The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-06 00:00:00

MI:tIONAICY' SOCIEFV.

ilefoi.e "We 'can insert the 'Letter signed
4611tq-AN," dated Carlisle, the 27th of last
in'tupport of theThurch Missiontiry
Sci-
ciety, we 'Must request to he furnished With-his
name and address. Of the inacciiracy of this
Churchman's information,. we nee'd iinty
'his assertion, " that The lociety for propagating
the Gospelin Foreign Parts /ids at this time only
ONE Missionaty employed" under it, whilst " the
Chwrch Missionary Society employs nits hundred
Mtsionary Sdlnlmoters," &c. Now, if he had
only turned to the-Annual Account published by
The Society for propagating the Go'spel, which
be could easily have procured in Calm &, he
would have found that excellent institution to
have bad tor many years several Missions esta-
blished throughout British North America, and in
other parts:

NEWFOU'STDLAICO,
Four Missionaries—Se6en Schoolmasters.

IN NOVA SCOTIA,
Eighteen Missionaries -=—Tthenty - three School-

masters.

IN NF'V BRUNSWICK,
Nine Missionaries— Tweloe Schoolmasters.

IN CAPE Blt ETotg,
One Nlissiin, y

UPPER CANADA,
Eight Missionaries—One Sc boolindster.

LOWER CANAT/A,
FaT issional ies.

AFRICA,

One Misionotiary,
NEV SOUTH
Tao Schoc)lnza,tins.

• NORFOLK ISLAND,
One Mksionary—One Schoolmaster, anti one

Schoolmistress.

These particulars we have taken from the ac-
count of the Society for 4816 ; anti we believe
since then, this Corporation have' established
.other missions.—lt is our intention to resume
this subject ; and when we do, we shall likewise
give an account of the Mission; established by the
Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. We
are sorry to observe in our Corres.pondent the im-
proper spirit he attributes •.o others, and trust, that
wirenever hie writes again in support of the Church
Missionary Society, he will be more correct in his
representations, and more liberal hi his conclu-
sions, and at the saute tiMT-follow the example
'hewn him by The Venerable tlic Archdeacon of
BATH, who publicly declared his objections to the
e,rabli:shmeot or a tlranch Missionary Society in
!hat city--.whilst his opponents, ashamed:orenly to
avow themselves, have endeavoured to mislead
Ilia on this subject by their
.(140,7y7
MOUS publicat ire answer to The ‘Vorthy Arch-
deacon's manly, firm, and dignified Protest: We
have been indeed in the daily expectation of re-
ceivirg, .from the high tone taken by this Party,
and the intimations they Lave thrown out, some
official or authorised answer to this Protest, but
we have -looked in vain for it, though we have
seen ahaooiince m
of
anonymous coa' t. n miaations oil
the subject. Surely if the Church Missionary So-
ciety, be such as
_is described by our unknown
Correspondent, it is passing strange that none of
its Members have ventured publicly to defend it on
this occasion and if oar Correspondent be really
a Churchmin, as he subscribes himself, we re-
commend to his serious attention the following,
Extract from one of the most powerful! Sermons
we ever read. It was preached by that eminent
Divine the Lord I.3ishop of CHESTER hi February
1816, before the Society fur Propagatiog the
Gospel in Foreign Parts:, The appeal we hope
will not be made in vain, and that this Society,
" which has been brought forward in so proud,
trent a manner," will NOW receive that genet al
support from the Nation to which it is so justly
entitled

" Now, among the varions.lnstiititions for the
H promotion of this design, none are plaimed
" with greater wisdom, none may be made pro-
" ductive of better effects than THIS INCORPI).•
" RATED SOCIETY, the interests of which we ate
" now met to recommend and advance. For
" more titan a century has it been labouring to
" diffuse the light of Christianity over the terri-
" tories and dependencies of the thitish Empire ;
" and great, through its instrumentality, has
" been the number of them who have believed—
" believed, ‘ve hope, to the' saving of their souls.
" But we are far from having reached the term
• " of our labours. How large a poition of the
" habitable globe lies yet immersed in Pagan
" Darkness ! How many myriads of intellectual
" beings are still uncheered, even with a single
" ray of Divith: Troth ! unblessed with the
" kcowledge and hope of an. hereafter. And
" shall we any longer continue wanting to this
' " the tint duty of a Christian Nation Shall our
" ships extend our commerce, and pour forth tire
" manufactures of this laud over the four guar-
' " tees of the earth, without a wish and' CII-
- deavour to communicate, at the sante time and
" by the same means, the glad tidings of the
" Gospel When we review the wide limits of
" this powerful Empire, its magnificent esta-
" blishmenp, its wealth, its charities when,
" also, we reflect on the peculiar and nearly ex-
" clusive• blessings which, .as a Nation, we have
" enjoyed, we are almost led to observe, that
" The Society for the Propagation of ,the Gospel
" is-not upholden in a manner ezimmensurate to the
" great object which it has in view. We deceive
". ourselves, that we hare made all the returns
" which the Divine bounty and goodnesS demand..
" Our gratitude to the Supreme Giver should he
" evinced in the manner which* lie hiniself has.
" pointed out. If we really are the servants or
" a Heavenly Master, we shotrld feed his flock,
" and what they require is to eat of the bread of
life, and to think of that living water, which
" is Christ. Religion i: the only real conccrn-
" LUCIA of life. It is the chain which unites ,