Surrey, and since Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester, preached in the
morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of
New Zealand in the afternoon. Coley was far more affected than he
then had power to express. He says: 'I heard Archdeacon Wilberforce
in the morning, and the Bishop in the evening, though I was forced to
stand all the time. It was beautiful when he talked of his going out
to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the
people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his
parishioners. He spoke of his perils, and putting his trust in God;
and then, when, he had finished, I think I never heard anything like
the sensation, a kind of feeling that if it had not been on so sacred
a spot, all would have exclaimed "God bless him!"'

The text of this memorable sermon was, 'Thine heart shall be
enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto
thee, the forces also of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.' (Is. lx.
5.) Many years later we shall find a reference to this, the
watchword of the young hearer's life.

The Archdeacon's sermon was from John xvii. 20, 21: 'Neither pray I
for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through
their word; that they all may be One, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and
I in Thee, that they also may be One in Us: that the world may
believe that Thou hast sent Me.' And here again we find one of the
watchwords of Coley's life, for nothing so dwelt with him and so
sustained him as the sense of unity, whether with these at home in
England, or with those in the inner home of the Saints. When the
sermon concluded with the words, 'As we are giving of our best, as
our Church is giving of her best, in sending forth from her own bosom
these cherished and chosen sons, so let there go forth from every one