beg him to empower all slaves in his dominions to lay complaints of illusage before proper officers. (2) A proposal was agreed to for encouraging the Missionaries at Mpwapwa and Rabai to reach the Wakamba tribe. (3) The inadequate power and capacity of the steamer Highland Lassie having been considered, and the difficulty and expense attending upon any plan for improving her, and also the great need both to the East Africa and Nyanza Missions of a steamer on the coast, it was referred to a Sub-Committee for further consideration whether a new steamer might not be provided as a memorial to the late Rev. Henry Wright. (4) The Committee arranged to consult with the London Missionary Society as to taking action in reference to the proposed movement of the Sultan of Zanzibar against Mirambo. (5) The Secretaries were directed to inform the Society's Missionaries in Uganda that they should abstain from building a boat for King Mtesa if they had reason to apprehend that it would be wrongly used; and also that they should have nothing to do with the dhow which was being constructed on the Lake by the Arabs. Committee of Correspondence, November 23rd.-A further Report was presented from the Victoria Nyanza Sub-Committee, making various recommendations. The Committee agreed that under present circumstances it was not advisable to make the advance into the Teita country which had been proposed; also that the Rev. Theodore C. Wilson be transferred from the East Africa Mission, to which he had been appointed, to the Yoruba Mission. The Secretaries were directed to convey the thanks of the Committee to Captain Brownrigg of H.M.S. London, and Captain Hulton of H.M.S. Dragon, for the great kindness which they had shown to the Waganda envoys. Letters were read from the Rev. D. Brodie, formerly a Missionary of the Society in the Punjab, and from the Rev. A. E. Cowley, also for a time in the Society's service in Sindh and now in connexion with the Colonial Church in Manitoba, both offering to return to India. The Committee, while appreciating the offers now made, directed that Mr. Brodie be informed that his return could not be contemplated this year, and that Mr. Cowley be corresponded with and his offer brought up again hereafter. A letter was read from the Rev. R. C. Macdonald, for twenty years a Missionary of the Society in South India, and latterly Joint Secretary of the Madras Corresponding Committee, stating that the condition of his wife's health would prevent his return to India. The Committee expressed their regret at Mr. Macdonald's retirement, and for its cause, and their appreciation of his devoted and valuable services in Tinnevelly and Madras since 1859. General Committee (Special), November 30th.-A Report was presented from the Sub-Committee appointed Nov. 16th to consider the question of a memorial to the late Rev. H. Wright. They reported that they had considered various proposals, and recommended the adoption of the suggestion from the Victoria Nyanza Sub-Committee to provide for the East Africa and Nyanza Missions a steamer on the East African coast. They referred at length to the need of such a steamer, and to its suitability as a memorial. After full discussion the Committee resolved, in token of their deep esteem for Mr. Wright's self-denying exertions, and in view of the deep interest taken by him in the East Africa Mission-of his efforts to supply a Mission steamer for the development and extension of that work-and of the inadequacy of the existing Mission steamer, the Highland Lassie,- that a fund be opened for the purpose of receiving special contributions for the construction of a Mission steamer to be called the Henry Wright, provided the scheme commended itself to the members of Mr. Wright's family. The Committee took leave of the Rev. Trevor Bomford, proceeding to join the Punjab and Sindh Mission and to labour at Multan. Mr. Bomford, having acknowledged the Committee's instructions delivered by the Rev. W. Gray, was addressed by Bishop Perry and Sir W. Hill, and commended in prayer to the favour and protection of Almighty God by the Rev. H. Sharpe. Reference having been made to previous minutes respecting additional Missionaries to be sent out this year, and to the special need of the Punjab Mission at the present time, it was resolved to appropriate the sum of 10007., received from R. H. Crabb, Esq., to the purpose of supplying another Missionary to the Punjab; and the Rev. C. H. Merk, one of the recently ordained men kept at home, was designated accordingly to that Mission. The Rev. R. H. Maddox, having returned home from the Travancore Mission, had an interview with the Committee, and conversation was held with him on the prospects of that Mission, with which he himself had been connected since 1863. Mr. Maddox drew attention especially to the Itinerancy which had been set on foot in the territory between Cottayam and Trichur, and to the good results of it, and pleaded that every effort should be used that it might be efficiently sustained. Committee of Correspondence, December 7th.-A Report was presented from the Niger Sub-Committee respecting a report recently received from the Rev. J. B. Wood of his visit to stations on the river. Mr. J. H. Ashcroft, being in attendance, was introduced to the Committee, and conversation was held with him as to the position and prospects of the Niger Mission. The Right Rev. Bishop Horden, having arrived in England on the 17th November, and being present, gave information respecting the work of the Society in the Diocese of Moosonee, and brought to the notice of the Committee certain translations which he was anxious to carry through the press. The Secretaries were directed to communicate with the Bible Society and the S.P.C.K., with a view to the printing of the translations of St. Luke's Gospel and the Prayer Book in the Esquimaux language. A letter was read from the Rev. H. C. Squires, Bombay, stating that a Native Church Council and Fund was about to be formed for the Society's congregations in Western India, and would hold its first social and devotional meeting at Nasik in December. The Committee received this intelligence with satisfaction, and appointed the Rev. H. C. Squires to be chairman of the Western India Native Church Council. TOPICS FOR THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. THANKSGIVING for preservation, progress, and blessing, during another year. Prayer that 1881 may witness a great increase in missionary interest at home and in missionary success abroad. Thanksgiving for much good effected by the East Africa Mission. Prayer that the arm of the Lord may still be stretched out for its defence; that continual grace and wisdom may be vouchsafed to the missionaries; and that slavery in Africa may soon come to an end. (Pp. 33-49, 60.) Prayer for God's blessing on the plans for providing a Mission steamer as a memorial to the late Rev. H. Wright. (P. 53.) Prayer for Bishop Moule and the Missions under his charge in China. (P. 54.) Contribution List. In the following list of receipts from Nov. 11th to Dec. 10th are acknowledged all remittances from Associations, Benefactions, and Legacies of 51. and upwards, and Collections of 10s. and upwards. All other sums are acknowledged in the Annual Reports. Parties not finding such payments duly acknowledged are requested to inform the Secretary without delay. The Secretaries thankfully acknowledge the receipt of the following parcels for the Missions :- W. Africa-From Miss Thornley, Chester Lodge, Clevedon; Mrs. P. Dimond-Churchward, Northam India-From Christ Church Children's Missionary Association, Brighton, per Rev. J. Vaughan, for Rev. H. J. Schaffter, Palamcotta; and the Misses Muspratt, Clapham, for the Orphanage, Agarparah. Contributions to the Church Missionary Society are received at the Society's House, Salisbury Square, London; or at the Society's Bankers, Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., 20, Birchin Lane, London. Post Office Orders payable to Edward Hutchinson, Esq., Secretary. THE CHURCH MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCER AND RECORD. FEBRUARY, 1881. THE CALL OF OPPORTUNITY AND THE CALL OF A Sermon preached in St. Paul's Cathedral, at the Consecration of Bishop Archdeacon of Norwich. "A great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries." HE first and greatest of missionary Bishops thus states the reasons which determined his choice of a sphere of action and marked out for him his field of labour. From the days of his wonderful conversion there never was a question whose servant he was. No nobler example of wholehearted devotion to his Lord is to be found in the long roll of the followers of Christ. "Whose I am, and Whom I serve," was the epitome of his life; "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" the ruling question of his course. Nor was the nature of his service more doubtful, either as regards its general character, or as regards the special department to which he was appointed. "Separated unto the Gospel of God," is his description of himself: "separated," as he had come to know, in the purpose of God, even from his birth; "separated" in due time, by the laying on of hands in the divinely-constituted order of the Church. And not that only, but separated to one of the two great branches into which the work of the ministry was then divided: called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ, but called also to be the Apostle of the Gentiles: "counting not his life dear unto himself that he might finish .. the ministry which he had received of the Lord Jesus," and that a ministry to "preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." Yet, within these broad, though well-defined, limits, there was room, and there was need, for further guidance and direction. The whole heathen world was, so to speak, St. Paul's missionary diocese. To all who knew not Christ and His salvation he counted himself a debtor. Over many a Christian Church already planted by himself, or inviting his care and culture, his spirit yearned. Even now Macedonia was awaiting his tour of apostolic visitation; Corinth was expecting his longer presence and abode; Jerusalem was the nearer goal of his F |