and long-ripening elements. The Mnamilman and the
Brahmin have seen light breaking in every day, and died-
Uttheir respective superstivions—and all kinds of
ifedge, secular and sacred , have equally this effect—
and dreading the ebb of the tide of their deluded victims,
and the lots of their own power, they have got up pretended
MIME for combining the masses against Christians in India.
With all our sins we have been too gigantic a bkesing to the
heathen to hese the field for yet greater benefits. Incidents
and interpocitigss, ebvintudy providential, have occurred so
often is rapid succession since the first outburst at Meerut,
that they mull not Lut be regarded co prophecies of PUCCCOS;
and, taught a lesson from the past, we may, by God's blessing
commence a course of polio,' in India that will sow broadcast
on its gunny plains the seeds of golden harvests of religion,
social order, bepristeett, and peace.
Therollections made at the rinse of the rev. gentlemen's
discourse amounted to 1051. 1.. 6d.