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MISSIONARY CONFERENCE,

futeresting Papersand Addresses on Mias- sions of the XIX Cen:ury’

Service at Si: Feter’s Church—Report og Provost Welch's Sermon.

The fourth and last session of the Missionary Conference was held yesterday afternoon. here was a large audience, and the interest was

well maintained. F. W. Hales, Exq., read a lengthy aod earetully prepared pap-r on the subject of the Missionsof the Nine- teenth Uentury. He was followed by the Venerable Archdeacon Westan-Jones, Charles Palmer, E-q., Rarai Dean DeBiois, Rev. Provost Weich, the Bishop and others. The -addresses were spirited, eloquent, and fuil of interest ; but we are compelled to withhold a summary report in order that room may be _ found for the splendid sermon of Provost Welch which will be fouod below. The sermon was preached last evenios, before the Bishop and assembled clergy and a large body of the laity, in St. Peters Church. The service began at half-pa-t seven o'clock and was ‘fully choral, Mr. L. W. Watson presiding at the organ. The | service wes taken by the Archdeacon of

Priuce Edwaid Island and the lessous

were read by the Rev. J. T SBrvan, of St.

Paul’s Church. and His Lordship the

Bishop ot the Diocese.

REPORT OF THE SERMON. Provost Welsh took for his text,—

Hebrews i-1,“ At sundry times and in divers manners.”

Hebrews xiii, 8, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and to-day and forever.”

“ At sundry times and in divers man- ners "—in these words, which more liter- ally trans ated wonld run, “ in many parts and in many ways,” the whole of the Old Testament is summed up. In many parts and in many ways God had spoken. By Patriarch and Lawgiver, by Psalmist and Propnet, He had spoken to educate the world, to lead it out of its ignorance on- ward and upward to higher things, reveal- ing Himself in different ways at different times to different men, tii! at last, when the fulness of time was come, all the con- verging lines cf revelation met in the One Divine Person Incarnate, of whom the writer of the epistle says that “ yesterday and to-day He is the same,” adding, as if such a confession falls wholly below the truth, “ Yea, He is the same forever.”

But just as the incarnate God revealed Himseif in many parts and in many ways, so there isa corresponding truth with regard to His dealing with mankind since the Incarnation. We are the heirs, it has beer said, not of a stereoiyped tradition

but of a growing message. Jesua Christ is the same vow and always. But the

sameness is Of infiaity and not of monotony like the the sameness of the desert,—of hife and not of death like the sameness of the pyramids. He is the same, not because of any limitations, for He is infinite. He ig allin al. It wefiod in Him what men in Other ages did not find, it is not that He hse changed. but that we have needs of which they were not conscious; and He, being infinite, can, out of his exbaustleas treasury, supply them. The truth is, men have not yet discovered all He is, all that He might be to them. He revesls Himeelf still “in many parts and in many ways” and still He ix “yesterday and today the same; yea, and forever.”

Two thoughts, appropriate to this gather- ing,seem to take shape as we ponder on the words of the umknown writer:

I. The forma in which God’s truth is expressed vary with the centuries and with vhe men to whom the expression of it is eutrusted.

If. The truth itself, that which is ex- pressed, remains unchanged; for Christ Himself is the Truth and He is yesterday and today the same; yea, and forever.

The forms vary. Let me illustrate by names which all will recognize at once. I say nothing of the Apostolic period, uor of that which immediately followed. Three centuries had passed since, in St. John’s Janguage, the Word who was in the begin- ning and was God had become flesh, when the Church was stricken to its very foundations by teaching whieh, in effect, declared that Jetus of Nazareth was aeither God nor Man, but something be- tween the two. In that crisis of the Churche’s fate there stood forth # fearless champion of the faith, Athanasius of Alexandria, who, Greek as he was by birth and edycation, Greek also in subtle thought and philosophical insight, wrote in his tative Greek, the language. fitted beyond al] others for the expression of subtle thought, wrote too for men trained like himselt in the culture of an older day, those treatises which are still the source of much of our bes: theology, and in which what bas since been known and recognized as the Catholic doctrive of the Incarnation was expressed as it never had been ex- pressed before. A hundred years pass,

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and we tind Augustine writing for other men anid in another tongue, writing OO from a ; po nt of view widely dif- erent from that of Athanasius, pro-

' claiming Christ Jesus to be the oue Media-

tor who appeared between mortal sinners

Come down than Augus- | tine’s age wa\ to the earthly sojourn of the Three hundred and eighty years | ag0, Wurope was stirred to its lowest depths by the re-publ cation of a trath which, by that time, had been almost forgotten, the truth of individual responsibility, of the oecessity of persona! faith for salva tion In this world world to Europe, I Say, Was stirred to its lowest

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. » } } pths at was stirred by the voice of

Martin Lather, who mingling no doubt,

much novel error with ihe ancient truth, yet «did preach Christ crucified a- the §sinner’s only bope. This truth of perronal responsibihiy is one whivh, f faithfully taught, taught as St. Pau’

| taught it, demands so much from the lear. -

er that it Is ion constant duanver of being

| forgotten again,—perhaps wilfully forgot-

ten. At any rate a good many people in

had forgotten it

Century; and John Wesley was raised up to re-aflirm it with all the power which God had given him. But in those two great miuvement-,—the Reformation and Evangelical Revival, as it is called—while ind:vidual responsibility was much insist- eid ou, the social side of Christianity was almost, if not entirely, ignored. It was, to a certain extent brought inio prominence in the next great movemeot in our com- munion—that which is known as the Oxford Movement and which is insepara- bly connected with the name of Pusey, bv which men were taught to re-

gard themselves, not as _ isolated individuals, but as members of the great Christian societys

the Holy Catholic Churcb, and sharer, in the great Christian Commonwealth the Communion of Saints that knows no limi-s of time or space. And in these later days meno lave come, or are coming, to eee that just as the individualisin of the Reform- ation period is, by iteelf iacomplete, ao the

} narrower so_ialism —I use the word in no

political sense—the socialism of the Church is also incomplete,—tbat the brotherhood of man may not be limited by creed; and though you and I, by virtue of our baptism, wherein we were made mem- bers of Christ aod in a very special sense, children of God, are brothers ina common faith, yet it is also true that we who be- lieve in and love the Lord Jesus Christ are brothers in a common humanity, both with those who have never heard His Sacred name and those who, to their own immeasurable loss, have rej -cted Him.

Diverse, indeed, have been the forms, as diverse as the tongues in which, each to his own generation and to the generations to come,—Athanasius aod Augustine, Luther, Wesley, Pusey, Frederie Maurice —have given the mexeage entrusted to them by God Himself. Each has shown some of the aspects of the truth which men had not seen before or had lost sight of. Each, being but human, may have mingled with the truth he proclaimed something of error and delusion; and yet the truth pro- claimed at Alexanaria, at Constaniinople, in Germany, in Englaod, in tbe fourth century, the fifth century, the sixteeath, eighteenth and nineteenti is always one— is always Christ, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.

Again, the methods of external activities, if I may 80 speak, differ and must ditfer from age to age. We have heard, during this conference, of those missions from [ona which evangelized Northumbria, and from Northumbria which evangelized a great partof Eogland. It is, to use an illustration, full of interest to read in the prayer of Bede how Hilda gathered the faithful servants of Christ iato Christian homes over which she ruled as a mother in Israel and how kings like Oswald and Oawy recognized the law of Christ as in all things supreme in the guidance of their public policy no less than in the ruling of the _ individual life, while one of'them, at least, would go with his Bishop on a missionary tour and interpreted Aidan’s Celtic into the English of his subjects. I have stood, if you will for one moment pardon a persooal refer- ence, on the spot where Oswald planted the standard of the cross; I have preached in the great Church at Hartlepool which stands on tne site of Hilda’s ancient home; I have lived and worked for. yeare on Tyne and Wear, the rivers on the banks of which Bede svent all his life;--and Imake bold to say that though our methods are nut, cannot Le the same as

the methods of Aidan, of Hilda, of Cuth-

bert and the rest of all that noble band, yet just so far as we preached and worked faithfully, we preached the same truth, theuzh m another tongue, which thev preached and we worked tor the spread of the same Kingdom which they strove to spread, though in ways very different from their’s,—

“For God fu'fiis Himself in many wavs.” (2) But though there have been—as

we kuow there have —different expressions in different times of the One Truth; if (as we cannot but believe) there are others stillto come, vet the truth itself abides unchanged,—Jesus Christ, vesterday and

: a today is the same yea and forever. We are all familiar w ta the infinite variety of tiie face of the sea. We know how. its

expression changes from what an ancient : S40 *) 99 . roet called its **many twinkilug smiie’as it

lances with poy in the sunshine and anawers tothe smile cf Heaven, to the dark. angry frown ase it heaves and

Yet all that infinite var ety is only possible because, far ’ sight, lie the unchanging, I hose far-ctl days ot

tus-eS in some awful storm. down, out of notroubled depths. which we have been thinking are our own jays, the dsys to come,—bow diverse have

been, are, ard will be the characteristic expressi0as ofthe life in each; and yet, though the expras-ions are diffrent thas

whicu they express is, I repeat, always one }

—Jesus Christ is yesterday apd today the “ame, yea, nnd forever. For ilinswration of this fact 1 may recall the story of Felicitas, at the end o- the second century, who declared that she dreaied not the tortures of the amphitheatre for “it will be Christ who will suffer in me and for me, because | suffer for Him’; and St. Hilda on her death bed receiving the Bes-ed Sacrament of tue Ho y Communion calling around ber the bandmaids cf Chri+t and bidding them weep * with 61] the peace of the Gospe!”” and then, even while she s.oke these words, welcoming death with joy, or rather adds Bede, * in the words uf the Lord Himself, passing from death to life.’ Listen to the words of ove who, in his lifetime, was recognized as having a reputation throughort Christ- endom as one of the foremost scholars a: d theologians of our Own day, words writleu more than twelve hundred years. since Hiida entered into lifz and on y_ pnblisbed

after himself bad passed b-yond tie veil: **I believe from my heart that the truth which the Gospel of St.

Joho moreespecially eushrines, —the truth that Jesus Christ is the Word Incarvate —the manifestation of the Fatber to man- kind—is the one lesson which duly appre- hended will domore tnan all our feeble efforts to purify and elevate human life here by nnparting to it hope and life and strength,—the ove stady which alone cao fittingly prepare us for a joyful immorta!- ity, hereafter”. the study of the scholar in one of thore great centres where the world’s bert thought and learning finds a home to the heart of Equatorial Africa and hear the Ugauda beys choosing, tirmly and gladly, & nsost torturing death rather wan deny the Lord that boughtthem. And in the days to come, if still Jesus Christ makes Himself known in many parts and in many ways, there will be no break of continuity tecause His religion to the individual personal, humana suul, is the foundation of all that is done in His Name. The form

of what is done may not, wil not, be | always the same; but the spirit is ever one. Atier all, human nature and its

needs are, at bottom and essectvally,always

the same; and only He the Christ-man, can

fully satisfy them. tae work of Christ’s Church is like one

of the great cathedrals which are the glory |

of the motherland. It bas been built io successive age-; the architecture varies from century to century,—vut all rests upon the oue foundation. While we may not slavish!y imitate the past, it is the height of fey and the extreme of darger to ignore it,

Tif. “In many parts and in many wave;” “the same yesterday and today and forever,’—the remembrance of these two truths, which yet are one, will sustain ue in the face of the perplexities aod diffi- culties which confront us, aa we lock at the great task still laid upua the | eart and conscience of the church, and atill, after eighteen centuries of eff rt,not mearly half fulfilled, »f m-k ng disciples ot ail nations. One has notto be very far advaaced in years to be able to perceiye an enormous improvement in the way in which church people generally regard the subject of mis- sions. Itis perfectly, true, as was ze- marked not long ago in ove of the Church papers in Kugland, that the man who now- ada ys thinks foreign missions uninterest-

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