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 PRE.\CIIED AT THE 
 
 CELEBRATION OF TEE JUBILEE 
 OF TEE CEURCE MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 
 
 ST JAJklES’S EPISCOPAL CIIAPEL, EDINBURGH, 
 
 OCTOBER 26, I84S. 
 
 THE REV. G. THURSTON BEDELL, A.M., 
 
 RECTOR OF THE CHDRCH OF THE ASCENSION, NEW YORK. 
 
 EDINBURGH: 
 
 R. GRANT AND SON, 82 PRINCES STREET. 
 LONDON : SEELEY, BURNSIDE, & SEELEY. 
 
 M.DCCC.XLVIII. 
 
EDINBURGH: 
 
 JOHNSTONE, BADLANTVNK. AND CO. 
 
 104 HIGH STREET. 
 
TO TUE 
 
 VERY REV. EDAVARD R. RAMSAY, M.A., 
 
 DEAN 07 TUB DTOCRSE OP EDINBURGH, 
 
 AND TO TUE 
 
 REV. JOHN AV. FERGUSON, M.A., 
 
 C1.ERJK TO THE DIOCESAN SYNOD, 
 
 WHO HAVE SO KINDLY WELCOMED HIM TO THEIR FELLOW- 
 SHIP, ALTHOUGH BEARING NO OTHER RECOMMENDATION 
 THAN THE NAME OF THE SISTER CHURCH IN AMERICA; 
 AND TO WHOSE FRIENDSHIP HE OM’ES SO MUCH OF THE 
 HAPPINESS OF HIS UNEXPECTED SOJOURN, 
 
 Siscoum 
 
 IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, 
 
 BY THEIR BROTHER IN THE MINISTRY, 
 
 G. THURSTON BEDELL. 
 
O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one 
 communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son 
 Christ our Lord; grant us grace so to follow thy blessed 
 Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come 
 to those unspeakable joys which thou hast prepared for 
 those who unfeignedly love thee; through Jesus Christ our 
 Lord. Amen. 
 
 Collect for All-Saints’ Day. 
 
PREFATORY NOTICE. 
 
 The Jubilee of the Church Missionary Society, which 
 has excited so much interest in England and various 
 parts of Scotland, was celebrated in St James’s Chapel, 
 Edinburgh, on the 26th of October, 1848. Morning 
 Prayer was read by the Rev. John W. Ferguson, M.A., 
 Minister of the Chapel, assisted by the Rev. George 
 Coventry, B.D. The Offertory was read, and the Service 
 concluded, by the Very Rev. Edward B. Ramsay, M.A., 
 the Dean of the Diocese. There were present also of the 
 clergy, the Rev. P. Kelland, Rev. John A. White, Rev. 
 F. Tonkin, Rev. E. B. Field. In compliance with the 
 request of the minister of the chapel, the Sermon w'as 
 preached by the Rev. G. Thurston Bedell, A.M., of New 
 York, one of the members of the Committee for Foreign 
 Missions of the Board of Missions of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It 
 seemed a peculiarly happy illustration of the reality 
 of fellowship and communion between the Protestant 
 Episcopal Churches, that the Jubilee of a Society of the 
 Church of England should be celebrated by members of 
 the Scottish Episcopal Church, associated with, and 
 aided by, a member of the Episcopal Church in America. 
 There was a large congregation of the laity, and the 
 collection was very liberal. At the request of the clergy 
 and the vestry of the chapel who were present, the 
 Sermon is now printed. 
 
ISAIAH LX. 
 
 Rise, crown’d with light, imperial Salem, rise; 
 Exalt thy towering head and lift thine eyes : 
 
 See heaven its sparkling portals wide display. 
 
 And break upon thee in a flood of day. 
 
 See a long race thy spacious courts adorn. 
 
 See future sons and daughters, yet unborn. 
 
 In crowding ranks on every side arise. 
 
 Demanding life, impatient for the skies. 
 
 See barbarous nations at thy gates attend. 
 
 Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend: 
 
 See thy bright altars throng’d with prostrate kings. 
 While every land its joyous tribute brings. 
 
 The seas shall waste, the skies to smoke decay. 
 Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away; 
 
 But fixed His word. His saving power remains; 
 
 Thy realm shall last, thy own Messiah reigns. 
 
SERMON. 
 
 “ A man turned aside and brought a man unto me, and said, 
 
 Keep this man And cis thy servant was busy 
 
 here and there, he was gone.” — 1 Ki.ngs xx. 39, 40. 
 
 The parable, of which the text fonns a part, was 
 addressed by an ancient seer to Ahab king of 
 Israel. It was intended to reprove his dereliction 
 of duty, in dismissing from custody a man whom 
 the providence of God had committed to his trust. 
 
 ATe have chosen the words as directly applicable 
 to our present subject. As we shall hope to show 
 you, they accmately represent, on the one hand, 
 our responsibility to God for the salvation of certain 
 among the heathen, and, on the other, the unsatis- 
 factory manner in which we generally discharge 
 the duty. We must endeavour, with God’^ bless- 
 ing, to attain some accurate sense of this respon- 
 sibility before we can hope more faithfully to fulfil 
 this trust. 
 
 The essential expansiveness and diffusiveness of 
 the religion we profess have decided both the pro- 
 priety and obligation of the missionary work. Chris- 
 
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 tianity, by its characteristic universality, is signally 
 contrasted with all other religious systems. The 
 influence of all those other forms in which the 
 spirit of man has expressed its conscious need of 
 God has been limited, either by the peculiar pur- 
 poses of their origin, or by the pecuharities of 
 the Intellectual and social condition which they 
 indicate. 
 
 The sacred polity born at the foot of Mount 
 Sinai was necessarily confined, as intended, to the 
 Israelites. Its local laws ; the sacred seal of its 
 covenant ; the earnest love of a soil consecrated by 
 the footsteps of the pilgrim Abraham, which it com- 
 mended and encouraged; its constant preaching 
 and symbolic foreshadowing of Messiah’s advent 
 to Judea; and its imperative command, that every 
 believer should yearly tread the precincts of Mount 
 Zion, confined its influence to the inhabitants and 
 the nearest neighbours of the Land of Promise. 
 
 The martial prophet of the Koran strove to com- 
 bine, with institutions which he deemed the source 
 of Jewish attachment to their religion, others that 
 should secure the progress of his own Impious 
 delusion. The luxuriousness and sloth of the Orien- 
 tal character, which he was compelled to consult 
 while forming his scheme, defeated his purpose, 
 and established the natural limits of Mohamme- 
 danism. Anticipations of paradise, the reward of 
 the service, could, indeed, carry his singular creed 
 — Unitarianism and his own Messiahship — at the 
 sword’s point, to many distant lands ; but the 
 essential adaptation of his faith to the Inertness 
 
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 and sensualism of the Eastern mind soon caused the 
 hordes of the Koran to shrink back to their natu- 
 ral boundaries ; where, within a comparatively easy 
 journey to JNlecca, and unaroused by contact with 
 the iiupilring and energetic nations of the AVest, 
 they have, for centuries, dreamed away their lives, 
 and listlessly resigned themselves to a blind fatal- 
 ism. Such a system, as it could not have had 
 birth, so it could not have maintenance among 
 any earnest people. Inquisitive lovers of the truth. 
 Similar remarks apply to false religions, retaining 
 still less of the truths contained in the Adamic 
 revelation. 
 
 The polytheistic system of the Greek, deifying 
 the graces and qualities of the mind, and con- 
 secrating amusements, poetry, and arts, to the 
 service of religion, in every part instinct with that 
 life which merely human reason may bestow, and 
 crowded with those beautiful forms which the merely 
 human spirit can create, was the offspring of the 
 intellectual character of that nation. It could not 
 exist among duller souls, where the intellect had 
 not yet burst from its thraldom to the senses. 
 
 The religious economy of the Roman, on the 
 contrary’, partook of the masculine spirit of his 
 political system. He deified the social and civil 
 virtues. He consecrated an altar on his hearth- 
 stone. He dedicated his triumphs to the honour 
 of his deities. His religion was an integral part of 
 the system which made him master of the world. 
 But the same causes which induced him to cherish 
 his religion as his own, indisposed him to extend its 
 
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 influence. If it would ennoble liis vassals, it were 
 impolitic to teach them its blessings; and, unless 
 to elevate their character and strengthen their 
 power, it were useless to disturb a faith for which 
 he could offer no valuable substitute. 
 
 Thus, too, the senseless worship of the Fetiche ; 
 the religious ablutions, and the monstrous idols of 
 the Hindoo ; the garden and river gods of Eg}’pt ; 
 and the more refined but puerile superstitions and 
 sacrifices of the Chinese : each system bears an 
 impression of localness : beyond its natural limits 
 it could find no votaries. 
 
 With all these Christianity is strongly contrasted. 
 Wliile their Infiuence must be local, hers must be 
 universal. 'Wliile each of them is framed for one 
 character of mind, as exhibited under one form of 
 cultivation, or Influenced by one modification of 
 climate, she addresses herself to every mind, in 
 every degree of education, \inder every sun. For 
 while, in their additions to ancient truth, they are 
 offsprings of the intellect or the passions of men, 
 she is wholly heaven-born. Her spirit is not bound 
 by material forms ; cannot be reached through 
 material emblems. The instructed Greek no loimer 
 
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 smiles at uncouth representations, by which an 
 unlettered Hindoo, imbued with her spirit, strives 
 to embody her life-giving power ; nor does the un- 
 tutored savage wonder at forms of majesty and 
 grace, by which the more civilized recipient of her 
 bounties portrays his conception of their Divine 
 source. Hers is a spiritual worship of the spiri- 
 tually All-Present. Christianity luis no castes. 
 
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 She knows no sovereign priests Inseparable from 
 the soil which they rule with spiritual tyranny. Her 
 ministry are Itinerant servants of a INIaster who 
 sends them where and when He will ; and that 
 ministry Is constituted a complete polity, ever 
 readily adjusted, and suited to every mode of civil 
 government under which her lost children may 
 be found. The seals of her covenant, the pledges 
 of her grace, the emblems of her blessings, may 
 be administered under every constellation of the 
 firmament. !N^or has she any partial Instructions, 
 nor mysteries Into which only the Initiated may 
 approach. Her truths are all revealed for the 
 world. They utter themselves In a universal lan- 
 ffuaffe. And her oreat central truth, round which 
 all cluster, from which all are Illumined, Is as much 
 the central truth of the system In Hlndostan as In 
 Canterbury. The furred Greenlander, the Indian 
 hunter, the tattooed Otaheitlan, bows with us before 
 the same Master, gathers wisdom from the same 
 great truth, feels the Inspiration and the powder of 
 the one great fact, that Christ was crucified. 
 
 Thus, Christianity, by the expansiveness and dif- 
 fusiveness which are the very essence of her being, 
 not only determines the propriety and obligation, 
 but proclaims the necessity of the missionary w'ork. 
 
 The course of prophetic history has determined 
 both these questions. The history of the future is 
 as present to the mind of God as are the records of 
 the past — equally certain, though its events be not 
 as distinctly discernible to us. Yet what is clearly 
 foretold we may receive as grounds of our reason- 
 
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 ing, and sure guides of action. We read that the 
 kingdoms of this world are yet to be given to our 
 Lord Jesus Christ. We read that the despised and 
 broken branch of Israel must yet be grafted again 
 into its own olive-tree. And, once more, we read 
 that, as a precedent of these events, the gospel 
 must be preached for a witness in every nation. 
 Now, however we may differ as to the instrumen- 
 tality by which either of the former events will be 
 effected, we cannot differ as to the fact that human 
 agencies, such as are at present exerted in this 
 world-field, must effect the other. This gospel of 
 the kingdom, even now proclaimed almost univer- 
 sally, must yet be preached for a witness to the 
 truth before every people of the world. “ How,” 
 then, “ shall they hear without a preacher ? And 
 how shall they preach except they be sent ? ” 
 
 Thus, prophetic history not only determines the 
 propriety and obligation, but proclaims the necessity 
 of the missionary work. 
 
 The command of our Saviour has determined 
 both these questions. The universality of Christ’s 
 religion, characterising its scheme, and anticipated 
 by its prophetic history, is demanded by its express 
 precept. Our Saviour did not intrust the progress 
 of his gospel to the inferences of his disciples. 
 ‘‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel 
 to every creature,” his parting injunction, is im- 
 perative upon his Church, as though it were a 
 law from Sinai. But the Church, in this regard, 
 what is it ? Surely not that bodylcss phantom 
 which some imagine; a certain ecclesiastical wraith 
 
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 to be conjured at will, within the mist of which 
 individual Christian responsibility may be inde- 
 finitely divided, and absolutely lost. The Church 
 which receives that word of its sovereign Head, is 
 the congregation of faithful people ; in our Saviour’s 
 time present upon Olivet, and represented by its 
 apostolic pastors; in our Saviour’s omniscient sight, 
 then present in all “ those who ” should “ believe 
 in” Him “through their word.” l^or is it possi- 
 ble for the Church, give it what definition you wall, 
 to become obedient to this Injunction, unless its 
 members feel their individual responsibility, and in- 
 dividually offer their earnest co-operation. Though 
 all the constituted ecclesiastical authorities in Chris- 
 tendom should sleep, the command would not lie 
 dormant. When the Saviour enters into judgment 
 with his Church, the blessing or the woe will light 
 upon Individuals. And for the consummation of 
 his merciful purposes to the world, he enjoins — if, 
 indeed, his grace will not wait for — the unanimous 
 co-labourlng of souls whom he has saved. Then is 
 full obedience rendered by a Church, when every 
 Christian member feels his personal responsibility, 
 and all acting upon all, by sympathy and mutual 
 co-operation, the pastors leading and encom’aging, 
 the people fellow-helpers, the leaven leavening the 
 whole lump, the light spreading as it is reflected 
 from every heart, the influence, combining and col- 
 lected, is manifested by consenting energetic effort, 
 as the voice, the will, the act of the Chm*ch. But 
 let no indmdual wait for such an illustration of 
 obedience to Christ. The Saviour’s command 
 
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 imposes a personal responsibility ; and thus, that 
 command not only determines the propriety and 
 obligation, but proclaims the necessity of the mis- 
 sionary work. 
 
 The universal acknowledgment of the Church has 
 determined both these questions. This is the era 
 of missionary principle, as a former was the age 
 of missionary enthusiasm. The progress of mis- 
 sionary effort no longer depends upon uncertain and 
 unsteady impulses. It is a constant efflux of Chris- 
 tian love, through well defined and well tried chan- 
 nels. It is no longer the expression of individual 
 feeling, but of acknowledged ecclesiastical obliga- 
 tion. Every considerable body of Christians, more or 
 less distinctly and efficiently, has assumed the mis- 
 sionary work upon principle. It was not always so. 
 The years which have given birth to such a result 
 themselves sprang out of a period very destitute in 
 enterprises of enlarged Christian benevolence. 
 
 The season is opportune for a retrospect. 
 
 We remember in our prayers and thanksgivings 
 this day, that the present year is tlie Jubilee of the 
 Church of England Missionary Society. Seven weeks 
 of years have been numbered since the venerated 
 fathers of this institution associated for the purpose 
 of preaching the gospel to the heathen. Encom- 
 passed by difficulties, disturbed by fears, uninspired 
 by large expectations — for the work was still wholly 
 of faith — and properly unwilling, without the appro- 
 bation of their chief pastors, to undertake so groat 
 a charge, in which the Church of England could 
 not but be involved, five years elapsed before they 
 
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 coinmencctl their missionary work. At the close of 
 the last century the missionary spirit of the Church 
 seemed almost expiring. Yet we are not to imagine 
 that those individuals, in whose breasts the latent 
 fire was first enkindled to a flame, were gifted with 
 a new Christian virtue. They had not discovered 
 some novel Christian prlncijde, nor invented an ap- 
 plication of Christian benevolence. Christ has never 
 left his Church destitute of missionaries. It would 
 have been the sealing of her death-warrant. In the 
 very age when Eefonned and Protestant truths were 
 securing a firm foothold, amidst the earthquake of 
 opinions, and the tottering of error, the missionary 
 spirit discovered some of its noblest triumphs in the 
 heroic enterprises of Romish priests. When the era 
 of Jesuit missions was past, and the betrayal of 
 their trust had invoked deserved disgrace and ruin, 
 a little band of persecuted Protestants from Moravia, 
 themselves refugees in friendly Saxony, presented 
 an illustrious exhibition of the missionary principle. 
 The United Bretliren were but six hundred poor 
 people of Christ, when they commissioned their 
 ministers to labour in distant lands. When per- 
 secution and disease effected a vacancy in the self- 
 denying band, the strife at home was always for the 
 privilege of venturing for Christ’s sake. And the 
 reward of their devoted energy was the gathering, 
 among the heathen, a Church one hundred times 
 as large as the original Church at home. Nor, 
 indeed, did the Church of England, through indi- 
 vidual enterprises alone, exhibit her missionary 
 spirit during the difficult years of the last century. 
 
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 out of which the civil and ecclesiastical polity of 
 the kingdom emerged confirmed and vigorous. 
 
 It were a flagrant want of gratitude did I, even 
 in so rapid a sketch, omit a passing tribute to that 
 noble institution, which, throughout the last cen- 
 tury, followed closely the advance of British colo- 
 nisation, endeavouring ever to plant the English 
 Church beside the English standard. That its 
 accomplishments were at all unequal to its pur- 
 poses was the fault of the age. But had it effected 
 no other result than the firm implanting of Pro- 
 testant Episcopal principles in the hearts of my 
 countrymen, it received a full reward. A whole 
 Church in the West, which, under God, owes its 
 existence to their fostering care, has risen up to 
 bless the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
 in Foreign Parts. 
 
 Yet, certainly, the close of the last century wit- 
 nessed a sudden impulse given to Christian benevo- 
 lence. Religious enthusiasm took, not indeed a 
 new, but an unusual direction, and outburst in 
 efforts for the conversion of the heathen. Bodies 
 of Christians, under tall the names by which they 
 were associated for the worship of God, commenced 
 the missionary work. The Church of England, and 
 (although at a little later period) the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in tlie United States of America, 
 gladly yielded to this new direction of Christian 
 energy. Baptists, Presbyterians, W csleyans, Metho- 
 dists, Reformed Churches, in Scotland, in England, 
 on the Continent, and In America, either singly, 
 or, as in the case of the American Board of 
 
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 Commissioners for Foreign Missions, by a com- 
 bination of various denominations, exhibited the 
 impidsive cliaracter of that stirring period. 
 
 This was the noted era which gave rise to tlie in- 
 stitution whose Jubilee we celebrate. Partaking the 
 common animation of the religious mind; aroused 
 to activity by reports of heathen destitution and 
 mlsslonarv success, brought to them by Christians 
 already in the field ; persuaded that the time had 
 come for the Church of England, if not by her Con- 
 vocation, at least by the collective energies of her 
 members, to take her place in the work, such men 
 as Cecil and John ^Newton, Venn and Scott, 
 Thornton and AVilberforce — men noted for their 
 enlarged philanthropy, and their consistent attach- 
 ment to the Church, as well as for their humble 
 and ardent piety — consulted, and laid the founda- 
 tion of that pile, whose superstructure, reared by a 
 faith unfailino; that worked through love to Christ 
 and souls, cemented by a constant charity, and 
 blessed beyond measure and beyond hope by the 
 approval of the Holy Ghost, in this fiftieth year, in 
 fair proportions, compact and glorious, calls forth 
 the expression of our praise to God. How mar- 
 vellous the contrast to those early days of doubt and 
 hesitation on the one side, coldness and suspicion 
 on the other, through which the Society pursued 
 its feeble way ! In this fiftieth year, it is patro- 
 nised by the highest authorities of the Church, 
 commended by the nobles, supported by contribu- 
 tions from every quarter of the kingdom; at home, 
 acknowledged as a faithful and efficient almoner of 
 
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 the Church ; abroad, regarded as a noble expositor 
 of British benevolence ; in heathendom, known and 
 loved for its fourteen hundred Christian teachers, 
 its thirteen thousand communicants, and its twenty- 
 four thousand scholars ; for its due deference to 
 Episcopal authority and discipline in those distant 
 lands — its unwavering attachment to the pure gos- 
 pel, as expounded in the formularies of the Church ; 
 for its pledges of fidelity and stability in the main- 
 tenance of apostolical order; and for its liberal annual 
 distribution of one hundred thousand pounds in 
 missionary efforts. ‘‘ How has the little one become 
 a thousand, and the small one a strong people!” 
 It ‘‘is the Lord’s doing,” and “marvellous in our 
 eyes.” And while we thank Him for the human 
 instruments by which He has been pleased to work, 
 and praise Him for what He has wrought, we take 
 courage to hope for the future, and labour on — O 
 that He may grant it ! — with a consuming zeal. 
 
 Doubtless, the impulse of this movement was felt 
 beyond the Atlantic. If it is true in nature, that 
 the force which sets a ripple in motion upon the 
 surface of the mighty deep is never expended 
 until the wave has broken upon the farthest shore, 
 how much more readily may we believe, that no 
 impulse given to the quickly answering sympathies 
 of souls who are one in Christ Jesus is expended, 
 until it reaches the heart of every saint in the 
 Catholic communion. The Protestant Episcopal 
 Church in the United States was then stniggling 
 for existence. Yet it was a true Church, and the 
 Sj)lrlt of Christ was there. Ere long, a hand of 
 
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 noble-hearted men dared, even there, to look beyond 
 the bounds of their own parislies, into a world desti- 
 tute of the truth. The necessary consequence was the 
 formation of a Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
 Society. Its labours in the west of our own conti- 
 nent, and in foreign lands, were feeble and slowly 
 progressive, ilor should I mention them at all, 
 especially on such a day, and in comparison with 
 the gigantic efforts of British Christians, did I feel 
 at liberty to decline the retjuest with which I shall 
 now endeavour to comply. The theme is congenial 
 with my feelings, and, if I mistake not, it may 
 furnish one lesson at least — perhaps I am presump- 
 tuous — a lesson for our IMother Churches of Scot- 
 land and England. 
 
 The Voluntary Association followed the footsteps 
 of our emigrants to the west, planting missionary 
 stations among them, and among the neglected 
 Indian tribes. It seized also the advantage enjoyed 
 by Americans during the peace that followed the 
 desolating war of independence in Greece, and es- 
 tablished a missionary school in Athens. It is little 
 to say of this effort, that it has won the approbation 
 of all discerning travellers. The government vies 
 with the people in showing it confidence and affec- 
 tion; and not without reason we hope, that, by its 
 educated and enlightened scholars, it is infusing a 
 religious element into, and elevating, and, under 
 God, renewing, the character of the people. Our 
 national debt to Africa w'as not forgotten; and one 
 of the earliest missionary schools of the society was 
 established at Cape Palmas, on the western coast. 
 
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 Amidst many hindrances, and enormous sacrifice 
 of life, that mission is now transforming into a 
 Christian Church, the formerly degraded objects of 
 its care. 
 
 But estimating results, as we mast, compara- 
 tively, a still more important effect of the efforts of 
 this society was a gradual elevation of the missionary 
 tone of the Church, and finally a general infusion 
 of the missionary spirit. The General Convention, 
 our great representative council, speaking the voice 
 of the whole body, adopted the society as its own, 
 absorbed its distinctive features, and resolved the 
 whole Protestant Episcopal communion into a mis- 
 sionary society. It was a bold step ; one of those 
 ventures wdiich it is often well to make for Christ’s 
 sake. And, since the commencement of Moravian 
 missions, I know' not where a nobler spectacle has 
 been presented ; bishops, presbyters, and laymen 
 (apostles, elders, and brethren), a whole Church 
 appreciating the Savioim’s command, confessing 
 the obligation, and becoming a Missionary Church. 
 From that hour, it has gone forth as a giant 
 refreshed ; at home, increasing the number of 
 missionaries, of dioceses, and of bishops ; abroad, 
 strengthening the existing missions, and forming 
 others. A series of efforts have been in progress, 
 / and a missionary bishop commissioned to enlighten 
 the decayed Churches of the East. And a mission 
 has been sent, rather a Church has been planted, 
 in one of the cities of China, which British power, 
 by the providence of God, has opened to us. For, 
 as the Church was the missionary society, she had 
 
authority to commission the Church in its integrity 
 for missionary duty. We have now four missionary 
 bishops: two labouring in the western dioceses; two 
 in foreign parts. The bishop at Shanghai, in Cliina, 
 has built his school-houses, his mission premises, 
 and his Christian church. Children of both sexes 
 have been admitted to the schools, and, being legally 
 Indentured for ten years, should God spare his life, 
 the bishop will have the sole charge of their educa- 
 tion. The belief is not unreasonable, that from 
 among those natives competent missionaries w ill be 
 supplied; and, whenever God shall call them by 
 his Spirit, the authoritative commission will not be 
 wanting. The bishop is now’ taking an active and 
 most Important share in the labours incident to the 
 new’ translation of the Scriptures. The British and 
 Foreign Bible Society have determined on this en- 
 terprise, and all the Protestant missionaries in China 
 are engaged in its accomplishment. Noiv should 
 there have been a bishop of the Church of England, 
 and — may not I say it w’ith due deference? — a bishop 
 of the Church of Scotland, with their earnest faith- 
 ful bands of instructed missionaries, to giiard (it is 
 the high commission of their Church) and to pre- 
 serve the Word of God. Other men have entered 
 on their labours: let not these win all the prizes. 
 
 AVhile our Church has thus, the first of Protestant 
 Churches, trusted a complete apostolical organisa- 
 tion in a wholly missionary work, with no other de- 
 pendence than the voluntary offerings of Christ’s 
 people, its labours at home have been blessed 
 abundantly. It now’ numbers thirty-one dioceses. 
 
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 domestic and foreign, thirty-one bishops, and four- 
 teen hundred clergymen, pastors and missionaries. 
 Yet is it a poor Church: the clergy, in general, as 
 much scattered as your own, and receiving salaries 
 which, except in the large towns, will average less 
 than your small minimum stipend. 
 
 What might not the Scottish Episcopal Church 
 effect? — ^bear with me, while I thus apply the subject 
 to your own privileged and responsible condition : 
 for your Church, sixty-four years ago, took compas- 
 sion upon our destitution, and consecrated our first 
 bishop; and therefore is ours a debt of gratitude 
 not to be paid, unless, indeed, the reflex influence 
 of the example of the Church wdiich you then con- 
 firmed should now encourage you to missionary 
 exertions at home and abroad, that will win for you 
 the favour, and increase upon you the blessings of 
 our sovereign Lord. What might you not accom- 
 plish, if, under the impulse of individual love to 
 Christ, you made a united effort in the faith of God 
 as a missionary Church? 
 
 Returning from this dlfjresslon: Such facts esta- 
 bllsh our position. Missionary results are no longer 
 the offspring of impulsive and unconnected individual 
 benevolence. The bodies of Christians into which 
 Protestant Christendom is divided have become 
 missionary. The Church of England Itself, in ]>art 
 represented by its Episcopal Board for erecting 
 Colonial Bislioprics, in part by the Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gosj)cl in Foreign Parts, and 
 in ])art by the Churcli Missionary Society, cxlilhlts, 
 what the Protestant Episcopal Church in tlic United 
 
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 States was the first to proclaim, and every body of 
 Christians engaged In missionary enterprises now 
 recognises — the operation of an established church 
 missionary principle. 
 
 Thus, the common consent and consistent action 
 of the Church, have now not only determined the 
 propriety and obligation, but affirmed the necessity 
 of the missionary w'ork. 
 
 The sin of our fathers, for which w'c yet suffer, 
 the umvavering national aggrandisement, and the 
 commercial enterprise of Great Britain, have decided 
 both these questions. 
 
 The sin of ouR fathers, for which we yet suffer. 
 1 use a peculiar language, for I claim a melancholy 
 sympathy with you when I argue the cause of mis- 
 sions on this ground. Ours is an equal sympathy 
 in the responsibility, for, at that period, both 
 nations were one. The sin was the act of Par- 
 fiament, in the reign of George III., for plant- 
 ing colonies upon the African coast, in the very 
 words of the deed, ^^for the encom-agement, pro- 
 tection, and defence of the slave-trade.” I^ever 
 did national sin more surely visit its plagues upon 
 the children of many generations. IsTever did 
 national act impose a more certain responsibility 
 for reparation upon each future generation, until, by 
 unnumbered blessings heaped upon an injured race, 
 they have buried the memory of the foul injustice. 
 The abrogation of the statute, and the condemna- 
 tion of the slave-trade — how intimately are they 
 associated wdth the honoured name of Wilberforce, 
 the first president of this society! — these w'ere acts 
 
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 of national justice, by which, so far as legislation can, 
 the wrong has been remedied. But an impulse 
 and apology have been given to evil, which will 
 be long remembered. Wronged Africa, by her 
 outward miseries, and the more fatal wounds of 
 her spirit, pleads now with the Christians of Great 
 Britain for that only effectual redress which, by 
 the superabounding of the grace, may cause her 
 to forget the ruin — an effectual ministration of the 
 gospel. 
 
 The unwavering national aggrandisement of Great 
 Britain. It is not my desire to point you to any 
 evils which may have occurred to the natives in the 
 course of the progress of that mighty empire, which 
 now claims as subjects one-seventh of the inhabi- 
 tants of this world. But when I look at the ca- 
 tastrophes which have followed each advance of 
 American emigration upon the Indian tribes; when 
 I see how these have scattered and fallen, like the 
 leaves of their forests before the storm-blasts of 
 winter; when I see how they have disappeared at 
 the contact with the white man, as snow-wreaths of 
 our mountains at the touch of the summer’s sun; 
 when I now mark the remnants in their degrada- 
 tion, with scarce a trace of their gloiy; and, when I 
 know that all this has occurred notwithstandlns the 
 earnest exertions of our Government, and the efforts 
 of our frontier army to protect and [)rcscrve them ; 
 
 1 cannot suj)posc that the aggrandisement of this 
 great nation has been without accumulated evils 
 upon tlic feeble tribes of the eastern world. Have 
 the Hindoo, and the Chinese, and the Bushman, and 
 
the Australian, yet learned to bless the powerful 
 hand which makes them acquainted with European 
 civilisation ? Nay, docs an Australian remain to 
 accept the blessings which British colonisation Is to 
 bestow ? Do not these nations demand of you that 
 which, In the providence of God, you alone can 
 confer, the priceless blessings for which. Indeed, 
 they might well give all their broad acres in ex- 
 change — a knoAvledge of the comfortable gospel of 
 the Son of God ? 
 
 The commercial enterprise of Great Britain. It 
 has traversed every land ; It has spread Its sails In 
 every sea ; it has trafficked on every shore ; it has 
 unfurled the cross In every port — and everywdiere 
 it has carried spiritual death. We speak con- 
 fidently: not only from the testimony given by your 
 own writers : on this subject, while Americans 
 are equally guilty, American experience is equally 
 the experience of the elder, but not more earnest, 
 enterprising, or more scrupulous commerce of Great 
 Britain. Your emigrants have scattered them- 
 
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 selves, until the English tongue is heard in the 
 remotest corners of the earth. To wdiat port have 
 they carried the sterling morality and the devout 
 religion of tlie mother land? Nay; have you not, 
 in almost every case, exposed them to the assaults 
 of infidelity, and the wickedness of their own hearts, 
 without those spiritual guides and defences which, 
 at home, were their safeguards ? Wherever, then, 
 they have won their way amongst aboriginal tribes, 
 they have sown the seeds of vice and irreligion ; 
 and, while disturbing a simple faith, implanting 
 
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 only doubts and fears. Surely tlie testimony Is 
 true : “ More than any nation, we have been brought 
 into contact with the tribes of the pagan world; 
 with our commerce and colonisation we have visited 
 every coast, with a charge, indeed, to bless, but — 
 must we not confess it? — in reality to curse.” 
 And what was written concerning the early coloni- 
 sation of India may surely describe the sad result 
 of almost all European contact with idolatries : 
 The Hindoo learnt to deem that we had no religion, 
 and that no considerable modes of faith existed 
 among men except the two which divide the popu- 
 lation of Hindostan.” As you have gone from 
 port to port, almost, if indeed at this time not 
 quite, encircling the western continent ; compassing 
 Africa in pursuit of the precious things which 
 almost every mile of her coast may furnish ; gird- 
 ling the globe in search of luxuries of the eastern 
 Indies; a curse has been left on every shore. Every- 
 where is the foot-print of greatness : but it is a 
 greatness without God. Everywhere the impress 
 of Christianity : but Christianity without principle 
 and without religion. And everywhere, the igno- 
 rant natives, learning to despise their gods and 
 imitate the Christians, have learned to live with 
 no restraint upon the evil of their hearts. It is 
 a sad and evil picture. But who shall disprove its 
 truth ? 
 
 Say we not well, then, that the sin of our fathers, 
 your fathers and mine, for which we both yet suffer ; 
 the unwavering national aggrandisement, and the 
 commercial enterprise of Great Britain, forbid us to 
 
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 question the propriety and obligation — proclaim that 
 there rests upon %jou the necessity — of the missionary 
 work? 
 
 If so, we have gained our point. And now our 
 text may speedily receive its illustration, and make 
 known its force. 
 
 Our argument has been cumulative and conver- 
 ging. The essential expansiveness of Christ’s reli- 
 gion has declared the necessity, that every one who 
 shares its blessings should Illustrate its spirit. The 
 course of prophetic history, while corroborating the 
 truth of this universality of Christ’s kingdom, has 
 proclaimed, that whoever lives upon its hopes must 
 labour for their accomplishment. The command of 
 our Saviour is both an exposition of the character 
 of his gospel, and an injunction to every individual 
 who rejoices In his love, that, in his appropriate 
 sphere, and to the extent of his means, opportu- 
 nities, and responsibilities, he should make known 
 the snrace to all for whom Christ died. The con- 
 
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 senting adoption of the missionary principle by 
 all living Churches not only confirms our inter- 
 pretation of the command, but maintains, that the 
 combination of individual effort in the missionary 
 work is the most ready and effectual obedience. 
 And then, the impulse which our ancestors gave 
 to the slave-trade, cursing Africa, the unwavering 
 national aggrandisement, and the commercial enter- 
 prise of Great Britain, point distinctly to those 
 very portions of heathendom which the Church 
 Missionary Society has chosen for its field, as those 
 portions concerning which God has given you, the 
 
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 members of this empire, the definite commission, 
 “ Keep this man.” 
 
 These men ! They number one hundred millions 
 of heathen fellow-subjects ! And these are Inde- 
 pendent of the millions whom your commerce has 
 exposed, and who must, therefore, now feel the 
 mighty influence of your protection. 
 
 Your responsibility — nay, you cannot shake it 
 off. These men did not come to yoii : they did 
 not offer themselves to your guardianship. You 
 journeyed by weary ways, and with much patient 
 toil, and determined intention to meet them, and 
 so took their souls under your Christian keeping. 
 These were the inscrutable ways of Divine Provi- 
 dence. These events were His footsteps. It were 
 well that a nation, thus loaded with souls whom 
 the Lord has committed to her, should mark His 
 goings, and study and suit herself to His wise ])ur- 
 poses ! Kow that the charge is assumed, it is per- 
 manent. A Christian nation, bringing itself in 
 contact with a heathen nation, has exerted in- 
 fluences, and assumed responsibilities, which are to 
 measure the national sin and the national righteous- 
 ness at the judgment of the nation. All national 
 history Is closed in time. There Is no eternity for 
 such issues. And therefore time has ever wit- 
 nessed, and shall behold the judgment of every na- 
 tion. Mercifully has God been pleased to remem- 
 ber the rightcoiis men who have upheld this state 
 by their prayers and labours of love. May He be 
 pleased, by raising up a long succession of prevail- 
 ing saints, long to j)rescrve the noble fabric In 
 
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 peace and prosperity, and to make the latter end 
 more glorious than the beginning ! 
 
 But your individual responsilfilitt / — there is a judg- 
 
 ment-dav for that. 
 
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 AVould you measure it? Then must you place 
 yourselves amidst these heathens, and feel their de- 
 sperate condition. There is no other mode. “ As 
 ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so 
 to them.” That is the principle. Ye must feel with 
 them to understand the duty. You cannot? True! 
 Impossible it is to divest ourselves of those enlight- 
 ening influences, and that pure morality which, from 
 our infancy, have w'oven about us a net-work of 
 mercies, separating us from the heathen. Yet for 
 the moment all this must fall. Your spu-itual safe- 
 guards, your spiritual monitors, your spiritual way- 
 marks, and your Bible, must disappear. With only 
 your heart of sin, and your infinite burden of 
 spiritual necessities, and your immovable fears of 
 eternity, you must endeavour to sympathise with 
 the ignorance, the social evils, the political discom- 
 forts, the absence of moral principle, the degrading 
 superstitions, and the foul Idolatries under which the 
 heathen live. You are to imagine yourselves fet- 
 tered by the prejudices of an ignorant antiquity; 
 in bondage to the selfishness of a depraved priest- 
 hood, enslaved in body, debased in mind. You are 
 to imagine yourselves reverencing the revelations of 
 Brahma, or Buddha, or receiving the infallible dicta 
 of the sage Confucius. You are to watch for an 
 opportunity, when, in the absence of your European 
 mastexs, you may offer your body to the sacred 
 
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 Ganges, or to the ponderous wheels of Juggernaut, 
 or, on the forked flames of the funeral p}Te, ascend 
 to heaven an acceptable oblation. You are to look 
 into that awful eternity only with the aid of random 
 conjectures — an eternity from which none has re- 
 turned to disclose its mysteries ; and you know not 
 whether in the tortures of its hell, or the long 
 weary transmigrations of its purgatory, or the in- 
 definite joys of its unsatisfying bliss, you shall pass 
 its ages without end. Or, in a worse condition — for 
 that heathenism is civilised — ^you are to imagine 
 yourselves trembling in the temple of apes, or dan- 
 cing adoringly around the Fetiche, praying to and 
 praising the devil ; a victim to the absolutism of a 
 licentious chief, chased by a thousand terrors in 
 your dally intercourse ; in danger from unprincipled 
 covetousness, in danger from unbridled passion, 
 in danger from the trial by fire, in danger from 
 the poison-water, in danger from the witchcraft 
 ordeal ; the present miserable in vice and folly, and 
 degradation and brutality; the future dark, uncer- 
 tain, fearful; a God unknown, and yet appre- 
 hended; a God sinned against, and yet unap- 
 peased; a God who must he approached, you 
 know not how, you know not with wiiat result ; and 
 yet, into His dread presence, an Irresistible fate each 
 moment drags you nearer. 
 
 And then, in the very depths of this darkness, 
 at the very extremity of this ruin, you are to know 
 that a fellow-man — a man wiio shares all your affec- 
 tions, and feels all your necessities, and possesses 
 all your sympathies — holds in his gift the remedy 
 
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 for all your woes ; can, in an instant, breathe upon 
 your ear a whisper of liberty through Christ, that 
 shall burst your chains, and make you a prince with 
 God ; can, in an instant, beam upon your soul alight 
 from beyond the grave, that shall make all death- 
 shades luminous, the passage through the tomb a 
 safe and certain highway, and eternity, vast and 
 incomprehensible though it be, a glorious satisfying 
 rest for ever, on the bosom of a Father reconciled. 
 And yet that man hesitates ! Oh, with what in- 
 tensity of appeal would you throw yourselves at his 
 feet, and plead for the soul whose life hangs upon 
 his charity! And with what a tone would the 
 heavenly AVatchers utter, “As ye would that men 
 should do to you,” while they measured his respon- 
 sibility, to whom the Lord hath said, “ Keep this 
 
 ma7i!” 
 
 Souls! My brethren, did the truth ever fasten 
 itself within your heart of hearts, that these heathen 
 millions possess soids? Unprivileged, brutalised, 
 yet each man of them shares with you an infinite 
 capability, and an immortality of spirit. Each may 
 become pure and holy as the saints in light ; each 
 may become vile and devilish as the spirits of per- 
 dition. You may shrink from the picture of their 
 defilement. It is not strange. But do not let it 
 escape your conviction, that it is defilement and 
 viciousness of souls; souls as precious, in God’s 
 sight, as your own ; souls, for whom, equally with 
 yours, God’s only Son poured out his life. 
 
 And yet, “ while thy servant was busy here and 
 there, the man was gone!” The man was gone? 
 
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 There was a soul lost ! And, if the loss was yours, 
 then is it your voice I hear, amidst the muttering 
 thunders of the judgment, extenuating, pleading, 
 “ While thy servant was busy here and there, the 
 man was gone!” 
 
 ^^Busy here and there!” For what? To accu- 
 mulate treasure, for you know not whom. To waste 
 time, strength, health, mental energies, in pleasures 
 which scarcely last while you participate. To teach 
 your children the love of a world, which, even now, 
 is palling on your own taste. To multiply, without 
 end, luxuries which are to blot out the realities of 
 this hard-working world, and unfit you for fortune’s 
 fickleness, and yom* children for this stern life- 
 struggle. 
 
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 “Thy servant!” Wliat! has the judgment dis- 
 covered your responsibility to God for these souls ? 
 the solemn truth, that your relation in manhood to 
 them, is a relation to God, their Creator and yours ? 
 We do not address ourselves exclusively to the 
 sincere children of God, but as well to those who, 
 bearing the Christian name, have not yet appre- 
 ciated the privilege of that covenant with Christ. 
 Although your present carelessness of the gospel 
 would indicate but a slight regard for the Redeemer, 
 and less for your perilous condition, on the borders 
 of an eternity, without his love, cheerless and dark 
 indeed; yet, do we know well, that Satan and the 
 world would be utterly unable to combine so valu- 
 able an offer of the good which earth and time ad- 
 dress to your senses, feelings, passions, and ambi- 
 tions, as could tempt the relinquishment of the 
 
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 cherished hope, that, in the hour of your extremity, 
 the slighted Saviour may listen to your prayer. 
 Whatever be the practical denial in your life, a 
 truthful inner conscience acknowledges the value 
 you. attach to the grace of the gospel. Here, then, 
 and now, were I able to place by your side a heathen 
 so desolate as I have attempted to describe — were I 
 commissioned to assure you, that, without .your 
 svmpathy and earnest eftbrt, he would perish — 
 thoufrh, for yourselves, careless of the religion of 
 Jesus, yet such is your human charity, that for that 
 heathen soul tottering on despau*, your every sym- 
 pathy would be aroused. The eye that never wept 
 over the thought of your own transgression, for him 
 would be filled with tears. The voice that never ut- 
 tered a prayer for yoiu* own forgiveness, would now 
 find eai'nest supplications for his pardon. For him, 
 the grief and the agony, the fervent supplication 
 and the strong faith — which, exercised this day for 
 yourselves, would save your own souls — would be 
 poured out with no stint, in the fulness of your 
 benevolence. I cannot have done you injustice. 
 Then, these human sympathies, and your conscious- 
 ness of truth, relate you on either hand ; to these 
 perishing men, as a brother; and to your Father and 
 theirs, as a servant, for the discharge of a brother’s 
 responsibility. 
 
 “ ^Jiile thy servant was busy here and there, the 
 man was gone ” — ^one beyond the possibility of help 
 or recall. They are passing fast as the moments — 
 gone to their own places in eternity. Oh ! is there 
 not one here, who is ready, henceforth, to devote 
 
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 himself, talents, energies, and life, to the work of 
 savino; these souls? Is there no one here to bear 
 their condition and destiny on his heart before the 
 throne of grace, and, can he do no more, to wrestle 
 in prayer with Grod, with the faith of a Jacob, with 
 the perseverance of a S^n’ophenician, until a soul 
 from among these men has been granted to his 
 effort? Is there no one? Surely, there are many 
 who will offer their gifts to send the gospel, with its 
 message of grace, where they may not personally 
 speak its love. Their faith will prove itself by works. 
 Their charity towards Christ’s poor people will 
 Inspire the acceptable offering. And the bless- 
 ing of God will be secured upon themselves, their 
 persons, their substance, and their business, whilst 
 they declare, that they have “been busy here 
 and there,” only that, with the interest on their 
 Master’s talents, they might “keep these men” 
 for his eternal glory. 
 
 O MERCIFUL God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing 
 that Thou hast made, nor desirest the death of a sinner, but rather 
 that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all Jews, 
 Turks, Infidels, and Heretics ; and take from them all ignorance, 
 hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word; and so fetch them 
 home. Blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among 
 the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made One Fold under One 
 Shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee 
 and the Holy Spirit one God, world without end. Amen. 
 
 Collect for Good Friday. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 t 
 
 Page 9. — For a striking development of this topic, see the first of 
 Grant’s Bampton Lectures. 
 
 Page 12. — Refer to Rev. xi. 15; Romans xi.; St Matthew xxiv. 11 ; 
 Romans x. 14, 15. 
 
 Page 14. — The Church Missionary Society was founded April 12, 
 A.D. 1799. The first missionaries, Messrs Renner and Hartwig, from 
 Berlin, did not sail for Sierra Leone, Africa, until January 31, 1804. 
 The whole amount collected during the first five years was £2,462, or 
 S 12,310. 
 
 Page 15. — The mission of Francis Xavier to India was in 1542. 
 He died very soon after reaching China. Rogier and Ricci followed 
 him in China, 1579. The Jesuit missions flourished in the Indies, 
 and in Central and South America, during the sixteenth and seven- 
 teenth centuries. — Grant, Lect. V. 
 
 Page 15 . — The United Brethren sent out their first missionaries 
 1730-5. In ten years, they had planted missions in the West Indies, 
 Surinam, Southern America, among the Indian tribes of North 
 America, in Greenland, Lapland, Tartary, Algiers, Guinea, Cape of 
 Good Hope, Ceylon. In 1841, they reported fifty-eight missions, two 
 hundred and sixty-two labourers, and sixty thousand converts. 
 
 Page 16. — The Society for Propagating the Gospel was founded 
 June 1701. Within a few years they supported thirteen missionaries 
 in the North American Colonies — indeed all the Episcopal ministers 
 who were labouring there, except those in Virginia and Maryland. 
 In 1729, there were eighty parochial clergymen north of Maryland, 
 all of whom were missionaries of this society, except those in Boston, 
 Newport, New York, and Philadelphia. Among the earliest of their 
 missionaries were — 
 
 Rev. Mr Talbot. 
 Rev. George Keith. 
 Rev. Clement Hall. 
 
 Rev. Dr Cutler. 
 
 Rev. Dr Johnson. 
 
 Rev. Mr Beach. 
 
 Hist. Amer. Church. 
 
 Page 16. — 
 
 The Baptist Missionary Society was founded . . 1792 
 
 The Scotch Association „ . . 1793 
 
 The London Missionary Society „ . . 1 796 
 
 The American Board of Commissioners for For. Miss., (about) 1810 
 The Wesleyan As.sociation was founded 1817 
 
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 Page 17. — The first oflScers of the Church Missionary Society in- 
 cluded its efficient founders. Among these were — 
 
 President. 
 
 William Wilberforce. 
 
 Vice-Presidents. 
 Sir Richard Hill. 
 Vice-Admiral Gambier. 
 Charles Grant. 
 
 Samuel Thornton. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 Henry Thornton. 
 
 Committee. 
 
 Rev. W. J. Abdy. 
 
 Rev. Richard Cecil. 
 Rev. John Davies. 
 Rev. Thomas Scott. 
 Rev. John Newton. 
 Rev. Josiah Pratt. 
 Rev. John Venn. 
 Rev. Henry Foster. 
 Rev. Basil Woodd. 
 Mr John Bacon. 
 
 Mr Edward Venn. 
 Mr AVilliam Wilson. 
 
 Page 19. — The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States was founded A.D. 
 1820. It was adopted by the General Convention A.D. 1835. At this 
 latter date its receipts were £3000, or $15,000, per annum. Imme- 
 diately after, the receipts reached £12,000, or $60,000, per annum. 
 The receipts of the last year were £17,000, or $85,000. 
 
 Domestic. Foreign. Total. 
 
 The missionaries in 1835 were 51 15 66 
 
 The missionaries and teachers in 1847 were 96 50 146 
 
 In the same period, the number of the clergy has been nearly doubled. 
 Since 1844, it has increased by one-sixth — 
 
 Clergy in 1844 1224 
 
 „ 1848 1433 
 
 Page 22. — The Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D., of Connecticut, 
 w’as consecrated at Aberdeen, Scotland, on November 14, 1784, by 
 Bishop Kilgour, Primus, and Bishops Petrie and Skinner. I am 
 most happy to think that, even by the slight notice which may thus 
 be taken of this event, I shall help to fulfil the determination of the 
 clergy of Connecticut expressed soon after: “ That wherever the 
 American Episcopal Church shall be mentioned in the world, this 
 also, that the Bishops of Scotland have done for her, may be spoken 
 of for a memorial of them.” 
 
 Page 23. — See Grant’s Lect. I., p. 32. 
 
 Page 24. — 
 
 The population of the world is estimated at 860,000,000 
 The number of British subjects ' “ 123,000,000 
 
 Page 25. — See Grant’s Lect. I., p. 32. 
 
 Page 28. — There are 330,000,000 of deities worshipped by the 
 Hindoos — three times the number of the worshippers! — Evid. Reveal. 
 Relig., Glasgow, p. 16. 
 
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