332 
But ‘of this enormous contribution 
(dnring the progress of which, the do> 
nations for relief of Some" Of our’ own! 
distressed classes seem to havé dée- 
Aitied;) what has been'the proportion 
apparently ¢ ascribable to the Church of 
Eogland’? ) Let us: ‘hear the ‘exzlting: 
statement of the Quarterly advaunte of 
ortholloxy’ himself. 
4 Ww “itt ‘Whole receipt of the Church Mis- 
ston Society for the first thirteen years 
{Tt to’ 1812 inclusive] was little more 
thati £22,000; last year the income ex- 
pelos: £39, 000.” 
Thirty. nine thousand a year makes 
But a small figure by the side of a 
thousand pounds a day: °s;—say, for 
round numbers, xooe! tenth part—a 
tythe! The great majority of the rank, 
power, wealth, and population of the 
land (the orthodox majority /) contri- 
butes one-tenth part towards this holy 
work ; the other. nine-tenths are con- 
tributed by the dissentient or heterodox 
minority. Such, at least, is the story 
made out by the Quarterly advocate 
for the only true Church. But now for 
the disposal of the funds. 
+) © At this time the Church Missionary 
Society employs four hundred and nineteen 
labourers, .of whem only one hundred and 
SIX, are Europeans. The rest are natives of 
e respective countries in which they are 
ite as teachers or readers of the 
iptures. It has nine missions, sub- 
divided into forty-two missionary stations. 
‘These “missions are the West African, 
the “Mediterranean;' Calcutta and North 
Indian, Madras and South Indian, Bombay 
and. Western: Indian, Ceylon, Australasia, 
‘© The honour of giving the first impulse 
to oxpiblie feeling belongs to the Baptists !!”” 
++* Dr. Carey, who was, till the 24th year 
of, his’ age, a shoemaker’—Oh! Oxford! 
Oh! Cambridge ! Oh holy and most 
learned, and only righteous Church of 
England !—a Baptist shoemaker ‘ opened 
the way!!! It originated in the working of 
his. strong heart and intellect ; a few of the 
ministers of his persuasion met together, 
nd’ the first subscription for spreading the 
gospel in the heathen world amounted to 
°$13).2s. 6d. This was in the year 1792. 
The London Missionary. Society followed 
pe h795-) Lhe» Edinburgh in 1796. The 
Church Missionary Society in 1800. The 
“Methodists had long had. their rissionaries 
Jn the eae and i in America.” 
. ay ie a or made out by a 
oe rove, by the history of 
Pa as Raves church.” — 
emnelthier: deny nor ques- 
-tion it: but it is not ‘by the logic of the 
Quarto! Sophist, that it willso be proved. 
s, that the Church 
Philosophy of Contemporary Criticism. 
[Nov. 4, 
the West Indies Mission, and the North-’ 
West American, | With:these missions 255 
schogls,are connected;-in; which more | than. 
13,000 scholass, are, at this |time-meceiving 
thy of Means about, lM 0 are 
adults, H oclt Yo! so9jduse dd mi 
And: this. isthe dpigeche onan the 
expen diture of about £400j600:a Year ! 
Hither’ .the» Hx-Church Missionaries 
hase better’ story; to tell, orithe Pro- 
testantsconverters have htthéitorboast, 
in comparisom with the former rapid 
ptogress .(tinassisted by, any suehi con- 
tributions) from ofifty to (350,000 fami- 
lies, and -thence to 703000 parishes, of 
Jesuit-converted Indians, in/Paraguay. 
There: is, however; one statement, of 
a nature so cheeringiand consolatory to 
the best. feelings of our naturesthat it 
cannot be too widely diffused);siand: 
which. we should, be happy to see-con= 
firmed by. impartial authority, ine oall: the 
circumstantiality of detailic sols 
‘ By the official retums in’ August” 1822, 
it appears that the population’ of > Sierta 
Leone consisted of 16,671 souls; of whom 
more than 11,000, were: negroes,) rescued 
by our cruizers from slavery. »,Perhaps sa 
much happiness and unmingled good were 
neyer before produced by. the employment 
of a nayal force. Eleven thousand human 
beings had been rescued from the horrors 
of the middle passage (horrors, be it re- 
membered, which have been aggravated by 
the abollioh of the slave-trade, such i is the 
remorseless villany of those who still? carry 
on that infamous traffic), though’ themor- - 
tality among them when they" ‘are ‘first 
landed, arising from their | treatment:on 
board the slave-ships, has been dreadful 
They are settled in villages, , under’ the. 
superintendance of missionaries or school- 
masters, sent out from this countrys/and of 
native teachers and assistants; whom ‘the 
settlement now begins to supply. :i/The 
effect of this training’ hasbeen’ such; that 
though, when the population of the icolony 
was only 4,000, there had been forty:eases 
in ‘the calendar: for. trial ;- ten -years-after, 
when the population » was;supwards. of 
16,000, there were: only six; ‘and mot a 
single case from any ofthe villages under 
the management of a missionaryserschool- 
master.” . 9go°8 ae 
This looks somethirig’ Tiké’ be inning 
at the right end. Rescue. ns | 
of the infamous. Slaye-trade- 
pate the slaves—settle them in in vi vi 
under the superintendance o} of sc 
masters—teach ist cu 
earth—and to , req dnd, 
make Christians; of them—we »¢are, 
of .what..sect, or, .denomin: 
great) work -of ei 
humanity owill: b@iadvanced;o whatever 
errors there may or may not be in the 
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