THE ÜBIQUITY OF ENGLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 368, 31 March 1881, Page 2

THE ÜBIQUITY OF ENGLAND.

The- Rev. MnSPitblado, in preaching a thanksgiving sbrihon at Chambers’ Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, said :—“1 never was more struck with the übiquity of Britain than’whfen I heard it described 1 the bthet day, before a vast audience iij Chicago, by a distinguished,New York divine. , In substance he*saicl:|‘l wisln you to notice his ; in christening*, England/ made'provlsl on for christening the world.’' We in the United States are centralised, 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 earth. *She is beside ns in Canada, nursing a young nation into manhood. She is in the West ladies, framing * laws ■ and controlling trade.. She is in South Amencaj developing and guarding- her commerce.' Slio‘ is in thQ.. Pacific, on a hundred, islands, finding harbors for her navies, and trading ports for her mercHuiitk. 1; 'She is in Ne,w £ea] ( and, building up and consolidating a great Anglo-Saxon nation. She is. in China, dictating to the Em*, peror. She is in Japan, leavening the fermenting masses with her institutions. She ijs in India transfusing her influence i through Hindu and Mohamedan organisation, and thereby modifying and trans-. forming-that vast-country; She is in waging'-wars ■ and ! digging out. channels for the streams-of her,commerce.- [ She ’is away lip the ’ Mediterranean and among the nations.of' Europe, modifying their laws and /shaping their policy., England to-day is übiquitous by her pospossessiona, and wields a mightier" influence tban-aSy otherination face, of the earth. And, as a Protestant Power, she has -become a great-missionary nation.. AH her institutions through her whole territories throb with Christian -life,. Where Britain goes she Oaxribs.that Rible which hasTieeii llie secret'of her power. Where she colonises-she Christianises. Where she takes ibr Ailie brings her religion.'"Reforc -her armies. > . ' Vt'".' ' I"'*- '■ "iJ-k she sends her,, missionaries.; Her, liferblood is saturated with- Christian: truth, i and she sends it throbbing to the remotest point of her organisation. Her greatness is in her widespread dominions/ . her. powe£ .and. glory in .her Christian v. . "- J ■■/