THE REV. C. CLARK’S FAREWELL.

Evening Star, Issue 3809, 10 May 1875, Page 2

THE REV. C. CLARK’S FAREWELL.

Ihe final leave-taking of Auckland by Mr Clark was little short of an ovation. The large Choral Hall of that city was crowded to excess, and the audience, put in the best humors by the excellent vocalisation of , ' . Christian and Mr Clark’s happiest selections, masted on several recalls, the last being for the lecturer himself, who, in the ourse of a•• farewell speech ” said IS -t t,B °? e j Pjffbts ago to-night since I made my bow in Auckland, and put prediction toa practical test. I gathered confidence and Jmppmess from the warmth of your approval, and accepted my first night in Auckland asa presage of the time to come. My faith was then, besides travel mg the islands twice jfrom end to end, lathe of - mghty-six week days I have lectured sixty-two tunes, and out of the fourteen Sundays I have preached eight sermons, the remainder being spent at sea-* He dosed Jus peroration by a promised visit toNewZeaJmidl. again, aud with these," his parting words, he bade the audience farewell “ I have traversed mountain tracks of stern and rugged grandeur ; I Jdave peered into dim tnnnds, and seen where the gold is born, and listened to the clank of engines proclaiming fthe vastness of your mineral resources; I have gazed on widespread plains adorned with smiling homesteads, with pastures clothed with flocks, and enrSS with waving cornfields; I have noted the activity of your cities, and the quiet beauty of your sylvan scenes, and to my lips ihvoluntarilv has come the parable of the olden seer• Land blessed of the Lord, with the precious things K™ ea .\. en ’ and the deep that ooucheUi beneath, with the precious things put forth by che suu, and the precious things put forth bv the moon, and the chief thingsof the ancient momitams, and the precious things of the lastJrK f? d t0 to* younger ‘Britain of the south I wish most heartily all righteousness, prosperity, and peace ; righteousness—clear as the sunshine which floods its noonday sky • ai ld , euduri ug asits mountains! that lift their snow-blanched heads to heaven • >md peace—buoyant, expansive, and inexhaus! tible as the multitudinous seas’ that beat Fa??welL» ißland G ° d b^B *o*