SAMUEL MARSDEN. 
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of New Zealand ; he passed through Cook's Straits,, and by 
that way returned to Sydney. 
Mr. Brown states : “ Mr. Marsden preached this morning 
from Romans viii., 38, 39. — His earthly tabernacle is much 
shaken, but glory is shining through the chinks ; it was an 
affecting yet delightful spectacle, to see him in the pulpit : his 
eyes, too weak to read even the text correctly, yet beaming 
with immortality, when dwelling on the Christian's triumph 
over life and death, things present and things to come, 
through the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord," 
A most suitable text to form the final address of this aged 
servant and apostle of the Lord, and well calculated to shew 
the stedfastness of his own faith, and to confirm that of his 
hearers. 
Nothing more remains to be said; when his work was 
finished in New Zealand, little remained for him to do else- 
where. On Christmas-day of the same year, the Bishop of 
Australia preached at Paihia, and confirmed there, just 
twenty-three years from the time of Mr. Marsden's first 
sermon. 
Chevalier Captain Dillon, a Roman Catholic gentleman, in 
his interesting narrative respecting the fate of La Perouse, 
called him the apostle of the South Seas. Indeed, Mr. 
Marsden's thoughts, though chiefly resting on New Zealand, 
were not confined to it ; he took the warmest interest in 
every mission, and aided each to the utmost of his power, 
and so general was the confidence reposed in this Catholic 
hearted servant of God that the London Missionary Society 
appointed hirti one of its directors ; he exhibited a similar 
feeling for the Wesleyan Mission, of which he might also 
be called the founder, his was truly an enlarged spirit, his 
heart's desire was, the establishment of his Lord's kingdom 
on earth, by whatever hands it might be accomplished. 
July 27, 1837. — Mr. Marsden returned to New South 
Wales ; and the following May, whilst on a ministerial visit 
to Windsor, he was suddenly taken ill in the clergyman’s 
house ; his last words were “ New Zealand," and thus ter- 
minated this good man's long course of usefulness. No 
