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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 94, 21 April 1881, Page 4

The Rev Mr Pitb a to, in preaching a thanksgiving sermon at Chambers Chorcb, Helifax, Nova Sootia, saids — " I never was jnore Btruck with the übiquity of Britian than when I heard it described the other dfty, before a vast audience in Chioago, by a distinguished New York divine. In substance he said: "1 wish you to notice how God, in christening England, made provision for ohrisienicg the world. We in the United States are centralised in a vast territory, whose resources are illimitable, but whose possessions are self-contained. But this is not the case with Christian and Protestant- Britain. She has her possessions scattered all over the eartb. She ii here beside ub in Canada, nursing a young nation into manhood. She is io the West Indie*, framing laws and controlling trade. She is in South America, developing and guarding her commeroe. She is io the Pacific Ocean, on a hundred islands, finding harbors for bar navies, and trading ports for her merchants. She is in New Zealand, building up and consolidating a great Anglo-Saxon nation. She is in China, diotating to the Emperor. She is in Japan, leavening tbe fermenting masses with her institutions. Sbje is in India, transfusing her influence through Hindu and Mahomedan organisation, and thereby modifying and transforming that vast country. Sble is in Africa, waging wars and digging out channels for the streams of

her commerce. She is away op the Mediterranean and among the nations of Europe, modifying their laws and shaping their policy. England to-day is übiquitous by her possessions! and wields a migbtier influence than any other nation on the face of the earth. And, as 8 Protestant Power, she has become a greet missionary nation. All her institutions through her whole territories throb with Christian life. Where Britain goes she carries that Bible which has been the secret of her power. Where she colonises, she Christianises. Where she lakes her merchandise, she brings her religion. Before her armies she sends her mi; - Bionaries. Her life-blood ib saturated with Chriatiau truth, and she sends it to the remotest point of her national organisation. Her greatness is in her widespread dominions ; her power and glory in her Christian vitality."