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"Look around," said the eloquent Bishop Hurd, in addressing the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel" look around on the shifting scenes of glory, which have been exhibited on the theatre of this world, and see the success of mighty Conquerors, the policy of States, the destiny of Empires, depend on the secret purpose of God in his Son Jesus: before whom all the achievements and imaginations of men must bow down, and to whose honour all the mysterious workings of his Providence are now, have hitherto been, and will for ever be, directed."

The Committee cannot but urge on all the Members of the Society, in conclusion, this striking fact-THAT

THE CALLS OF PROVIDENCE FAR OUTRUN THE CHARITY OF THE CHURCH!

This Declaration could never have been made since the existence of the Church, with so much truth and force as at this hour.

Some Duties are binding on Christians at all times. From the moment when our Lord, looking on the desolate multitudes of Judea, gave that injunction to his disciples-Pray ye the Lord of the Harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest-from that moment, Prayer for this object has never ceased to be the Duty of every Christian. From the moment when He left that last command-Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature-from that moment every possible effort has been the Duty of every Christian in every age.

But some of the Duties which are binding at all times, may seem, for a season to be left, as it were, to their own bare authority in the Divine Word. And then it is but here and there, that a devout and heavenly mind rises above the circumstances of the Times, and discerns and feels Truths and Duties to which the Providence of God does not seem to call peculiar attention.

How truly has this been the case, with respect to the conversion of the world!

But things are wholly changed! Missionary Zeal, in our pious fathers, would shew itself in breathing forth fervent prayers, with David

Our souls wait for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning

But the Sun is risen in full splendour. It throws light on all the dark places of the earth, and shews them to us full of the habitations of cruelty. It has ripened the harvest, and it shews the field to the labourer.

And what is the extent of that field? Here is a call for Christian Charity, which was never heard before! We have found, in some measure, the level of Domestic Charities. It may be doubted whether the application of any very considerable addition of funds to these Charities, would be really beneficial: but the Charity of Christian Missions is co-extensive with the Heathen World! Let us offer, then, as we have never yet offered. Let us meet the openings of Divine Providence. Let us give ourselves to this Labour, and great will be our Reward.

APPENDIX I.

(See Page 64.)

Act of the 59th of the King, Ch. 60th, to permit the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop of London, for the time being, to admit persons into Holy Orders specially for the Colonies. [2d July, 1819.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Ordination; and that in every such case Archbishops and Bishops of this realm it shall be distinctly stated in the Letters should from time to time admit into of Ordination of every person so adHoly Orders persons specially destined mitted to Holy Orders, that he has been for the cure of souls in His Majesty's Fo- ordained for the cure of souls in His reign Possessions,although such persons Majesty's Foreign Possessions. may not be provided with the Title II. Provided always, and be it further required by the Canon of the Church enacted by the authority aforesaid, That of England, of such as are to be made no person so admitted into the Holy Ministers: And whereas it will greatly Orders of Deacon or Priest, for the tend to the advancement of Religion purpose of taking upon himself the cure within the same, that due provision of souls, or officiating in any spiritual shall be regularly made for a supply of capacity in His Majesty's Foreign persons properly qualified to serve as Possessions, shall be capable of having, Parsons, Vicars, Curates, or Chaplains; holding, or enjoying, or of being adbe it therefore enacted by the King's mitted to any Parsonage, Vicarage, most Excellent Majesty, by and with Benefice, or other ecclesiastical prothe advice and consent of the Lords motion or dignity whatsoever, within Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, the United Kingdom of Great Britain in this present Parliament assembled, and Ireland, or of acting as Curate and by the authority of the same, That therein, without the previous consent from and after the passing of this Act, and approbation in writing of the Bishop it shall be lawful for the Archbishop of of the diocese under his hand and seal Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, in which any such Parsonage, Vicarage, or the Bishop of London, for the time Benefice, or other ecclesiastical probeing, or any Bishop specially autho- motion or dignity shall be locally situarised and empowered by any or either ted, nor without the like consent and of them, to admit into the Holy Orders approbation of such one of the said of Deacon or Priest any person whom Archbishops, or Bishop of London, by he shall upon examination deem duly whom, or by whose authority such qualified specially for the purpose of person shall have been originally ortaking upon himself the cure of souls, dained, or in case of the demise or tranor officiating in any spiritual capacity slation of such Archbishop or Bishop, in His Majesty's Colonies or Foreign of his successor in the same See: ProPossessions, and residing therein, and vided always, that no such consent and that a Declaration of such purpose, and approbation shall be given by any such a written engagement to perform the Archbishop,or Bishop of London, unless same under the hand of such person, the party applying for the same shall being deposited in the hands of such first produce a testimony of his good Archbishop or Bishop, shall be held to behaviour during the time of his resi be a sufficient Title with a view to such dence abroad, from the Bishop in whose

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cese, District, or Place, shall be capable in any way, or on any pretence whatever, of at any time holding any Parsonage or other ecclesiastical preferment within His Majesty's Dominions, or of being a Stipendiary Curate or Chaplain, or of officiating at any place, or in any manner, as a Minister of the Established Church of England and Ireland.

diocese he may have officiated, or in case there be no Bishop, from the Governor in Council of the Colony in which he may have been resident, or from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, no person who shall have been admitted into Holy Orders by the Bishops of V. And be it further enacted, That all Quebec, Nova Scotia, or Calcutta, or Admissions, Institutions, and Inducby any other Bishop or Archbishop tions to Benefices in the Church of than those of England or Ireland, shall England, or Church of Ireland, and all be capable of officiating in any Church appointments to act as Curates therein, or Chapel of England or Ireland with- which shall be made contrary to the out special permission from the Arch- provisions of this Act, shall be to all bishop of the province in which he pro- intents and purposes null and void: poses to officiate, or of having, holding, Provided always, that nothing herein or enjoying, or of being admitted to any Parsonage, or other ecclesiastical preferment in England or Ireland, or of acting as Curate therein, without the consent and approbation of the Archbishop of the Province, and also VI. Provided always, that nothing in of the Bishop of the Diocese in which this Act contained shall be construed any such Parsonage or ecclesiastical to affect or to repeal any of the provipreferment or Curacy may be situated. sions of an Act passed in the twentyIV. Provided always, That no person sixth year of the reign of His present who after the passing of this Act shall Majesty, intituled, "An Act to emhave been ordained a Deacon or Priest power the Archbishop of Canterbury, by a Colonial Bishop, who at the time or the Archbishop of York, for the time of such Ordination did not actually being, to consecrate to the office of a possess an episcopal jurisdiction over Bishop, persons being subjects or citisome Diocese, District, or Place, or was zens of countries out of His Majesty's not actually residing within such Dio- dominions."

shall be construed to make void any Admission, Institution, or Induction to any Benefice, or any appointment as Curate, which shall have been made previous to the passing of this Act.

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Instructions of the Committee to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, and Mr. G. S. Bull, on their Departure for Sierra Leone, as Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses; and to the Rev. John Butler, Mr. Francis Hall, and others, proceeding to the New Zealand Mission: delivered at a Meeting of the Committee, held at the House of the Society, on the 9th of November, 1818.

MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES NEVILLE, V. P. IN THE CHAIR.
Dearly Beloved in the Lord-
THE recent loss of several of the So-
ciety's Labourers and Friends in Sierra

Leone, revives those feelings in the
Committee which they have had occa-
sion repeatedly to express in addressing

persons about to proceed to that field lives not a victory of man over man, but of the Children of Light over the Prince of Darkness.

of labour.

All who embark in the work of the Lord in that quarter of the world, have to encounter, in common with the Civil and Military Officers of the Colony, and those Europeans whom commerce assembles there, the dangers of an unhealthy climate.

And yours too, if God keep you faithful unto death, will be a higher reward a crown of life-an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away!

It is in the confidence, therefore, that Had it pleased God to withhold His this work is of God, and that you are blessing from the labours of the Society His servants, that another body of men in Africa, some hesitation might have and women is sent forth to Africa and been felt, both on the part of the Com- to New Zealand. mittee and on your own,after the loss of The Committee wish all of you to many valuable lives, on the duty of consider the Instructions and Addresses prosecuting its labours there. But the delivered at various times to those who evil is so mixed with good, the trials are have gone before you into the different so counterbalanced by the turning of fields of labour, as conveying advice, so many from darkness to light and from far as your situations may be similar, to the power of Satan unto God, that, yourselves. The experience, however, after you have duly counted the cost, which they have acquired, and the as there is reason to believe that you counsels of friends acquainted with have done, the Committee feel that it scenes where many of you will labour, would be abandoning the plain path of enable them to offer some suggestions duty, not to comply with your solenm on your PERSONAL CHARACTER; and on determination to give yourselves to that

service.

your CONDUCT, as that conduct may respect THOSE WITH WHOM YOU MAY LIVE, the SOCIETY, and the HEATHEN:

The Committee refer those of you, in particular, who are proceeding to With respect to your PERSONAL CHAAfrica, to the Instructions delivered to RACTER, you need not to be told, that some of your predecessors, on the 4th Piety is the main spring of every effort of March, 1816. They were assembled to do good; nor to be reminded, that in this place under very similar circum- Piety can be maintained, only through stances to your own: and the directions that Divine Grace which will be granted and encouragements offered on that to daily and persevering prayer. occasion, have received, notwithstand- Every step, therefore, in your course, ing the losses which have since taken must be taken under the thorough conplace, great confirmation. Nothing can viction of your own weakness, and in well be added, with respect to the perils entire dependance on your Saviour's to be encountered by a faithful Mis- strength. You will perpetually stumble, sionary, to the remarks, quoted on that and be yourselves stumbled, unless you occasion, which had been made by the can lean on an Almighty Arm, and Society's venerable friend, the Rev. follow an unerring guide. Thomas Scott, on the death of one of the Missionaries.

Yours, let it be considered, is not a Mission to obtain a temporal kingdom, or to achieve an earthly conquest. Were this the case, your courage and fortitude might meet the highest approbation of men. Were you to succeed, you would be counted heroes; and were you to fall, you might have national honours paid to your memory. Yet yours is a far nobler mission a mission of mercy and love--not to kill, but to save men's

Habits of prayer, self-examination, and searching the Scriptures, as they are needful for every Christian, so are they of especial necessity to the Mis sionary. With such scenes as will surround you, you are loudly called to live near to God; and, by the daily and patient study of the Scriptures, continually to bring Scripture Principles so before you, that you cannot lose sight of them.

If your personal religion be low, your comfort and usefulness will suffer

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