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

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

OflThesday night the second of the anniversary meet-
ings of the Liverpool Auxiliary of the Church Missionary
Society was held at the Royal Amphitheatre. The spa-
cious•building was densely crowded on the occasion. The
Rev. 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 last week.
The Rev. GEORGE FIAZLEW9OD moved the first reso-
lution. He confessed he was deeply impressed with the
responsibility of addressing so large an assembly as the
present. He believed he need scarcely say that Christi-
anity was of an expansive character, and that in propor-
tion as the blessed hope of everlasting life cheered us
here, our language would be to gather others into the fold
of Christ also. There was one great principle 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 Bishop of
Calcutta lately 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 principles. He then
referred to the immense amounts of money collected in
England for the spread of missionary efforts ; and be 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. He gave an out-
line of the history of New Zealand. For some time it was
a matter of doubt as to whether the society should com-
mence operations in that island. Mr. Marsden was the
first to send an instructor there ; and from one of these
societies the sum of £ll 7s. was transmitted for the pur-
pose of circulating the Scriptures among the people of Ire-
land. Though he anticipated a large deficiency in Ireland
this year in consequence of the failure of the potatoe 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 go on and prosper. He rejoiced to say that a
Presbyterian bad the day before given the snm of £5O to the
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. He marvelled at the
success which had attended the labours of the society du-
ring the forty-five years it had been in existence. That
success was far greater than they anticipated. He had
been labouring for ten years in British Guiana, in Sou,h
America. On arriving there he found that seventy of the
converted Indians had died of the measles, and the re-
mainder had fled to the woods. He then for med a new
colony. He built a cottage with his own hands, and then
made his missionary excursions. He found that the child-
ren ran away from him, and that their patents, with their
bows and arrows, fled into the bushes. He paddled about
in a canoe, took some little American biscuits, threw them
to thechildren,and. in this way, succeeded in bringing them
around him. At last they touched him, and then he spoke
to them on the subject of religion. Some of the natives
am converted. He taught them to build decent cottages
in which to live. lie learned their language ; and, in the
course of ten months, be obtained the sum of £l5O from
them towards building a church. The Governor-General
of the place gave £5OO towards the church ; and the coun-
cil have been annually voting 400 dollars for the support
of the schools. There are now 03 children in the schools.
and upwards of 100 communicant. He thought the trials
of the missionaries had been very much overrated in Eng-
land,
and that their joys in foreign lands were exceedingly
great. The Indians are not idolarors. They have two
great spirits—the good and the evil one; and they have
recourse ro conjurors, and the agency or the devil. His
illustrations of their revengeful spirit in the savage state
were perfectly api.alling.
The Rev. Mr. OWEN, of Bilston, Staffordshire, propo-
sed the last resolution, to the direr that it was a matter of
regret that want of funds prevented new openings from
being occupied. Ile asked the meeting to leave it to the

ciety to preac

time. The selection cf the period to strike the blow ought
to be left to the commander. He regarded the missiona-
ries as the most honouted servants of Christ. In the great
day when the officers taid soldiers of the cross should
stand before the judgment seat here .fter, the great Cap-
tain of our salvation would say to the missionaries, ac the