AN APPEAL TO THE HOME CHURCH FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. Three Lectures DELIVERED IN THE TEMPLE CHURCH IN THE By C. J. VAUGHAN, D.D. MASTER OF THE TEMPLE, AND CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1876. PREFACE. Of the following Lectures the first two contain the substance of a Sermon preached in Salisbury Cathedral the 30th of October, 1873, at a gathering of the Diocesan Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge and for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The publication of that Sermon was requested at the time, but was deferred with a view to a somewhat fuller treatment of the subject, which has been attempted in the pages of this little volume. The deep and growing interest of the topic, both in itself, and in its bearing upon the life of the Church at home, must be the writer's apology for offering to public notice a sketch which he feels to be miserably slight and superficial. THE TEMPLE, January 26, 1874. FORGET THINE OWN PEOPLE. A PLEA FOR MISSIONS. I. HAT Christ is here-in this 45th Psalm THAT Christ, and the Church-shall be assumed and not argued. It is not that we would efface the human subject, any more than we deny the human authorship. "The sword of the Lord," in this part as in every part of the Bible, is first, and to human eyes, "the sword of Gideon." Only we say this-that, whether in allegory, or in type, or in prophecy, or rather, and as including all else, in that real, that living Presence, which is the true Inspiration and the true Sanctity of the Bible everywhere, Christ is here—in |