The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-30


there; there was no missionary
societies Coke's great heart yearned for
their establishment. He founded missions.
He himself was the planner and arranger, not
only for the relief of this country, but for
India, too. And when he fell men felt some-
thing more must be done. A society was
formed; men combined together, and they
resolved that India should not be forsaken
Missions were formed and progressed with
great rapidity after the death of DIR. Coke.
Now these two bishops have had the honor
of laboring in our Church, of laying broad her
foundations. Bishop Thomson had been
through India and China; had seen the mis-
sions, and the last literary work of his life,
to comprise two volumes, Just coming out of
the press, is entitled Missions in the Orient"
He had given his last days to this work of
bringing this subject more fully before the
Church, and he called upon it loudly in behalf
of India and China. 1t was the great burthen
of his thoughts. He plead for China and he
plead for India in missionary boards, and on
the platform, by voice and by pen; and he
asked the Church to take possession of that
part of the heather land. How strangely
God has been joining our nation to Chinal
In the midst of all this work, America the
youngest and China the oldest have been
joining hands. A strange intimacy has
sprung up. Burlingame was selected as our
Minister and became her Minister You
know the whole history of the embassy, and
how he led their chosen men through the
world, finding out what might be done for
China, and they copied American institutions.
America has now aroused China, she has in
fiuenced her, and is beginning to arouse
India, though she is not so powerful in India
as England, as the latter has civil control
But for China, especially, America seems to
have wonderful mission. The first bishop
sleeps in the ocean, not far from Ceylon
The first bishop consecrated and ordained
over the Methodist Episcopal Church here
has his grave by tie shores of India; and the
last bishop elected and ordained has his grave
on the outlook of the Mediterranean-Beyrou
Asia has ever called to the American Church
to take possession of India.
Strange seems it to be that the ocean and
the land should bind us to Asia. The ceme-
terry is beautiful spot. On the brow of yon
hill, on the outlook of yon sea, the American
Missions below, on the way up where Le-
banon summit seems to tower towards the
clouds-it is there that Kingsley sleeps. His
heart of sympathy is silent in the body; but
strongly, before it ceased to beat, it beat for
India and China. No man has ever rendered
the Church so famous in India and China as
Bishop Kingsley, by his faith, by his vivid
description of the degradation of the people,
by his genius, by his piety This is the
labor he had performed, and yet, possibly, it
may be that in the death of these men the
Church will take wider outlook Had but
one of them fallen, possibly the shock would not
have SO deeply aroused the whole heart of the
Church. But both have fallen and the stroke
is heavy. Let the spirit of these men live in
the young men of the land. / am glad to
say that the fruit of their labors is appearing.
passed through New York on Tuesday even
~ Al~aL ~. II a.
Just selected six missionaries for China and
India, to send them off to reinforce band
of men who have labored SO faithfully and
long for the conversion of the country to the
blessed Saviour.
In Bishop Kingsleys death there is some
thing especially beautiful. 1 could have
wished for him long life. We were waiting
for his return. He gave us intelligence.
Papers respecting our mission had been sent
to him in Germany. We wanted his know
ledge and ability. But oh, how grand that
death! He had almost completed the circum-
navigation of the globe. He had started in
June, had scaled the mountains of Colorado,
had gone down into California, had sailed
across to China, penetrated far into its inte-
rior, swept around to India, held its confer
ence, arranged with its laborers for future
triumph, had come back to the Red Sea, had
gone through that great canal which had Just
been opened-one of the wonderful works of
the woodland there his heart turned to the
Holy Land. He sailed from Alexandria to
old Joppa, went up to Jerusalem, had stoo
the manger at Bethlehem, had
wandered over the little fields and hills
of Nazareth, had looked at Capernaum,
passed over the Sea of Galilee, looked where
fire came down on Mount Carmel, had made
his way up to Tyre ard Sidon, and had reached
Beyrout. He had longed to see Jerusalem; he
had talked very much of it and now he had
been at the City of the Great King; he had
been at Gethsemane; he had looked upon
Calvary; had been at the sepulchre and the
Hill of Zion; had walked over the places
where Jesus feet pressed this earth and
where the apostles spoke in His name; had
wandered over the lands where angels used to
come down from heaven to earth, to give
glad tidingB to men; seemed almost to hear
the sound of praise through the opening
heavens; he had finished his mission and
God called him to go up higher; he had seen
the gates of the earthly Jerusalem, and his heart
was full of love, full of joy, full of zeal, but
God said ''It is enough;" he completed the
journey around the globe and he was taken
up to ooheaven to join the saints in glory; he
had no tidings of McClintocks death, but oh!
they meet in glory He had not heard of
Thomson's decease, but a glad hand met him
on the other shore-and what a meeting
there and with the redeemed Blessed
meeting, where parting is no more
1 might say of these brethren gone that the
Church of God could lily spare them. They
were men of progress, knowledge, ideas; Of
deep sympathy for all the movements in the
Church; men that were planning for the en-
largement of its borders. But they have
ceased to work, and now let us grid ourselves
for labor. Brethren of the ministry brethren
of the membership! let us covenant before
God this day to do better work for the Master
than we have ever done before: now in the