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 OCCUPY TILL I COME. 
 
 SERMON 
 
 PEEACHED AT THE FIEST ANNUAL SERVICE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 COLUMBIA MISSION, 
 
 IN THE CHURCH OF ST. MARTIN'S IN-THE-FIELDS, 
 ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1860. 
 
 BV THE 
 
 REV. HENRY MACKENZIE, M.A. 
 
 PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN; 
 
 CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF THAT DIOCESE; 
 
 PROCTOR IN CONVOCATION FOR THE CLERGY OF THE SAME, &C. &C. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY REQUEST, FOa THE BENEFIT OF THE MISSION. 
 
 LONDON: 
 RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE; 
 
 & HODGES, SMITH, AND CO., DUBLIN. 
 
 1860. 
 
 Price Threepence. 
 
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 PUBLICATIONS PREVIOUSLY ISSUED IN AID OF THE MISSION. 
 
 
 Price One Shilling, 
 
 A SERMON", preaclied at the Farewell Service celebrated in 
 St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on Wednesday, November Ifi, 18.5f), the 
 day previous to his departure for his Diocese, by George Hills, D.D., 
 Bishop of Columbia. With an account of the Meeting held on the same 
 day at the Mansion House of the City of London, in nid of the Columbia 
 Mission. With correct Reports of Speeches delivered by the Bishops of 
 London, Oxford, and Columbia ; also, by the Lord Mayor, Hon. Arthur 
 Kinnaird, Sir George Grey (late Governor c' the Cape), and others. 
 
 London : Rivingtons, Waterloo Place. 
 Dublin: Hodges, Smith, & Co., Grafto^, Street. 
 
 Price One Shilling, 
 
 REPORT OF THE SPECIAL i'UND obtained during a 
 Ten Months' Appeal by the Bishop of Columbia since his consecration in 
 Westminster Abbey, on the 24th of February, 1859. With a statement of 
 the urgent need vrhich exists for sympathy and support in aid of the 
 Columbia Mission. 
 
 Contents op Report:— Committee— General List— D'oceses of Bath and Wells, 
 CantiTlmry, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester and Kristol, 
 Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln. London, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Prterhoroiigh, 
 Ripon, Rochester, Salishury, Winchester, Worcester, York.— Scotland, Gentral List — 
 Diocese of Edinhurgh, Glasgow — Isle of Man.— Irkt.and. Proviiiwe of Armagh — Diocese 
 of Down, &c.— Province of Dublin— Diocese of Cashel, &c., Cork, &c. Dublin, &c. Kil- 
 laioe, Limerick, Ossory, &c.— Porm of Bequest— Summary — Balance Sheet. 
 
 London : Rivingtons, Waterloo Place. 
 Dublin: Hodges, Smith, & Co., Grafton Street. 
 
 Price One Shilling, 
 
 COLUMBIA MISSION. Occasional Papee. Gtb June, 
 
 I860. 
 
 Contents:— Drawing of Iron Church and Mission-house.-Introduetion— Account of 
 Bishops Voyage.— Arrival of the Bishop— Victoria- Nature of 'he Work- Clergy 
 required— Ministrations already commenced — Organization — Living and Material 
 Agencies— Visit to the Main Land— New Westminster-The Forest— Felling Giant 
 Trees— The Miners and the Church— The Backwoodsman and the Bishop— Ent ourage- 
 ment— Addresses— Au'itation— The Election— Coloured People— Chinese— Romanism— 
 Education— College— Female College— Variety of Races— The Athelstan— St. John's 
 Church— Evening Service— Visits to the Iniiians— Death— Con-aniination-Slavery— 
 Indian Children— Conclusion of Letters— Existing Missionaries— Clergy and Ladies- 
 Special Objects— Clothing— Iron College— Advertisements— Form of Bequest— General 
 Statement— Appeal— Maps— Diocese of Columbia— the World.— Appendix I. Yale, 
 Address and Reply.— II. New Westminster, Address and Reply.— III. Hope, Address 
 and Reply.— IV. Vancouver's Island, Address and Reply. 
 
 London : Rivingtons, Waterloo Place. 
 Dublin : Hodges, Smith, & Co., Grafton Street. 
 
 FORM OF BEQUEST. 
 I give unto the Treasurer for the time being of The Columbia Mission 
 'Pv-sn,'' formed in London, by the Lord Bishop of Columbia, in the year 
 1859, the sum of Pounds sterling, to It paid out 
 
 of such part only of my personal estate as shall nut consist of Mortgages or 
 Chattels real, for the purposes of the said Mission, and for which the receipt 
 qfauch Treasurer shall be a sufficient discharge. 
 
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 SERMON. 
 
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 Luke xix. 13— Occupy till I come. 
 UpayinaTtvaaaOe ttg tpxofiai. 
 
 It would be easy to address to you a Discourse 
 upon these words, having a certain amount of in- 
 terest, explaining the ordinary interpretation of 
 the Parable whence they are taken ; containing 
 information of the kingdom bestowed on Archelaus ; 
 illustrating the financial craft and usurious prac- 
 tices of the Jewish KipnianaTa), or money-changers ; 
 describing the unwillingness of the Jews to have 
 their new king to reign over them ; and com- 
 menting upon the awards made by the nobleman 
 on learning the conduct of his various servants. 
 
 I shall however, I trust, occupy your time more 
 profitably if I put aside the business of the mere 
 commentator and expounder of a section of the 
 Scriptures ; and as one called, under circumstances 
 of peculiar interest, to apply the principles of the 
 Gospel to the evangelization of a particular part of 
 the world, seek to extract at once the marrow of 
 the Parable, and ask you to note the duty it im- 
 plies of making the best use of whatever we possess 
 
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in Christ's name wheresoever we may be placed; 
 and of holding cur several possessions in trust for 
 Him until His coming. This surely was His main 
 design in uttering it, when He so clearly indicated 
 the responsibility that every individual soul, and 
 every incorporated communion of souls, owed to 
 Him ; the danger of rebellion against His authority ; 
 and the necessity both of laboriously working in 
 His service, and of vigilantly watching for His 
 return ! 
 
 Christ is the nobleMAN to whom God the Father 
 hath assigned the great kingdom. There are many 
 rebellious, who say, " We will not have this man to 
 reign over us." There are many mistaken, who 
 say, " We will have no king but Csesar." There 
 aru many fearful, who still look upon the devil as 
 the prince of this world, forgetful that Christ said, 
 " He hath nothing in Me ;" and that He hath Him- 
 self redeemed it by His blood. But we who are 
 His joint-heirs, and inheritors of His kingdom, 
 know that the day is coming when He will claim 
 the great kingdom for His own ; and the very ob- 
 ject and business of our life is to witness to Him, 
 — wherever we can raise our voice or make our 
 testimony known, — as being our Lord., with power 
 over the world, the flesh, and the devil, as the 
 Saviour of all men, and specially of them that 
 believe. 
 
 It is but natural to assume that they who come to 
 attend this special Anniversary Service, have not only 
 a positive interest in, but moreover a certain amount 
 
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 of knowledge of, the subject they assemble to com- 
 memorate. It would, therefore, be out of place 
 to delay, to recite to you at any length the cir- 
 cumstances under which a branch of our National 
 Church has gone forth in its complete organiza- 
 tion to herald the Gospel to the varied peoples 
 in the new colony of Columbia. You know that 
 it is a British colony of recent organization ; you 
 know (if you accept the ancient axiom Ecclesia in 
 Episcopo) that a Church has been organized in 
 its completeness there, mainly through the instru- 
 mentality of one closely connected with this parish ; 
 you know that the young colony has attracted 
 thousands to its shores since it has been ascer- 
 tained to be one of the native homes of gold ; you 
 know that through its peculiar position by land 
 and sea it is a colony of great promise as concerns 
 material prosperity; and you know that, owing to 
 the sudden irruption of many different races into 
 its bosom, as well as on account of its being the 
 natural home of some, and the last recipient of 
 other, heathen tribes, it must be a land waiting 
 for the Gospel of Jesus. 
 
 It is, then, under the solemn conviction that 
 the words of the text may fairly be applied, as 
 a voice from heaven speaking to the Church in 
 reference to Columbia, " Occupy till I come," that 
 I ask you to consider some of the specialties of 
 the Columbia Mission, of which we are this day 
 commemorating the First Anniversary. 
 
 He who is gone out in the capacity of chief 
 
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 servant, with his talent in his hand to " occupy " 
 for Christ, is known to most of us. His voice has 
 ere now sounded in this temple of God. Wo have 
 known him as a "workman that necdeth not to 
 be ashamed" at home, and have admired that 
 wonderful power of organization, that self-denying 
 labour, that untiring energy, and that persevering 
 faith, which combined to mark him as one specially 
 adapted to the great work whereto he has been 
 called. We have watched with anxiety his toil- 
 some labours in behalf of his new diocese here, 
 and have beheld with gratitude the guidance of 
 a gracious Providence which shielded him from the 
 danger that was waiting to engulph him on his 
 passage there. We have heard with renewed 
 thankfulness of the welcome that awaited him from 
 many softened hearts in the towns, the woodlands, 
 and the mines, that were stirred to know a chief 
 pastor of the Church was coming to care for their 
 souls ; and we would now endeavour to realize to our- 
 selves his own actual position, and the prospects of 
 the local Church over which he is called to preside. 
 That you may thus realize himself, let me quote 
 ten words of his own, from a recent letter ad- 
 dressed to myself:— he is asking for Clergy to be 
 sent to aid him, and he thus describes the type 
 of man he wants: "He must be an earnest man, 
 a SOUL-LOVING man." You see how he speaks from 
 his heart; and how, in asking for such manhood 
 as this to be sent to him, he breathes the spirit 
 of a " soul-loving man " himself. Conceive, then, 
 
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 of this soul-loving chief pastor standing in the 
 midst of his ever-gathering children of different 
 races, and contemplating the different calls upon 
 his ministry; and the different classes of souls, and 
 the different groups of men he is to claim ; and the 
 different portions of territory he is to "trade with" 
 in the merchandise of the Gospel, — to "occupy" 
 for Christ. 
 
 I. Look at him first in anxious thought for his 
 colonists from home. The home-life of England 
 is — notwithstanding many hindrances — bound up, 
 organically as well as spiritually, with the life of 
 Christ. It is a remarkable fact, that Christianity 
 is older than Nationality amongst us here. It pre- 
 ceded the arrival of the Saxons ; it dethroned their 
 Paganism in the days of the Heptarchy, and pre- 
 ceded their fusion into united England; it pre- 
 ceded the incorporation of the Danes into the 
 nation; it was professed by the conquering Nor- 
 mans. Until therefore this country had under- 
 gone several ethnical changes, it knew no Chris- 
 tianity save that which was professed by the whole 
 Church of Christ. And equally noteworthy is the 
 fact that when the corruptions accumulated in the 
 dark ages had reached their culminating point in 
 the sixteenth century, it was this nation, alone of 
 all nations, that, in its national capacity, decreed 
 to abide by the faith once delivered to the saints : 
 it was this nation alone that, in its national ca- 
 pacity, reformed its faith after the apostolical 
 model, and according to scriptural rule; and thus 
 
perpetuated a permanent witness against that pa- 
 rody upon Catholicism' which was perpetrated, 
 when the seal of distinctive Popery was set by 
 the Council of Trent upon the faith of Kome. 
 The enlarged liberty conceded, and rightly con- 
 ceded, to individual conscience since that date, 
 has not altered the great fact that the Church 
 of England alone, in her corporate capacity, repre- 
 sents the Church of Christ in England by identity 
 of form as well as of faith ; and that too in a way 
 no other national Church represents it to its own 
 nation; and that hence the home-life of England 
 is, organically as well as spiritually, bound up with 
 the life of Christ. 
 
 Very different, however, is the aspect of affairs 
 in our colonies where no such organized life, no 
 such incorporated union of the nation with the 
 Church is found. Our soul-loving bishop looks 
 upon many who rejoice in the freedom^ as they 
 think it, which they have found — upon many who 
 consider themselves free as air to choose for them- 
 selves a sect or a Religion, to join a mere voluntary 
 association of men, apart from a living branch of 
 the Church constituted in Christ — upon many who 
 deem they have a perfect right to join without 
 responsibility, or not to join without any more re- 
 
 * There were only fifty-seven bishops assembled at the so- 
 called (Ecumenical Council of Trent (see Wordsworth's " Let- 
 ters to M. Gondon on the destructive character of the Church 
 of Home ")— a number scarcely more than half of those now in 
 communion with the Church of England ! 
 

 
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 jponsibility, any sect or any denomination of 
 Christianity — upon some who in the strength of 
 an uproarious manhood are utterly defiant of the 
 grace of God as offered to man in the Gospel — and 
 upon comparatively few who have brought out 
 their home-life ifi them, as a part of their Divine 
 inheritance, and who find in the hallowed com- 
 munion of the Church of England a service indeed, 
 but a bcrvice which, to the enlightened conscience 
 and sanctified will, is I he most perfect freedom 
 man has ever seen. 
 
 For freedom, it must be borne in mind, consists 
 not in personal irresponsibility, but in the volun- 
 tary submission of all inferior wills to one, perfect 
 and supreme; and the Church is subject to Christ 
 in every thing. 
 
 The three most influential forms of Christian 
 belief (apart from the Church of England) in 
 Columbia, are those of Rome, Independency, and 
 Methodism — the latter section of course being less 
 hostile to our own form of faith than the former; 
 and the two former differing in their grounds of 
 opposition, the first being doctrinaUy^ and the 
 second discijilinally (though both politically) hos- 
 tile. The Scottish settlers having no Presbyterian 
 minister, are for the most part gradually con- 
 forming to our own Church. The German ele- 
 ment constitutes a peculiar difficulty in the form 
 of language^ and though this may be partially met 
 by the attainments of some of our own Clergy, 
 we must expect it to form an impediment to 
 
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 thorough Christian union, of more or less im- 
 portance, and in different parts of the diocese, for 
 some time to come. 
 
 II. But a greater difficulty than that springing 
 from language may be expected — and indeed is 
 found — in the predilections of the citizens of the 
 United States for the peculiar institutions of their 
 own country. I am not now referring to them as 
 members of a different form of government, but 
 as the inheritors of different national traditions. 
 The spread of Christian love amongst ourselves, 
 and a deeper knowledge of Christian principle, 
 have not only abolished Slavery, but have be- 
 gotten a repugnance to the very name. We now 
 recognize universally the great scriptural truth 
 that " God hath made of one blood all nations for 
 to dwell upon the earth ;" and, with us, the token 
 of African descent would be rather hailed as a 
 gi'ound of sympathy, and recognized as a claim 
 for atonement for successive wrongs inflicted, than 
 looked upon as just cause for alienation or re- 
 pugnance. Certainly, if even it were allowed to 
 impinge on any point of social custom, at all events 
 it could afford no bar to Christian communion. 
 So different, however, is the feeling of our Trans- 
 atlantic brethren, that a Columbian congregation 
 of white men, professing Christianity, according to 
 the Independent persuasion, has altogether sepa- 
 rated from brethren of the same faith and form 
 of worship, because of the colour of their skin. 
 *'The shadowed livery of the burnished sun" has 
 
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 been thus stamped as a token of perpetual exclu- 
 sion from the same house of God, and the de- 
 scendant of the slave has been forbidden commu- 
 nion in the cup of salvation with the free! So 
 diflPerent are our notions upon these subjects, that we 
 are hardly in a foir position to judge of the strong 
 feelings entertained by our brethren; and there- 
 fore, while we firmly maintain the more scrip- 
 tural views adopted by ourselves, we shall do well 
 to exerciso greater forbearance toward those trained 
 in different ideas, than it has been our wont to 
 exhibit. In waiting, however, for the time when 
 this unchristian antipathy shall have subsided, we 
 must admit it to be one of the most painful hin- 
 drances of Satan to the progress of the Gospel and 
 the growth of love in the Church ! 
 
 III. But while the descendants of American 
 slaves arc thus a present difficulty to the advance 
 of Christian love and Church unity, we may trace 
 a richer ground of hope in another race who have 
 set their industrious feet among the colonists of 
 Columbia. The remarkable family of the long- 
 sealed region of China is numerously represented 
 in the diocese. The strange customs of that in- 
 explicable people are doubtless working out se- 
 cretly some of the designs of Providence; and to 
 this fact I believe our descendants will be able to 
 bear clearer testimony than ourselves, after the 
 present wars and rumours of wars have passed 
 away! The restrictions they place, however, on 
 emigration from their country seem to indicate the 
 
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 change about to pass over them in the course of 
 another generation. In consequence of their tra- 
 dition that China is doomed to fall by a woman, all 
 female emigration is strictly forbidden ; while the 
 emigration of men is only permitted under certain 
 conditions, and their wives and families are retained 
 in the country as hostages for their return at a 
 future period. Now this emigration of Chinese 
 men has already been productive of one result, 
 and is clearly pointing towards another. Their 
 abode in Borneo and in Australia has alreadv led 
 to many alliances, whence are growing up a new 
 and intelligent and industrious race of people, who 
 are being rapidly brought under Christian training 
 in early life : their still briefer abode in Columbia 
 has already brought some of their young men under 
 the influence of a soul-loving Pastor. Already the 
 name of at least one Chinese man of wealth and 
 reputation is enrolled among the contributors to a 
 Christian Church ; and it needs not the special 
 gift of prophecy to foresee and to foretell that 
 when numbers of these temporary emigrants return 
 to their native land, imbued with a respect for the 
 traditions and morals of Christianity, even if not 
 converted to its faith, there must be introduced 
 into their land the seeds of a new power, calculated 
 to shake their confidence in that ancient super- 
 stition which has long held their vast country 
 under its unhallowed tyranny ! Their laws of ex- 
 clusion may shut out the barbarian ; their laws of 
 restriction may compel the return of their wan- 
 
 
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 dering children ; but the spiritual power of the 
 barbarian they despise will gradually permeate the 
 minds of those children who have been brou«fht 
 beneath its influence ; and the power of knowledge, 
 and the force of mind, i*nd the breath of the Spirit, 
 and the dignity of truth, will find an entrance 
 among the long-sealed people, and the land of 
 Sinim shall at length rejoice in the summer warmth 
 of the rays of salvation ! 
 
 IV. The races of Africa and of Asia combine 
 then with those of Europe and America to give 
 grounds of anxious expectation, and of varying 
 hope and fear, to our soul-loving chief pastor in his 
 Columbian home. There is one rare, however, to 
 which we have not yet adverted, which is especially to 
 him an object of care, and thought, and prayer ! 
 
 The history of European colonization has traced 
 in characters of blood the triumphs of civilization 
 over barbarism. Kace after race o^ the mingled 
 family of barbarians has died out before the car of 
 the victorious conqueror. When earth and sea 
 give up their dead, America, North and South, 
 will bear frightful testimony to the ruthless shot 
 and steel of those bold but unscrupulous warriors 
 and navigators whose great names have been stained 
 with records of slavery and slaughter ! The colo- 
 nists of England have not been free from the same 
 guilt, either in the West or at the Antipodes. 
 New Zealand stands out brightly as one instance 
 which helps to solve the problem how a noble and 
 freedom-loving race can be brought from savage 
 
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 life into harmony with civilization and Christianity. 
 It is not yet altogether too late to develop a similar 
 success in the north-west to that which has been 
 achieved in the south-east of the globe. The Red 
 race, driven from the States and Canada to and 
 beyond the Rocky Mountains, still number from 
 70,000 to 80,000 souls in the diocese of Columbia. 
 The natives of Queen Charlotte's and the adjacent 
 islands are still among the "isles that wait" for the 
 Dove of the spirit to brood over the chaos of hea- 
 thenism, and bring out the light and love of the 
 Gospel. It may even yet be given to us, to see the 
 once mighty race of the red family of man repre- 
 sented by believing generations, who will lay aside 
 the rifle and the tomahawk for the Bible and the 
 spade, supplant the wigwam and the break-wind by 
 the church and the cottage, and smoke the calumet 
 of peace beneath the vine and the fig-tree that their 
 own hands have planted ! To the hunted hunters 
 and persecuted persecutors the voice of the Son of 
 God may yet proclaim the words, " In my wrath 
 I smote thee, but in my favour I had mercy on 
 thee!" The Red man may still say, with Job. 
 that "his latter end is more blessed than his 
 beginni ig ! " 
 
 " God does not despise the day of small things;" 
 and though we may not boast of what has been 
 done in His name, it is lawful to augur hopefully 
 from the openings of mercy He Himself has vouch- 
 safed. The chief pastor in whom we are specially 
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 paid to an Indian chief; and also to an Indian trader 
 from Fort Simpson, who, with his Indian wife, 
 had joined in prayer with him, and acknowledged 
 his faith in Christ as his Saviour; and a touching 
 sight it must have been to have seen the Bishop, 
 as kneeling on the floor of the wigwam he poured 
 forth his prayer " for our heavenly Father's blessing 
 on the Church's work; and on the poor Indians; 
 and that his grace might reach their hearts; and 
 that the^ might share the same blessed hope in the 
 same body as ourselves in Christ Jesus ^" 
 
 Within the same period he had contrived to 
 gather together into one party to a pleasant fes- 
 tival about thirty children of the tribe of the 
 Songees, and in the Chinooh language he then 
 and there prayed for our great Father's blessing 
 on the little ones His bounty enabled him to feed ! 
 Hear his own account of the conclusion of the 
 feast : " We sang, ' Praise God,' &c., to the Old 
 Hundredth. All of us sang right heartily, and the 
 little voices mingled with our own; and when we 
 ceased, we found a remarkable impression pro- 
 duced. All were reverently hushed in a fixed and 
 thoughtful manner. Their little spirits were evi- 
 dently touched, and not a breath was heard, till 
 one us of broke silence. At the end we sang 
 again with a like effect. We thought how joyful 
 the day when out of the mouth of babes and suck- 
 
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 lings the praise of Jesus shall indeed be perfected ! 
 There was an omen of that day, in the way these 
 little ones were touched by the songs of Zion ■\" 
 
 From the slight indications I have given of 
 the different objects of care to the chief pastor 
 of the Church of Columbia, you may gather how 
 weighty is the charge entrusted to his responsi- 
 bility; and you will not fail to notice that herein 
 I have merely touched the point of what may be 
 termed ethnical difficulties, without daring to ap- 
 proach the special and more personal difficulties 
 of dealing with the pastoral, agricultural, commer- 
 cial, and mining sections of society, into which, in 
 its youth, the colony nationally subdivides itself. 
 
 Let me now briefly advert to some of those aids 
 and helps which the Church evolves from her own 
 bosom, and to which the Bishop may reasonably 
 look as means of the subdivision of labour, and 
 channels whereby and wherethrough the truth as 
 it is in Jesus, may flow forth to irrigate the thirst- 
 ing souls around him. 
 
 a. And first of all I would ask vou to look at 
 Education as one of the great means the Church 
 must use to train the youth of the colony into the 
 discipline of the mind of Christ. 
 
 There are two great rival schools in the world : 
 the one systematic and unpopular ; the other popu- 
 lar and free to all. The first of these is the school 
 of Christ ; the second that of Satan, the great 
 adversary. The restraint of discipline which cha- 
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 racterizes the Church of the Redeemer is opposed to 
 all the instincts of our fallen humanity. The 
 freedom of unlicensed will, the development of 
 our natural self, which characterizes the world, 
 the flesh, and the devil, enlists all the sympa- 
 thies of unregenerate humanity. If we give up 
 the use of discipline because of its unpopularity, 
 we virtually yield the ground to Satan, and give 
 him a post of vantage from which we may never be 
 able to unseat him hereafter! This, which is 
 manifest to every thoughtful mind in the old coun- 
 try, is still more forced upon the thoughts of those 
 whose lot is cast in a young colony. Unless there 
 be some means found for forming the habits and 
 cultivating the abilities of the young, the new 
 country goes back in mental gifts, and deteriorates 
 in the social scale. 
 
 And this, which is true of the whole condition 
 of society in its entirety, is full of painful incon- 
 venience when applied to those branches of science, 
 literature, and the arts which need special and 
 particular training. If the knowledge of God, His 
 nature. His attributes, and His revelation, be not 
 sustained, it will dribble away into a series of 
 unauthenticated traditions in the course of a very 
 few generations. One of the first cares then of 
 Columbia must be an institution wherein the Word 
 of God may be cherished, and men reared and 
 instructed therein, who shall hereafter be able to 
 teach others also. Up to the present time, the 
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 youth of the colony has been reached by a compro- 
 mise every way unsatisfactory. The boys have been 
 to school to the Roman Catholic bishop, the girls 
 to the Roman Catholic Sisters of St. Anne. And 
 while Protestant parents have had to give up their 
 most cherished predilections in entrusting the edu- 
 cation of their children to teachers of the faith of 
 Rome, the priesthood and sisters of Rome have had 
 to make a concession still more galling to a tender 
 conscience, — to refrain from teaching the faith 
 which they hold as their most cherished inherit- 
 ance, and out of which their Church declares that 
 none can obtain salvation ! To release both parties 
 from this doubly painful compromise, we hope ere 
 long to establish institutions which shall provide 
 Religious and secular instruction of a high and pure 
 order, which shall tend at once to the glory of 
 Almighty God, and the spiritual and intellectual 
 elevation of His children. It is probable that for 
 a time our Bishop will retain in his own hands 
 the headship of the new College, but one at least is 
 present amongst us to-day who will shortly go out 
 in the power of the Holy Ghost to strengthen his 
 hands in the holy work of imbuing the rising intel- 
 lect of Columbia with the fully revealed mind of 
 Christ. 
 
 b. And next to education by direct teaching, 
 there is ground of hope to believe that our chief 
 pastor's work will be lightened, and his influence 
 extended, by means set before us very clearly in 
 the Scriptures, as according to the will of God. 
 
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 We read that when our Lord was on earth there 
 were " holy women " who ministered to Him both 
 in life and in death; and when the power of the 
 resurrection had been manifested in Him, and con- 
 summated in the ascension, and the Apostles were 
 waiting for those gifts of Pentecost which we have 
 so recently commemorated ; then we find that " the 
 women, and Mary the mother of Jesus," consorted 
 with them in the hallowed upper chamber in Jeru- 
 salem, and " continued with one accord in prayer 
 and supplication " with the Apostles. And when 
 the gifts of the longed-for Comforter had been 
 shed upon the infant Church, and the Apostles 
 and Brethren " went every where preaching the 
 word," we are told by the Holy Ghost of a Priscilla 
 and a Phoebe, of a Dorcas and a Lydia, of a Lois 
 and an Eunice, and of others too numerous to men- 
 tion, who in their several vocations of piety, of 
 charity, and of domestic training, helped forward 
 the word and work of Christ in different sections 
 of the universal Church. 
 
 There is, indeed, some doubt still felt in the 
 mind of the Church at home, what name should 
 be assigned to those holy women who consecidt? 
 themselves especially to works of piety in the 
 Church ; but there is no doubt felt that holy works 
 may be done by those whose hearts God has 
 touched: and while it would be a vain quarrel 
 of words to dispute, whether such an one should 
 be called a deaconess or a sister, we cannot for an 
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 ministry/ J which, like that of a Sarah, in the work- 
 house of Yarmouth ; or an Elizabeth, in the gaols of 
 the Metropolis ; or a Florence, in the wards of Scu- 
 tari ; or a Mary, in the hospital of Kullalu ; or an 
 Angela, in endowing the episcopal office in the 
 colonies; or a Catharine, or an Anna\ in going 
 to work whithersoever they may be sent ; — we can- 
 not, I say, doubt the blessedness that rests upon 
 that woman's ministry, which is ever ready to 
 sacrifice self, to glorify God, to edify the Church, 
 and to save the soul of a fellow-sinner ! 
 
 c. And beyond the helps found in education, and 
 in the willing ministry of those holy women, whom 
 to avoid a controversial title we may for the present 
 call Female Missionaries, our soul-loving Pastor 
 has also to look to soul-loving men to help him : 
 men who, called by the same spirit, sealed in the 
 same ministry, and working in the same vineyard 
 under himself, well know how to sympathize with 
 his difficulties, to share his labours, and to lift up 
 his arms with mutual aid, as Aaron and Hur bore 
 up the enfeebled, yet powerful, arms of Moses! 
 One, working for him, has already earned for him- 
 self the title of " the Miner's friend." Another bids 
 fair to be known as the Evangelist of the Chinaman. 
 A third has left a noble reputation behind him in 
 his sphere of work here, and promises to bring new 
 honours in the Field of Faith to a name already 
 ennobled in the annals of statesmanship and of 
 
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 warfare. Two others, with their families, we have 
 just heard, have reached Columbia in safety, after 
 a painful voyage of seven long months in the 
 narrow cabin of a sailing ship. Some, too, like- 
 minded, as we hope and believe, are present 
 with us to-day : ready to go forth to the ends 
 of the earth under the call of God; ready to obey 
 in all things lawful the chief pastor set over 
 them; ready to teach in the settled township, to 
 minister to the wandering squatter, to pray with 
 the sturdy gold-digger, to teach in the growing 
 college, to gainsay the perverse disputant, to warn 
 the sinner from his evil way, to guide the ignorant 
 heathen, according as he to whom they owe obe- 
 dience shall direct : — men who, whether as settled 
 clergy or as itinerating missionaries, are ready to 
 spend and be spent for Christ, and give up all — 
 yea, even life itself — so that they may win souls to 
 the glory of God ! 
 
 And now, dear brethren, that I have endea- 
 voured on this our first anniversary of the Colum- 
 bian Mission to set before you some of the dif- 
 ficulties, the hopes, and the helps, that add weight 
 to the anxieties, kindle the prayers, and sustain 
 the energies, of one to whom the Church looks to 
 do great things in her Lord's name and power, let 
 me recall your thoughts to the subject brought 
 before you in my text, "Occupy till I come!" 
 These words I verily believe may be fairly accepted 
 by the Church as a divine commission in respect 
 to Columbia; but in treating of them hitherto we 
 
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 have rather looked at the outside and shell of the 
 Church. Let us examine more closely, and seek 
 now to look within, to behold the core, to trace 
 God's will ratiiCr than man's work. 
 
 Need I remind you of Christ's ransom paid for 
 the world; of God's expressed desire to save man- 
 kind; of the certainty that Ho wills His salvation 
 to reach the souls of all the races now findin«r 
 a new home, or a sojourning-place, in the wild 
 deserts and unreclaimed woods and wastes of 
 Columbia ? 
 
 Surely you are conscious of a great and unseen 
 Will having been manifestly exercised in putting 
 us — each one of us — in the way of doing some- 
 thing towards the saving those souls who repre- 
 sent races from all the quarters of the globe and 
 most of the isles of the sea ? 
 
 Why, the very creation of the colony, and the 
 way in which it has started into adult life, bearing 
 the impress of the Church on its infant manhood, 
 as it stepped from its golden cradle, — the way in 
 which navigation has courted it by the system of 
 great circle sailing bringing it in the line of her 
 new route to China, — the way in which nature has 
 honoured it by baring the bosoms of the rocky 
 mountains to open an easier access to the west than 
 can be found by any other passage, — the way in 
 which science woos it by the discovery of coal in 
 the line that is to feed the iron highway that will 
 ere long link the east and west together, — the way 
 in which ocean pays her tribute to it by sending 
 
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 into a genial clime : — all these are marvels of Pro- 
 vidence, which have brought our own land almost 
 suddenly into easy connexion with what would 
 otherwise have been our most distant colony. 
 
 And when we see these marvels of Providence 
 thus linking the extreme lands of the earth and 
 islands of the sea together, shall we doubt that 
 marvels of Grace await the faithful use of the 
 opportunities vouchsafed us of thus heralding the 
 Gospel in a new and untried direction ? As mind 
 gives motion to matter; as the Spirit of God re- 
 generates the nature of fallen man ; so now let man 
 regenerated spiritualize the great facts that nature 
 places at his disposal. Let us rise, in the might of 
 God's Spirit, to the dignity of the work placed 
 before us. The Cross of Christ is planted in 
 Columbia ; the Temple of the Church is erected 
 there. Let our prayers water the soil, and our 
 alms fill the treasury ! 
 
 And you, brethren and sisters, who, after ga- 
 thering around God's board, will go forth from 
 this congregation sealed and marked as mission- 
 aries of Columbia, do you too rise to the dignity 
 of your holy work. Go forth in the strength of 
 Christ's presence, with the Holy Ghost burning as 
 a witness within you, to prove yourselves heroes 
 and heroines of the Gospel. Forget not the strength 
 and majesty of the glorious name of the Triune 
 God you serve. Go forth to achieve new triumphs 
 for that Cross which is the sign and means of your 
 
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 own salvation. " Occupy till I come ! " saith your 
 Lord to you ! If you use your several talents well, 
 a glorious reward awaits you. There may be — 
 there are — trials in the path wherein ye go. The 
 thorns of the earthly crown may again and again 
 pierce brow and heart. But if ye are faithful to 
 the end the victory is certain, and the heavenly 
 crown is sure. And, oh, who shall tell the radiancy 
 of that smile that shall welcome you when your 
 earthly sand has run out ; when you who have been 
 faithful in a very little shall receive rule and au- 
 thority from the Great King Himself, in the dawning 
 of that wondrous day when the Saints shall judge 
 the world ? 
 
 N.B.— Ooramunications may be addressed to 
 EEV. JOHN GAEEETT, 
 
 Vicar of St. Paul, near Penzance, 
 And Commishary to the Bishop of Columbia, 
 
 G. P. AEDEN, ESQ. 
 
 HaUtead, Essex, 
 
 Secretaries to the 
 Columbia Mission. 
 
 3, Waterloo Place, S.W. 
 London. 
 
 Contributions may be paid to the account of the COLUMBIA MISSION, 
 at Messrs. Coutts & Co., 59, Strand; Cox & Co., Craig's Court, 
 Charing Cross; Smith, Payne, & Smiths, 1, Lombard Street; Sir 
 John Lubbock, Bart., Foster & Co., Mansion House Street, City; 
 79, Pall Mall ; and at Messrs. D. La Touche & Co., Castle Street 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 GILBERT AND RIVINQTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOUN's S(4UARE, LOHDON. 
 
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