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

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ook too much at home to their
own profit, interest, and advancement, and not
to the benefit of their neighbours ; while those
who went about seeking what good they could do to
their own countrymen and fellow-creatures throughout
the world, were the persons upon whom he could
always rely for promoting any beneficial object at home.
Such was his experience in Ireland. He had always
found that objects beneficial for Ireland were the most
promoted by those who sought for the welfare of the
whole empire, all the Colonies, and all mankind. Such
were the persons he could always rely upon ; and he
trusted that all who heard him would lay to heart the very
great and important duty recommended in the resolution,
and would not be content with wishing well to the society,
nor even with contributing according to their means to its
funds, but should endeavour to make known, as far as
practicable, what its claims and services were, and how
very much it stood in need of more active support than it
had yet received. (Applause.)
The Rev. F. BARKER, Bishop-Designate of Sydney, in
seconding the resolution, explained the circumstances
under which he had been induced to take part in the pro-
ceedings of the society, to some of the operations of
which he had, in common with many others, felt ob-
jection, especially to some statements put forth on the oc-
casion of two sermons two years ago, of which, however,
sufficient had been said by his friend and fellow-labourer,
the Rev. Mr. Pollock. If he now called upon them to
support a society in which he had previously publicly in-
terested himself, it was because the society had for many
years supported, in a most liberal manner, the efforts
of the bishop and clergy of that diocese to which, in
the providence of God, he had been called, and because
of the kind and liberal manner in which it had acted
towards himself ; for it was no sooner understood that
he was designated to the office to which he had been
called, than the managers of the society's affairs came
forward in a most liberal manner, and offered not only a
continuation of, but an increase to that support which
for many years it had poured into a diocese of Sydney.
(Cheers.) He felt this to be a very strong reason why he
should not only publicly express the obligation he was
under to the society, but state as publicly the cause of this
change in his feelings, in that town which he bad been
for many years a minister. (Hear, hear.) With these
few observations he would speak more at length upon the
diocese to which he was about to proceed, and in the first
place he would say a few words upon the present condion of
Sydney, which was somewhat peculiar. It had shared, in
some degree, in that prosperity which had arisen from
the discovery and working cf the gold fields, the result of
which had been to materially enhance the value of all
articles produced by labour ; and as the fixed incomes
which fell to the lot of clergymen did not share in this
increase, he who a few sears ago would be thought a
wealthy man with £2OO or £3OO a-year, must now be
considered a poor man, and perhaps an embarrassed man,
if his pecuniary resources did not annually exceed that
sum. He then proceeded to show that the population of
Sydney were not in a position to supply a sufficient fund
to place in operation the necessary machinery for properly
disseminating the truths of the Gospel, and that it re-
quired some assistance from this and kindred societies to
preserve the spiritual staff of the colony in its efficiency
and completeness. He described the condition of the
lower classes of the population ; shOwed the necessity of
penetrating into the interior of the colony; expatiated
at some length on what should constitute the charac-
teristics of clergymen for this important work ; alluded
in feeling terms to the position of the North Austra-
lian savages, who had hitherto been oppressed and
hunted down, instead of some attempt being made to
ChristianizP, and thus most effectually to civilize and
humanize them, and expressed an earnest hope that he
might be permitted to look forward to material help being
afforded. He regretted that he should be called to this
work from amidst his own people—his own flock; but they
served a Master who says to his servants, " Come," and he
is taken upto heaven; and to another "Go;" andwho was he
tgat he should disobey that call ? (Hear, hear.) He felt
that it was God's own command that he should go forth
to occupy this position, and he cheerfully obeyed. He
asked them not•only for their pecuniary help, but also for
their prayers, that the hearts of himself and the missiona-
ries might be comforted by the assurance that many in
this country were invoking prosperity on the work.
(Cheers.)
The Right Reverend CHAIRMAN announced that a
hymn would next be sung, and a collection made; but
he would just draw their attention to a letter which he
had received from the Earl of Harrowby, regretting that,
in consequence of his voice having entirely left him since
the first of his coming to Liverpool, his attendance at the
meeting would be quite without purpose, but begged that
his sincere regret at not being able to make his appearance
might be stated to the meeting. (Hear, hear.)
A hymn, " All hail the power of Jesu's name,
been sung, the collection was made.
The LORD Thump of NEw ZEALAND, in the absence of
the Earl of Harrowby, moved the second resolution as

having

follows:—
That recent providential openings for the diffusion of
Christianity in heathen lands constitute a call upon the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to extend its mis-
sionary operations, and that a special effort is required in aid
of those dioceses which are so placed as to form new centres
of missionary labour among the vast heathen nations which
lie near to, or within, the boundaries of the British territory."
The LORD BISHOP regretted much the absence of the
Earl of Harrowby, who with himself had taken such a
warm interest in the proposed removal of the Pitcairn Is-
landers to Norfolk Island—an island so well-known and
so infamous—but which, when the convicts had been re-
Moved from it, it was proposed to colonise by the Pitcairn

Islanders, and to gather together the chosen youth
from all the numerous islands among which the holy mis-
sionary work was conducted, to be trained in a college

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the Bishop-Designate of Sydney (Mr. Barker), f
and cordial manner in which he had come for
press his determination hereafter to act in earnest and
zealous co-operation with the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel; but he (the Bishop of New Zealand) would
take advantage of what the Bishop of Sydney had so kindly
said to point out what always bad been the principle of the
society. It was in no respect party society : it had always
considered that the very name of a party was contrary to
the nature of the Church. (Laud applause.) Alluding
to the recently published report of the society, and to
the remark of the Bishop-Designate of Sydney, that
he was compelled conscientiously to differ from the
society upon a late occasion, the speaker said that,
with regard to the subject matter of that discussion, he
should have little to say. It related, he believed, to a
sermon which was prefixed to one of the reports of the
society. So far as he had an opportunity of reading that
sermon,—but, of course, he did not profess to be a judge,—
it did not appear to him to go beyond the limits of that
comprehensive latitude of opinion which was declared by
a recent decision to be within the scope and pale of the
Church of England, and which every clergyman was at
liberty to take. Be this, however, as it may, the ques-
tion might have been proposed whether it was expedient
for the society to print that particular sermon. The
Archbishop himself had expressed an opinion, and a very
sound one, that the society ought not, in any degree, to
be considered responsible for the opinions of the preacher
of the sermon prefixed to the report ' that the opinions were
simply those of the preacher; and hisGrace,acting upon that,
had declined this year to allow his own sermon to be pre-
fixed to the report, in order that no such discussion

should arise upon any words for which he, and he only
was himself responsible. Alluding again to the Bishop-
Designate of Sydney, and to his elevation to that office, the
speaker said that Mr. Barker's devotion to the laborious
duties of a country clergyman in a large commercial town,

ins practical experience, and undoubted earnestness, would
augment the respect in which he would be held both by
the clergy and laity over whom he was called to exercise
supreme rule. The diocese of Sydney was already, to a
great extent, independent of foreign aid; but the new
bishop might safely rely upon such assistance from the
society, in respect to the outlying districts, as its funds,
and,ihe claims of other parts of the world, justified it in
affording. (Applause.) Whenllr. Barker was appointed
to the high office of metropolitan of Australia, the society

from that moment respected the office, and gate a pro-
mise of the most cordial support. He himself knew little
or nothing of the opinions of the Bishop-designate; he hoped,
however, hereafter to become more intimately and cordially
acquainted with them; and it was sufficient for him that
be had been appointed to the high office which he hoped he
would long hereafter hold. Whether his own (the speaker's)
diocese would, or would not, still remain connected with

e province Of Australasia, was not yet settled; but, if it
should be so decided by the authorities of the Church, he
could assure the Bishop-designate, in the presence of many
of hislate parishioners, that he should always give him
every assistance in his power; and he hoped that the new
bishop would find him not the least obedient of his suf-
fragan bishop. (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) It
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that his next would be, he trusted, on the waters of Port
Jackson. It was somewhat surprising that his friend the
Bishop-designate of Sydney, his dear friend and brother,
the Bishop of Newcastle, and himself, would occupy the
three contiguous 4ceses of Newcastle, Sydney, and New
Zealand. It mig perhaps, be interesting to know that,
when the last missionaries were sent out to New Zealand by
the Church Missionary Society, an excellent worthy friend
of his was rowing with him in a little two-oared boat,
when his friend suddenly exclaimed, "Well, Bishop, I
hope we shall always pull well together." He dared say
the Bishop-designate of Sydney would not be offended if he
said the same to him. <Laughter and applause.) And he
trusted, also, that those two great societies (the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
and the Church Missionary Society) would, in future,
pull well together. (Loud Cheers.) The New Zea-
land people could see no reason why there should be any
difference. They could perceive at a glance that each
society had its own proper field, and that there ought not
to be any disagreement. If these things were not seen in
England, it would seem that the New Zealanders were the
wiser people of the two. (Hear, hear.) If there had
been a cause of offence between these two societies, might
he not come as a messenger from the opposite end of the
world to advocate, and to beg and pray of every clergy-
man to lay aside all those petty differences of opinion,
and to enter heart and soul into the great work of each,
the one to send oat missionaries to the heathens through-
out the world, and the other to send after them thousands
of emigrants to our colonies, mifiisters of religion, and
those means of grace which were enjoyed here ? (Cheers.)
One thing more especially had been touched upon by the
Bishop-designate of Sydney, and that was, in following out
the work 6f these societies, to see how it bore upon the vari-
ous branches of the great human family upon the face of
the earth; for, unless the Church Missionary Society con-
verted these people, and unless the Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts christianised our
English settlers, the inevitable result must be, that, after
years of bloodshed, the weaker race must be exterminated.
The work of the two societies was absolutely necessary to
complete the work of British colonization, or else we, who
professed to be men and christians, who professed to have
for our motto " The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing
but the Bible," would go into the whole world acting
contradictory to the plainest principles of that Bible which
they professed to follow. This was plain truth, and if
they asked for proof, they should have it. He could bear
witness to the fact in ways more painful than they would
be willing to believe. But the Bishop-designate of Syd-
neyhad said less than might have been stated as to the
extermination of the Australian blacks. He remembered
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