BISHOP SELWYN IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 53, 27 January 1872, Page 9

BISHOP SELWYN IN AMERICA.

One of the true heroes of the Anglican Church is now in Canada; we refer to George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of Lichfield, who sailed from England to attend in America a convention of Protestant Episcopal bishops. We learn that the Right Rev. Prelate's arrival excited much interest among members of the Anglican and other Churches on the other side of the Atlantic. The reception accorded himself and clerical companions in the States and throughout Canada has been cordial and flattering, and, we doubt not, has also been gratifying. The following extract from the address of the Bishop of Pennsylvania, at the recent missionary meeting in Baltimore, shows the spirit in which Bishop Selwyn was received, and the appreciation of his qualities and services as a pastor of the Church in the United States:—

" We have to-night with us, beloved, one who, thirty years ago this very month, was consecrated as a Missionary Bishop, to go forth far, far south, beyond where you can see these stars, beyond the equator, and beneath that glorious Southern Cross that glitters in the southern sky. He was sent there. The cross was in the sky ; but oh, the hearts of the men that lived beneath that cross were benighted. They knew not of Him who hung upon the cross. They knew not of the love that gave itself upon that cross for their souls. And he went forth in his youth as the standard-bearer, to hold up the cross on the land beneath, as God had held it up over the southern pole. He went there and he labored there, and his labors, by the blessing of God, have been so blessed that one diocese of his has grown into into sixteen dioceses, with their bishops and their clergy ; and that land which he found in a state of semi-barbarism just, as it were, coming out of the benighted state of intense heathenism, he has left nominally a Christian land. And may we not say that he has won for himself a crown ? And as over that Southern Cross as it hangs in the southern sky there is also the Southern Crown, so to him who has borne the cross aloft in those far off regions may we not say there remaineth the crown of righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Judge, shall give him at that day for his whole missionary work? That Bishop it is my pleasure to introduce to you on this occasion, and while he has had a warm welcome from his brother Bishops of the House of Bishops, while he has had a warm welcome from the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, we, to-night, gather round him with our missionary hearts, hearts full of love of Christ, and in the fervor of that love we bid him, as a Missionary Bishop, welcome to our missionary meeting and to the jubilee which we this day celebrate. I know, beloved, that you will rejoice to hear him speak practically of this mission work and to tell you from his own lips the rich experience of a Missionary Bishop in the far-off regions of the south."—" New Zealand Gazete," Nov. 11.