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from the Mother Chureh, yet too much divided among themse!ves to preserve, in come parts,even the form of religion. Hence, notwithstanding the prominent recognition of religion in the original | schemes of colonization, the society found

thie field ve supe i bv a quarter of a mil-- lion settlers, of whom whole colonies were living “without Goi in the world,” while

KATES OF SURSCRIPTION (IN ADVANCE) | others were distracted with almost every One Year he 84.00 variety of strange cioctrine,. Church Six Nonths 2.00 | ministratious were accessible only at a few - a | . = : e r aes a er | laces in Virginia, Maryland, New York —— yy, and in the towns ef Philadelphia and ment post paid to any part of Cat ada or th } aou tO i own re P I : United States | Boston, and the neighboring Indians had ‘ | been partly instructed by the Jesuits and THE WEEKLY EXAMINER | been partly instructed by the Jesuit é issued, every Friday morning. It is made up | by John Eliot and agents of the New of watter which has appeared in the Daily | England Co Until 1735, that is to say, Se peggy Ahan: wana oor cneaan | nine years after the Declaration of Inde- i .lie iAtes! Dews MPUOSCPIPLION Oi. a yee i # . : PA ay TOE _. | pendence, the Society jabored to p'ant in | all its fuluess the Chureh in those re ft U | gions. | i: | You will perhaps gain a better idea of i ! the trials and difficulties encountered by : pee : os SEPTEMBER 20, 1897 ‘ the early missionaries if I here give brief tak hus Ptiiv «VV, ~ t. . . ‘ . : Be a | accounts of the spiritual condition of the various colonies, and the effurts. that were SIONS II 1 AC . SIONS H ) 1€ j , . or N NORTH AMERICA |} made both to oppose and to assist the ae | wieiaina ce x Pajer Rea | Before the Missionary Confer- preac hing the Gospel of Christ. é euce at Charleottetow., Sept. 16th, 1897, South Carclina, —The Society found in by Rev. James Simpson. 1701 that more than one-half of the 7,000 . . tn | colonists > 3 ing 2 The subject af European missions to the | ““ onists here (to te nothing of th PS OES 5 iE {| negroes and Indians) were themselves eontinent of AOTth America is Such a Vast liviog regardless of relizi there being De Lowl it Seems impossidle to even touch iving regardiess of religion, there oeing ob a ; . t ‘ Se tUt vii i . i i . : most important points ina pa only one church in the cvlony, no schools ipon its 1OSt la porte OlNtS In é Japer . ta ‘hs sida H hall ( pa} and few dissenting teachers of any kind. of ov minutes, ehai, thereiore Cunliue | m . . : ‘ » ; s310%arv & i ras e miscit to Anglican missions, with the She. Geet ens Soe a ~ : Rev. §. Thomas, who labored single

hope that some of the speakers wili en- large upon the early Freach missions io the loviare and other efforis to evangelize the aborgines, which are fall of deeds of heroist and self-sacrifice unsurpassed in | the anoals of Christianity.

[ am indebted to the records of the S.ciety of the Propagation of the Gorpel | in Foreiga. Parts for n¥Yost of the informa- tivu covtained in this paper.

** although it was not wll 1701 that the Church of England began to conduct Foreign Mission work on an organised system, tbe two Spreceding centuries had not been entirely barren of Missionary effort. Nosooner was England freed from the supremacy of the Pope than Arch- bishop Cranmer hastened to provide two ck aplaius for Calais, at that time Britain’s only foreign possession. When Martin Frobisher sailed in 1578 in seareh of the N.W. passage to India. “Master Wolfall” was appointed by Her Majesty’s Council to he their minister and preacher, his only care being to save souls. Wolfall was privileged to be the first priest of the re- formed Church of England to minister on American shores.

To “discover and to plant Christian inh&b tants io places convenient” in Ameri- ca was the main object of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who took possession of New- fouruland in 1583, and to whom was granted the first charter for the founding of an English colony. Similar powers were given to Sir Walter Raleigh, who discovered Virginia, and the first band of colonists sent there included Thomas Herot, who may Le regarded as the first English Missionary in America. “ He many times and in every towa where he came,” says an old chronicle, ** made declaration of the contents of the Bible aud of the chief points of religion to the natives according as he was abie.” From

this time and throughout the 17th century the extension of Christ’s Kingdom Goutinued ove or the avowed objects of Briti-h colouization.

Leudable as may have been the PNCTLivus made for plantiag the Church, they were 80

insrificient that at the close ofthe 17th ceotury many of the colonies and planta- tions were wholly destitute of any spiritual ministrations and the people reemed to be abandvued toatheism and inflielity. The truth was thatthe action taken had been isolated and individual and therefore de- void « f the essential elements of support and » rmanence. If under such circam- stances individual effort was greatly res- trained or wasted, it at least served to kin- dl+ and foster a missionary spirit, and with the yrowth of that spirit theneed of united actiou on the part of the Church became more and more apparert. Out of this aro-e what may be called “the Religious Society” movement of the 17th century, to which the beginning ofthe S. P. G. was traced.

The charter of the Society of the Pro- pagation oft the Gospel granted in 1701 shows that the Society was incorporated for the the threefold object of (1) providing @ waiutainence for an othordox clergy in the plantations, colonies and factoriee, of Great Britain beyond the seas, forthe in- struction afthe King’s loving subjects in the Cuoristian Religion; (2) Making such other provisions as may be necessary for | the propagation of the Gospel in those parts; and (3) receiving, managing aod disposing of the charity ot His Majesty’s, subjects for those purposes.

The church in the United States of America. “In the gieater part of the 18th century the colonies of Great Brit- ain, ex eading elong the east coast of North America, from South Carolinato Maine, together with the negroes and the Indiaa tribes who dwelt further inland, constitut- ed the principal mission field of the So-- ciety, These colonies were first settled by private adventurers, mostly representa- tivesof divers denominations, dissenting

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handed until 1706, when he died, and, says an old record, his “‘widow was vo.ed two months’ salarv from the society, and a gratuity of £25 in consideration of the great worth of ber husband aud of his diligenee in bis ministerial office, and for the encouragement of missionaries to undertake the work of tbe Society.”

Other faithful men were soon fourd to takeupand order the work. So many <f the settlers lived worve than the heathen that the province was spoi'ed with blasphemy, Atheism and immorality, avd the great obstacle to the free Indians embrasing tle Christian religion was the scandalous ard immoral life of the whiie men among them, calling themselves Christians. In the case of the slav-s (aegroes and Indians) many of the masters were extremely in— human, esteeming them no more than beasts; and were geuerally opposed at first, to the endeavours of the Missionaries to instruct the slaves; although there were many honorable exceptions to this rule, and some of the planters wives were par- ticularly zealous in ailing the clergy ‘n preparing the colored people for baptism.

But so oppressive war the rule of the settlers that in 1715 the I[odians rose in rebellion and ravaged the country far and wide. The Missionaries suffered greviously from this war—some barely escaping mas- sacre, all being reduced and impoverished.

North Carolina in 1701 contained at least 5000 colonists, besides negroes ard indians, all living without any minister, aod without any form of Divine Worship publicly performed. Children had grown up and were!growing upunbaptized and un educated; and the dead were not buried .n anv Christian form. Successive Missio.- aries for many years had to encounter hardships and dangers arising from the incursions of the Lndiaat; and in no dc- partment of their work did they receive much help from the settlers. The Rev. |, Urmston—1711 was with his family in manifest danger of perishing from want of food; we have, he said, “ lived many a day only on a dry crust, and a draught of salt water from the Sound, such regard have the people for my Jabours—so worthy of the favour the Society lias shown them in providing Missionaries and and sending books.” Similar complaints were made by others, and to all “ibe trivial round, the commom task” furnished ample room for self-denial.

Georgia was established as sn English colony iv 1733. Johu Wesley was one of its first missionaries. Arriving at Savannah in 1736 be found little opportunity of carry- ing out his design of evangelizing the beathen, owing to the bad lives of his countrymen. Over his European congre- gation he used the strictest discipline. He baptized children by enimersion, accepted none but communicants as sponsors, re- fused Holy Communion to Dissenters (un- less previously admitted into the Church ) or to read fhe burial services over the unbaptized. He alsotook a journey to South Carolina to make formal complaint to the Bishop’s commissary of a person who had been marrying some of his par- ishioners without banns or licence. ‘That he was unremitting in his labors is shown by the following extract from his diarry, Sunday, (ct., 30th, 1787. The first Eug- lish prayer lasted from 5 to 6 30a. m. The Italiaa, which Lread to a few vandois ‘Negan at 9, Thesecond service for the English (including the sermon and Holy Communion) continued from half an hour past 10 to halfan hour past 12. The French service began ati p.m. At 2 I catechised the children. About 31 began the English service. After this ended I had the happiness of joining with a8 many as my largest room would hold in reading, prayer and singing praise’ About 6 the service of the Moravians, so-called, began, at which I was glad to be present not as a teacher butas a learner.

We returned to England, after, as he say®, having preached the gospel there (not es I ought but asI could) one year and nearly nine months

New England was settled principally by Dissenters of various sorts and the Chur:sh people were

so restrained from having their o»n form of worship that in 1679 many of the in- habitants of Boston petitioned Charl-s II that they might be allowed to build a church tbere for the exercise of religion according to the Church of England. Per- mirsion was accorded and thescongregation

that William [ff settled an annnal allow- ance of £100 for the support of aa assist- ant mivister for them,

Every eifort to plant the Church was

bitterly opposed by the sectarians. The

of **King’s Chapel,” Boston, so increased |

Rev. Mr. Morrison writes in 1707. They (the Independent~) left no means untried both foul and fairto prevent the setting of the Church among them. The people are threatened with imprisonmentand a forfeiture of £5 for coming to hear me. They spare pot op:niy to apeak reproach- fully and with great contempt of our Church, they say the sigu of the Cross is the mark of the Beast aod the sign of the devil.”* Sirailar accoun.s to this wer? con- stantly received by the Society. Church people were taxed for the payment of the salaries of the dissenting ministers and if they refused to pay their lands were seized and sold. The Rev. Mr. Lucas found on his arrival at Newbury, that the ters had taken possession of the church and robbed it of its ornaments, vestments and books; next day, however, these things were restored, Le recouciled the people, two of the dissenting who had been relied on to “dissolve the church congregation were admitted tc commuonior > nd oneofthem was siortly after made lay reader. Nor was this a unique case. Of the 8 mrasion- aries on the Societv’s list in New Eng- and more than one-fourth were brought up dissenters, including the father of the tirst American B-hop,the future Bishop of Massachiuretts, and the President of Yale Presbyterian College. Durivg the American Revolution nearly all the missionaries remainea loyal to tbe British government, and coutinued to pray publicity in the church services fur the King 4.d Parliamevt. This, of course, brought dowo upon them the anger of the Ke voi utionists, and numerous and pitiable accounts were received by the Society of the sufferings of tneir ciery. The Rev. W. C:ark of Dedham, was one of these subjected to cruel usage. “The dissenting minisier of the parish, who had always received the most civil aod obliging trea:- m nt from him, with some others, stirred up the violeace of the mob so suddenly that about midnight Mr, Clarke was as- saulted by a large number of them, his nouse ransacked and himself used with indignity and insult. Soon after he was arrestsd, carried toa Public House and shut up ia a room for three-quarters of an hour to view the picture of Oliver Crom- well; taen hurried tu Boston, where a‘ter a trial conducted in a manner nearly re- sembling the Romish Inquisition, aud in which be was denied couusel and not per- mitted.to know what was alleged agaiust him, he was condemned to banishment and confiscation of estate, The Rv. I. Bailey, of Powvalborough, for turee years endured the most severe and crue! treat - ment. Twice he was assaulted by a furions mob who on One occasivn stripped him naked; four times he was hauled before an unfeeling committee and sentenced to heavy bond-; thrice he was driven from his family and obliged to pseserve a pre- carious freedom by roving about the country. Two attempts were made to shoot him. In his absence his family suffered beyond measure for the neces- saries of life. During his wanderings he traveliel through a multitude of 41 c3s where he preached in private houses and baptised a great number of children. The Rey. E. Avery, of Rye, was murdered by the rebels in a most barbaious manner on Nov. 3rd, 1776, for not praying for Con- grese, his body having been shet thrungh, his throat cut, and his corpse (hrown into the public highway. Butthese are only samples of what occurred al] over the conntry. The clergy amid these scenes of tumult and disorder went on steadily with their duties;in their sermons conforming themselves to the doctrine of the gospel, without touching on politics; using their influence to allay heat and cherish a spirit of Joyalty among*their people. This con- duct gave great offence to the flaming patriote, who laid it down as a maxim that those who were not for them were against them. The clergy were everywhere threatened, often reviled, sometimes treat- ed with brutal violence. Sdéme were carried prisoners by armed mobs into dis- taut provinces, and much insulted without apy crime beiog alleged against them- some were flung into jail for frivolous sn-; picions of plots, of which even their accusers afterwards acquit'+d them. Some were pulled out of the reading desk be- cause they praved for the King, and that before independzncy was declared. Ochers were fiued for not appearing at militia musters with their arms. Others had their houses plundered. Were every instance of this kind faithfully collected, it is pro- bable that the sufferings of the American clergy would appear in many respects not inferior to those of the English clergy in the great rebellion of the 17th century,’ and such a work would be no bad supple- ment to Walker’s‘‘Sufferings of the Clergy.’ “The Declaration of Independence” by Congress in 1776 increased the embarrass- ments of the clergy. To officiate publicly and not pray for the king and Royal Family according to the Liturgy, was against their duty and oath az well as their conscience; and yet to use such prayers would have drawn inevitable destruction onthem. The only course to avoid both evils was to shut up their churches. This was done in most iustances, but Mr. Beach of Connecticut was said to have declared that he would do his duty, preach and pray for the King until the rebels cut his tongue out. The Pro- vincial convention of Virginiapublished and

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