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THE MISSIONS OF THE CHURCH :

A SERMON,

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PREACHED AT THE OPENINO OF THE PBOVINCIAL SYNOD^

IN CHRIST CHURCH CATHia>RAL, MONTBEAJ^,

ON WEDNE8DAT, DEC. 11, 1872.

Bt The REV. ISAAC BROCK, M. A.,

^ queen's college, OXrOBD,

RICTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, 6ALT, ONTARIO.

O OX2PrXS.

TORONTO : WILLING k WILLIAMSON.
IfOinitEAL : DAWSON BROS. LOl^DON : TAYLOR k CO.

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The following Sermon is published in deference to the
wishes of many who heard it. On application to the
Rev. Isaac Brock, Gait, Ontario, it may be had for paro-
chial distribution at the rate of 40 copies for $1.00.

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THE MISSIONS OFTHE CHURCH :

A. SERlVrON.

I. John, iv. 4. — " Greater is He that is in yoUy than
he that is in the worldJ'**

It is no ordinary occasion that gathers us in this
Cathedral Church to-day. We meet in obedience to the
summons of our Right Reverend Father in God, our
Metropolitan Bishop, to hold a session of that Provincial
Synod, which legislates under our Divine Lord for His
Church in tho Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

And it is no ordinary session of our Provincial Synod
that the service of to-day inaugurates. We meet to enact
A canon for the election of a Missionary Bishop ; and
whether that canon will leave the appointment in the
hands of the House of Bishops alone ; or in the hands of
the House of Bishops conjointly with the Lower House ;
or whether some other arrangement may be made by the
canon for the appointment of a Missionary Bishop — in
any case I presume that this special session of our Pro-
vincial Synod will not close till a Missionary Bishop is at
least designated.

- *Thi3 text was taken from the Seeond Leason (or the Moming Berrice.

It will be a disappointment to many earnest Church-'
men in Canada, aye and in England too, if this session of
OUT Provincial Synod is unable from any cause to take
decisive action in tbis matter. I will not, however, con-
template the possibility of a result so disastrous. Bather
would I venture to express the fond hope that this Synod
may be able to devise such measures for the provision of
an adequate stipend both for the Missionary Bishop, and
for his associated band of Missionary Clergy, that there
may be found no necessity for further delay.

The practical suggestion of my own Diocesan has, I
believe, received the concurrence of our other Bight Bev-
erend Prelates. It will doubtless be a satisfaction ta
many if that suggestion, or some modification of it,,
paves the way in the judgment of this Synod for what
we all desire — decisive and immediate action.

We are rising, I trust, to a sense of our responsibili-
ties as a true branch of Christ's Holy Catholic Church.
"We are beginning to realize in Canada the world-wide
nature of that commission which our Divine Head haa
given us : for we declare by the very purpose of our gath-
ering here in Synod, that we are a Muai&nary Church :
that, God helping us, we will go up and take possession
of the whole territory of the Dominion for Christ, and
His Ancient Fold.

We will not on the one hand, let the Latin Com-
munion, with its novel Trentine Creed, and its still more
novel Vatican dogmas, (against which the Old Catholics
are so nobly protesting,) get the start of that Church
which, thanks be to God for our Blessed Beformation,
maintains undefiled ''The faith once delivered to the
saints,'' — ^the faith taught by the Holy Apostles — sealed

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by the blood of Martyrs — ^and upheld by our own be-
ioved Church long before the Boman Augustine set foot
on the shores of Britain.

Nor will we, on the other hand, allow ourselves to be
outdone in zeal by those modem Christian Communions,
which, though some of them are partially faithful to
Apostolic doctrine, have lost the precious heritage of
Apostolic order, abandoned the ritual of the early Church,
and rent the unity of Christ's Body by countless divisions.

Yerily the Church that claims to be Apostolic alike
in her doctrine and in her order, the Church which can
prove both on the ground of dogma, and on the ground of
history her identity with the Church which our Lord and
His Apostles established on earth, ought to be the first in
missionary zeal — ought to be prominent in all lands in
missionary enterprise.

Verily to such a Church comes with special emphasis
the risen Master's charge, ** Go ye, make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; teaching them to ob-
serve all things whatsoever I have commanded you."
And surely such a Church, faithful to her Lord — faithful
to His teaching — faithful to His own three-fold Ministry —
faithful to the two Sacraments of His love as channels of
His grace — and faithful to His own inspired Word — may
claim the full comfort of the Master's promise, which fol-
lows the Master's charge : " Lo, I am with you alway,
even unto the end of the world."

Our own beloved Mother Church in England has not
been wanting, during this century at least, in missionary
zeal and enterprise ; and I need hardly remind you how
greatly God has blessed her in consequence; how the
revival of spiritual religion in England, and the extension

of the influence of the Church have gone hand in hand
with the progress of her missions.

May we not, then, take it as a token of good, as a proof
that God has great things in store for us, and is ahout
abundantly to bless us as a Church in this fair Dominion,
that He has put into our hearts to enter upon a distinctly
missionary enterprise of our own ; and that this enterprise
is, as we fondly hope, about to be so matured by our
action as a Synod that it will be possible to take immed-
iate steps for the designation of a Missionary Bishop 1

Need we, my brethren, encouragement to the earnest
prosecution of the missionary work of our Church ?

I. Then I would ask you first to look back for a
few minutes at the History of the Church of the Living
God from the beginning. What has been that history
hitherto, but a history, in spite of drawbacks and losses,
of victory and progress in missionary work 1 — a history,
in th*e words of Canon Liddon, " of the gradual self-ex-
pansion of an Institution which, from the first hour of its
existence, deliberately aimed, as it is aiming now, at the
conquest of the world for Christ."

Think of those first missionaries of the cross, the*
Apostles of the Lamb, — weak, helpless, poor — despised
Galileans, humble fishermen most of them, lacking, with
one illustrious exception, the education of the schools,
destitute wholly of the advantages of rank, and wealth,
and station. Think of the colossal forces which were
arrayed against them, first in a degenerate Judaism, with
its worldly expectations hostile to Messiah's empire over
souls — its formal Pharisaism hostile to the spiritual
religion of the Master — and its cold and sceptical Saddu-
ceeism, which would encounter with its unbounded scorn:

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and all too powerful rage the heralds of " Jesus and the
Resurrection."

But mightier forces were ere long arrayed against the
missionary Church of Jesus. True to her Catholic mis-
sion, she soon spread beyond the narrow bounds of Pales-
tine. She advanced to the eastern Capital .of the Romaa
Empire, the Syrian- Antioch, thence to Ephesus, the great
meeting place of European and Asiatic culture, thence to
Athens and Corinth, centres of thought and commerce ;,
till at last in her onward western march she reached im-
perial Home, and planted the banner of the cross even in
Caesar's household. Then would all the might of the
.Pagan Roman Empire in the zenith of its power be roused
to crush the missionary Church of Jesus.

It could not be otherwise. For what were the claims
of the Holy Catholic Church? It craved not like the
idolatries of the nations the admission of another god to
Rome's Pantheon. Its claim was exclusive. " It accept-
ed " as Paley remarks " no compromise. It must prevail,
if it prevailed at all, by the overthrow of every statue,
and altar, and temple in the heathen world."

And think what Paganism was, (thus necessarily
roused to violent opposition,) when the Apostles and their
successors, the missionary Bishops of the early Church,
went forth to win the world for Jesus. 'Twas throned in
power — 'twas upheld by law, — 'twas rendered venerable by
antiquity, and attractive by a sumptuous worship. The
beauties of painting and statuary and architecture ; the
charms of music and song ; the harps of poesy ; the fas-
cinations of festivals and shows, all ministered to the
magnificence of the Paganism of the Caesars, — and last,
but not least, 'twas mighty in its hold on the corrupt

heart, because il ministered to its lust, and sanctioned its
unutterable wickedness.

Tou know the story of the inevitable contest that
followed between Christianity and Paganism. From the
first burst of hatred in the Neronian persecution to the
last terrific onslaught of Diocletian, the missionary Church
of Jesus had to undergo one long, legalized, almost
unbroken persecution ; and yet, during those 250 years of
torture, and blood, and martyrdom, the missions of the
Church were rapidly advancing, so that long before the
hour of outward victory arrived at the beginning of the
fourth century, Tertullian could say to the pagans, " We are
but of yesterday, and we have filled all that belongs to
you — the cities, the fortresses, the free towns, the very
camps, the palace, the senate, the forum ; we leave to you
the temples only."

Doubtless the missionary zeal of the Church was
most fervent, and consequently missionary success most
signal in the first three centuries ; but nearly every suc-
ceeding century has its wondrous story to tell of mission-
ary progress and victory. Think of the missionary labors
in the fifth century of the Apostle of Ireland, St. Patrick ;
and of the British missionary Bishop St. Ninian, in the
Scottish Lowlands. Think of the devoted band of mis-
sionaries that went forth in the sixth and following cen-
turies from " lona's lonely isle." Think of the mission-
ary labors of those noble missionary Bishops, St. Aidan
and St. Colman, and their associated missionary presby-
ters, to whose labors our Anglo-Saxon forefathers were so
largely indebted.

To come to the era of modern missions, our Mother
Church has girdled the world with her missions — and not in

Tain. Yes, notwithstanding the aneer of the modem
Sadducee, we can fearlessly say, not in yain.

We can point to results (though our duty is indepen-
dent of them) — to self-supporting native Churches in
Western Africa, and Southern India, supplied by native
clergy, presided over by missionary Bishops. We can tell
of 5,500 baptisms during 1871, and 21,000 communicants
in connexion with one only of the Missionary Societies of
our Church. We can appeal to the impartial testimony
of the representatives of our Queen in India, and officers
of the British Army, and even to the testimony of the
editors of heathen newspapers, that in vast Hindostan
Christianity is beginning to tell.

And need I speak of one of whom Eton, Oxford,
England, may well be proud ; one consecrated to the mis-
sionary Episcopate in New Zealand in 186 11 Alas ! all
teo brief was that Episcopate. Ten years and a half passed
and that sainted Bishop was called to receive the martyr's
crown ; yet what a story of missionary progress do those
ten years yield. Think of grammars or skeleton gram-
mars made by that rarely gifted scholar of thirteen out of
the twenty-four dialects of the Malay Archipelago. Think
of 160 Melanesian youths and maidens rescued from the
deepest abysses of pagan darkness and cruelty, and receiv-
ing under Bishop Patterson's supervision Christian educa-
tion and training in Norfolk Island. Think of one of
them, George Sarawia, ordained to the ministry of our
Church, labouring now amongst his own people, earnest
of a goodly band yet to follow, who will spread the
light of Christ's doctrine in those dark islands of the
southern seas. Surely in the thrilling story of the Apostle
of Melanesia, our own sainted Bishop and Martyr, in his

heroic labours and sacrifices, worthy of the purest enthusi-
asm of the primitive Church, we have enough to stir up
our flagging zeal, enough to rouse us to a sense of our duty
as a Church to the aboriginal races of this Continent, and
to our own countrymen who are settling in the newly
opened portions of the Dommion.

Do we, however, need still further encouragement to
the earnest prosecution of missionary work, than is sup-
plied by this glance at missionary progress and victory in
ancient and modern days ? Then we have it, in what has
ever been — in the nineteenth century as in the first — the
secret of that progress and victory. What has that secret
been ?

How is it that in spite of the most violent opposition
— the most cruel forms of persecution — the strongest
national prejudices ; yea, in the face of difficulties posi-
tively appalling that the Church of the Living God has
won her onward way amid the nations ? The answer is in
the words of my text — " Greater is He that is in you, than
he that is in the world." A Divine Christ has ever been
with His Church. This ht^s been the secret of her progress
and victory.

II. If, then, we need further encouragement to the
earnest prosecution of the missionary work of our Church,
we have it in the constant presence of Jesus with His
Church. *' Lo ! I am with you alway, even unto the end
of the world."

He that is in the world is great. Let us not under-
estimate his greatness. He is " the god of this world," —
grf aci in power, in resources, in subtlety, in his knowledge
of human nature, in his cunning adaptation of false sys-
tems to some of the cravings of man, and in his perversion
of God's truth.

But, great though he undoubtedly is. He that is in us
is greater. Yes, whether it be the Spirit of God, or the
Christ of God that is here referred to, blessed be God, He
is greater than our greatest foe.

Take the reference of the Apostle as applying ta
Christ. Verily, He is greater than the god of this world.
For the Christ of the Catholic Church, the centre of
Christian thought, and love, and adoration is Divine — not
a mere phantom divinity such as Pantheism might set up
— nor merely divine on account of the moral glory and
perfection of His human life, as Socinianism teaches — nor
divine only according to the inferior sense of the old
Arians and modern Unitarians. The Arian Christ, says-
Canon Liddon, " is parted from the Divine essence by a
fathomless chasm ; whereas the Christ of Catholic Christ-
endom is internal to that essence. He is of one substance
with the Father." This Christ of the Scriptures and the
Church, whom we adore as our Lord and our God, is with
us according to His own promise.

He is with us all the days. His presence (oh, that
we may all realize it more) pervades all our work for Him.
He is with all the offices of the Ministry of His own ap-
pointment — with our Bishops, Presbyters, and Deacons.
He is with us in the ministration of the Word and Sacra-
ments, with us in the pastoral visitation of the sick and whole-
in our several cures, in the instruction of the young, the
guidance of enquirers, and the counselling of the per-
plexed. He is with us in retirement where we prepare in^
prayer, meditation, and study for our public work. He is
with us in every diversity of sphere, settled, transitional^
or missionary. He is with us in our great cities, our town
parishes and country missions — with us in diocesan, paro-
chial and educational work for our Lord.

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And He is with us, according to His promise, even unto
the end of the world. The presence of our omnipotent
Christ pervades all ages of His Church's history. He is as
truly present with every faithful branch of His Church
now as in apostolic days. This pervading, perpetual pre-
sence of our Saviour God is the pledge of ultimate victory
to His Church. Great may be the difficulties in our path;
great the antagonistic force arrayed against us ; but let
them be a hundred-fold greater, let us not despair, for
" Greater is He that is in ua than he that is in the world.*'

Not only infinitely greater in nature — as God is
greater than the most exalted creature — but also in conse-
quence, greater in power, in resources, in wisdom. Oh !
let us individually put this to the test, for the safety of
the Church is the safety of every individual member. It
is not head knowledge that will keep us safe ; nor Catholic
creeds, nor unrivalled formularies, nor Christian training,
nor orthodox teaching, though all these we prize; but
Christ in us, the Hope op Glory. We have all
our individual conflict to fight, to which we are pledged
by the vows of Holy Baptism. Would we have that con-
flict issue not in defeat, but in victory ? Then we must
cling with loving hearts to One greater than ourselves,
greater than our enemies — Christ the Captain of our sal-
vation.

III. — Permit me, my brethren, before closing, to ap-
ply this subject to the chief object of our present Synod.
If the encoura;;ements to the earnest prosecution of the
missionary work of our Church are great, there is undoubt-
edly urgent need to carry out that missionary work in the
territory of Algoma. For other portions of the great
North West Missionary Bishops are being designated.

One has recently gone home to England to he consecrated ;
Burelj the spiritual needs of Algoma are more pressing
than those of the territory on Hudson's Bay, the -vast
Saskatchewan Valley, or other portions of that ** Great
Lone Land.''

In Algoma there are a considerable number of Indians
still in Paganism ; and into Algoma is flowing a steady
stream of immigrants from Great Britain and the Provinces
of Quebec and Ontario. Settlements are being rapidly
made along that 800 miles of coast line from Parry Sound
to Prince Arthur's Landing, which, with the exception of
the Manitoulin Islands, forms the southern boundary of
the proposed new Diocese of Algoma. A large portion
of this territory, that lying between Killamey and Sault
St. Marie, has, I believe, already been surveyed and
marked into townships. Our Anglo-Saxon race, the col-
onizing race of the world, is already pushing its way into
the interior of this mighty territory. And, as has been
remarked by the writer of a recent letter to our Bishops,
" When the new Pacific Eailway is commenced, the num-
ber of the inhabitants of Algoma will increase still more.
It is increasing now, rapidly ; and in a short time we
shall find thriving villages, flourishing farms, and success-
ful manufactures, where heretofore there has been a dismal
swamp, or an uncleared forest, or an Indian wigwam, or a
few scattered tribes."

How important then the question put by the writer of
that letter to our Fathers in God : " What will be the
character of that people 1" What shall be Algoma's future
from a religious stand-point ? This under God, rests main-
ly with us. If, like.our Episcopal brethren in the United
States, who in this set us a noble example, we will antici>

pate the development of this territory, and have our Miss-
ionary Bishop, and Clergy ready to welcome the newly
arriving immigrants, we may firmly plant in that vast and
promising territory our own pure branch of Christ's Holy
Catholic Church, and thus confer a blessing incalculable on
its present and future inhabitants.

What loyal son of England's Church will not, for His
Master's sake, and his Church's sake, do what in him lies
to bring about a result so happy 1 Are there, as I am
informed, one million baptized members of our Church in
the Upper and Lower Provinces 1 Say that half of them
give nothing ; there remain 500,000 ; twenty cents a head
from these raises the whole required sum of $100,000 for
the endowment of the Algoma Diocese.

Whether however this endowment scheme, or the
more feasible plan (in my humble judgment) of an annual
missionary sermon for the Missionary Diocese till it is
able to provide for itself, meets the approval of this Pro-
vincial Synod, I feel sure that such a distinctly missionary
object as that before us now, would enlist the warmest
sympathies of our fellow Churchmen in Canada. Let us
then take the matter in hand with all earnestness of
purpose.

Already a beginning has been made. The venerable
society for the Propagation of the Gospel, true to its
charter, has promised the noble sum of JllfiOO. Other
gifts from England and Canada have been promised. Our
oflTertory to-day is to be applied towards the endowment
of this new Diocese of Algoma. Oh ! Let us be up and
doing. Let us be in earnest. Let us be united.

Our time for work may not be long. Thb Bridegroom
<ioMETH. Not many|more Advent seasons may the Church

summon us to keep. Ere long we may see "the sign of the
Son of Man in Heaven." Yes, (most welcome thought)
ere long we may see Him whom we love, and hail His long
promised Advent with anthems of praise.

Be this as it may. Be the interval that parts us from
the Advent of our King long or short, let us so employ it,
that when the Master comes and reckons with us, we may
receive from Him the commendation — " Well done, good
and faithful servant : thou hast been faithful over a few
things, I will make thee ruler over many things ; enter
thou into the joy of Thy Lord."