The Rainbow in the North Author:Sarah Tucker 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: CHAPTER XH. ARRIVAL OF THE BISHOP OF RUPERT'S LAND. " We are come as far as to yon also in preaching the Gospel of Christ"—2 Cob. z. 14 This was the app... more »ropriate text, chosen by the first Bishop of Eupert's Land, for the first sermon he preached in his new diocese, at York Fort, on August 19th, 1849. The appointment of a Bishop to this vast territory forms so important an era in the history of our Missions there, that we shall not hesitate to enter rather at large upon the subject. Our Missionaries had long felt the importance of having among them a chief pastor, to whom they might look for counsel and encouragement, whose presence would strengthen the work they had begun, and under whom a native ministry might be raised up to carrythe Gospel into hitherto untrodden regions. And we can well understand the anxiety they would feel that, whenever their desire should be granted, the appointment should fall on one who himself knew and possessed "the unsearchable riches of Christ," and the desire of whose heart would therefore be that they should be "preached among the Gentiles." "We may then suppose how great was their thankfulness to hear that, in the good providence of God, Dr. Anderson had been selected for the office, and to know that no one could have been chosen more fitted to encounter the difficulties of a newly-formed diocese, more competent to guide the studies of a future native ministry, more calculated to revive the drooping heart of the Missionary, or to keep alive and quicken the spirit of vital religion. The consecration took place on May 29, 1849, in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, and on June the 7th the Bishop, with his sister and his three sons, embarked at Gravesend on board the Prince Eupert, accompanied by the Rev. R and Mrs. Hunt, and Mr....« less