nothing. Yet what do we see to-day? In place of one Colonial diocese, the Colonial dioceses of Great Britain, all of them essentially Missionary, are more numerous than the English, Scotch, and Irish put together. The Colonial dioceses of this Church now girdle the earth. It is a marvellous revolution; what has brought it about? It has not been effected by anything done by Church and State, nor by the Convocation of Canterbury, nor by Acts of Parliament; but through the agency of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

Another reason why I commend this Society to the sympathies of Churchmen is, that it was established in the beginning of the last century for the very purpose of following the emigrant from these shores with the Gospel as Churchmen hold it in England; in the words of the charter, to preach the Gospel, and to propagate it in his Majesty's colonies and plantations.' Although the Society has large Missions to the heathen, particularly in India, yet I make bold to say that it was established for the purpose of preaching the Gospel to the colonies. This may not be as popular nor as captivating a work as Missions to the heathen, yet, in my Emigrants. by the hard pressure of life, forced, much against their will, to emigrate, have the first claim on the sympathies and the prayers of their kindred at home. The tide of emigration that rolls from these shores is met to a certain extent with the Gospel only by Missionary Churches established by that Society. I would instance Canada, of which I know most. When the present Bishop of Toronto was ordained there were but four Missionary clergy in that great country. Now there are in the Province of Canada six well-organized dioceses, with their Diocesan Synods and lay cooperation, in a very great degree self-reliant and self-supporting, and 450 Missionary priests actively engaged in preaching the Gospel. The Diocese of Toronto has 120 Missionary priests who are all off the books of the Society. There is Adelaide, which is now off the books of the Society. There is also my own diocese, which is only five years old.

opinion, our countrymen, crowded out of this land

Again, one reason why the Society claims support is, that if ever

the heathen are to become Christians in the utmost parts of the earth, it must be effected by the Colonial Churches of Great Britain. I believe that this result will never be effected by any direct agency from this island. Not many days ago a remarkable con

ference met in London in Lambeth Palace. At that meeting there were nineteen remarkable men-Bishops of the great Church of the United States—and what brought them there? Before the revolution which separated the United States from this country there were no Bishops

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there. The State would never allow it. The Church winked at the State's neglect, but this state of things changed, and there is in that country a great Church, not numerically great as compared with the great bodies of Christians, but a Church which is gathering within its folds in a rapid manner the wealth, intelligence, refinement, and education of the country. We could not get on any Missionary platform in England more hearty supporters and more eloquent and earnest advocates for Missionary work as represented by this Society than these very Bishops. This is a proof that Missionary effort would tend to unite us in the bond of peace. Who can tell how that great Church, one with us in religious principle and sentiment, may tend to the elevation of public opinion in that great country, which is rivalling our own in all that makes the Anglo-Saxon race great and remarkable? It would be doing despite to the Society's interest, as well as throwing a great reflection upon the sainted men who established it, if we did not look back upon the mighty results which had been accomplished of old, and determine to make renewed efforts for the future.

The Society has not made great progress in this diocese of Manchester. I am sorry for it. I do not know the reasons for it, nor do I care to inquire. I only know that there are not twenty parishes out of the 400 in the diocese which give more than 207. a year to the only great association which follows our countrymen with the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST. Raising funds is a test of sincerity, for nothing shows a man's sincerity more than a willingness to tax himself. I should like to see parochial associations and the children of the Sun

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day schools imbued with a Missionary spirit. I should like to see the beginning made with children. We cannot teach Christianity better than by teaching that the spirit of the New Testament is a Missionary spirit. Systematic effort is necessary. If you knew that for every 501. a Missionary could be sustained, and if you knew the value set on sympathy at home by the Churches abroad, you would make greater exertions. Some say that a Missionary Bishop is not looked with satisfaction in England, that England is not the place for a Missionary Bishop-that he would be much better in his own country; but I would say, having only had one holiday of six months in nineteen years, that a Missionary Bishop cannot visit this country without doing good, not only to his own diocese, but to the Church at home."

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The Bishop concluded by referring to some interesting facts connected with the Mohawk Indians, of whom he had 2,500 in his diocese, and who, when it was suggested that their Church was to become self-supporting, subscribed 500 dollars for that particular endowment.

Bishop of New Zealand.

The BISHOP of NEW ZEALAND said, "One of the great objections to Missionary work is that it is often over-coloured. The general saying is that there is nothing so fallacious as facts, but in what I have now to say I shall speak plainly of the results of my own experience. It is nearly thirteen years since I was last in Manchester, and twenty-six years since I received my commission to go forth as Bishop of New Zealand. The events of that quarter of a century have been of a very varied kind, and some of these I desire to lay before the meeting, to illustrate the difficulties and the trials, as well as the successes, of Missionary life. My main object is to show you that it pleased GOD in His good providence to overrule even the sins of men to produce those great results which He desired to effect. You know full well what was the origin of the whole Australian colonies. The very refuse of England was sent out to that land after its discovery by our great navigator, Captain Cook. A place which still remains a name proverbial for infamy, Botany Bay, was the beginning

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of the great city of Sydney, which is now the emporium of all the Pacific Ocean. It was peopled first by the convicts sent out from this country as the penalty for their sins, and few indeed were the chaplains sent out to minister to their spiritual necessities. But amongst those chaplains was one man who was not content to look to the small flock of outcasts to which he was appointed to minister, but cast longing eyes over the islands of New Zealand, to see whether something could not be done there to reclaim its barbarous inhabitants, and bring them to the faith of CHRIST. The growing importance of Sydney facilitated this design; and the Rev. SAMUEL MARSDEN was at length enabled to go forth on the Mission of enlightening the neighbouring islands of New Zealand. His reception, and that of the Missionaries who succeeded him, was of the most friendly kind. Nothing could exceed the cordiality with which the Missionaries were first received by the natives. It was while this good feeling continued between the two races that I received a present of 500 acres of land, with an inscription, dictated by the natives, in these words:-"We make over this piece of land to the Bishop of New Zealand, as a site for a college of both races, that our young men, and the young men of both races, may grow up together in the faith of Jesus Christ, and in obedience to the Queen." If that feeling is now changed, I shall not undertake to explain the causes. It is a painful subject, and I am ready to admit that there have been faults on both sides. But the change itself has been most grievous. The feeling of confidence and affection on the part of the natives has given way to one of distrust, and even of hate, and a large body of them have become apostates from CHRIST. But it is not true that any of them ever returned to cannibalism. Christianity, in the brief period in which it has swayed there, has effectually cured them of this most detestable vice. True, two of the Missionaries, Messrs. Volkner and Grace, have been murdered, but I would explain the real facts of the case. This act was done at the instigation of a native who wished to be thought somebody, and who appeared to possess a kind of mesmeric influence over his people. At least he

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got them together in a chapel the night before the murder, and they were all thrown into convulsions, men and women rolling about upon the floor. He told them that he came as a messenger of God-of that false God whom he endeavoured to persuade them to follow. He said it was necessary for them to make a sacrifice, and he succeeded in persuading them to sacrifice their Missionaries. I still hope that this martyrdom may prove instrumental in promoting the spread of Christianity in New Zealand. There has never ceased to be a stream of native candidates for holy orders whose faith has remained unshaken. My last act before I left New Zealand was to admit two more deacons of the New Zealand race to the holy office of the ministry.

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An important work is also carried on through elanesian Missionary agency in our visiting the ninety or hundred islands of the Pacific Ocean, many of them unknown by name in this country. I have seen this day the Manchester Gaol and Assize courts; and the former reminded me of those fearful model prisons I have met with in Norfolk Island, which was the place to which the very worst class of criminals was sent from Port Jackson. In those dens, where felons formerly cursed GOD and man, may now be seen little children of the Pitcairn race, descended from the mutineers of the Bounty, playing at hide-andseek, totally unconscious of theft. Theft, indeed, is not known in the island; drunkenness is not known, and the reason is that there the people make their own laws, and they have enacted that no spirituous liquors shall be introduced into the island except to be kept in the medicine chests of the clergymen, to be used as necessity requires. And thus it is that they are in a great measure free from other sins, though not altogether. No seaman desires to land there, because he can get no intoxicating liquors.

I have spoken of our comparative failure in New Zealand, and I now wish to refer pointedly to one reason. The natives for many years set themselves against the temptations to drinking. In a statistical return published in the town of Wellington many years after the settlement was formed, after describing the number of convictions for various offences, including the offence of drunken