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!!rowing ugh ii ?pier evert Jaya 'and that at last. in some aolden
age S':vi 11 incarnation that shall
pluck the globe oat of the hull, the evil spirit and restore it
to bleJsealuess and Our object, 'lnv friends, -is to tell
them tat. the incaraation has cone ; to tell theM of a -greater
man wholavgl, laaetare.themand regain the .seat. it is,'
Sir, a melancholy fact to look abroad 'Upon the earth, tad look
at its population. It has been remarked that if you were to go
to America, and stand on the top of the highest 'point of the',
Andes, and loekl.around.you on the 30,000,000 of both Arriericas,t
that amongst them you would find eighteen millions of nominal
Christians and twelve millions .Of idolaters. Go to Afrida;
.summon around You her 900)0,000; you may address amongst
them 3,000,000 of nominal Christians and 87,000,0(X) of idols-
tors. Go to Asia; take • y-our stand On the Himalaya moun-
t tains • call around you theboo,ooo,oooof Adia; you may address
I 2,000,000 of nominal Christians, and, awful to say, 498,000,000
that have never heard of the Lord God and his Christ. This is
a faCt. which Makes us anxious to go forward as far as we can,
merging minor differences—more anxious than ever to give the
right hand of joy to every man that will make known among
the dark places of the earth the riches of the eternal God, Fa-
ther, Sou, and Holy Ghost. 'lt is, I need not say, for this pur-
pose that the Church Missionary Society has been established.
She belongs to 'a church, in whose bosom I was born, in whose
loVe I pray to die. But, iir, in her support, I say that Ido rejoice
in the labours of others ; and, though not of my own communion,
they are instruments ill the hands of • God iii putting au end to
idolatry, murder, cannibalism; drying- up widows' tears, stop-
ping the murder of infants, and erecting tabernacles fur the
worship of the truejehovah. The Charch Missionary Society
has been preferred of God during the last year. I was glad, sir,
that our report did nut take up first the sobjeet of Money.
There is au idea-amongst soine that we place rtoo annuli de-
pendence on our movey. I pray GO that we do -not 00. so;
and if any think we do, the beSt practical' leSsan they can read
us of the stiralrvalue 'we plate on oar motley 'is to' give its
largely of theirs, and prove their own.. practical contempt of
Applause.) The report first alluded to our missionary candi-
dates for the last year. I rejoice to say we - have sent oat a
larger number during the pastaseareef oitssionarieei than dusing,
any former year. I will read eneseatence. to you from the at,-
stract of our report :—" The''cominitteuhave had the satisfat:
• tion to. receive intwcennekion _its: the Society, as miSsionasiese in
tile last year, several alergyinen,whahad previously, ,been en-
gaged in parochial' duties at liotnea 'hod they would thankfully
receive an increase in, this clOsailstrigaintstr r• ;NosasslsaVill mans
tiou a circumstance of ones ;,,oy; these, to show that even Still it is
a large sacrifice fur a instal titago out as a fnissiuuary. 'rho
ether day we took our, lease.s'f _six missionary candidates. A '
friend of mine, who was acquainted with one of them who was
a wrangler at the Univeisity of Cambridge, and who had la-
boured for eight yeats in- a pariah in England, followed him out
into the street. lie said to him, " Are your father and Mother
living?" '• They are both living," he said. "They'are both
living ! Have you brothers aail sisters?" "We are ten in fa--
tally." " Have they given you up willingly ?" " Why," said
he, "before 1 left honie Ise all assembled for prayer; the lan-
guage of my father and mettles, sisters and brothers, tearne was
this: Yeti know how tenderly we have loved you;- we love
Jesus Christ better ; go said preach te() the heathen!'
Our committee has been encouraged, as you have heard, by au
im•rease of 1:11,7001 odd during the last year. Seine may ask,
What are you doing with it all V' We are endeavouring to,
.send forth means of grace—nothing else, either at home or
abroad, can we do. " l'aul may, plant, and Apoollos water,'' the
mill may be arranged, all its wheels and inachiaery in ever '
such order; but until the living stream frilleiy, or the breath of
the pure Heaven arise, all the inaehinery is vain. We employ
at the present time about 500 missionary- labourers of all de-
scriptions. Some may ask " what kind of success have you?"
I answer, un behalf of the Church Missionary Society, that,
taking all circumstances into accouut, the difficulties, and dis-
couraaements, and coldness and the smallness of the apparatus,
we have as large a comparative return as our ministry at home
furnishes. Now, sir, I shall not bring forward my own au-
thority in this matter. There was a meeting last year at Cal-
cutta, of the missionaries of all missionary societies there; there
were eighteen of them in number. There was a subject proposed
for discussion ; and the subject was, whether their success in India
had been commensurate with what Christian men might have.
expected. The opinion was not unanimous; there was a small
minority; and the minority without exception were those who
had most recently arrived in India; the overwhelming majority
consisted of those who were longest in the, country, and who
said, "the success is a great deal more than we had anticipated.
1,1 remember conversing the other day with a military officer,
and heard him make this statement upon a public platform;
" I resided;" he said, " 12 years in India ; if I were asked after
six of them were over, ' what were missionaries doing ?' 1 should
have laughed and said 'they are doing nothing.' Why? because
I knew not God. If I were asked after the 12 years were over
! after the Lord was Pleased ty reveal himself to my heartaishould
' have said more than 1 could have conceived itlo be possible.'"
1 met the other day, in London, a clergymen, the rector of a
suburban parish, who visited Our West African mission; I heard
him state on a platform, all that you read in therecords of West
African missions as below what my eyes have witnessed there.
With respect tofltaaw Zealand, a chaplain of New Smith Wales
called at our missufhary house, and said, "s 1 deem it my duty
to tell vou that I visited New Zealand prejtraliced against you;
1 saw there more of success than ever I heard of in the island."
A gentleman wrote to the Bible Siscietv respecting our mission-
ary labours in that island, and he said, " the only fault I find
with the missionary method of going on with their business is,
they appear to me blameable in understating the success of their
operations." Now, my friends, as far as the few moments
which fall to my lot permit, I will just endeavour to show-the
kind of blessing we are imparting amongst the heathen, if the
Lord give grace to them to listen to the teaching. I need not
• tell you that our missions are calculated to raise them in the
ranks of civilization. Why, you may all have read in one of
the passing volumes of the day; of the New Zealander landed
in your own town, who, when he saw a gentleman riding on
horseback, he thought it was all one animal, (a laugh') because
at that day there were not in his part of the island any animals
above a mere crawling reptile. When he saw the gentleman
dismount, he ran away screaming, and thought the anirnal a very
odd kind of English animal which had come in pieces (a laugh).
When his friend who brought him explained to him the nature
of the circumstance, with that rapid transition of mind which is
so common in savage minds, he insisted on mounting the horse.
He of upon him; the.hOrse never having had on his back a
New Zealander rider before, ran away with him and threw hint
to the ground, and tie was nes, Iy killej on thus spot. Now, one
Captain Fitztey and a Mr. SullivsYnf a lieutenant 'in 'the navy,
visited a New Zealand farm yard, they saw a waggon load of
wheat drawn by four beautiful waggon horses; Capt. Fitzroy`saw
at the doter of a mill at New Zealand, nearly covered with dour,
and his eyes could scarcely believe what he saw. They went
there opposed to the mission, because Mr. Earle, who had,
wrote a volume against that mission,- told them it was all hypo-
csisY and deceit ; and they tlserefore went prejudiced against
the mission. In Western Africa an eve witness has told me that
he rode from one end of the missionary station to the other—" I
have seen the suaLint-,s cottage, flowers and vegetables growing,
I haYe seen the . wornen with their market baskets going to the
markets, and where ever I saw this I was sure to hear that the
inhabitants of the cottage were. nominal Christians." Now com-
pare this statement with what has .been going on iieftations
without, Christianity. Look at China-at the present day. We
are told we may se:. in China a woman. and an ass yoked to a
plough together; a plough that a NeW,Zealatider or a Western
African would be as'ttinell of. But I (July dwell on these points
because there are me t. who would.- attaclemore Importance to
one proof of the teusniiellej?nproaenikat.of a people than to a
thousait'l of the spiritual iniprovenienta of a people. Now, if I
had time I could sliew you „that cuar.atiecess is nut limited to this.
Look at West Africa that I' have. spoken of—we have de-
spatches not yet printed, deseribing thtearrival of missionaries
there. There is one stationa,we had deserted; we sent a new
missionary to them.uuly six.nimiliis ago. They raised him on
their shoulders, and pointing him to their countrythen, said,
"See new Man I 'See new missiunary. ! bless God !" When he
told.thein "seethulove of Jesus, see the love•of the Father in
giving that Son for you," they said,." yes, massa, they loved us,
and you loved us, and English peiiple loved us, to send us a
missionary to look after our immortal. souls !" I will take one
fact, and one only from our Mediterranean mission. My hos
housed friend, Mr. Gobarn, the most honourable -of Christian
missionaries, told me on one occasion, when .he.resided in Gon-
dar, he saw waiting near his house for two or three dap, a poor
young Abyssinianeand he said, "What do you want aboUt my
house?" " Why," said the poor man, "I was afield to speak
to you." It appeared that this yeung man had come five days
journey. to Gondar, and Mr. Gobarn declared he was like a
walking skeleton. He said, "I came for an Arabic New Tee-
lament, to hear more of our Lord Jesus Christ." I will mention
one fact alone of our West .Indian 'Mission. A dear friend of
mine at Jamaica, visited a poor old slave in the hospital in the
town of Kingstown, he was dying. He asked him what hope
he had ? He said, " Why, though an old ignorant man and a
slave, my hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ." (Hear.) "Why,
sir," said he, "myself and brother slaves in the plantation 'sub-
scribed , we sent a young, man 12 miles to hear one of your mis-
sionaries, the nearest that preached to us; he came back every
evening and told us what he had heard; and, master, it is not
only, there are many slaves there that would tell you that their
hope was in the Lord Jesus." (Hear, bear.) My friends, I
shall conclude by telling you that we. went, not only your exer-
tions, not only that, we want
.above all, your prayers; we
want other liying instruments to go. atiruad. I was exceed-
ingly glad to hear the reference made to clergymen going out.
We rejoice to tbiuk that there is an increase of interest
in ourNniaersities. A dear and respected friend of mine was at
Cambridge the week before last, and he attended a missionary
meeting within six miles of Cambridge. and 70 young men went
out to I hat meeting in their caps and gowns. (Hear.) - Now,
I do think that this insulated fact is not discouraging. Oh, that
many of these may go forth into the abundant harvest! One
of the missionaries in New Zealand to one of our missionaries
here, says, " Where are yOur'yeung men? What are you do-
ing?" He puts from himself a home question—" Are you yet
amongst the rectors or vicars of England ? If not, stay awhile;
don't take a living; I have got one for you. And, inoreoVer,"
said he, "'though you would not like it in England, you shall
be a pluralist, you shall have two. Here is the living of
Yatighetukeconneattiivatka (laughter,) waiting for your ac-
ceptance. I will honestly tell von that the glebe-house is not
built. You shall have the choice of a rock overhanging the
ocean or a wild moor for the glebe-house; but you shall have
12,000 souls—you shall have them for your living. And 1. will
tell you, from the lips of one of them, what sort of a man we
want, and don't send us any other. I was visiting one of your
future rectories; it is 51) miles from any of our missionary posts.
I was riding along, and the shade of a summer evening was
gathering around me, and I met in the dusk one poor solitary.
wayfaring New Zealander. This luau knew my appearance,
for he had- visited one of our missionary posts. He had seen
the order of a christian village, and the congregations in a
christian church, and he was anxious that his own tribe should
have the same advantages that he saw at our missionary settles
meet. He came up to time and said, " Are you going at last to
send us a christian missionary ?" He came up to me; he put his
hand on his heart; he immediately after put his hand on his
own, and said, "Send as a man that will talk out of his heart
into our hearts." •(Hear, hear.) I have great pleasure in se- '
conding this resolution. The reverend gentleman sat down
amidst great applause.
The CttaIRMA'N put the resolution, which was carried unani-
mously.
The Rev. THOS. BYRTH ruse to Move the second resolution
as follows :
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" That this meeting, while affectionately deploring the early
removal of that long-tried friend from India, Bishop Corrie,
from his, episcopal labour; would unite, at the same time, in
thanksgivings to the Great Head of the Church, for tbecomple-
lion of the espiscopate in the presidencies of India, whereby it is
encouraged to hope that, under the influence of the Divine Spi-
rit, the missionary work will be fostered, and the wants of India
be 'gradually supplied by efficient native ministers of the gospel."
He said, Mr. Chancellor, I shall leave to the distinguished
individual who is to follow me, the task of performing that which
I know lie will do with a most masterly hand, drawing the the.-
racier of the sainted person whose name occupies so prominent
a place in this resolution, at well as of pronounting on his la-
bours and eulogising them, which they So manifestly deserve.
Yet I would claim so much bf the patience of this large assent--
bly, as to Forestall a few of the observations not to. be made by
Mr. Cunningham, but of some part of the subject. I cannot be-
lieve that, as his copiously informed mind will throw out a vast
deal of intellectual and spiritual wealth before this assembly, he
can well spare to me the pi ivilege of saving, that the men-
tion of the Bishop's name is intimately connected with mis-
sionary labours; 'that the mention of that name is intimately

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