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Sold for the Benefit of the Canadiaii Patriotic Fund, 5 cents eacb. > I ^ ITittrobuction. ^ ^'rp^^ Strange to say little notice was taken by the local press of the " day of solemn supplication," observed l>y all members of the Church of Eni^'land on Feb. 11th, The severe incleonency of the weather on the previous Sunday interfered considerably with attendance at the services and the hearing of the important announcement. The result was the absence of far too many of our people on an occasion when it was most desirable the fullest number possible should be assembled in the House of Prayer. Probably such a day will not come again in the life- time of this generation, as it was the first ever observed in Canada — a Day when English Church- men were bidden to join their brethren acrosi; ihe ocean in humble supplication for the success of our British Arms on the battlefields of South Africa and the speedy return of the blessing of peace. —1— It seems proper that so exceptional an event should be impressed on the minds of our peo])le by some memorial-record. Accordingly the shoi-t sermon preached on the occasion is printed. Two remarkable letters from South African authorities are appended. They came to hand after the sermon was written, and fully justify the action of England and her loyal colonists Let us all hope that the fervent prayers of the Church may be answered, and that He, Who, in His providence has permitted our nation to engage in a'conflict which we believe to be a deplorable necessity, will, as in all His dealin<'s bring great good out of the evil, and blessings to our whole British Empire out of the chastisements of this war. o_ "Ibc riDalictb mms to Cease in all tbe Morl^" I's^lm XI, VI 9. Hat is wliy we havi; a special su])pli(ati()ii to-day. Believing in aii over-ruliilg Providence, a God in Whom '' we live and move and have our beini,^" and without W I lose iro( )d ph >asure not a sparrow falleth to the ground, we bow l)efore Him in earn- est special prayer, that He will bring this unhappy war in South Africa to a right and lasting i)eace. If this war is to cease, it is the Almighty God Who is to make it cease. If we hope for victory, it is the Almighty God Who is to give the victory. If good is to come out of the evil---tlie desolation of homes, the l)itter tears and anguish of heart of widows and orphans, the thousands of brave men on both sides slain and wounded— then it is the Almighty God, the Giver of all good. Who is to bring about that good. This is what has been too long forgotten. To remind us of this we have to-day our special solemn service. As that great preacher Canon Newbolt said, in his splendid sermon at the end of last year — a sermon whc*! I could wish was read and re-read l)y every one of my parishioners, and it can be had for one penny— " Surely God wishes to -3— "revive in us a deeper euniestiiess of leli^^ious belief. '• We have trusted in oui" army, our resources, oui- *'annainents, our inventions, our patriotism, our "good c()nscien«-e, our stron^- uviu. lUit we liave "tliou«;lit too little about God. As a nation we " have been too firoud to remember Him. We have "<;one ha k in this way since t}»e Crimea, since the "Indian Mutiny. We know that God helps those "who help themselves. We have helped ourselves " without much caring whether God helped us or "not. And now we find that "Except the Lord "keep tlie city the watclmian waketh but in vain." "The public i'ecogniti(»n of (^od is the HH-ssage "which this war proclaims to us with no uncertain "voice." This is what the Church of England ))ids all her children do on this Sunday. I cannot help expressing iiiy regret that by reason of our unhappy religious divisions the day, or some one day, cannot be universally observed l)y all who profess and call theinselves Christians in our Dominion, as I believe it is ])eing observed in the Motherland. At all .events, we Church of England Christians— we and all our Brother Churchmen are to-day solenmly called upon l)y our rulers in tlie Church, as God- fearing British subjects, to testify to our faith in the God Who "maketh wars to cea.se in all the world." It is a very old saying that "The saints' necessity is God's opportunity." This is but putting into other words the declaration of the Hebrew prophet, "When Thy judgements are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." (xod our Father is taking this opportunity of -_4_ remiiuliii^' us <»f His jHovornineMt in ii«^lit(M)Usru'ss; erity was his ruin." Brethr<'n, we have to take care lest tin; sajne he recor-ded of ourselves. For numy years the prosperity of the; British Empire and Naticjii has been increasing more and more, and here in Canada we have had and are ha\ ing a share in that luitional well-being. Are we not having a share too in tlie national sins? Fow lirethren, surelv we British subjects, although the great ocean rolls })etween our continent and the Mtttlier Eand, are onk na'i io\, and let us hope and pray that we may ever remain one nation to the end of time. It seems to me that every year that passes ))y ulentities us more and nu)re closely witli our brethren of the British Tslandr, \\'hen first, so.ne forty-five years ago, I preached a sermon in the dark time of the Crimean war, and tliree years later in the darker time of the Indian Mutiny, on Days of national Humiliation and Supplication, Canada was a country so far off, — 5 — so little known, that it seeuKHJ far inoi\; distant than Japan or Honolulu is to us at present, and of far less account. Now (as the years have rolled on) the steel telegraph ropes lying on the beds of ocean have drawn and are drawing more and more closely together all the scattered portions of the vast Empire, and are binding them indissolubly. it is all the providence and doing of the (jod of Heaven and Earth. Let us recognize this fact. Yes, it is all His doing, and it is marvellous in our ey63s. To- day British Canadians, and British Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotchmen pass to and fro so frequently in the fleets of " ocean greyhounds " that all distinctions of country are lost sight of, and the most recent rivets of the bonds of union and fraternity were fastened only last year irrevocably by the estai)lishment of the uniform cost of letter transmission. No longer are Canadians reu:arded as strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens of one grand Nationality, a fraternity, of one Imperial Family, all the members loving one another, and loyal to one anotlier, and sharing with one another all that God the Father of all sends, of prosperity or adversity, of weal or woe, of victory or defeat, of Blessing or of Cursing Whether we like it or not, this seems to be the manifest destiny of our great Dominion. For good or for evil we are now, and becoming every day more and more, an integral factor in an Empire, of which the Brilish Sovereign is the one supreme Head, with the British Constitu- tion the charter of our civil and religious liberties. Recent events. have shown that it is the deterinined svill of our people to accept and maintain this position, m -6 tliis ordained condition of Nationality. And so, when tliem was a deliberate long-planned aggression, and more or less of a revolt against Britain's supremacy ; after the tyrannical refusal of the righteous demands and just privileges of our fellow subjects in South Africa ; and when, in spite of every possible concession, repeated remonstrances, and of patience prolonged almost to pusillanimity on the part of England, war was declared by an arrogant people, denying British subjects their civil and religious rights and liberties, defying and insulting the imperial nation to whom they owed their very existence and prosperous condition ; then from all the ends of the earth, helping hands of brothers were stretched out to defend and maijitain those rights and liberties, as well as British sovereignty, with a clear conscience to resis invasion and strive to redi-ess the wrongs of our oppressed and suffering brethren. It is with such a feeling, such a sense of a righteous cause, such a loyalty to fraternal love, such a common devotion to duty, that beinj*- subiects a noble Queen and Empress, we can say to-day : —"The Lord of Hosts is with us, the (^od of Jacob is our Refui>e." And yet — and yet — we must feel, we dare not fc^rget, that as a nation, while we supplicate (jJod for success nnd victory to our arms, we ai-e not woithy of His mercies ! We must come to Him humbling ourselves for our sins of negligence, our religious dissensions, ou> vain-glorious self confidence, our disdain of «^ther nations, our John Hull boastfulness, not to speak of our idolatry of wealth, our tricks of trade, our drunkenness, our licentiousness, our -7- political inmiorality, oui- bribery and corruption, our godless disregard of God's \\\>rd and Christian teaching in our educational system, our indifference to the claims of God, His Church and His Kingdom's extension at home and abroad. No wonder there comes a judgement on our nation. No wonder that there are reverses in the battle field. No wonder that we feel somewhat like Joshua, that great General, after the trespass of Achan, who stole and hid the beautiful spoils of .Jericho, when after the subsecinent defeat of Israel by the Amorites of Ai he cried out, "O Lord what shall I say when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies?" That was not true, as it was not true and, please G d, never will be true of ( ur valiant soldiers. It was not true that the brave Israelites were cowards, no more than our own heroic officers and men but thar, God would not give them victory while they were disobedient, impenitent, defiled, under a curse. "Get thee up (said God) ; wherefore liest thou there upon thy face? Israel hath sinned. Israel hath sinned. Therefore they could not stand ])efore their enemies!" God had left them on account of their transgression, and only when they put that transgression clean away would God return and bless their arms. To-day then, we, with all our brethren in this Province and in England, would come to (4od acknowledging our transgressions, and humbling ourselves under His Mighty Hand. We would endeavour to put away from us those accuroCtl things, which we know full well are displeasing to Him. This first! The confession of our national -« and iiulividuHl shortcoinings. (n>d knows thove are eiioiTiijh and more tlian enougli to provoke Him to anger and withhold Hi^ blessing from us. But then we ':i \ I'^ly <»i the goodness and mercy of Him Who li trs ihe^ prayer of the humble and contrite. In our national as well as our individual sufferings and losses and bereavements, still let us say and believe, "(Jod is our refuge and "strength, a very })resent help in trouble, therefore " will we not fear." Unless we arn woefully deceivtxl we must thankfully acknowledge the wonderful part our English nation has taken during the nineteenth century in evangelising and civilising the world. Perhaps she has not done anything like she ought and could. What are even five millions sterling (twenty-five millions of dollars) annually expended by English Churchmen on their Churches and schools ? England has not given and does not give anything at all like her tithe to (rod, though that is what I l)elieve Cod claims from every one (tf His children, for His service, His church. His poor, Himself I Are there not among us here a great many who are robbing God in their tithes and offer- ings ? Oh, how soon would all this world be converted to God did rich England give her tithe to spread the Everlasting Gospel of Jesus Chi ist among the ni ilions of heathendom I Still, thank (Jod, England is Christian England to a very great extent; and looking back at her past Church and National history and her present splendid efforts among not only the heathen abroad, but the heathen at home— the outcasts, the waifs and strays of society, tlie — 9— i fallen, the wretched— we may venture to say with some reason -(Jod is in the midst of her.' *(Un\ shal help her and that right early. The Lord of "Hosts IS witn us." And therefore we now come to that -ood and gracious (n>d as His children, humhlv and corVfidently VVe now would draw near in faitl^, casting all our wire upon Him Who (we know) careth for us We here l)efore His mercy seat may implore his forgive- ness tor all that is past through the Blood of tiie ^ross, and on behalf of our nation and ourselves' our sohhers on the fields of battle in South Africa; 'and ourselves, soldiers too on the fields of battle with sin and hatan : -AVe may plead the merits of the lucihed, and we .nay supplicate the Lord Uod of Hosts to j.ut a speedy end to this sad war ; to brin- about a right and lasting peace; and meanwhile, t'o give our troops protecti.jn, courage, and mercy in victory; and all, let us pray, ' to result in the ostabhshment of a closer brotherhood amon.^ natmns, the spreaci <.f the Gospel of Peac" the enlightenment of those in darkness and Ignorance and ihe hastening of the happy time when, at last, "wars shall cease in all the world "' May our prayers be answered for JESUS CHRIST'S sake. Amen. t The f<.llowing is an extract from a letter of the Bishop „f Mnshonaland, Right Reverend Dr. (^aul, dated October L>Oth, 1899, they are noble words : "At last dilatory, self-centred England is awake, and sees through all the cant, and shuffling, and clever —10- i scheming of Paul Kriig-r. and his Hollander cliilities she can make Africa the fulcrum of her Southera Colonial Knijiire. If she vacillates again she will l)e contemptible to Kur(Ji)e. and the despair of her Colonies, and a mere mother-in-law to her sons and daughters, who will despise her for ever. But surely all the hesitating wiggle-waggling is now d(.ne with, and mere arm-chair academic theories are exjiloded. We shall have a Federal Tnion in South Africa, to unite with the newly federated Australia, and the established Dominion (jf Canada to form England's triple Colonial crown. Ther the Empire will unite with America for the federation of the world, under free institutions and e<|ual rights for ail, and if oidy the Church would hear the Master's call and federate too, what a glorious century the next might be ! A crisis then in "'church and State would be treated as a football, and we should play leaj)-frog with all difficulties, and we should then together face the great sore of the world, to heal it, and to bring in the Christ that is to be. In the meantime wt- have but to ' hoe our patch ' each of us, and it will all help to bring in the Master's kingdom of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." Letter from Mrs. Lewis, sister of .Mr. Schreiner, Premier of Cape Colony. It is entitled " A Voice from South Africa : A MEssA(iE to the Christian People or Great Britain : An awTul war is upon us in this country— a war in which, on either side, our nearest and dearest may fall. There is scarcely a household in the Ca[)e Coh^ny which has not some of its beloved ones in innuinent danger of —11 — death not only m the Coh>nial forces, wliicli, in Natal and elsewhere, are .su|»|)orting the Imperial (:;(.verinnent, but ni fitill larger nuiiil)ers among the bufghern of the Republics now engaged in the war with (ireat Britain If ever there was a war for tlie Lord of Hosts, if ever there was a war for truth and riglit, for the putting down of opi)reHsion and wrung, for the deliverance of a i>eople powerless to deliver themselves, whose wrongs have cried up to heaven until the Lord has come down to deliver them, this is that war. It is not (he grievances of the I itlanders, though they have been very veal, and have called for justice ; it is ih^t what liritish subjects have had to sutler of indignities and wrongs, thou«dj these have been numerous under recent Tra..sv;Sil administration ; it is not the insult to England's power and prestige, shown by the refusal to ^ concede her UHKlerate demands for justice t(j be done to iier subjects followed by rhe uni)ar,dleled act of defiance contained ii'i tb9 Transvaal War ritimatum -it is not these things however they may justly stir the national heart,' w[Hch call upon us as Christians Uj bring the united force of G<;d's i^eope, by the power of believing {»rayer, to bear upon this war question. British soldiers are dying on African soil to-day to put an end to a ccjiidition of atrocious wrong. For over 2'i() years the progenitors of the Transvaal Republic and their descendants have crushed, maltreated, and, as far as they had p -wer to do so, robbed of all rights belong- ing to them as ' ^ «w human beings the col.jured ]jeoples ot tins land. On .very side individual brutalities were beincr committed on defenceless victims, and that not by Arab slave-drivers or Moslem oppre sors, but by a professedly ('hristian and highly-religious people, who, with the Bible in their hands and loud professions of taith and prayers, were practising barbarities, in peace as well as war, which put to shame the records of what the savages of this land have inflicted, even in war- time upon white races." ' -12- fii