A Gallop to the Antipodes Author:John Shaw Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: England from the fearful disaster of a monetary crisis -- a crisis which, but for the very opportune and timely discovery of gold in Australia, might have gi... more »ven her such a shock, which, if not fatal to her interests, might have required many years for her recovery. Another very interesting feature in the colonies is that when they are well-treated they are very loyal ; and when they are thoroughly good men they are very independent and industrious, requiring but few soldiers to maintain public order. That the hand of Providence is mysteriously ruling in this spirit of colonization which forms so striking a feature of our age may be readily admitted from the fact of His governorship of the universe. Is it not, then, the duty of a Christian government, -- one that professes so to blend Church and State for their mutual benefit, -- so to act, both ecclesiastically and politically, as to further the good cause of emigration, and by so doing relieve pauperism at home, secure friendship with the colonies, contribute to the happiness and prosperity, not only of the mother country, whilst her extensive and youthful colonial children may be equally partakers in similar blessings ? GOVERNMENT EULES« less