SAMUEL MARSDEN. 
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to the faith. A few faithful men, by the power of the Spirit 
of God, have been the instruments of adding another Chris- 
tian people to the family of God. Young men and maidens, 
old men and children, all with one heart and with one voice 
praising God ; all offering up daily their morning and evening 
prayers ; all searching the Scriptures, to find the way of 
eternal life ; all valuing the Word of God above every other 
gift ; all in a greater or less degree, bringing forth, and 
visibly displaying in their o ard lives, some fruits of the 
influences of the Spirit. will you find, throughout 
the Christian world, nn nfestations of the pre- 
sence of that Spirit, or mo nces of the kingdom 
of Christ ? 33 
Here then we close this brief he declaration 
of Bishop Broughton, that althoug. "^st legally- 
appointed Bishop of Australia, he i y consider 
Samuel Marsden to have been the first a^ 
But stay, there is a still more suitable teru;..»L»,vii.v an 
I visited England in 1855, my natives, though . 
of them ever seen the good man who had done so - • , ; ■ 
their race, thought it was a suitable time for testify ii 
love to his memory; ten guineas were collected and given 
for a tablet, to be erected in his church at Parramatta, an 
this, on my return, I delivered to the Rev. T. Hassall, his 
son-in-law, for that purpose, and though a plain simple white 
marble slab, is one far more honorable and telling to his 
memory, than the noblest which his friends and relatives 
could erect. It had, moreover, the honor of being the first 
tribute of respect paid to him of this kind, when it arrived in 
July 1856 : — 
SACRED TO THE MEMORY 
OF THE 
REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN, 
THE FATHER OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH, 
AND 
THE FOUNDER OF THE NEW ZEALAND MISSION, 
THIS TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY 
WAS PLACED BY A 
NEW ZEALAND MISSIONARY AND HIS NATIVE CONVERTS 
Obit. May 12, 1838 — Aged 73. 
