able profession, in which they have themselves earned an unspeakable reward, is cut off by the chilling hand of absolute poverty, the hard necessity of earning their daily bread by the sweat of their brow!

If an appeal to facts like these should be unheard, or sparingly answered, what can we expect but that the red right hand of the Avenger will shake his rod over all the sources of our wealth and honour? what, but that the dismemberment of our overgrown empire in the east, the ruin of all our oriental riches and splendour, will at once prove and chastise the sordid, selfish, and unjust motives which have led us on to its subjugation? what but that our sons, who have left our teeming shores, to hew out for us a new dominion in the west, finding their wants and wishes neglected, and their filial attachment to the mothercountry disregarded, will turn their eyes elsewhere for help and protection, and

throw themselves into the arms of some rival power? what, but that the glory and empire, the wealth, and commerce, the huge fabric of our wonderful country, will shrink beneath the chilling spasm of epidemic ungodliness, her gigantic strength become infantine weakness, her pride sunk in contempt, "her sun set for ever 1."

"And many nations shall pass by, and they shall say, every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city? Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God!"

But I will not anticipate evil times; "I will hope better things of you, brethren, and things which accompany salvation;" I trust that this day will prove triumphantly that the spirit of English liberality is not extinct, that the Church

1 Lord Eldon's Speech on the Catholic Relief Bill.

of England has not cooled in zeal, nor fallen from influence !

We shall not be met by the discouraging remark that our calls are frequent, the occasion unfavourable, the times distressing, the object of our solicitation distant, whilst there are pressing claims at home.

When has there been a call, or a cause like this? when an occasion so apt for evincing our attachment to true religion? When a time so imperatively demanding our zealous and devoted efforts in support of our Church and country? When a moment in which it was so clearly manifested that our interests and our duties, at home and abroad, are indissolubly bound up together, that if we neglect the religious instruction of our colonists, we shall alienate their affections, cast off the allegiance of conquered nations, lose our foreign possessions, and with them, lose all our greatness? God will give us power over them, as long as we employ

it for the advancement of His glory; and, be assured, no longer.

I call upon you, then, my Christian brethren, in compliance with the urgent expostulation of that Church to which we all belong, in love, and fear, and duty towards the Divine Head of the church; to bear your part, and that "not grudgingly and of necessity," nor sparingly, nor coldly, in this endeavour to avert from our Church and country the threatened judgments of the Almighty. Our Christian brethren and countrymen, our heathen fellow-creatures already longing to embrace our faith, cry aloud to us for help, their souls fainting for want of spiritual food, and perishing through neglect, their salvation depending upon our bounty, all that can render their life honourable and happy, all their hope in death, all their prospects in eternity at stake! Oh, suffer not any worldly consideration to weigh with you for a moment! Feel for the benighted heathen

you en

groaning in the darkness of a foul and bloody superstition! Feel for " your own flesh," cut off, by the ocean between you, from the springs of grace which joy! Feel for your Church and country, darkened by the gathering tempest of Divine wrath. Feel for yourselves, for your children, for generations yet unborn, and leave them the noble inheritance of your piety and charity!

Oh, if ever your heart was open to high and holy sentiments of generosity, now expand its portals, and fill it with every ennobling thought that can prompt you to more than ordinary bounty! Let us all make some sacrifice, let us be thankful that we have it to make; let us offer it with all the eagerness of fervent devotion; let us bring, to the altar of our God, some luxury, some vanity, some pleasure; or, if we have none of these, some comfort; and bestow it upon the great cause of His glory, and man's sal

vation!