The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

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thered together in the house of a gentleman n
the principal miller in Sydney, and almost t
at the time, who held out his hand to the

That would show them how that pal

Captain Cook discovered the harbour of I
disappeared from the neighbourhood. When he
in 1850, he passed through the whole town and ne
hood, and not a single black man could be seen.

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after many inquiries, he saw one in the city g
he was under condemnation as a murderer. Being con
versant with the native race and language, he obtained an
interview with the num the day preceding his execu-
tion ; and he asked "Do you know Jesus ?" He
answered in his own simple words, "Not very well." He
then said to him, "Do you know where you are going ?"
and he replied, " I hope to Jesus Christ. Shall see him to-
night." He felt as if our Saviour himself were answering,
" To-day thou shalt be with me in Paradise." And this
was the fate of the poor miserable unit, the remnant of the
race which had once occupied the whole country ; the
remnant of the race whom our settlers had hunted down
like dogs; that man was doomed to suffer the penalty of
laws he had never been taught to obey—was sent into the
presence of God. whom he had never learnt to love or
fear. (Sensation.) That was the cause which led to their
holding a greatimissionary meeting in the year 1850, in
the city of Sydney, which was attended by all the bishops
of the Australian provinces, six in number, and by a large
body of the laity, and at which the whole meeting was
moved, as a single man, to the determination to devote
their substance thenceforth to ameliorating the condition
of the native population of the various districts into which
the gospel was carried. It was determined at that meet-
ing to take the word of God to those regions which still
remained populous. The Bishop of Newcastle and him-
self were appointed a deputation to visit the islands in
the Pacific, the native inhabitants of which still remained
unconverted ; and to adopt measures for training up their
young men to be missionaries and teachers to their owu
people. And it was full time that something should
be done ; for the white adventurers on these islands
had proved themselves reckless and lawless men,
cutting down the sandalwood, and shooting like beasts
those who opposed ; thus engendering in the minds of the
natives such a deep hatred against the white men, that if
one set his foot on an island in the Pacific he was sure
to be massacred, as was the case with John Williams.
They all knew who John Williams was ; a man in whose
steps he was often thankful to find himself walking—
(cheers)—a man who, though belonging to a body not in
communion with themselves, he believed hereafter would
be found among those who had done their Master's work
according to the grace which was in them. Having nar-
rated the well-known circumstances attending the mas-
sacre of the Rev. J.Williams, on the island of Eromingo,
he said he had since visited that Island again and again,
and at the very place where Jno. Williams died, these simple
minded men had gone on board his (the right rev. speaker's
little vessel, a schooner of 21 tons, because they saw that
his errand was peace, and that there was not such a thing
as a weapon of any kind to be found. A year or two after
that, some young men of another tribe were taken on board
his vessel, and subsequently educated ; and he remembered
returning with them to Eromingo, where he experienced
kind treatment from the tribes. Thus, when the London
Missionaries went to that island with native teachers, they
found the people ready to receive them. Having traced the
results of these missionary efforts, which had received the
blessing of God, and had borne full fruit to his glory, the
right reverend bishop mentioned an affecting and touch-
ing incident attending the education of a youth from this
same island, whom he adopted as his son, but who died
subsequently at Sydney, after he had been introduced
to the son of John Williams, as a descendant of the
savage tribes whom a barbarous and cruel treat-
ment had incited to the massacre of his father. This, he
continued, would be the work of the society called " The
Australasian Board of Missions," whose operations he
trusted would soon be self-supporting, so that that the
great societies in England could then transfer their liberal
and valuable assistance to new fields of foreign effort,
which, in their turn, would also become self-supporting.
Thus the societies in England would be planting the
whole world with the seed of life, in such way that, the
crop would be developed a hundred-fold, and its influence
be extended through all parts of the earth. (Cheers.)
If they wished to carry out the objects of their society,
they must not depend on extraneous aid. They could not
hope that the requirements of such an enterprise could be
carried out by missionary aid, for they could not provide
ministers in sufficient numbers to work out the evang

tion of 500,000, 000 heathen. To effect this object,they must
have native agents, and by their assistance they would,
under God's blessing, be able to complete the good work.
Was it possible for a country like England, possessing
only 17,000,000 of inhabitants, to send out missionaries in
sufficient numbers to meet the exigencies of 500,000,000 ?
Instead of attempting to accomplish this impossible
task, let them at once send out bishops, with the
knowledge t\c,sd grace of God in their hearts, and by
that means hey would see new parishes rising up, and
new ministe spreading a knowledge of the gospel in
those benighted lands. if this were followed up they
would see blessed results in many quarters, as he had seen
in the wide country over which he had been called to ex-
ercise a spiritual control. There the people had. evinced
the warmest sympathy in promoting the interests of the
Church. and in forwarding the objects .of its institution.

They hid said they were willing: to do whatever they
could—to give what they had ; they had nothing but land,
but what they had they freely gave.— (Cheers.) They
were willing to write out a deed of conveyance, by which
they gave this land to the Bishop of New Zealand and his
successors to found and build a church, and to build and
endow a college in which the youth, both English and

native, might be brought up in the faith and knowledge of
Jesus Christ, and faithful and obedient subjects to our
sovereign Queen Victoria. (Applause.) _ The right rev.

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