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BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO THE NATIONS

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PREACHED

IN SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,

ON SUNDAY, MAY 3, 18r)7.

DAVID ANDERSON, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF RUPERT's LAND.

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BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO THE NATIONS^

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PREACHED

IN SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,

ON SUNDAY, MAY :j, ISaT.

DAVID ANDERSON, D.D.

I,OI!D BISHOP OF RUPERT S LAND.

PUliLTSHED BY REQUEST.

LONDON:
THOMAS HATCHARD, 187 PICCADILLY.

A. NEWLING, LIVERPOOL.
1857.

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LONDON
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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL,

LORD BISHOP OF LONDON.

My dear Lord,

It was one of my greatest pleasures on
reaching England to hear of your Lordship's
deserved appointment to the high and exalted
station which you occupy, and afterwards to be
present at your Lordship's Consecration, and to
mingle my prayers with those of so many others
on that solemn occasion. I could not but think
at the time of the days of boyhood spent together,
of intercourse so happily commenced at the outset
of life, and friendship continued without inter-
ruption, save by distance from each other, for
more than two-and-thirty yea.s.

Nor could it be a small gratification to be
invited, through the kindness of your Lordship,

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to represent the case of my tar-distant Diocese,
the wants of the Indian of the wihlerness, in the
centre of li-ht and civilization. How different
the circumstances of the Church from tlie time
when sermons were preached by Kidley and
Jewel at Paul's Cross ! It is, if I mistake not,
instead of them, that your Lordship has now the
appointment of the Morning Preacher in the
Cathedral ; and this has given you the oppor-
tunity, so happily seized, of combining within its
walls the voices from the East and from the
West in the compass of a single month. Our
beloved Church would now be in act, what your
Cathedral is in type and figure, an overshadow-
ing mother, embracing under her wing many
Churches, and stretching her boughs unto the
sea and her branches unto the river.

Does it not afford a proof of the vast extent
and energy of the Church of the present day,
that in my remotest boundary I find those who
bear the license of your Lordship's predecessor
— that in Vancouver's Lland our Dioceses meet ?
It will be matter of deep thankfulness if I am
ever permitted to visit that spot, and carry out
in any measure your Lordship's wishes there.
. And the happiest day of my life, in anticipation,
would be that on which, if health and strength be

grunted, I may gaze on the distant Pacific, and
feel that I have traversed the ^ .nd from sea to sea.
It is, I am sure, needless to ask for myself
and mv land a casual romemhrance in vour Lord-
ship's prayerh ; and it is, I trust, equally un-
necessarv to assure vou, that from the West our
hearts will often revert to the centre w^hence we
were sent forth, and our prayers wiU ascend for
him to whom, in an especial manner, the care of
the Missionary os of Britain is entrusted.

That your Lor be abundantly strength-

ened by God's y"^^ ie overpowering charge

committed to you ; u.., you may ever possess,
what you have already so largely gained, the
affection and esteem of an attached Clergy ; that
manv davs of health may be ffiven vou on earth,
and many souls, at the great day of the Lord,
prove your joy and crown of rejoicing, is the
sincere antl earnest prayer of

Your afl^ectionate friend and brother,

David Rupert's Land.

London, Maj/ 25, 1857.

A SERMON.

" What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his
people shall .rust in (marg. betake themselves into) H.**
— ISA. xiv. 32.

The stream of time is ever presenting a suc-
cession of similar events. Historical parallels
are found to recur in ages and countries the
most remote from each other. For one such
parallel we have the highest authority, that of
inspiration. Linked as the two portions of the
volume of God are together, we cannot doubt that
the historical record of the Old Testament is in
some way to be reproduced under the New. The
Spirit by the Apostle has told us that ixll things
which happened to the Israelites happened unto
them, for ensamples, and are written for our ad-
monition. And so, casting off Jewish peculiarities,
and that which marked out the dispensation as
only for an isolated people, and for a passing
season, we can always draw from what we read of
them some saving instruction for ourselves.

Now, in the earlier portion of the chapter
of our text, we have, you will remember, the
thrilling and magnificent prediction of the over-
throw of the King of Babylon, and the deliver-
ance of the people of the Lord. We have the
haughty monarch represented in bold imagery,
as welcomed by his compeers in the unseen
^oria, — his pomp brought down to the grave,
the worm spread under him and the worms
covering him. As a pledge of the fulfilment
of the more distant subject, the Prophet adduces
the destruction of the host of the Assyrians,
the army of Sennacherib, almost at the very
gates of' Jerusalem. And then he passes to
notice events nearer at hand. Under Uzziah
the Philistines had suffered severely and been
brought low, but during the reign of Ahaz
their courage had revived, and on the accession
of Hezekiah they still hoped to be able to corry
out successfullv their plans and projects.

The Prophet is commissioned to declare that
it will be even worse for every enemy of Jerusalem
under Hezekiah; that under him the pov\er of
God's people will only be more confirmed ; and
that if any come to sue for peace, or to inquire
regarvling the wonders and deliverances wrought
for Judah by God's arm, they are to be told " that
the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of
his people shall trust in it." May not, then,
this message of comfort to Jerusalem prove one
of comfort to ourselves ? Ages have passed away

since these words were written, and yet, enlarging
our field of view, and changing our standing-
point, we may perhaps be guided into some profit-
able and suggestive reflections by means of them.
We would contemplate, — The Question which
seems implied in the words, — The Answer con-
tained in them, and, — The Ingathering of the
poor into the Zion of the living God.

To view then, first, the Question of the text,
and the analogous and corresponding question,
proposed by many around us at the present day.

The messengers in the case before us were
those sent by a small tribe, or if, with some
commentators,* we admit the word to be a plural
noun (nations), they were those sent by a few
of the surrounding tribes, to inquire regarding
the actual position and true strength of Judah
and Jerusalem. Now the nation to which the
appeal was made, measured in the balance of
earthly kingdoms, was but a small one, insig-
nificant when compared with Babylon the golden
city, or with the power of the proud Assyrian ;
and vet, there was a mi<xht on the side of this
despised people which proved that God was with
them. What a miracle and marvel Jerusalem
must thus have appeared to the nations dwelling
on the earth, to the messengers of the nations
who came to inquire regarding her ! They visit
a country of narrow and confined limits, thev find

* The Scptuagint has tlie phiral, aiul this Yitringa also
prefers.

within it inhabitants scarcely known beyond their
own borders ; but they approach Jerusalem and
they are told that this is the city of the hving
God Thev see the outward glory and splendour
of the Temple, and they hear of its hidden its
inner magnificence, its holy and holy of holies.
They go about Zion and mark her bulwarks,
and, as thev retire, they feel that her protection
must be from heaven. And to the messengers,
whatever their errand or object, whether from
Babylon or Assyria, from the Philistines or any
of the nations around, the one answer to be
returned by the command of God is the same,
"The Lord hath founded Zion."

Where, then, is there anything corresponding
to this at the present hour ? lliere is, surely, a
land to which the messengers of the nations
come ; nations, that scarcely know her position,
feel her power ; and tliey send their ambassadors
from afar, to ascertain if possible the secret of
her strength and security. The tide of revolution
sweeps over other lands, but is rolled back from
this one. Her foes arc many and powerful, but
they all feel that there is a mightier arm than that
of man arrayed on her side. She prevails far and
near through the terror of her arms ; but she has
other victories,- her peaceful conquests thnt she
carries to the ends of the earth, the triumphs of
the Gospel of Christ. It is not that we identify
the land with Zion, or confine the term to our
own Church or country ; rather is it because of

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her connexion with Zion that God blesses the
land, because in her the Zion of God is planted
and cherished, by her the borders of Zion are
enlarged and extended ; and while she remains
tbus favourable and gracious to Zion, God will
make her a praise and a glory in the earth.

The messengers of the nations, then, come to
Britain, to behold her power and to demand
the secret of her strength. If able to hear the
voice of God addressing her in the words before
us, if she but listen to them and follow out their
spirit, how sure and invincible her position !
for how long a period may she still have cause
to say, *'The Lord of hosts is with us, the God
of Jacob is our refuge ! "

But, narrowing for a few moments our view,
and taking the words in a subordinate application,
the present, we would remark, is peculiarly the
season of inquiry regarding her spiritual strength,
the amount of her peaceful progress. Year by
year as the wh ^els of time roll round, meetings
are held as at this time to inquire and tell what
God hath wrought.

The question, for example, that would suggest
itself to the mind, — the question that might first
be proposed, would be, Whether any other tribe or
nation dwelling on the earth, hitherto in heathen
darkness, has through another year received the
message of salvation and accepted the offer of
grace? — is any fresh country accessible to the feet
of the messenger of peace, of him " that bringeth

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good tidings of good, that publishcth salvation ?
And, brethren, it is surely a privilege to hear ot
a continent opened up,* of a wilderness begmmng
to blossom,t of tribes casting off the bondage of
superstition and the cruelties of war, and rejoicing
in the glorious libertv wherewith Christ makes
free How cohl and insensible the heart which
can listen to the recital of such tidings unmoved !
And then, too, another question would natu^-
rally follow : Has the word of God penetrated
farther throuoh another year ; has it been trans-
lated into anv fresh languages, so as to speak
to another nation in their own tongue of the
wonderful works of God? Here another noble
Society would take up its tale, and number up
the languages of earth, in which the voice o
the living God is now speaking to man. And
•n this way each year would bring in evidence,
that the word of the Lord is having free course
and being glorified. If, then, you believe that
the leaves of this tree are for the healing ot
the nations, is not the duty laid upon you to
spread them in every tongue, through which the
heart of man can be approached ?

Nor would the questions relate only to the
work abroad. It might be asked. While sym-
pathv embraces the heathen afar off, does it also
overtake the wretched and the outcast at home .
And while the hand of pity is stretched out to
succour such as have never heard the joyful

* Africa.

t Ru\)errs Land.

sound, from their distance in remoter lands, the
same hand is found seeking out those who have
cast off the fear of God, and drowned the thought
of rehgion, though near them, and at their very
doors.

Are there not others, also, regarding whom
the minds of all would anxiously inquire, — those,
once the people of God, now for a season afar off,
though still beloved for the father's sake? As
the light spreads over the world, and the fulness
of the Gentiles seems to approach, how eagerly
v;ould the believer ask, Is the time to favour
Zion, the set time, yet come ? And on this
head information would be given, and we should
learn how God's people are earnestly pleading
with Him to arise and have mercy upon Zion,
how His servants take pleasure in her stones,
and favour the dust thereof.

Now these, it is readily allowed, are scarcely
the subjects on which the messengers of the
nations might inquire. They would be more
likely to ask about the wealth and outward re-
sources, — the treasures of the land, as in the
verv time of Hezekiah : thev miofht desire in-
formation regarding her naval and military
power, or the measure of comfort and hap-
piness diffused throughout the nation at large.
And yet, after beholding these things, and gain-
ing the fullest detail about them all, would there
not be, beyond and beneath, something for which
they could not account, and which would still

require farther explanation ? And is it not the
case, that if they looked into the matters of
which we treat, the solution, or, at all events,
a partial solution, miglit be found ? Is not

Britain's a moral weight among the nations

the weight of Christian character and Christian
influence ? Is not her greatest glory the guar-
dianship of the truth of God — is not her high
vocation its dissemination throughout the world ?
And, therefore, the secret of her strength lies
very much in the exercise of the trust committed
to her. " Put in trust with the Gospel" — what
a gem on her brow ! Oh, may she not be
ashamed to reveal this, when the messengers of
the nations ask her of her strength ; may she
have grace to declare (jod's glory among the
heathen, and His wonders among all the people !
But this would appear more fully b'^ con-
sidering, secondly, the Answer furnished in our
text. How full of calm and simple dignity the
short reply, — " The Lord hath founded Zion ! "
Whatever the fluctuations around ; whatever
enemy may approach her ; from whatever quarter
the messengers may com.e, and on whatever
errand ; what security in the assurance that her
foundations are upon the holy hills, that the
Lord loveth the gates of Zion ! Sennacherib felt
this when the voice of God declared, '' 1 will
defend this city for mine own sake." Babylon
felt it when the hour of her doom arrived ; and
the Philistines watched in vain for the moment

when they might triumph over God's heritage,
and trample them under their feet.

But where, and what is the foundation, since
Jerusalem hath been trodden down, and her
glory swept away ? Was there not something
connected with Zion which shall never end ?
Was there not a foundation laid there of a build-
ing, which shall only be consummated and com-
pleted in eternity ? Listen to an Apostle, quoting
the words of our Prophet: — *' Behold, 1 lay in
Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious, and
he that believeth on Him shall not be con-
founded." As here explained by the Spirit, the
foundation would seem to rest on the work and
word of Christ. The stone, which is become the
head of the corner, — this, you well know from
His own gracious declaration, is the Saviour, in
the fulness of His finished sacrifice — the blood
shed upon the cross. But the same passage
links very closely the stone and the believer's
faith ; it describes the stone as elect and pre-
cious, and because of this sets forth the necessity
and privilege of a living faith. There is, then,
a work wrought out and accomplished, and there
is the record of that work to be believed and
rested in ; or, to express it otherwise, the work
and the word of Christ. Oh, what a blessed
foundation here! the blood of Emmanuel, God
with us ! the voice of the Spirit speaking to us
in the word! Let either of these be dimmed
or obscured, and the ground on which the sinner

depends for acceptarn'o totters boncatli liis f"»* ■
let the virtue and reality of the sacrifice "bo
questioned, and where is the sinner's hope for
the pardon of sin? and h,t tlie Divine inspira-
tion of the record be doubted, and where is the
assurance that the declaration of forgiveness is
from God? But, with the work and word of
Chnst in all their glory, how strong the sinner's
hope— how blessed the ministry of souls ' This
IS the message of sovereign efficacv,_this th-
secret of victory over the powers of darkness^
for on the banners of all who would win souls
from Satan, until the last one is gathered in
would be the universal inscription, _- Thev
overcame him by t'.e blood of the Lamb, by the
word of their testimony."

New to this foundation we can obviously add
nothing. The work was finished when the Re-
deemer bowed His sacred head ; the word and
record were sealed up when the volume was
closed and given to the expectant Church, with
the prayer, " Even so, come." To its security
man can contribute nothing. " Other founda-
tion can no man lay than that is laid, which
:s Jesus Chust." Man's oflice is but to build,
to place the feet of perishing sinners thereon.
As the Baptist pointed to the Saviour and said.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh awav
the sin of the world;" as the beloved Apostle'
who saw the drops of blood falling from the'
Kodeemers sacred person as He hung upon the

cross, delighted to point to that fountain and say,
" The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all
sin," so we only point to Jesus Christ and Him
crucified, and invite sinners, in His own gracious
words, '' Look unto me, and be ye saved, all ye
ends of the world."

Wherever, then, this blessed message is pro-
claimed, wherever the work and word are set
forth, there the Zion of God is planted ; and
although nought is or can be added to the
strength of the foundation, yet as the well-
known Eastern tree plants its roots in fresh
soil, and each branch becomes a tree, and all
grows in solidity, and strength, and beauty,
though still deriving sap and moisture from the
parent stem, so it is with the Temple, which
grows and spreads, though from the one found-
ation. Besides, as the stones of this spiritual
edifice are not dead and inert, but all lively
stones, full of power and animation from above,
they are each of them endued with an attractive
energy; and, therefore, while the foundation
remains the same, the attractive power of the
whole becomes, from age to age, indefinitely
increased. And to all the lively stones so ga-
thered in, from countries the most remote from
the earthly Jerusalem, and to the latest periods
of the Church's history, the Apostle would say,
" Ye are come unto Mount Zion, the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem."

Here, then, is the one foundation in its

essential and incommunicable glory ; yet here is
the foundation, in another sense muU.ply.ns
itself among the Churches of the txentdes. In
extent of superstructure, in attractive povver, how
much is it gaining from year to year ! How
great the privilege of planting it wherever lost
man is found! how solemn the responsibility to
plant it as wise master-builders ! And as it is
one spirit which reigns throughout the whole,
how necessary to keep up a healthy circulation,
so that the life-blood may pass to animate tl.u
extremities, and then return to the centre to
draw fresh nourishment, so that the spiritual
household may feel a oneness m Christ,- an
intercommunion, an all-pervading sympathy

And from what spot can the answer, " ihc
Lord hath founded Zion," be given forth more
suitably than from the Cathedral of the me-
tropolis of this mighty land, from which the
work and the word of the Saviour are d.flused
through the most distant nations of the earth .'
Does this our Metropolitan Church bear the
name of the great Apostle of the Gentiles, and
does it contain the memorials of the depar ed
the trophies of those who have made the l,ritish
name renowned ' land or sea ? Is it not as
great an honour t ".r country to be the nursing-
mother of the Chu .hos of the Gentiles, to have
it in commission to say to the messengers ot the
nations, "The Lord hath founded Zion

If, listening to the invitation of the bmlder

of this imposing fabric, wc look around, it is to
behold tho mighty effort of human genius, and
the memorials of the dead ; but if wc take a
wider survey, and from this s[)ot look around on
the work and word of the Lord, as published
and passing hence to the ends of the earth, how-
glorious and yet how humbling the view ! In the
East the foundaiion is laid ; in India countries
are pressed upon us, in order that the standard
of the Cross may be unfurled in them. In China
the foundation is planted, and, although there
may be the passing cloud, our assurance would
be that of the Psalmist, — ** The Lord is King, be
the people never so impatient: He sitteth be-
tween the cherubim, be the earth never so un-
quiet. The Lord is great in Zion and high
above all people." And in the remotest West
the same foundation is, we trust, planted in the
recesses of the lonely wilderness, and stretching
to the distant Pacific. Here, then, are Zion's
watchmen, placed on their towers on the ex-
tremest veroe of the earth, — watchmen who are to
declare their message, to lift up their voice to
their fellow-creatures, and to plead with God for
man, *' until He make Jerusalem a praise in
the earth."

While thus the messengers of the truth oc-
cupy the extremities of the earth, while they in a
manner encircle the globe, who, brethren, are
those who are gathered in ? The text would
lead us to consider, lastly, the Ingathering of the

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poor into the Zion of the livinc? God ; betaking
themselves into it, as we read in the vnaroin.

With the experience of centuries, and the
enlarged opportunities of observation of tlic pre-
sent "da/, how is this confinned ? Shall we
ascend even to Him, who spake as never man
spake, and ask who received His word? Wc
read that the common people heard Him gladly ;
we find, tliat when in Nazareth He declared,
''This day is this Scripture fdfilled in your
ears," the first portion fulfilled was, "'J^he Spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed
me to pi each the Gospel to the poor." Such,
too, was the Kedeemer's proof to the Baptist of
His Messiahship and mission, that "the poor
have the Gospel preached to them.*'

And in Apostolic times, although the preach-
ing wvu- not without a blessing among the coun-
cil 'ors at Athene, or Nero's household at Home,
who were, for the most part, the willing hearers ?
What saith the Apostle, the ns^st largely blessed
in gathering in from among the Gentiles ? " Not
many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty,
not many noble are called ; but God hath chosen
the foolish things, the v.dak things, the base
things, and things which are despised, that no
flesh should glory in his presence." Such is the
general tenor of Scripture. However rebellious
in the day of their prosperity, God testifies of
Israel, "In their affliction they will seek me
early." by another prophet He decla.es, "I will

leave in the midst of tliee an afflicted and poor
people, and they ."^hall trust in the name of the
Lord." And does not an Apostle ask with a
peculijirly impressive earnestness, ♦' Hearken, my
heloved hrethren, hath not (jod chosen the poor
of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the king-
dom which lie hath promised to them that love
Ilim ?" All this would tend to show a common
condition of heart, rather than one outward con-
dition of life, as marking God's people. The
m(>tto over the gate of the heavenlv Zion would
be the first of the Redeemer'^ oeatitudes, —
** Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven." Such, then, are they who
are being gathered in from every country and
clime by the power of the Spirit. And is it not
remarkably seen at the present ho'ir, and con-
firmed bv every missionary record ? How small
comparatively the success among the proud
Brahmins, among those whose minds are filled
with a false philosophy in India or Chini ! But
take the African, brought low, ground down by
the pressure of distress, and when the Spirit
speaks, it speaks comfortably to his heart. Take
the New Zealander, and the hour of his lowest
depression becomes the very season for gathering
almost a whole nation into the fold. Oh, that
in the second generation they may preserve the
simplicity of their faith, the purity of their first
love I

And in our own far-distant land, brethren,

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how touching has often been the tale of want
and famine, coupled with the exercise of the
most child-like trust in Gcd! How often is the
Psalmist's picture realised, " They wander in the
wilderness, in a solitary way ; they find no city to
dwell in : hungry and thirsty, their soul fainteth
in them ; they crv unto the Lord in their trouble,
and He delivereth them out of their distress!"
How often is there a longing for grace, even in
the extremity of earthly want, — a longing which
God graciously satisfies in fulfilment of His pro-
mise, — *' When the poor and needy seek water
and there is none, and their tongue faileth for
thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of
Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers
in dry places, and fountains in the midst of the
valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of
water, and the dry land springs of water." Oh !
if there be on earth, according to the expressive
figure of the Prophet in the chapter of our text,
"the firstborn of the poor," the poorest of the
poor, we have them among our own poor Indians ;
and, blessed be God, from among them many
feed in Zion's pastures, and the wilderness begins
to re-echo with the prayer and praise which
ascend from their lonely tents. How many will
have cause through eternity to bless God, that
Zion'^. foundation was planted among them ;
that there are the Zoars, the cities of refuge,
dotting the land, to flee unto ! The prouder
Indian may stand aloof, and, unwilling to ac-

knowledge himself a transgressor, may behold,
and wonder, and perish ; but the poor and lowly
inquirer, anxious to be delivered from the burden
of sin, and to be taught by the Spirit, enters in,
and the universal prayer, the Litany of all the
redeemed, gathered out of the lands, from the
east and from the west, from the north and from
the south, would be the same, — " Have mercy
upon us miserable sinners."

And oh ! what a change passes over the scene
when the poor betake themselves into Zion, and
the prodigal finds a welcome in the bosom of his
Father, a sympathising heart in the Redeemer,
and a fountain of holiness and peace in the power
of the Holy Spirit ! The land may remain out-
wardly the samr^, the severity of climate and
the extremity of want may bring low, but there
is in the tent the lamp which leads to endless
day ; there is, as the poor Indian pines away,
shivering at times, and hunger-stricken, a hope
that cheers with the prospect of a place in the
mansions prepared for the redeemed. God is
found even now to "comfort Zion, to comfort
all her waste places, to make her wilderness like
Eden, and her desert lii • the garden of the
Lord : iov and Madness are found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."

While thus answering the question to others,
mav we not, in conclusion, do well to ask our
own hearts whether we are indeed on the true
foundation. It is a signal blessing to behold

many building on that foundation around us, but
how much more blessed to feel that our own feet
are upon the rock, and to be able from the depth
of our own experience to say, " The name of the
Lord is a strong tower, the righteous runneth
into it and is safe." Do we value as we ou^^ht
our Christian name, our Christian parents, our
Christian country? How different to live in
a land where the true light shines and has shone
for centuries, and to live where the sights and
sounds of heathenism are continually obtruded
upon us I

Again, what a privilege to be permitted to
plant the foundation in other lands, and invite
the poor and outcast, the weary and the heavy
laden, to betake themselves to it! To whom
more than to ourselves could the charge be
given,—" I have set thee a light to the Gentiles,
and that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the
ends of the earth." Eighteen hundred years
ago these words were full of comfort and direction
to the great Apostle, when listening to them
he cried out, "Lo, we turn to the Gentiles!"
And the command is not yet spent. It would
lead and beckon us on, as we turn from nation
to nation among the Gentiles still, and seek the
lost and perishing heathen. Our work is not
over and done, and disobedient are we to the
heavenly command, if we fold our hands in
apathy and sit still.

I have come as a messenger from afar, to

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tell you of those over whom the providence of
God has placed me, and to entreat foi' them your
sympathy and prayers. I count it no ordinary
privilege to have been invited by your beloved
Diocesan to plead from this cathedral pulpit for
my land, so vast in extent of territory, yet so
very scantily and thinly peopled. I feel it a
pleasure to lift up my voice here for the scattered
flocks in the wilderness, for the poor Indian,
who (in the eloquent and striking language of a
native chief, then a heathen, now a brother in
the faith) is a poor son, yet made and stamped
with the same hand that made the white man,
and who would call to his brother the white
son to come on the weather side of him, of
the severe cold of the north, as a protection
and shelter to his needy brother.

What, then, shall be the answer which 1 carry
back ? Shall I tell the converts that you regard
them not as strangers and foreigners, but as
fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household
of God ; that you think of them as built on
the same foundation ; and that, though thousands
of miles separate, your hopes and theirs rest
for eternity on one rock? Permit me to carry
back such a reply, and to bear with me the
assurance that we shall not be unremembered
in your petitions. Think of our land, as stretch-
ing to where the sun dips in the Western Ocean ;
think of it as stretching northward, to where the
sun is hidden and veiled for months.

It is for an infant Church that I plead. The
work as yet effected is but the work of yesterday,
the result of scarcely forty years. Before that,
no ministers, no Sabbaths, no ordinances I Now
we have, at the heart and centre, light ; we have
there the Sabbath, the Sanctuary, the Scriptures
reverenced and prized. We are baffled, how-
ever, as we look on the lonely spots, so many in
number, with but few souls in each, to which we
are wholly unable to carry the glad tidings. We
cry out again and again before our God, " By
whom shall Jacob rise, for he is small?" We
look to God to fulfil the promise — ** I will be to
them a little sanctuary ; " and we trust that the
day may not be far distant, when, as the northern
lights shoot across the sky and cover the heavens
with a clear zone of light, so the truth as it is in
Jesus may spread over the whole land, and en-
lighten every soul.

It is for Churches yet to be born that I plead.
The heights of land, the mountains with snow-
clad summits, separate from the regions beyond,
which are still micheered by the joyful sound.
The barriers of nature, the difficulties of lanffuaire
and of tribe, oppose the progress of the Gospel.
We are but as *' the voice crying in the wilder-
ness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make
straight in the desert a highway for our God ; "
but we rest on the assurance, that ** every valley
shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill
shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made

straight, and the rough places plain, and the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed." Pray then that,
as obstacles arise in the erection of the spiritual
temple, wc may hear the cheering voice saying
to us, *• Who art thou, great mountain ? before
Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain." And
may we throw ourselves with redoubled energy
into the more distant work ! May more of the
Apostle's spirit be given us, that we may " strive
to preach the Gospel, not where Christ is named,
lest we build on another man's foundation, but
as it is written, To whom He was not known
they shall see, and they that have not heard shall
understand."

It is, too, for a work already largely blessed
that I plead. If success be taken as some en-
couragement to prosecute our task with renewed
ardour, we want not tokens of the presence and
Spirit of God accompanying our labour. Many
of the firstborn of the poor are betaking them-
selves to the foundation planted among them,
and turning to the stronghold as prisoners of
hope, and the work grows. The Missionary
Clergy were but five in number when I first went
out, we are now twenty ; but still this is only a
handful for the mighty portion of that continent
committed to us. We want men ; we want
facilities for gathering the scattered ones into a
point, and addressing them in their many tongues.
May the fruit of this day's sermon be, that some
prayers may be offered up for that great Highway

of the West, that the poor Indian may be had in
remembrance before the Lord, and that, if ever I
be permitted to return, as a messenger from
those distant tribes, after other seven years of
happy labour, it may be to tell that Zion's foun-
dation is more deeply rooted in the land ; that
" the wilderness and the solitary place are begin-
ning to be glad for us ; the desert to rejoice and
blossom as the rose."

RUPERT'S LAND
DIOCESAN AND MISSION FUND,

bonbon Commilttc.

The
The
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Archbishop of Canterbury.
Earl of ('hichesteu.
Earl of Gainsborough,
Earl of Harrowby.

Earl of SlTAFTESBURY.

Bishop of London.
Bishop of Oxi'ORD.
Bishop of LiNcoi.N.
Bishop of Chester.
Bisliop of Carlisle.

Sir E. N. Buxton.

The Yen. i^rchdeacon Harrison.

Kev. Henry Venn.

Rev. Daniel "Wii.son.

Bev. Ernest Hawkins.

Rev. T. B. Murray.

Rev. Edw. Hoare.

Rev. E. W. Foley.

Rev. T. D. Bernard.

Rev. E. R. Jones,

l^ihrpool Commtttw.

The Yen. Ai'chdeacon Jones.

Rev. "\V. Rawson.

Rev. H. Carpenter.

Rev. Charles W. Lawrence.

Rev. J. Herbert Jones.

Thos. B. Horsfai.l, Esq., M.P.

Adaji Hodgson, Esq.

Charles Inman, Esq.
Charles (iKoves, Esq.
Thomas Chilton, Esq.
Edward Heath, Esq.
John Eden, Esq.
Robert Dirom, Esq.
Thomas D. Anderson, Esq.

M. W. Collett, Esq., Treasurer.

From leaving England within a week of his consecra-
tion, the Bishop of Rupert's Land was unable at the time
to issue a direct appeal to the Christian public. After an
uninterrupted residence of seven years in his diocese, he
can now do so with a fuller knowledge of the country
and the want of its inhabitants.

The increase of clergy has more than equalled his
expectations. Five in number when he first set foot in
the land, they are now nineteen. Education has advanced
in the same proportion. After all, however, that has
been done, there remains yet much land to be possessed.
The territory is nearly as large as Europe, stretching
from Lake Superior to the Rocky Mountains and the
Pacific — from the parallel of latitude 49 deg. northwards
to the Arctic Sea.

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Two tribes only of the Indians, the Crees and tlic
Saulteax, have yet been approached. There are many
other tribes wandering over the plains to the west, many
to the north of the great height of land towards the
Mackenzie River. It is imagined that they would be as
accessible, if the offers were made to them, as those
already brought under the Gospel.

On these grounds the Bishop would venture to appeal
to those who have at heart the welfare of their fellow-
countrymen cut off from the means of grace, and of tlie
heathen still in darkness and the shadow of death. His
special objects would be : —

I. The erection of a modest and unpretending Cathe-
dral Church— that in which he has hitherto officiated
being supported by props both within and without. The
estimated cost would be about 4500/., both labour and
building material being expensive on the spot.

II. The extension of Missionary labour. If it is
found impossible to multiply ministers, something, it is
hoped, may be attempted Ly a system of colportage,
sending forward native agents as pioneers among their
countrymen. Since tho Bishop's arrival in England, two
very promising candidates for the ministry have offered
themselves to go abroad, who have been necessarily
declined from want of means.

III. The Promotion of Education. In addition to the
Collegiate School for boys, the Bishop has undertaken a
large responsibility in the purchase of a house for a
Female School, feeling that the elevation of the country
will, under God, depend on the training of the mothers
of the next generation. In the establishment of other
Schools much outlay is also incurred, which, from the
circumstances of a land where there are few to help in
any good work, falls in a great measure upon the Bishop
himself.

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Hon. Hudson Bay Company -

The Bishop of Rupert's Land -

T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.B. -

Charles Baring Young, Esq. -

Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart.

T. D. Anderson, Esq., Liverpool

A Friend, for another Church

A Friend -

Ven. Archdeacon Cochran

Mrs. Cochran . . . - .

Ven. Archdeacon Hunter

Ven. Archdeacon Harrison

Mrs. Harrison, Clapham Common

A Friend

Rev. C. B. Shuckhurgh, Bourton Hall -
George Burns, Esq., Glasgow
William A. Anderson, Esq., Glasgow
Charles Inman, Esq., Liverpool
William Inman, Esq. ditto
Rev. C. W. Lawrence ditto
Justinian Polly, Esq. . . - -
Anonymous . . . - -

W. G. Smith, Esq., Hudson Bay House
Alexr. M'Kenzie Kirkland, Esq., Glasgow
Duncan Gibh, Esq., Liverpool
W. H. Smith, Esq., Strand -
Adam Hodgson, Esq., Liverpool
Mark W. Collett, Esq., ditto -
Lady Olivia Sparrow - - -

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The Misses Chaffers, Everton, Liverpool

Miss Horsfall ditto ditto

Mrs. Tory ditto ditto

Mrs. Deacon, Tunbridge Wells

Sam. Martin, Esq., Liverpool

Thos. Adams, Esq., Nottingham

Miss Harrison, ShefTield •

W. Skinner, Esq., Edinburgh

Mrs. Cooper, Dunboden Park, Mullingar

Bishop of Peterborough - •

Miss Rawson, Sheffield

Master Adam B. Tiiom, Edinburgh

J. Bacchus, Esq., Leamington

Mrs. Hopkins ditto

William Jones, Esq., Liverpool

John Marriott, Esq. ditto

Dr. Macbride, Magdalen Hall, Oxford

Miss Caldecott ....

J. J. Gee, Esq. ....

0. Brown, Esq. ....

Miss Oswald, Scotstown -

Thomas Haichard, Esq.

Rev. W. C. Kendall Newark

Alfred R. Roche, Esq. -

Mrs. Dvster --•...

Two Sisters ....

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A Friend, E. W. -

Per "Record" ....

Captain Huish ....

Mrs. Huish

The Earl of Shaftesbury
Countess of Gainsborough
The Earl of Southesk -
Hon. Mrs. Henry Noel -
The Marchioness of Londonderry
Rev. Marsham Argles

Mrs. Gibson, Kxtnri . . . .
John Woodcock, Esq., Wigan
Kev. Ch. Clayton, Cambridge
Ven. Archdeacon Jones, Liverpool -
Rev. Philip Hay, Greensted -
Muior-(jeneral Lawrence
Granville Ryder, Esq. - . . .
W. H. Moore, Esq., Liverpool
Mrs. Horsfall, Everton, ditto -
IVlrs. Marsden ditto ditto
Wm. Marsden, Esq. ditto
Miss Cowgill ditto

H. V. Tebbs, Esq., Southwood Hall, High
llev. J. Browoll, Muswell Hill
John P]deii, Esq., Liverpool
Woodull and Jones ditto
Bishop of Lincoln - - . . .
Mrs. Thomas VVainwright, Liverpool
Charles Groves, Esq. ditto -

Edward Heath, Esq. ditto -

Ditto Annual Subscription
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Miss Nicholson, Dorking, Surrey -
Charles Maude, Esq., Bath
Miss Simcoe ditto

Rev. J. Richardson, Manchester
.lames Haslain, Esq. ditto -
W. T. Black) ock, Esq. ditto -
The Misses Blacklock ditto -
Miss Gates, Southwell - - - .
Miss Edwards, Ellesmere
Mrs. Riddell, Tliirsk - - . .
Mrs. Dawson Campbell - - - .
Rev. Alured Clarke - - - .

Miss Roberts, Sheffield - - - .
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Robert Wilson, Esq., Monkstown, Dublin

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A Friend, G. B. E., Gln.sgow

Lady Franklin

Thank OtTering, York

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Rev. J. Mayor, Collinghani

Lady A. M. Tollemaclie -

W. Leach, Esq., St. John's Wood

Rev. H. Carpenter, Liverpool -

Mr. and Mrs. Haldane -

W. Gil»son, Esq., Ongar

Mrs Waterhouse, Liverpool -

The Misses Waterhouse, ditto

W. Waterhouse, Esq. ditto

Miss Abingdon Smith, Bath -

Mrs. and Miss Longmire, Clifton

Rev. T. D. Wastell

G. Simpson, Esq. -

Rev. J. Linton

T. Cooper, Esq., Devonshire Street

Dr. Pritchard, Leamington

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Mrs. Murray, Ockbrook -

Mrs. and Miss Budd

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Rev. Hugh Stowell

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Exeter College, Oxford • • -
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Missionary Tree, St. Jude's, Glasgow-
Juvenile Association, ditto

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THE NET IN THE BAY : or, Journal of a Visit to
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NOTES OF THE FLOOD AT THE RED RIVER,

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Rupert's Land, at his Triennial Visitation, in July and
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THE SEAL OF APOSTLESHIP : An Ordination
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Deoraber 22, 1850. 8vo. 1*.

CHILDREN INSTEAD OF FATHERS : A Christ-
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