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 * To preach tho gospel in the regions beyond you.' — 2 Cor. x. 10. 
 
 These words contain within them the end and object of 
 Apostolic labour. They are the v^ery echo of the last charge 
 of the Hedeemer, — ' Go ye into all the world, and preach 
 the Gospel to every creature.' To St. Paul, as not among 
 the chosen ones at that time, a similar commission had been 
 afterwards given, when, as he was praying in the Temple, 
 ho was in a trance, and saw the Lord, who said to him, 
 'Depart, for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.' 
 In his case we can almost trace each step of future progress, 
 and see how, as long as life lasted, the grand desire seemed 
 ever present — * to preach the Gospel in the regions beyond.' 
 In his first missionary journey the area is circumscribed, 
 and embraces only portions of Asia Minor. In his next he 
 is summoned to more extended labour — called from Asia into 
 Europe by the man of Macedonia, who appeared to him in 
 vision and said, * Come over and help us.' Philippi, Thes- 
 salonica, and Berea, rejoice in turn at the light, and the 
 Apostle passes downwards from them to Athens and to 
 Corinth. Tarrying at the seat of commerce for a longer 
 season, he lays there the foundation of a Christian Church ; 
 and, when taken from his converts, he still turns to them 
 with words of warning and encouragement. An Epistle is 
 addressed to them, in which he states his determination ' to 
 know nothing among them save Jesus Christ and Ilim cru- 
 
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 ciHcd'- an Epistlo tVoin wliicli wc (l(Miv(i our most precious 
 Irsaou.s of the lovo whicli binds t(><i('tlu'r tlic people of God, 
 and of tlie llesurrection as the keystone of the Cliristian 
 faitli. From riiilippi, or one of the other cities of Mace- 
 donia, a second Epistle is sent. In it, in the chapter of our 
 text, the Apostle is reviewing his first entrance in among the 
 Corintliians, as matter of the higitcst rejoicing ; or rather, 
 lest he should be betrayed into undue self-exaltation, he 
 (pialiiics his language, and wovdd speak of it as magnifying 
 the exceeding grace of God. * Wc are come,' he says, ' as 
 far as unto you also in preaching the Gospel of Christ ;* but 
 at this very moment he looks onwards, and gives expression 
 to the hope that, according as their faitli should bo enlarged, 
 and the opportunity and means should bo afibrded him, ho 
 might preach the Gospel in the regions beyond them. 
 
 Writing soon after from Corinth to the Romans, whom as 
 yet he had never seen face to face, he declares in a similar 
 spirit, ' As much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gos- 
 pel to you that are at Rome also.' And towards the end of 
 that Epistle he drops an allusion, to a yet more distant plan : 
 ' Whensoever I take my journey into Spain I will come to 
 you.' Spain thus, and Gaul, and, it may be, Britain, lay 
 much on the Apostle's heart, — the desire was there, whether 
 actually accomplished or not we do not know for certain, 
 but the principle of action was throughout life the same — 
 ' to preach the Gospel in the regions beyond.' 
 
 The Church of Christ has ever inherited the same charge. 
 For ages she may have slumbered and slept, but with the 
 opening of this century the voice has sounded with power 
 on her ear, and, awaking from her lethargy, our own beloved 
 Clun-ch has girded herself afresh for the task. We have 
 proof before us this morning that such labour has not been 
 in vain. 
 
 A quarter of a century ago this month,* I was myself 
 sent forth to cement and consolidate the infant Church in 
 
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 Rupert's Land. It were idle to deny that it appeared at the 
 time a long and difficult way. The voyage through the 
 icebergs and the Straits (the only method of approach in 
 those days), the long subsequent weeks of exposed travel up 
 the country, brought mo at last to my do'^tined home. It 
 was an oasis in the wilderness, the scene already of successful 
 missionary toil, where devoted men of God had laboured 
 and scattered seed, and that with a laxge blessin^^-, for five 
 and-twenty years. 
 
 That spot has now become the centre of a growing and 
 thriving community, with the prospect of a yet more rapid 
 enlargement, through the tide of emigration which is setting 
 in. It is, too, the capital of the Canadian Province of Mani- 
 toba. Hero my excellent successor, in addition to unwearied 
 attention to all the weighty details of Episcopal work, devotes 
 much energy and power to large educational efforts, con- 
 vinced that the hopes of the future would mainly depend 
 upon the training of those who may be the ministers and 
 missionaries of the next generation. Here he has his College 
 of St. John's, cradled and nursed in its infancy by myself; 
 here he plans a Cathedral Chapter, some members of which 
 shall form a Professorial Staff — a Theological Faculty. Here 
 he has in recent years assembled around him a Diocesan 
 Synod of clergy and laity ; and now, with the sanction of the 
 Primate, and aided by the liberality of the Church Missionary 
 Society, of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and 
 of the Church at large, he is subdividing the unmanageable 
 territory committed to him, by founding Missionary Bishop- 
 rics to meet the wants and exigencies of the land. The seat 
 of the original bishopric remains thus still the seat and 
 centre of influence in the South, and may become at a future 
 day the centre of a Province of our Church. 
 
 The Sunday pi ^eding the first day of Intercession 
 witnessed, in the Abbey near us, the consecration of one* 
 
 * The Right Eev. John Horden, D.D., ordained Deacon and Priest at 
 Moose, 1862 ; consecrated in Westminster Abbey Bishop of Moosonee, 
 December 10, 1872. 
 
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 who, ' as a son with the father, had served with me in the 
 Gospel ; ' one of my own ordination as deacon and priest, to 
 the eastern Bishopric of Moosonee. There he has a large and 
 independent sph-^re, stretching from Labrador to York Fort, 
 and from the Straits to the Canadian frontier. 
 
 To-day the noble plan will be consummated by the con- 
 secration of two additional Bishops. One* will preside over 
 the Church in the western portion of the land, labouring 
 among the Indians of the plains, and along the valley of that 
 river whose source is in the Rocky Mountains — the river 
 Saskatchewan ; whose name, in its sound and meaning, would 
 remind of those surging rapids down which it sends its 
 waters into the inland sea of Winnipeg. 
 
 The other Bishop f will have the northern diocese as his 
 own, along yet mightier lakes, and with rivers which roll 
 down an immense volume and discharge themselves into 
 the Arctic Ocean. Such is the fourfold subdivision of that 
 vast territory, completing and carrying out ideas which, 
 as day-dreams, may at times have flitted across my mind, 
 but whici; have to-day reality and shape, and a definite 
 existence. 
 
 The object, then, is to carry the Gospel into those regions 
 beyond. 
 
 Nor think that the Gospel — the Divine message — has 
 lost anything of its power in its transmission through the 
 ages of the past. If sweet the task of the angel who on 
 Bethlehem's plains proclaimed 'Behold, I bring you glad 
 tidings of great joy,' sweet still the announcement of a 
 Saviour and the work of redeeming love. There may be 
 little apparent fruit while we dwell on subordinate topics, 
 and endeavour to carry out merely a moral reformation ; but, 
 as the simple story of the birth of Christ is told, and still 
 more as we unfold the record of His agony and death, there 
 will be the burst of deeper emotion, and the cry of the 
 
 * The Right Rev. John M'Lean, D.D., D.C.L. (Archdeacon of Mani- 
 toba and Warden of St. John's College), Bishop of Saskatchewan. 
 
 t Th« Right Rev. W. Car]ientor Bompas, D.D., Bishop of Athabasca. 
 
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 Grcenlander will be heard afresh, — ' Tell me that story over 
 again.' In each of the dioceses to be formed to-day we have 
 known of cases in which the story has been listened to eagerly 
 throughout the whole day, and continued onwards through 
 the livelong night. It came to them with all the freshness 
 of a new revelation, meeting exactly their condition as sin- 
 ners, and supplying their every need. 
 
 But to announce is not the whole of the work to which 
 the Overseers in the Church of Christ are called. It was the 
 Apostle's boast, that * from Jerusalem round about to lUyricum 
 he had fully preached the gospel of Christ ; ' preached, that is 
 (as has been well explained), not alone in outline, but filling up 
 and developing the scheme of salvation. In the former case 
 you may do the work of an evangelist, as a herald publishing 
 the glad tidings ; in the latter you would pass on and make 
 full proofs of your ministry. In itinerating you may do the 
 former ; in frequent visitation, and leaving behind you the 
 settled teacher, you must seek to do the latter. 
 
 There is, however, yet another feature in the Apostle's 
 sketch of his labours, as he depicts them for us in the Epistle 
 to the Romans and in the passage of our text. We find him 
 invariably striving to preach * not where Chrifet was named, 
 lest he should build upon another man's fiumdation.' It was 
 his holy ambition to be ever breaking up virgin soil, finding 
 out fresh and untried ground. This surely will be the un- 
 doubted privilege of those to be sent forth to-day. Some 
 pioneers* may have gone forth to search out the land, but us 
 yet there are only a few spots mapped out and indicated. 
 There remaineth much land to be possessed, permanently 
 occupied for the Lord, in the almost untrodden wilderness. 
 Amid the Indians of the plains, liow mighty a work to be 
 done ! along the valley of the Saskatchewan, how many a 
 flourishing village and settlement may we hope to see formed! 
 And among the Esquimaux, how many have yet to be ap- 
 proached ! how many, by means of the present converts, may bo 
 
 * Such as Archdeacon Hunter, now Vicar of St. Matthew's, Bays- 
 water, who penetrated into Atliabasca and spent a winter there in ISoH. 
 
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 reached hereafter among those yet unknown islands of the 
 Northern Sea 1 
 
 If such be the object, what would be the weapons with 
 which the warfare must be waged, and on which the hopes of 
 victory must depend ? 
 
 The Apostle tells us in this chapter, ' The weapons of our 
 warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling 
 down of strongholds.' What, then, is the weapon of mightiest 
 power against all the hosts which may oppose ? The reply 
 would at once be, The Word in its life-giving and un- 
 changing efficacy. As the warrior, going forth to the fight, 
 girds on his sword of finest temper, so will those to-day 
 assume afresh ' the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of 
 God.' It will be delivered to each of them in this sacred 
 service in the words of the great Apostle himself which he 
 addressed to Timothy, as no fitter words can be found for the 
 purpose — * Give heed unto reading, exhortation, and doc- 
 trine. Think upon the things contained in this Book. Be 
 diligent in them, that the increase coming thereby may be 
 manifest unto all men.' As shepherds they are to go forth, 
 so to feed the flock with the Word, so to bring back the out- 
 casts and to seek the lost, * that wlien the Chief Shepherd shall 
 appear they may receive the never-fading crown of glorj' ; 
 through Jesus Chiist our Lord.' 
 
 In how many A'aricd tongues will that Word speak over 
 those regions of the world to which they shall be sent ! in 
 how many difierent dialects and shapes ! Sometimes in a 
 completed Bible ; at other times in a Gospel or short Epistle ; 
 not unfrcquentlj' in verses or chapters appealing to the heart 
 and conscience, and telling in short compass the way of 
 salvation. Yet how precious are the fragments of the jewel ! 
 How very often are a few leaves of the tree of life made 
 effectual for the healing of the soul's disease ! 
 
 If, however, the AYritten Word, and even portions of it, bo 
 thus ' quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 
 sword,' God has promised a large blessing to that other 
 weapon, the Preached Word. In the cases which we are 
 
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 invited to contemplate, it will very generally precede the 
 former. It is impossible to wait until the whole volume be 
 translated — the whole of those Scriptures presented which 
 are * able to make wise unto salvation.' The explanation 
 of the message of life will be going on while the former 
 process is being carried out. Many an anxious inquirer will 
 come with the desire to know what the Great Book (as they 
 call it) has taught us, and in simple form much of sa\dng 
 truth will be communicated before we have in accurate and 
 amended shape all the * lively oracles of God.' Nor will the 
 preaching be with the symmetry and regularity of a finished 
 sermon ; rather will it be, as was often the case with St. Paul, 
 the reasoning out of the Scriptures, the clearing away of the 
 difficulties of the mind, the feeding with the sincere milk the 
 new-born babes in Christ. After all, the secret will be to 
 seize the o^^^iortunity — to be instant in season and out of 
 season — to be ready in boat or tent, by lake or river, to 
 preach Christ. 
 
 Guilty, indeed, should I bo if I omitted one other 
 weapon which must accompany the Word written or preached, 
 without which either of them will be of little avail ; and that, 
 as you readily imagine, is Prayer. This is the great instru- 
 ment of power with God, in yearning for souls. With our 
 Great Pattern Himself, the weapon in the wilderness in 
 conflict with Satan was the Word — the weapc a in the garden 
 was Prayer, when, ' being in an agony. He prayed more in- 
 tensely.' To plead earnestly with God for the conversion of 
 souls, and to pray much with those converted, would be the 
 very strength of missionary and of ministerial work. * The 
 Christian armour,' it has been well said, ' will soon rust, except 
 it be furbi&hed with the oil of prayer. What the key is to 
 the watch, prayer is to our graces — it winds them up and 
 sets them going.' 
 
 Such are the weapons which are mighty in attacking the 
 strongholds of Satan. Not, in the cases before us, the 
 strongholds of idolatry — not the strongholds of a refined 
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 and of ignorance — the strongholds of sin and the natural 
 heart — the strongholds which Satan plants on the confines 
 of the kingdoms of light and darkness, where he is ever 
 watching lest we get the advantage over him. The temp- 
 tations will, we feel sure, be greater there — they will be all 
 the more subtle and peculiar ; those of solitude and isolation, 
 those arising from want of congenial society and Christian 
 friendships, those arising from the sight of heathenism in all 
 its deformity and entire forgetfulness of God. How doubly 
 necessary* to watch unto prayer' — to maintain the closer 
 fellowship and communion with Him whose work it is — with 
 Him who is ready to say, as of His Apostles of old, ' The 
 spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ;' or, as He said to St. 
 Paul himself, * My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength 
 is made perfect in weakness.' How necessary ever to realize 
 that, however parted from country, and kindred, and friends, 
 in dwelling * under the defence of the Most High we abide 
 under the shadow of the Almighty;' that *in the time of 
 trouble He will hide us in His pavilion ; in the secret of His 
 tabernacle He will hide us ; He will set us up (and keep us) on 
 a Hock.' 
 
 And now. Brethren beloved aboui to be consecrated, a few 
 words may be permitted me as to the si^ecial work entrusted 
 to you. 
 
 In going forth to the Saskatchewan, you go forth, Brother, 
 in some degree, to an untried work ; and yet we would 
 recognize your peculiar fitness for what lies before you. 
 Canada gave you originally for the work in Rupert's Land. 
 Familiar with Colonial life in the diocese of Huron, you cast 
 in your lot witli my successor, and, as friends of early life, 
 you have since laboured together as brothers in winning- 
 souls, and in educating and training students for the work of 
 the ministry. You have been naturally selected for that 
 field in which your Colonial experience will be most valuable ; 
 where you may soon have many hundreds of settlers around 
 you on the rolling prairies, with an easy and productive soil. 
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 tendence, forgot not the Indians of the plain. Let the 
 remnants of the noble race be sought out and gathered in ; 
 visited, as much as may be, in their wandering and roving 
 life ; settled down, if God permit, in families and permanent 
 and peaceable habitations. It will be yours to contribute 
 towards the solution of that problem which has, perhaps, 
 received its best illustration within the limits of the Hudson 
 Bay territory — the possible preservation of the Indian race, 
 its reception of the privileges of Christianity, and its partici- 
 pation of the blessings of civilized life. 
 
 In leaving for the more distant sphere of Athabasca, 
 Brother, it is to no untried work that you proceed. It is 
 matter of very deep interest to notice the links in the chain 
 of God's providence, which has guided you to this hour. 
 Nine years ago, to-morrow, it was my happy privilege to 
 preach the Anniversary Sermon of that noble Socifity which 
 mainly sends you forth. I had then heard that he* who was 
 bearing the standard of the Cross in the most advanced 
 position at Fort Youcon was sinking in rapid decline. I 
 read a touching extract from a letter which I had just 
 received from his nearest fellow- labourer, f in which were 
 these words : — * Oh, plead for us, ray Lord, plead with God 
 for men and with men for God, that they may come to gather 
 in the harvest here. The time is short, the enemy is active, 
 the Master will soon be here, and then blessed will those 
 servants be who are found working and watching.' J On 
 this I grounded my appeal, and said, * Shall the minister 
 fall in the forefront of the battle, in the remotest outpost, 
 and shall no one come forward to take up the standard of the 
 Lord as it drops from his hands, and occupy the ground ? ' 
 These were the words which commended themselves to your 
 heart. You offered yourself to the Society, and within three 
 weeks of your ofier you were on your way to the far North- 
 
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 west. lie who was thought to be sick unto death was 
 raised up, restored, to find you by his side, ready to aid and 
 sustain him in his work. 
 
 You have been there for more than eight years, in 
 labours abundant, and your love has not lessoned nor your 
 zeal slackened. You have brought home, as the fruit of 
 your labour, portions of Scripture, prayers, and hymns, in 
 seven different dialects or tongues. You are ready to take 
 the precious treasure out with you — the translations printed 
 and prepared by the Society for Promoting Christian 
 Knowledge, You have also one complete jospel, that of 
 St. Mark, which the British and Foreign Lible Society has 
 enabled you to carry through the press. 
 
 But you left good treasure behind, in souls warmed with 
 the love of Christ and softened by the Spirit of grace. You 
 have the hearts of the Indians and the Esquimaux. Of the 
 former you know tribes whom I have never seen, and whose 
 tongues I have never heard. With the Esquimaux you have 
 been content to live for weeks in the snow-house which they 
 have built for you, breaking to them the crumbs of the bread 
 of life, and leading them simply and lovingly to Christ. 
 
 I have seen some of them at Moose and at York, and had one 
 near me for a time, whom I had hoped to ordain, but illness 
 carried him off far from his home. You know them in their 
 natural home ; and I trust that for them a brighter day is 
 dawning. They stretch along the whole fringe of the 
 Northern Coast, from the Straits to the Youcon River. Your 
 plan, which appears to mo a wise one, is to get some from 
 Greenland, who have been trained by the Danish or Moravian 
 missionaries, who may be able to assist you in teaching them. 
 
 You are now, I am aware, longing to return, wishing ere 
 winter to be again at work amidst ice and snow. JN'ext week 
 you sail with your little missionary band, and we would not 
 detain you. "We would only assure you that you go with 
 the best prayers of God's people, who will follow you step by 
 step to your distant solitary outpost. May His presence and 
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 anniversaries, during which you will have so much of prayer 
 and earnest supplication offered up on your behalf. 
 
 There is, too, something very touching in the thought 
 that our beloved Church, through her appointed Head, lays 
 the hand on the Esquimaux of the remotest North-west 
 to-day — that they are thus indeed 'sought out, a people 
 not forsaken.' It seems to say, that wherever discovery has 
 carried its search, wherever heroism and bold auventure can 
 penetrate, thitlier shall we endeavour to follow with the 
 gospel of the grace of God. From this Church two more 
 Chief Pastors arc now to be sent forth. From the Archi- 
 episcopal Chapel of Lambeth, some ninety years ago,* were 
 sent forth two Bishops to give permanence and stability to 
 our Sister Church in the United States. The two have 
 multiplied, and wonderfully has that Church spread; very 
 many her dioceses (as many now as fifty), stretching from 
 sea to sea. With holy rivalry we have planted our Church 
 in our possessions in the North, and now across a continent 
 we meet her in the North-west. We only ask one boon at 
 her hand — that she should plant a Missionary Bishopric in 
 Alaska ; and then shall our united work advance moer 
 rapidly by that which each supplieth, the one efibrt being 
 which shall do the most to gather in a people for the Lord. 
 
 Thus, Christian friends, after the lapse of eighteen 
 centuries are we still endeavouring to drink more deeply 
 into the spirit of the Apostle's words, and to present before 
 our minds more vividly the responsibilities of the regions 
 beyond. From our Island Home how many the oppor- 
 tunities and open doors — more numerous, we cannot but 
 think, than ever since Apostolic days. In what direction 
 can we look, and not be reminded with almost overwhelming 
 power of regions yet beyond ? 
 
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 out her hands unto the Lord.' India, with a growing measure 
 of light, would beseech us to remember our fellow-subjects — 
 by the very want and famine which weighs her down would 
 loudly call on us to send her the bread of life ; and would 
 point to the regions beyond, of Burmah and Thibet. Africa, 
 by the close of a second successful campaign, would ask for 
 free-will offerings from grateful hearts; and, by the hut of the 
 lonely traveller and his dying words, would appeal to us to 
 open a highway for the Gospel from East to West. In South 
 America, srve on the coast, how little of light ! the mes- 
 sengers of the Gospel only beginning to ascend those mighty 
 rivers and penetrate beyond. 
 
 In our own former land in the North, how unfavourable, 
 it might have been said, the spot first selected, how inacces- 
 sible, hew unlikely to prove a successful centre of Christian 
 light and life ! Yet God has richly and signally blessed it, 
 and seems to have yet larger blessings in store. It is a 
 matter of unspeakable gratitude to myself that, in the nine 
 years of my own retirement from the work, I should have 
 been permitted to take part in the consecration of four Bishops, 
 who will now have the oversight of our Church in that land. 
 It is like living a second life to hear of their successful toil, of 
 the rapid spread of God's truth, and the ingathering of souls 
 to the Redeemer's fold. 
 
 What, then, would be needful for yet greater triumphs ? 
 The Apostle tells us in the verse preceding the text, — the 
 enlargement of your faith; and besides, there must be the 
 uplifting of more earnest prayer, the self-devotion of many 
 more men baptized afresh by the Spirit, the consecration of 
 yet larger gifts to the treasury of the Lord. I need scarcely 
 ask you for such offerings to-day. Remember those before 
 you in prayer, remember them by your gifts. And let the 
 inscription on the banner of our Church be ever clear, and 
 legible, and bright, that hers is the call, the privilege, the 
 high mission * to preach the Gospel in the regions beyond.' 
 
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