THE DEATH (IE THE aRCHUISHOP OE CANTEIIISERY. The pissing awav of one so eminent in station, so marked in ability, and so attractive m the qualities of mind and person, could not fail to create a deep sense of lo??, not only throughout the whole of mir communion, but beyond it; and when we call to mind the vigorous support always given by the late archbishop to missionary entei- Tii i-e. the boldness with which —at the risk of per spial unpopularity—ho threw the icgds of his high position over schemes which many would have shrunk from as visionary or impracticable, but which to his ardent nature seemed full of hope, we begin to realise how greatly he will he missed From Canterbury to Assyria is a fur stretch, but not too wide a one for the extension of his svmpathy to the feeble remnant of a once powerful but now down-trodden and sutler im- church • nor did ho withhold his support because that church is supposed by some still to exhibit the brand of an ancient heresy. Had ho been a weak or shortsighted man. he would have yielded to the general, outcry against the c.intinuanco of an Anglican bishopric in Jeru salem. But the value of that position as affording unparalleled opportunities of intercourse with the various branches of the Christ-loving Eastern Church and with the Jew? who have found their own Messiah in their own land was recognised by him, and the event has more than justified the efforts he made at the breakdown of the old arrangement to reconstitute that mission upon a more satisfactory basis. If there bo now danger to the Assyrian and darnsalem missions from the withdrawal of the enthusiastic mind which supported them, I earnestly hope that the end will be that which perhaps the providence of God designed—viz.. that in the place of a person, how ever gifted and exalted, these interesting and im portant fields of work will be taken up by the church generally, and I hope that we, young and weak as we may be, here in New Zealand shall not fail to boar our shave. 1 will not detain you with accounts of the kind p, ss and honor shown to me by the late arch bishop, for whom I felt a strong personal regard. 