The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

On Tuesday night the second of the anniver,ary meet-
ings of the Liverpool Auxiliary of the Church Missionary
Society was held at the Royal Amphitheatre. The spa-
cious building was densely crowded orr the occasion. The
R. v. Chancellor Raikes occupied the chair.
The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting., and the
Rev. HENRY CARPENTER, the secretary, read the re-
port, which we gave lost week.
The Rrv. GEORGE HAZLEIVqOD moved the first reso-
lotio►t. He confessed be was deeply impressed with the
responsibility of addressing so large an assembly as the
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present. lie believed he need acarcely say that Christi-
anity Was of an expansive chsracrer, and thst in propor-
tion as the blessed hope of everlasting life cheered us
here, our language would be to gather others. into the fold
Cliri-t also. There was one great r rinciple involved in
the society. When missionaries were sent out to Egypt
some years ago, they were - told to " Preach everywh, re
peace in Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all." The Bishcp of
Cairn, ta lsttly assigned a number of reasons for-support-
ing the institution. One was this : that the society main-
tained the great Protestant principles of the Reformation

as opposed to Romish error ; and another was,, that it
opened and closed its meetings with prayer. He was cer-
tain that it would ever maintain its prine'ples. He then
referred to the immense amounts of money collected in

England for the spread or missionary efforts; and he•ex-
pressed his gratification at having once found in Dublin no
fewer than 500 of the clergy of the Church of. England as-
sembled on the platform of the society. Ile gave an out-
line of the history of New Zealand. For some time it Was
a matter of doubt as to whether the society sht,uld corn-

first to send an ir.structor there ; and from one of these
socit ties the sum of £ll 7;4. was transmitted for the pur-
Po:e of circulating the Script tires among the people of Ire-
land. Though he anticipated a large deficiency in Ireland
this year in consequence of the failure.of the potat), crop,
he was glad to say. that there was something of an increase.
But there must be a considerable increase if the society

were to

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treasurer ; and. he concluded by expressing a hope that
every year the friends of the society would abound more
and more in the work of the Lord.
The Rev. Mr. BERNAU, missionary from British
Guiana, seconded the resolution. lie marvelled at the
success which had attended the labours of the society du-
ring the fotty.five years it had been in existence. That
success was far greater than they anticipated. He had
bee►► labouring for ten years in British Guiana, in Sou'h
America. On arriving there he f, and that seven►y of the
converted Indians had di-d of the measles, and the re-
mainder had fled to the woods. He then fmmed a new
colony. tie built a cottage with his own hands, and then
made Lis missionhry excursions. lie found that the child-
ren ran away from him, and that their patents, with their
bows and arrow,, fl rd into tie bu-hex. lie paddlel about
iu a canoe, took some little Amer.can biscuits, threw them

to the children,and. in this way, succeeded in bringing them
around him. At list they touched him, and then he spoke
to ti.em on the sukieci of relighn. Some of the flatlets

course of teu mooths, be obtained thet.uM of £l5O from

of the place give £5OO towards the church ; Hod the coun-
cil have been annually voting 400 dolhirs for the support
of the schools. There are now 93 children in the schools
and upwards of 100 communicates. tle aonght the tri
t the n is,ionaries had been very much overrated in Er
and, and that their jitys in foreign lands were exceedit
The Ind

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rev, arse to eetiju:Ors, and th

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The R

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regret that want of funds prevented new openings Iron

direction of the c

eirty to preach the

to he It ft to the cow niertdt r. tie revrded the missiona
!its as the most bottomed servan's of Christ. In the grey
day when the offleets rind soldiers of the cross Sill WI
stand betere the jialgutent seat here uftt r, the great Ceti
tail, of our salvation wculd say to the missionaries, as iht
greet captain of the age, as he wits called, the Duke a

to some sol

Wellington. sa.'(
—" I have seen there trilows before." He surperttc
missions b cruse Missions wire a true mark of the Cat
lic Church. Up to 200 yews before the Retort
Wire no missiros. For 2CO pars after the Re fora ail(
there eras HO rnissiors. This Wils a grist discredit to r

ion there

gratifyi

z it was to see ro !pa

kg into t xisti-nce in tie present century. Vie preeeedet
to that thip. vvis, strictly spe, king, a Church Scciety

tee, were a pr c

8( c ety ;

also, that ta"-t-tity-tiote bishops were its patroOs, proud