The approaching Australasian centenary, an historical reprospect of events |
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46th Foot aborigines accompany their husbands acres already referred amongst APPROACHING AUSTRALASIAN CENTENARY Archdeacon of Sydney arrived Bay of Islands Bishop of Australia Botany Bay Brisbane Cambridge Captain Bligh Captain Philip commenced Captain Stephens chaplaincy Christian Church Missionary Society civil colonial matters Diemen's Land discovered early ELLIOT STOCK emancipist energy England English explorations favoured female convicts formed Free settlers Gospel Governor Hunter Governor King Governor Macquarie harbour head of horned heathen Heywood Home Government honour of Lord hope hundred John Newton Johnson labour late Bishop Barker Maoris Marsden Melbourne memoir ment miles military officer mission nation native clergymen Norfolk Island North Nuyts Paramatta Port Jackson Port Philip possessed reached the colony received refuse of society Ruatara rule sailed second chaplain sent shores South Seas South Wales Southern Sydney Cove Tasmania Thornton tion urged the Home Van Diemen's Land vast Venn voyages Waimate whilst Wilberforce wrote Zealand
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Страница 17 - I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity which is found at Tahiti ; and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society. Neither is the country itself attractive. I look back but to one bright spot, and that is Waimate, with its Christian inhabitants.
Страница 4 - Brazil, this continent enjoys the same position, and therefore whoever perfectly discovers and settles it will become infallibly possessed of territories as .rich, as fruitful, and as capable of improvement as any that have been hitherto found out, either in the East Indies or the West.
Страница 8 - Saviour to be preached unto them — when a vast multitude, whom no man can number, shall call upon His name — when the wilderness shall become a fruitful field, and all the savageness of the heathen shall be put off, and all the graces of the Spirit shall be put on. . Though neither I, nor you who are yet in youth (much less I who am stricken in years), shall be living on earth when this fact comes to pass, yet we shall be well informed of it above. All heaven will break forth in that song of...
Страница 5 - It may be a curious consideration, to reflect what we are to do with this colony when it comes to years of discretion. Are we to spend another hundred millions of money in discovering its strength, and to humble ourselves again before a fresh set of Washingtons and Franklins...
Страница 8 - ... who am stricken in years — shall be living on earth when this fact comes to pass, yet we shall be well informed of it above. All heaven will break forth in that song of praise, " Allelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!" — See what honour God putteth upon them who love Him in sincerity ! To be the means of sending the Gospel to the other side of the globe — what a favour ! Mr. Thornton says the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Charles Middleton seem much to approve the sending of...
Страница 5 - ... what we are to do with this colony when it comes to years of discretion. Are we to spend another hundred millions of money in discovering its strength, and to humble ourselves again before a fresh set of Washingtons and Franklins ? The moment after we have suffered such serious mischief from the escape of the old tiger, we are breeding up a young cub, whom we cannot render less ferocious, or more secure.
Страница 12 - Paramatta; from the brow of the hill on which it is situated, we behold a part of the stream : its buildings are spacious and well constructed ; the garden is already enriched with the greater number of fruit-trees of Europe.
Страница 4 - Continent enjoys the benefit of the same position and therefore whoever perfectly discovers 4 settles it will become infalliably possessed of Territories as Rich, - as fruitful, & as capable of Improvement, as any that have been hitherto found out, either in the East Indis, or the West.
Страница 8 - ... from dear Mr. Thornton, saying that he, the last Sunday, introduced Mr. Samuel Johnson to two hundred and fifty of his future congregation, aboard the Hulk at Woolwich. Through the influence of Mr. Wilberforce with Mr. Pitt, he is appointed Chaplain to Botany Bay, with a salary of 180/.
Страница 15 - The permission for the young to approach the Lord's Table when desirous of confirmation is allowed by the rubric. The examination of them privately, and the decision upon their qualifications, all fall within the office and duty of a presbyter. Of course you do not read the Confirmation Service, nor proceed to imposition of hands, nor pronounce that Apostolical benediction which has ever been accounted (with ordination, jurisdiction, correction of doctrine, and discipline and superintendence), the...