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A MISSIONARY APOSTLE. 
 
 A SERMOK 
 
 Preached in WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 
 
 FiiiDAY, August 12, 1887, 
 
 ON OCCASION OP 
 
 THK CENTENARY OF THE CONSECRATION 
 
 OF 
 
 CHAELES INGLIS, D.D. 
 
 FIRST BISHOP OF NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 BY 
 
 WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, 
 
 BISHOP OF IOWA. 
 
 LONDON 
 
 188/. 
 
im.NIKD BY 
 
 Si'OmSliVcUDIi A.ND (('., KKW^jTHKKT .SQOABJt 
 
 I.O.N DON 
 
SEEMON. 
 
 For lie iua.i a (juod man, <ind fiill of the Hidij Gh'xt atui of faith : and 
 miich ppople v\ri> adh'd to the Lord. — Book of thk Acts ok tiik 
 H(»r,Y AroHiLKs, xi. 24. 
 
 " A ooon man," " lull of the Holy Ghost and of fiiitli." Thus 
 spake the Holy (ilioHt of one who in the earliest days of the 
 Chiirch Wii.; a missionary Apostle, sharing th( Ufe and 
 lal)ours of the great-hearted Paul. Earlier in the history 
 of the race it had heen said of man by God, wlio had 
 created him in His own image, "There is none that doeth 
 good, no, not one : " and Christ Himself had echoed the 
 same fearful truth when He cried, " There is none gch)d l.)ut 
 God." Of all who listened to this sweeping denunciation 
 of the race, no one could question its correctness ; or doubt 
 the dee}) sincerity of the speaker, who, from a sad heart 
 uttered these hitter words. But when the earth had grown 
 old in sin ; when from its wisest and best was wrung the 
 humiliating confession that the worhl hy wisdom know not 
 God; when man, as years had passed,- had sunk deeper 
 and deeper int(^ a moral abyss from which there seemed no 
 hope of escape; when there was no eye to pity, no arm to 
 save ; ah ! then, the race's extremity was God's opportunity ; 
 and in th(; Incarnation man - lost, ruined, self-destroyed 
 though he was — found hope. God tabernacled in tlie ib.sh. 
 The dream of the old faiths was realised. The virgin-born 
 Deliverer, l)oth God and man, whose advent had been 
 promised of old, ai)peared. Heaven drew near to' earth. 
 The fabled golden age was rendered possible, and in the 
 marvels attending the commingling of the Divine and 
 human, that which, else had been forever lost - the primal 
 innocence -was regained. The purity and perfectness of 
 man's first estate when fresh from the creative Hand of 
 
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 God was reatoretl. l\fan bccamo the temple of the Holy 
 Ghost. Faitii ypniii^' ip anew wh( re it had long before 
 died wholly out. That eoiild be truly said of man, - raii- 
 Honifd, renewed, bought witii the priee of the i»reeiou8 
 Blood of Christ, ennobk'd by the union of humanity and 
 Divim'ty in the Person of our representative Son of Man, 
 raised througli tlu^ Incarnation and Atonement, the birth into 
 our life and the dying our death for us, to a newness of life, 
 a holy living, a happy dying, a blessed eternity,- -ah ! that 
 0(>uld now be said of man, which could never have been 
 said before. The follower of Christ who was a true disciple ; 
 the citizen of that kingdoiii of heaven He, the Saviour of 
 man, bad come to set U]> on the eai'th ; the learner satisfied 
 to sit at the Feet of that Teacher, who tauglit the })hiloHOphy 
 of the plan of salvation, the wisdom from ai.ove ; the servant 
 of that gracious ^[aster who made His servants friends ; 
 the subject of that King Jesus whose sway was over th(^ 
 hearts of men— was a new man in Christ Jesus. He was 
 transformed. He was re-created, born anew. He was 
 made like unto Christ. 
 
 Such was the ease with the missionary Apostle, the Son 
 of Consolation, the companion of Saint Paul. If nothing 
 else were known of him tliaii this reeord given In inspira- 
 tion, it were enough to acquaint us of his earthly excellence, 
 to assure *us of his eternal reward. The stt)ry of a buman 
 hfe closed with such a testimony from such a source, is a 
 proof of the new life of God in the soul of man, which is the 
 hope of humanity. It is the pledge and promise of a 
 l)0ssible good, which is within the v avh of all men. For 
 what was possible in the case of Barnabsib, may })e .attained 
 by any who, like him, will follow Christ's commands ; and in 
 the Master's Spirit, and in obedience to His parting words, 
 will strive to disci])lc the natixms, ba]»iising them in the 
 Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 
 The testiuKmy boi'ne to the Son of Consolation may be true 
 of each great champion of the Cross — each missionary 
 apostle from the Ih-st. 
 
 It is in view of this chiinged relation of man to God, 
 consequent upon the Incarnation, that the remembrance of 
 
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 have been 
 
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 y Ghost. 
 
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 ssionary 
 
 to God, 
 ranee of 
 
 the departed leaders of the Cliurch of Christ is stimulatin}^ 
 to tliose who come after them, whereby these blessed ones 
 '* bfin<.f dead yet speak" for their Master and His cause. 
 The cOnuncmoration of tln' faithful increases our faith. We, 
 too, may say of many a de[)arted saint that he was " a good 
 man," '' full of the Holy Ghost and of faith." The Church 
 has many a son of consolati(.)n, whose name is blazoned on 
 her annals, whose record is on higli. And we, searciiinfj; 
 out the story of these " holy and humble men of heart," 
 sliall iind that the closing words of our text are true as well. 
 Tiiose who [tossess the characteristics which the Holy 
 Ghost ascribes to Barnabas, will be found to have been tlio 
 means whereby " nnicli p;'0})le were a<lded to the Lord." 
 The sanction of the Holy One hiis accompanied the ministra- 
 tions of these men of God. They have [n-eached willi tlie 
 demonstration of the s])irit, aiid with i)o\\','r. They have 
 lira^ed as the s[)irit gave ihoni utterance. Their faith hath 
 saved others as well as themselves. Through their instru- 
 mentality " nuudi p('(^ple " have been *' added to the Lord." 
 We recognise with praise and thaidvsgiving to-day the 
 mighty Hand of Him, our covenant God, who is " lilling the 
 waste i)laces of the workl with Hocks of men." ' We recall 
 will) grntitnde the i)rophetic word that He has " promised 
 of old to set sht^pher^s to feed them."- AVe rejoice with 
 deep thankfulness as we remember th(i " three score and 
 lifleen churches of a hundred years acconifdished, and for 
 th(^ building up of the whole JJody of Christ." ^ A'ld we 
 reverently pi-aise God " for all rulers of the same, stedfast 
 in work, faithful in doctrine, especially fur them that have 
 witnessed a good confession and sealed it with their blood." ' 
 Naturally our thoughts turn bjick to-day to that scene in 
 the historic chapel at Lambeth, where the first British 
 Colonial liishoi) received tlie gift of the Holy Ghost in 
 consecration. This archie})iscopal cluipel, not as now 
 restored, beautified, made glorious as in its days of old, but 
 yet v'enerable from nge, and liallowed ^itli associations of 
 
 ' Ez. xxxvi. 30. - Jti-. xxiii. 4. ^ Eph. iv. 12. ' J Tim. 
 
 The quotations arc from tho Arclilnshop of Canterbury's Foviu of 
 
 Prayer for the Ueiitciiary of Bi.^hop iuglia'a Condecration. 
 
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 I 
 
 tlio past, had Imt a, fi'W inoiitlis carlitn* wituossod tlu' i^iving 
 to the apostolic Wliitt; and tlic scliolarly Pntvoost tin; succos- 
 wioii from the Apostles in the Kn^lisli line, whicli had hccn 
 eravtd for nearly two conturii'H hy the Ainericnn colonists : 
 and which, in si)iti! of th(^ lai»onrs of the Archl)ishops and 
 Bishops of the EngUsh Church, and, especially, of the 
 leadhig menil)erH of the venerable Society for the J'ropaga- 
 tion of the Gospel in Foreit^n Parts, laid been nil this while 
 ^vithllt'ld. That had lu en granted to the independent 
 Anieri«uins whicli had not yi been vouchsafed tti the devoted 
 subjects of the Ci'own inlhe still "loyal" North American pos- 
 sessions. This injustice could not continue, and that which 
 had lirst been bestowed by " the Catholic remainder of the 
 Church in Scotland "' in the consecration of Seabury for 
 Connecticut in 1781, and had been further given at 
 Lambeth in February, 17H7, when White and L'rovoost were 
 made r>isho])B of the Church of Crod, was, on this memor- 
 able 12th of A\igust, a hundred years ago, granted to the 
 vast territory lying north of the ('jiited States, then, as 
 now, faithful to the mother land. In tlie choice of one 
 '• full of the Holy Ghost and of faith " for this high oflice, 
 and in the hap]\v results of his a]>])ointment and mission 
 in the addhig of •* nnich people to the L'ord," there was 
 established a princi|tle and a precedent. Threescore and 
 fifteen missionary sees, established within this century, 
 have been the direct conse(iuence of this act of faith. It 
 were fitting that we should trace, somewhat in detail, (he 
 life and labours of this missionary apostle, the first in a 
 line so abounding in the names of the great and good. 
 
 Charles Inglis was born in, or about, the year 1733. 
 He was the third son of the Kev. Archibald Inglis, of Glen 
 and Killcarr, in In-land, whose father and father's fatlier 
 a[)pear to have been clergymen of the Established Church. 
 Driven l>y the pressure of poverty to leave his native laral 
 in extreme youth, he found a home and a vocation in the 
 interior of the newly settled jjrovinee of PonnsylvaJiia. 
 Prior to the year 1757, he was in charge, or an assistant- 
 master of the Free School at Lancaster. This school had 
 been established through the kindly offices of a Society in 
 
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 Ejif^dand, of wliich the Arclihinliop of Cantorhury was the 
 lit.'ad, having for its ohjt-ct the 8(!cular and reli<^ious educa- 
 tion of tlie chilch'en of tlio (iermaii settlors in rennsylvania. 
 In this Bcliool the youthful Inglis continued for several 
 years, till tlujrc arose within liis breast the controlliiijjj desire 
 to preach the Cos])el. Ordained io the diaconate and 
 priesthood by the ]3islio]) of London, and licensed for 
 reinisylvanial)y the same prelate as Ordinary of theOhurt-h 
 in tlu> ('olonit.i, on Christmas Eve, IToH, Mv. In<j;lis was 
 at onc(! appointed to the mission at Dover, in Delaware, 
 and after a long and stormy passage across the Atlantic, 
 entered uy.ou liis cure in the summer of 17511. 
 
 In that nohl(! collection of letters h'om labourers in 
 mission fields, bound up in huge volumes on the shelves of 
 the library of the venerable society — lettei's which, so far as 
 they relate to the Church in the United States, have been 
 ciirefully transcribed jit the cost of ihat Church, and i)ub- 
 lished in sumptuous volumes-and in the ]\IS. collections 
 at Fulham and Lambeth, tlu^re still remain the letters of 
 this tireless missionary, this faithful parish ])riest. Mvid, 
 indeed, are the pictures of clerical life and experience in 
 America a ceniury and more ago given in these carefully- 
 written folios. The mission of Dover, assigned to ^Fr. fnglis, 
 comprised the whole county of Kent, in Delaware, and was 
 thirty-three mih'S in length, and from ten to thirteen 
 miles in breadth. The cure included a population of seven 
 thousand souls. The climate was unhealthy. The lal)our 
 was unceasing. Three churches n(!eding re])air, lacking 
 proi)er furnishings, and \\anting all the acc(;ssorie3 foi- 
 reverent and fitting worsliip. awaited the missionary's 
 arrival. To make these untidy structures me(.'t for the 
 worship of God, was the first care of the young " missioner." 
 Their enlargement followed. The substitution of a nu)re 
 substantial edifice for one of perishable material was the 
 next step in the advance. Still another, a fourth, church 
 was soon recjuired. Nor was the spiritual prospei-ity of 
 hv people overlool^ed. Sov^n the mission was reported to 
 be " in a flourishing state, if building aJid repairing 
 churcdies, if crowds attending the public worship of God, 
 
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 and (itluT rcli^jjious onliiiauci s, if .s(>nie uf the dtlur (N'mmii- 
 iiatioiis joiiiin;jr us, and tin.' ri'iicwal of ii spirit of \nvXy can 
 diiKUiiitiatc.' it huc]i." ' Tlu' zcnl and faithful luini.-itratiouM of 
 Mr. Iii;4lis olitain(:il the puMic fonimeiidation of the ^^rcat 
 evan)^'(.'Usl Whitrfitld, tlion mnking liin prof^rcssc h througli the 
 Colonies, and at this period <,>f hin career free from many 
 of the extravagances of his earlii-r years. The fritiidship 
 of the leadin;^ eler^'y of the iiei^^lihouiiuf^ Colonies, and tlic 
 eoniidenee and favour of the hiily as well, were also 
 secured ; and on the death of his wife, and on the loss of 
 his own liealth, which had heen iuijtaired from tlu; first hy 
 the unheidthiiiess (if the (dimat", ^^r. Inj^h's reluctantly 
 accepted an invitation to N( \\ York, wliere he was appointed 
 an assistant niiiilstcr of Trinity Ciiinvh, and a cntc'chist to 
 the negroes of the city. So pleasant had he(>n liis relations 
 with till! venerahlc Society, that he accepted his new appoint- 
 ment on condition of his continuaJice on the list of the 
 Society's missionaries. 
 
 Mr. Ingiis left his earliest cure with. the reputation for 
 earnestness, devotion and eUxpience. Hunjble as was the 
 post to which ho was transferred, it was a I once ennohli'd 
 hy his diligence and assiduous attention to every detail of 
 duty. It was not long before his al>ilities were recogiiised 
 on every side, and tin; historian of Trinity ('hurch, in nar- 
 rating the annals of this period, refers to " the growing 
 estimate of the value and hnportance of his services." '•■' Ho 
 soon became the conlidential correfipondent and adviser of 
 the venerable Society, which it was his groat pleasure ever 
 to serve. He underto dv a mission of inquiry to tiie Indians, 
 anil the results of his observatitm were of the greatest 
 value. He became a skilful controversialist, defending the 
 Ch urch in the polemic strife ever going on in tlie Provirice witl i 
 Presbyterians and dissenters of various names and beliefs. 
 His sermons were free from the dry, didactic treatment of 
 religious truths so common in the piiljats of the time, and, 
 as may be inferred from the favourable notice they received 
 from AVhitelJeld, were earnest, impassioned, evangelical. 
 
 ' Perry's Hist. Coll. Am. CI. Church, v. 112. 
 
 '^ i5crnuu's llistury of Trinity Parish, New York, p. 127. 
 
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 It was to be expected that one bo {^'ifted and so popular 
 would rise in liis profession. In 17()7 he received the 
 honorary def^ree of ' M.A.' from Kin^^'s Colle{.;e, estnbli.sh'.d 
 |iy Itoyal Charter hi New York but a few years l)elore. 
 In 1770 he became one of the fjovernors of the Colle^'e ; and 
 a few years later the University of Oxford conferred upon 
 liiin the doctorate in divinity. In the controversy respect- 
 in{^ the introduction of an American Kpiscopale, be was 
 most prominent; and in the war of pamphlets attt'uding 
 Ihe opening discussions and dissensions between tlu' colonists 
 and tlie adherents c^f the Crown, out of which grew the war 
 for independency, he was a ready and powc't'rl contro- 
 versialist on the side of the mother-land. When .iie strife 
 was fully begun, and the city of New York had become the 
 seat of war, the courage of this brave clerj^^ .nan did lol 
 fail him. F?ithfully remaining at his post, and artfully 
 maintaining the servic 'S of the Cimrcli withoni Uiitilaiion, 
 there are few events in Inglis's life more worthy of venu;m- 
 brance than that which eJiliihits to us this fearless priest, 
 with unblanched cheek and ujifaltering voice, reading the 
 prayers, with their recognitioxi of tlie authority of the 
 Crown, in face of a detachment of the " rebel " soldiery, who 
 had marched into the church, with their guns ready for 
 use, and in spite of the order of ihe American authorities 
 tliat the prayers for the King should not be read. 
 
 The s[)eaker, the lineal descendant of an ofticer of the 
 line in the American army, and, in conserpience, an here- 
 ditary member of the Order of the Cincinnati, founded by 
 Washington and his brother-oiiicers to perpetuate for ever 
 the memory and principles of the successful struggle which 
 •made the thirteen colonies an indep«}ndont nation, cannot 
 withhold, the meed of praise due to this brave man, who 
 counted not the odds when called upon to witness a good 
 confession for Church and Crown. The burning of old 
 Trinity Church soon followed, and on its ruins Dr. Inglis was 
 solemnly inducted into the rectorship of this, the leadhig 
 American parish, of which he had been, practically, the head 
 for a number of years. Here he laboured till t)ie close of the 
 war. When the issue of the strife had been decided, the 
 
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 thou,,'hts of the rector of Trinity turned naturally t<» t\w 
 renewal of tlie clTor'.s— made during ho many years before 
 in vain — for the introihiction of American Bishops. Not 
 eontf-nt with ui<Hng by word and pen the cler}j;y of Con- 
 necticut in their attempt to secure the consecration of 
 Sealnuy as tlieir iUsho}). Dr. IhgUs be,G;an a correspondence* 
 with Wilham White, of Philadelphia, a young clergyman of 
 chara('t(M' and inliuonce, in which he offered most Judicious 
 advice, and promised personal assistance in seciu'ing for 
 the Independent States of America a Bishop hi the English 
 line. 
 
 No one can read the letters which passed l)etween these 
 two men of God without a conviction that they were indeed 
 " full of the Holy Giiost and of faith," and the principles 
 laid down hy Inglis with most persuasive rhetoric found in 
 the breast of his younger correspondent rticognition and 
 glad acceptance. The Church in the United States owes 
 much to the good judgment and judicious advice contained 
 ill those able letters. j\Ieanwhile, the shiiiing abilities 
 and the acknowledged merit of the late Rector of Trinity, 
 New York, had attracted the notice of the authorities at 
 home, and on the determination of the mhiistrvto establish 
 a Bishopric in Nova Scotia, Charles Inglis was named as 
 the tirst Bishop of tlie See. ^^'ith him the call of duty was 
 imperative, and he at once undertook the work, for which 
 his whole earlier life had Ijcen a preparation. Entering 
 upon his See, his first steps were in the direction of pro- 
 viding an institution of learning for the training of clergy- 
 men for his vast territorial jurisdiction, nnd King's College, 
 Windsor, the first British Colonial College, originally an 
 Academy, and then a University, attests, after the lapse of 
 nearly a century, the wisdom and foresight of its worthy 
 founder, (lathering his clergy together for counsel and 
 personal knowledge, the Bishop of Nova Scotia proved 
 himself to be a missionary apostle by the wisdom of his 
 charges and sermons, and the magnetism of his personal 
 interest in each one who had been placed under him in the 
 Lord. In long and most wearisome visitations he visited, 
 so far as was In his power, the various portions of his 
 almost illimitable See, and till the close of a long and 
 
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 honoured life he maintained tliat character for de\(>tioi!, 
 ♦hat reputation for lioliness, that fervour of ministi-a- 
 'ion^, that faithfuhiess in every good word and work, 
 wliic'h should characterise the ** good man," *' full of the 
 Holy Ghost and of faitli." Nor was this all. Tlnxragh his 
 long and earnest labours, ended only when the summons 
 f-avne to depari and be at rest, " much peoi>le were added 
 to the Lord." A church was organised : a college was 
 founded and built up to a measure of efiieiency and success. 
 Thf institutions of religion and learning were thus I'stab- 
 lished and supported. The preaching of the Word and tlu 
 iniuistration of the Sacraments were provided for the crowds 
 of exiles who, in their devotion to Church and State, had 
 exchanged theii* American homes for the bleak shores of 
 Nova Scotia, and to the frontier settlers in the dense forests 
 of New lirun'^wick and Qitebec. Thus through unremitting 
 lai tours, blessed l)y God, ere the life of the first Colonial 
 Bisho]) was ended there had been set on foot measures foi* 
 the development of the Cluirch of Christ in the northern 
 portion of the American Continent which shall act and 
 I'Ciict for good till time shall be no more. 
 
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 liritish Colonial Episcopate would be incomplete without a 
 reference to the bright galaxy of men, like-minded, and, like 
 Inglis, " full of the Holy (ihost and of faith," who have 
 followed in the list of missionary ajiostles sent forth during 
 the century now numbered with tlie past. Men were they 
 of whom the world was not worthy ; men who counted not 
 their lives dear to them for the Lord Jesus ; men, like the 
 great Apostle, in labours al)undant, ** in joumeyings often," 
 **in p<'rils by the heathen ; in perils in the city ; in perils 
 in the wilderness; in perils in the sea;" "in weariness and 
 painfulness : in watchings often " ; having " the care of all 
 the Churches ' ; men to whom was given "this grace" that 
 they should preach among the Gentiles the unsearcliable 
 riches of Christ. These are the men, the missionary 
 apostles, following in the long catalogue headed by Inglis'a 
 name, through whom has been made "known by the 
 Church the manifold wisdom of God." Ah ! blessed be the 
 
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 God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the record of 
 these good men, •* full of the Holy Ghost and of faith," 
 through whose faithful labours in all parts of the world 
 "much people " have been " added to the Lord." Devoted 
 in life, faithful unto death, their record is on high, their 
 names are in the Book of Life ; and we, praising God for 
 the good exami)les of these, " His servants departed in His 
 faith and fear," may well revere their memory, emulate 
 their zeal, and follow their examples, in so far as they have 
 followed Christ. 
 
 To-day in Halifax, the See city of NoA'a Scotia, the 
 Metropolitan of the Church in Canada, — with the Bishops 
 and clergy of that vast dominion once comprehended in 
 the jurisdiction of the apostolic Inglis, and with many 
 from the Church in the United States, — is laying the corner 
 stone of a noble cathedral, the stones of which are to be a 
 memorial of the event we so reverently commemorate in 
 " the old home." But one shadow rests upon the glad 
 observance of this day across the sea, and that is the 
 death of the excellent Binney, whose thirty-six years of 
 apostleship were so suddenly and so sadly terminated on 
 the eve of a celebration and a ceremony for which he had 
 laboured and liberally provided, and to wliichhe had looked 
 forward with loving interest as the crowning event of his 
 long, useful, and honoured episcopate. He rests from his 
 labours, and his works follow him. But the Church of God 
 he, loved and laboured for goes on ; and even from the 
 death of this good man, " full of the Holy Ghost and of 
 faith," there shall spring blessed inlluences, by which, for 
 all time to come, "much people shall be added to the Lord." 
 From Inglis to Binney, the first and latest Bishop of 
 England's oldest Colonial See, it is but a hundred years of 
 labour, a hundred years of success. Well may we say, 
 in view of a century's advances, " What has God 
 wrought ? " To Him l)e the praise due for unnumbered 
 blessings granted during this hundred years of missionary 
 effort, this century in which the Church's missionary 
 apostles have been sent forth to all quarters of the world ! 
 
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