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is believed to be quite read
land, with divided councils

s abroad, will not be abi

to do m

le Russia, emboldened by the

dispersion of the alliance

zainst he

will be

more firm in her demands upon Turkt
latter power is evidently bent upon try-in,,
strength of her Mohammedan forces
ported that the SULTAN has had the choice submitted
to him of declaring war or abdicating his
The latest despaches, however, state that the reli-

and it is re-

gious festival of the Beiram had passed over quietly

so that we have yet to learn whether the struggle
between the Crescent and the Cross is to be re-

lation. It

s reported on Saturday that the fleets

in Besika
an 41-tal- a

Bay had been ordered to Constantinople

but it appears that only two steam-ships from each

for the protection of English and French residents
in Constantinople, against the possible contingency
of outrages by the Turkish population.

tion, not even as to the removal of uncertainty

the probabilities of war seem new to depend upon

the exercise of that religious fury against Chris-
tianity which has been called into action by the
SULTAN' of Turkey against Russian aggression, and
which he now finds it difficult, if not impossible, to
controul.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION
OF THE GOSPEL 1217 FOREIGN
PARTS.

THE annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary to this
)eietv was held last evening._ at the Colleeinte

tion. The attendance was Small, but the proceedings
were more than usually interesting.

On the platform we observed the Ven. Archdeacon
Brooks ; the Rev. Rector Campbell ; the Rev. J. W.
Colenso, D.D., Bishop Designate of Natal, Africa ; Revds
D. Moore, Incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell.

WaterloO ; R. H. Jones, St. Aniustine's ; T. Payne ; J. S
Howson ; Dr. Hume ; C. Wray ; C. H. Burton ; C. P,

T. Bowman ; W. R. Duncan; T. C. Cowan ; T. Robinson
Heathers ; Alderman Swainson, &c.

On the proposition of the Rev. G. W. Winn, seconded
by the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL, the Yen. Archdeacon

was unanimous]

;o the c

The Rev. G. NY
with prayer,
The Yen. eIIAIRMAN said
though I Diu

laving opena

he meeting

Ladies and gentlemen

estimable diocesan, who would gladly have attended at passage to eternity, while pointing towards the stars of
this meeting, had he not been particularly engaged by Bethlehem, by giving them that hope which they car
official duties in other parts of his diocese; at the same only obtain through the merits of our Saviour. (Hear
time I have much pleasure in having again to meet you hear.) He beseeched them, for the sake of theinselves,
upOn interesting an occasion as the one upon which we their wives and children, and fellow-countrymen, to dc

and that we might have seen this room better filled
than I observe it is to-night. At the same time I

upon them were numerous, and it was difficult to know

feel much indebted to tii.ose who have been kind
enough, during the severity of the late weather, to

in a cause so holy as this. (Hear, hear.) He trusted they
would bestow their aid with liberality, and show that they

come out to inee

of the object which we have to bring before you,
in the claims of the oldest missionary society in the land.
(Rear, hear.) Most of you will remember that last year
, ,• -
there was a celebrat;•-- -se 41—
,If b;

were laying up treasures tor eternity, where neither mot
nor rust doth corrupt, nor thief break through, nor steal

The Rev. DAN EL MOORE, Incumbent of Camden
Church, Camberwell, seconded the resolution. He said

'half century of this society in Liverpool. During that
long period of 150 years it has done much, and laudably
exerted its endeavours to spread the everlasting Gospel of
Christ throughout the different parts of the world. You
are aware, I believe, . that the object of this society is
of a two-fold character. The first business in which
this society felt an interest was in the providing for
the Church ministration of those
_of oar own country-

providence of God, into which they might enter with
every prospect of a blessed result. One part of the ope-
rations of this society was among their own countrymen.

who, from some reason or other, left the United Kingdom
to find a new home. With regard to this sphere of the
society's operations, the several grounds of speculative
nhiprtions which u.ere CATIIPf ;MP.: mfitin ao•a;nef TTgantliem

missions COIL

men, who had left their native land to settle in our
colonies. They had been accustomed to all the minis-
trations of the Church in this country and to the bless-
ings of a true Christian establishment; but, when they

were mentioned, they were sometimes told to look after
their own Heathen, and, although that objection always
involved bad logic, yet in this case it could not be
urged. (Hear, hear.) As to those who had gone from
amongst themselves, he felt that the question of their

spiritual instruction was not one of national fitness or
policy, but lie had simply to take the grounds of a com-
mon debt to those who wentfrom themselves as well as to
the nations among, whom they dwelt. Upwards of
1,000,000 yearly were permitted to leave these shores and
settle in various parts of their great colonies. They read
in the newspapers the difficulties which those emigrants
had to encounter, more especially in that great field of
t of Australia. Would they permit
who settled in these colonies, to

locate themselves, they found no vestige of Christianity in
it: Some few zealous and earnest members of the Church
could not but feel sympathy for those persons cast
upon the wide , world, wishing them to have the same
spiritual' advantages which they had in the old world ; and
in a true Christian spirit they determined to supply the
deficiency which they found existing. (Hear, hear.) The
first thing they did was to send to them ministers who
would carry on the different Ministrations of the Church to
which the' were now. unfortunately strangers,—for they ; t

enterprise, the continer

had no means: of doing that among themselves. Public
-worship was - unknown amongst them—they had no
one to administer the sacrament—no one to baptize
• their children—no one to solemnize the holy bonds of
marriage,—no one to sympathise with them on the bed
of sickness. These wants were supplied by this society :
missionaries were sent out to furnish these unfortunate
people in that which they most. required. The second ob-
ject 6f this society naturally rises from the first; for when
these missionaries arrived at the, place where their
countrymen lived abroad, they found the destitute state
of the neighbouring • people amongst whom the objects of
their first solicitude were setttled—the deep ignorance of
and total want of all those blessings which true religion
is the means of furnishing. It was natural enough, there-
fore, that their Christian sympathy should be aroused,
and that they should endeavour to supply what they had
no other means to obtain, but through their agency. That
was the complete object which they had in view : first, to
supply our own countrymen abroad with those spiritual
wants which they so much needed ; and then to spread a
knowledge of the Gospel amidst the darkness and ignorance
of the surrounding nations. (Cheers.) In the first view,
naturally and gradually, considering it as the little cloud
in the horizon, not larger than a man's hand; and then,
like that cloud, as it spread over the heavens, so this
society spread its influence around it, until it is now
settled in every part of the civilized world. (Hear, hear.)
Whether we look at America, where it was first estab-
lished, or go to the Eastern part of the world, and
look at the immense territories of our Indian empire, we
shall trace the footsteps of this society wherever we go.
And it still extends beyond that : Africa has received the
benefits of its labours, while the increasing territories of
Australia have also been ble.sed with the assistance we
have been able to afford. (Hear, hear.) • There are other
fields, still • continuing to be opened; and though much
haa been done in increasing the funds of the society, and a
great effort made lastnyear,—and not made without effect
—yet still more and more is required, because new fields
are constantly opening to its exertions. (Hear, hear.)
We •first see the sending out of a few missionaries for pur-
poses which the society had in view; but now we see, in
the space of a century and a half, churches established, with
all the orders of ministration, in every quarter of the globe;
and instead of a few isolated missionaries, we have thirty
dioceses established, with , thirty 'bishops at their head.
(Cheers.) This is a very important matter indeed. I
know of nothing more calculated to: carry out the objects
of the society than the establishment•of churches like these
in all the quarters of the globe. (Hear, hear.) It does
not fall to my duty, as chairman of this meeting, to enter

bear upon them, whereby their best impressions would be
strengthened and continued to them ? This was one of
the considerations that had led him to take an active part

in the operations of this society. He had long been con-
ne6ted with the Church Missionary Society, a society which
he loved and revered, because he believed it was doing God's
work, and he was led to identify himself with this society by
the thought that if the emigrants to the British colonies

into details shelving the progress of the sock-. That
will be done by those gentlemen who have kindly under-
taken to explain to you the progress and present state of
the society. I shall, therefore, content myself by calling
upon them, and first I shall request one to address you
who needs no introduction of mine. He is known to you
all as living amongst us. I allude to my colleague, the

Rector of Liverpool-. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL moved .the following reso-
lution :—" That the continued advancement of emigration
constitutes increasingly strong claims upon the Church
at home for aJargely,augmented band of faithful servants
of Christ, to,meet the spiritual necessities of those .thou
sands of our fellow-countrymen and fellow-Christians in
the Colonies, who must otherwise be left to perish for the
lack of knowledge." In endeavouring to commend thi;
proposition to . the adoption of the meeting, he did not
think it r- - -.441 to •trouble them -with vP

necessary tile
many words, because he was of opinion it would ne•
cessarily recommend itself to the favourable acceptance
of every christian mind. In advocating the claims of
this society, he did not think it incumbent

them.to obviate the.objection .wmcn rose on some minds,
and which, he must say, m some degree forced itself upon
his own mind, that money collected for this society was
intended for foreign objects. We had, it was said, 'quite
enough to do at home, and that here our charity ought to
begin, as there was plenty of work for them among the
heathens of our own native hind. It should, however, be
borne in mind, that the: objects of this society were not
foreign objects, although they lay in foreign lautl§, (Rear)