(iv) Vice-Patron and President, RIGHT HON. LORD GAMBIER, G.C.B. Vice-Patrons: MOST REV. THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM. RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF RODEN. RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY. RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH. HON. & RT. REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF LICHFIELD & COVENTRY. RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF LLANDAFF. RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN. RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF CALCUTTA. RT. HON. & VERY REV. VISCOUNT LIFFORD, DEAN OF ARMAGH. RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT GALWAY. RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT LORTON. RIGHT HON. LORD BARHAM. RIGHT HON. LORD BEXLEY. RIGHT HON. LORD CALTHORPE. RIGHT HON. LORD TEIGNMOUTH. Vice-Presidents: VERY REV. THE DEAN OF SALISBURY. RIGHT HON. HENRY GOULBURN, M.P. MAJOR-GENERAL COLIN MACAULAY. SAMUEL THORNTON, ESQ. PATRONS, &c. OF ASSOCIATIONS. Patron of the Chester and Cheshire Association, RIGHT HON. LORD COMBERMERE. Patron of the Collingham and Langford Association, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABERGAVENNY, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DARNLEY, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MEXBOROUGH. RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY. President of the Sheffield Association, Patrons of the Edinburgh Auxiliary: RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABOYNE, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ELGIN, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF GLASGOW, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MORAY, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF NORTHESK, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ROSEBERY, RIGHT HON. LORD GRAY. Vice-Patrons of the Hibernian Auxiliary: RIGHT HON. LORD FARNHAM, RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MOUNTNORRIS, RIGHT HON. AND RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF KILDARE, HONORARY GOVERNORS FOR LIFE, Rev. Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, M.A. Minister of St. James's, Bristol. Rev. Edward Burn, M.A. Minister of St. Mary's and St. James's, Birmingham. Ven. Daniel Corrie, LL.B., Archdeacon of Calcutta. Rev. Robert Cox, Minister of St. Leonard's, Bridgnorth. Rev. John William Cunningham, M.A. Vicar of Harrow. Rev, Henry Davies, Hon. E. I. Company's Chaplain on the Bombay Establishment, Rev. Fountain Elwin, Minister of Temple Church, Bristol. Rev. John Langley, Secretary of the Shropshire Association. Rev. Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South-Wales. Rev. William Marsh, M.A. Vicar of St. Peter's, Colchester. Rev. T. Mortimer, M.A. Minister of St. Mark's, Clerkenwell, & Lecturer of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. John Mortlock, Esq. Edgeware Road. Lieutenant-Colonel John Munro, late Resident at the Court of Travancore. Rev. Robert Herbert Nixon, M.A. one of the Secretaries of the Hibernian Auxiliary, Hon, and Rev. Gerard Thomas Noel, M.A. Curate of Richmond, Surrey. Rev. Peter Roe, M.A. Kilkenny. Rev. Richard Waldo Sibthorp, M.A. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Rev. Charles Simeon, M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Rev. Joseph Henderson Singer, D.D. F.T.C.D. one of the Secretaries of the Hibernian Auxiliary. J. M. Strachan, Esq., late of Madras. Rev. J. H. Stewart, M.A. Minister of Percy Chapel. Rev. Thomas T. Thomason, M.A. Hon, E. 1. Company's Chaplain, on the Bengal Establishment. Rev. Marmaduke Thompson, M.A. late Ditto, on the Madras Establishment. Rev. Dr. Thorpe, Chaplain of the Lock Hospital. Rev. Daniel Wilson, M.A. Vicar of Islington. Rev. Basil Woodd, M.A, Rector of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks. ENGLAND, Cooke, Isaac, Esq. Herefordshire. Bartlett, Rev. T. Lancashire. Lincolnshire. Bevan, Rev. Frederic Hesselrigge, Sir 'T. M. Bt. Barclay, C. Esq. M. P. Salisbury, Lord Bp. of Worcestershire. Wylie, Miss Boyd, Mrs. Gardner, Robert, Esq. Lincolnshire. Bevan, Rev. F. Nottinghamshire. Ballard, G. Esq. Corrie, Ven. Archdeacon Montagu, E. S. Esq. Sterling, A. Esq. Stewart, Charles, Esq. Stewart, James, Esq. Thomason, Rev. T. Thornton, Miss At the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, held in Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, on Tuesday, May 6, 1828. The Right Hon. LORD GAMBIER, Vice-Patron and President, in the Chair. The Report of the Committee having been read by the Secretaries, and the Statement of the Accounts of the Twenty-eighth Year, On a Motion by William Wilberforce, Esq., seconded by the Rev. Wm. Dealtry, RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That the Report, an Abstract of which has been read, be printed, under the direction of the Committee; and that while this Meeting laments the deficiency in the Income of the Society, it records its grateful sense of the kindness of those friends by whose aid that deficiency has been in some measure retrieved, and earnestly solicits their continued exertions and liberality in order to the maintenance and extension of its Missionary undertakings. On a Motion by the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, seconded by the Rev. Henry Budd, RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That the sincere thanks of the Meeting be given to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Winchester, for his Sermon before the Society last evening; to the Noble President of the Society; the other Vice-Patrons, and Vice-Presidents; and to all those Friends who, during the past year, have exerted themselves in its behalf; and that the following Gentlemen are appointed the Committee for the ensuing year, with power to fill up vacancies. (See List, after Vice-Presidents.) On a Motion by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, seconded by the Rev. Edward Craig, one of the Secretaries of the Edinburgh Auxiliary, RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That, adverting to the difficulty of prosecuting Missionary undertakings in the countries around the Mediterranean, this Meeting rejoices in the number of Publications which have been issued from the Press at Malta, and in the prospect of its extended operations; regarding this mode of diffusing the light of Christianity as a valuable auxiliary, under the Divine blessing, to the more direct labours of the Missionary. On a Motion by the Rev. Thomas T. Thomason, Chaplain on the Bengal Establishment, seconded by the Rev. Benjamin Allen, Rector of St. Paul's, Philadelphia, RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That, while the Meeting is impressed with a lively sense of the dangers to which the New-Zealand Mission is exposed, it desires to express its gratitude to God for the protection hitherto so signally afforded to His servants there, and for the encouragements which He has given to the Society's Missionaries in their arduous work, both in New Zealand and in its Eastern Missions. On a Motion by the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, seconded by the Rev. George RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That this Meeting regards the trials incident to the prosecution of the great object which the Society has in view, not as grounds of discouragement, but as occasions of closer scrutiny into the motives and principles on which that object is pursued, of more entire renunciation of selfdependence, and of more simple reliance on the agency of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. On a Motion by the Hon. and Rev. Gerard Thomas Noel, seconded by the Rev. RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That this Meeting regards the scarcity of suitable Candidates for Missionary labour as a call on the Church of Christ for more earnest prayer that He would, according to His promise, pour out His Holy Spirit on His servants, and send forth more Labourers into those fields which are whitening to the harvest. |