Gleanings. The Strenght of England.

Colonist, Issue 133, 28 January 1859, Page 4

Gleanings. The Strenght of England.

I maintain that the strength of England depends on this—that it depends preeminently upon the honest moral sense ofthe people of England—(loud cheers) — that it is this which pervades all classes; that it is this that, makes the workman, with no eyes upon him, give a hearty and a true day's work to his employer—-(continued cheers) —that it is this which, not only in these populous centres of industry, where men work in multitudes, but also in my own diocese, where a poor man goes out on a half-freezing morning, stoops down into a miserable ditch and stands in it half-knee deep until the sun is ready to set, cleaning out the heavy clay, with no eye seeing him, and this not as task work, but for a master who has wages to pay, —it is this that makes the man do his work and never flinch from it— do it heartily, because he does it to the Lord, and not unto man. (Cheers.) Then, Sir, I say further, that that which is the Englishman's birthright and boon—that which you Yorkshiremen, or which the fathers of you Yorkshiremen, helped my glorious father to earn (great cheering), I say that that gift of liberty is bound up in the charter of God's everlasting Gospel. (Continued cheering.) Missionary Speech of the Bishop of Oxford at Bradford.