n Ho counted himself happy that on tho first ? occasion on which ho hud'to ask the people of Now Zealand for alms, it was for no selfish v purpose, for nothing even diocesan, but tho a mission founded m tho blood of the martyred ? Bishop Patterson, and carried on by Bishop " Selwyn. Qoi forbid that he should beg for 7 such a cause -hs a3ked the people of Timaru a to deal liber&My with tho mission. If every- ? ono gsvo but sixpence each it would ho nuob an offering as Timaru had never yet mado. ° But there were many there who would not ? give a farthing. They would not grudgo a " siipeneo en a 'ribbon or a cignr, but would a to a. mission. He could not spoik co 9 strongly if ho wero asking for anything m ? which he had a personal iuterest. Hit Lord ship then prrnehod a lonß and eloquent ser- ° mon from tho text 1. Kings vi., 7, which j describes tho silent building of tho Temple of Solomon, "And tho house, when it was m ° building, was built of stono made ready bo- 2 foro it whs brought thither, so that there was neither liimmcr nor axe, nor any tool of ° iron hoard m tho hou»o whilo it was m build- ! ing." The preachor drew a comparison be tween this system of building a temple and the modern way of building a church, to the disadvantage, of tho latter m respect of the feeling of reverence for the building. Ho then contrasted the silent growth of tho Temple to t completeness ar.d perfection, with tbo tur- li moil, confusion and pain m the quarries and d tlio forests where the stones and tho timbers y wero prepared, by gangs of mon who probably t knew littlo or nothing uf tbo purpose to which 0 thoy wore working. Thus it wns m lifo: c God has his plnn, which ho ia working out, b using men as etons*, and if m tho confusion, li and turmoil and pain men oannot see what .a this plan is, they may nevertheless from the 0 knowledge of their own 'plans, and the ordor p they work for, believe that perfoct order will it bo evolved out of the sooming cbuos of lifo. 