Nov. 9th. I went early for my baggage. I called on Brother Nichols, President of the Sydney Branch. He is English with an Irish wife. I witnessed a procession of Protestants in honor of Prince Albert's birth and the laying of the corner stone of the Protestant Hall. All the Protestants here join against Catholics and they all join against Mormons.
The Bishop of Sydney gave the address. Most pointed among his sayings: "The Bible and the Bible only is the religion of the Protestants; our rule of faith is the Word of God; the Bible is the sole rule of faith; the testimony of scripture is the rock upon which the Church is built; it is founded upon apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone; any other foundation than this is faulty. However fair in appearance or lofty in superstructure, if not resting on this one foundation, it is doomed destruction. Of it as of Babylon, it will one day be said: It is fallen, it is fallen".
After listening I returned to Brother Peg's, took inventory of tracts, found over 2,000, besides several books of Church works.
Note: New South Wales was a penal colony from 1788 to 1840, during which time 60,700 were transported, of which 8,700 were females, most of whom I am informed, remained and a large percent are of their posterity.
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