IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 IIHIo u I.I 1.25 1.4 lilM 12.2 2.0 1.8 1.6 ^f/ .%:w m ^l 'S Photographic Sciences Corporation \ 4^ ^^ o "% .V ^^^.. c> m ' signifie "A SUiVRE", le symbols T signifie "FIN ". Lee cartee. pianchea. tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre n\m4m A dee taux de rMuction diffirents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour itre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est filmi i partir da I'angle sup^rieur gauche, de gauche i droite. et de haut en baa. en prenant le nombre d'imegea nAcassaira. Lea diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 I GOD'S WOKKS IN THE TIME PAST. /^. o^Oic t A SERMON PKEACniT) IX TUK CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF QUEBEC, OS TQB FIFriETH ANXIYER3.VRY OF THE ORDINATION OF THE LORD BISHOP ; AUaUST 2, 18tJ3. oi«k I remember the time past ; I muse upon all Thy works. 'Psalm cxliii, 5. The commeraor-ition, Brethren, which has gathered us in this House of God, is, it seems to me, of far wider than a merely locnl interest. Had it not been so, the preacher's office — which, even as it is, has been accepted with no little hesitancy — should, surely, have been filled by another than a stranger from another land. Because it is so, such a stranger occupies this place, to-day. Any ministry of fifty years' duration, be it in a sphere how- ever limited, and on a scale however humble, forms an integral, often an important, portion of the history of the ChurcH of God. For, that Church, not being a mere mass or mob, but a well ordered and compacted " army with banners," finds its appropriate emblem not in a heap of disintegrated sand, swept together by winds and waves ; but, rather, in some well organized and living body, where, though each member is complete in its own formation, and has its own peculiar line of action, still, it is jointed and articulated into that body as a necessary part of its unity, and, therefore, of its life. And thus, the Church's life is made up of individual lives; the Church's history is composed of individual histories ; the Church's ministry among the nations is the aggregate of individual ministries. Every separate ministry, then, has a place, a position, a meaning in the Church, which lifts it out of its mere local surroundings and connexions, giving it a life, and investing it with a dignity, which the careless observer can never •stiraate. When moreover, this ministry has been held in truit, by one who has nut only won the "good Hosrce" of the Pres- byter.'ite, but has also been called to a chief Pastorship in the Church, and has made that chief Pastorship, what Vonerablo Bede said it should be made, no men oner in no)i honnrla ; when the ministry itself has been one of wise forecast, and extended labor, and living result ; not merely building on foundations already laid, but laying foundations, on which, in carrying on missionary work and the education of the clergy, other generations are to build ; preparing fields for others to sow in, as well as sowing in those already prepared, and gathering in those that are white for the harvest ; making ready for issues that are to unfold themselves as time rolls on, and to live when time shall cease to be ; when all these thinas arc so, then, that ministry belongs, not merely to the one Diocese which specially claims it as its own, nor yet to the one National Church of which that Diocese forms a part, but it belongs — God be thanked that such is the unity of the Mystical Body of His Son — to all the Church, in every age and every land. More than this. In all that concerns the Anglican Church in British North America, her sister church in the United States must feel a warm and kindly interest. We both. Brethren, claim the same spiritual maternity; to each of us, that venerated mother has given the " Evangelic truth and Apostolic order," which, in common, wo maintain, and with them — what gifts, what bonds of union — our English Bible and our Books of Common Prayer. Our lines of labor, our peculiar duties, the trials we meet, the obstacles we encounter, are, certainly, not very dissimilar. then, that our joys and our sorrovrs might be shared, and heightened or lightened in the sharing. that, as looking on our Mother Church wo say, " If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let 7ny right hand forget her cunning," so we might say, as we look upon each other, " For my brethren and companions' sake I will wish theo prosperity! Yea ! because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek to do thoe good !" 1 As, tlien. In tbis spirit, I call upon you to look back over tboso fifty years, ■wbicb, day by clay, have sunk into tbc past, as " autumn loaves glide from tlioir parent trees," until they all are jione, I feci ho-,y much there must be in all your hearts — lot me say in all our beart*^— which may not be spoken ; lest the limits, which, in such a commemoration, the living; presence and the personal associations impose on us, should be overpassed. Nor need such thoughts be spoken here. For, as, amid the hallowed memories of this day, your Bishop looks upon his clergy and his people, whose representatives surround him hero, he well may feel, " Ye arc our opistic written in cm heart, known and read of all men." Passin^r therefore, from thoughts which dclicucy requires us to su"-- gest, rather than to dwell upon, let us, Brethren, take sucli retrospect of those fifty years as »ay not be entirely foreign to this occasion. One groat test of a Church's vitality is the presence of that rpirit of extension, that missionary spirit, which livrs in the very charter under which she acts, and which animates her ministers to feel that they are "debtors both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise," to preach '•' he unsearchable riches of Christ." It is often objected— not so often among you, it may bo Brethren, as elsewhere— that our Eeformcd Church was a laggard in the work of missions. But, surely, the objection is not well founded. It is true, no doubt, that nearly one hundred and fifty years elapsed, from the Pcttlcment of the Reformation, under Queen Elizabeth, to the formation of that truly venerable Society, to which we all owe so much,— none more, than the Diocese, in which, in God's providence, my own lot is cast. But it is not true that no missionary movements were made, during all that period. The English Colonies of the entire Atlantic seaboard, Newfoundland and the Barmudae, India and the Levant, all rise up in answer, I When it stands recorded, in connexion with the very first movement towards colonizing this western world, that one great purpose in it, was '' the carriage of God's word into those very mighty and vast countries ;" when the Virginia patent rccogni.-scd, as one of its ohj?cts, " the propagating of Christian religion to such people ai yet live in darkness ;" when Donne could say, in that noble missionary sermon preached in 1(122, that the duty of the Hefornied Church was to make the island in which it was planted, '' a bridge and gallery to the new world, to join all to that world which shall never grow old, the Kirigdom of Heaven;" when Bacon could write, " This vine which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto Thee that it might have the first and the latter rain ; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods" *; when Ferrar, could devote himself to preaching the Go&pcl in America though, indeed, the purpose was never carried out, and Herbert could sii.g of its coming triumphs ; when all this — and I have only touched, here and there, a salient point,— is true, who shall say, that, in those days, no missionary zeal warmed the heart of our Mother Church, and, that the first shewings of it came from those who went out from her fold, and "lifted up their heel against her ?" True, all efforts wero unsystematic, scarcely organised, entirely tentative. And, surely, there was abundant reason why they were so. Can we forget, in our age, those trials of " fire and water," by which our Church was '• brought out into a wealthy place ?" Can wc forget, that almost as soon as she had made her position somewhat secure against the seditions and conspiracies of Popery, another adversary rose up at her very side, and almost swept her from the face of the earth ; that, when this " overflowing scourge had passed by", all her powers were taxed to their uttermost, to save a • The extracts may all be found in Andemon'n Colonial Church, ^^. ^s .. nation from a revulsion and reaction which threatened to des- troy all Christian faith and manliness ; that, before this work was done, she was compelled to rouse herself, to repel a rncwcd assault of the Papacy, and wc may hope, the last ? Brethren, we may not forget these things. And as we remember them, let us remember too that they gave little time or opportunity for the great work of " preaching to the Gentiles, the un- searchable riches of Christ." Still, it must be owned, fulness of plan and systematised effort are to bo sought, chiefly, within that period of fifty years which, specially, claims our thoughts to day. Itow stood our Church, then, when it began in 1812 ? In all the Colonics and Dependencies of the Britisjh Empire, there were two organised Dioceses with two Bishops, namely. Nova Scotia and Qufbec. There was no Bishop in India, no Bishop in all the Islands of the sea. H<^ro and there, single, scattered Missionaries were fainting vath " the heat and burden of the day," solitary and unsupported, without living sympathy, oversight, counsel, or discipline, deprived of that strong stay which the sharing of labor and responsibility always brings. In the United States, wo had just passed a trying crisis for the Church. When in the year previous, two Bishops were to be consecrated, it was found that disease and death had made such inroads on the Episcopate, as to cause doubts whether the canonical num- ber of consecrators could be found: and it was a serious ques- tion, whether we might not be compelled to have recourse, again, to the Mother Church, to enable us to continue the succession. Meantime, the entire region inland from a narrow strip on ^lie Atlantic coast, was all untouched, and loomed up, like a huge black cloud, on the western horizon. There were life, energy, zeal, but they were half wasted, and all weakened, for lack of guidance and direction. But God's good Spirit was at work in men's hearts preparing for better things. Tiie sacrifices and the prayers of earlier I 8 generations wero not iu vain. Middletoa and Ilcber were to inaup;uratc tlie fuller and more thorough plans for the eastern world. Stewart and his successors wero to continue and extend those that had been well be;^ua hero. Ilobart, and Griswold, and Moore, were to wake up a new energy in your sister Church. Liit^jr on, tho same service that gave you the Bishop wlio has you in charge to day, was to send a Bishop, also, to the islands of the southern seas, tho first of a still increasing band. Tho Pentecostal Spirit was rousing our entire couuuunion to undertake, what, fifty years before it never dreamed of. And, though the day drew somewhat slowly on, yet how, at last, the gathering glory of that dawning kindled! From continent to island, and from island back to continent again, from east to west, from north to south, the fiery cross, that gleamed, not with man's wrath, but with God's love was sent. " The Lord gave the word, great was the company of tho preachers." It was like the Gospel's march in the early times. And, as we look back upon it all to day, how like a dream it seems ! Many of us had not seen the light, fifty years ago. And yet, we see what our fathers longed and prayed foi, but "died without the sight." We sec fulfilled for us — God make us duly thankful for it — the promise, '' Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children whom thou mayest make princes in all lands." Not without tho baptism and cup of suffering, was all accomplished. We may take that also as proof of God's presence and acceptance. From Henry Martyn, who fell at his post, in the first of these fifty years, down to Mackenzie, ^- whose dying whispers have just reached us from those African homes of pestilence, we have. Mother and Daughter Churches alike, our martyrs; martyrs, not impiously canonized b;; man, I • When these words were written, the writer was not aware of certain belligerent acts attributed to Bishop Mackenzie. Even now, his inforDtation i» too scanty to enable him to form an opin- ion upon them. k J. » H. A but held iu loting rcuicmbrance upon eartb, and written, wo believe, in the Lamb's Book of LiCc ; martyrs, whose mortal remains, earth and sen, over all the globe, hold treasured for tho resurrection ; martyrs, as much as if they had yielded up their soula, when lloman amphitheatres rang with tho cry ChrUtianos adkonem. But, how comes it that less than tho last fifty years have seen a work, still going on to its accomplishment, which two hundred and fifty previous years did not see ? Wo recur to the facts, that, for tho first century and a half of this last named period, our Church, " with one of " her " hands wrought in tho work, and with tho other held a weapon," and that tho nest century, though certainly, the «vil ha- often beea greatly exaggerated, was one of comparative spiritual apathy. Still, all this only accounts for the lack of performance in the earlier period, not for the achievements of the latter. For these, they aro, first of all, to be devoutly attributed to the spiritual unction of tho Holy Ghost, shed on the Church " abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour," and giving her "a right judgment." Here is +hoir source and spring of life. But, when from this lofty height, we descend to the ordinary level of human activities and agencies, we find, I think, threo things which the Church has learned, and ia learning which she has been set forward in her great work for . human souls. First, she has learned to go alone, and not to wait on the slow movements, the tardy aid, the often jealous co-operatioa of earthly powers. She has not learned, while she holds to the Scripture teaching she never can learn, to despise, or to refuse obedience to " the powers that be, which are ordained of God," " which they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." But she has learned — your Sister Church was compelled to learn it, Brethren, somewhat earlier than you— I 10 that her best support, under God, is in the affection and co- operation of her laity, her surest and n'^blest endowments, in their open hearts and hands. Secondly, the Episcopate has been set at its proper work, and therefore, put in its true position. Not many years ago, it was said of one who was called to the office of a Bishop, that " a mitre, the reward of a long course of usefulness, secured, to him a dignified leisure, ere ho was yet in the vale of years." Such words grate on our ears now, and we can hardly imagine how they could be written. Yet, few, at the time, probably, saw any thing stranjro in them. God forbid that the day should ever return, when, in any part of our communion, the Episcopate could be described as a position of *' dignified leisure !" Thirdly, it has been found, that the aggressive missionary work is not to be accomjjlished by tlie mere parochial organi- sation. Souls must be gathered before they can be kept. The well-manncil fortress holds the conquered territory, but the moving arniy wins the territory to be held. And so, at last, we are learning to send the aggressive missionary army first, and after it the pastor ; just as Paul and Barnabas first preached the word in the cities of Asia Minor, and then, re- turnih;.r, "ordained them elders in every Church." The lesson is not fully learned, nor fully put in practice ; but the Church is learning it. In .these ways and by these agencies, under " the mighty power of the Holy Gliost," thib great missionary work, whose triumphs irradiate the later portion of the last half century, has been carried oa. So bo it still! So, let the only strife between the Mother and the Daughter Churches, or of the Daughter Churches with each other, be the bloodless strife of winning souls for Christ, and extending the empire of the cross. Let us all feel Brethren — it will lift us up to noble purpose and rc:il achiovment if we do— that it is not when the Church has f'anost coftbrs and moat abundant revenues, when the world most smiles upon her, when her ritual is most majestic, and her claims most lofty, and her power seems at its heip;ht, that she is most surely doing her Lo.d's work in the world. She most truly answers her Divine commission, when she goes into the dark places of the earth, bearin"- thither the Gospel's light; when poor, if so God please, in earthly treasure, ahc is rich in Heavenly grace ; when she claims only her spiritual power, and, therefore, has all that she should have ; when, like her Lord, she comes down to tho poor and dcs-" 'od ones of this world. It is then, that, in a spiritual sense, higher even than the literal, '•' the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead arc raised up and"' — crowning the whole— " ihe poor have tho gospel preached to them." Then, the ^ Church is not an abstraction, but a living thing ; humble, it may bo, in the eyes of men, but r|uccnly and majestic in the eyes of God. Then, the Holy Ghost, poured out upon the souls of the believers, bears up the Church to God, and brings His grace to her ; and '■ the King's daughter, all glorious within," walks bcPore men " in clothing of wrought gold." God grant, that such as tliis, that Church, of which we all are members, may ever be ! Again, within the last half century, God has graciously enabled our Reformed Churfh, to witness for the " Faith, once for all, given to the saints." And this, as a proof of the abiding presence of that Spirit, which, alone, guides ''into all truth," is, also, proof of living union with the liv- ing Head. It is, indeed, no just ground of reproach against a Church, if errors assail it. " There must be also heresies among you," says St. Paul, "that they which are approved, may bo mad3 manifest" ; must be, as a Father explains it, 12 not because of God's ordinance, but because of men's perver- sity. It is a reproach, however, if si:ch errors are not thrown off, as a Iiealthy body throws off disease, but arc allowed to pervade and infect the Church. We can feel. Brethren, that we liave seen our Church giv- ing this very test of life. The days are not remote, when the attempt was made, to prove, by as subtle a dialectic process as human intellect everi, worked out, that, the vast congeries of mediicval corruptions of the Faith, were only true and living developments of germs of doctrine given by Christ and His Apostles. "What was the result? Liturgy, and Symbol, and Article held the Faith " undeliled," and the wound designed to be so deadlv, healed, with scarce the remnant of a scar. And now, we are going through another struggle to keep the same Faith "whole", and to defend it against those who would destroy it. For that is the real issue. When the miracles of our Lord and His Resurrection are rejected; when, instead of the one " sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satis- faction," we have a theory^ about forgiveness ; when, instead of the fallen child of Adam renewed by the Holy Ghost, we have presented to us " the colossal man" ; then, it is not, merely, that the form of the Faith is changed, nor, yet, that it is looked on from another than the ordinary point of view ; its very frame work ie broken up, and it all lies in shapeless, hopeless ruin. And what ia this attack, parrot like imita- tion,-'^ as it is, of German infidelity, accomplishing? Noth- ing. Those not of our communion have ^'^clarcd, that, the Church of England respondent to the challangc made two years ago, has answered the challenge, by the pens of her truest and most accomplished sons, and that her answer is Bufficient.f Nor is this our only safe-guard. These rational • So ileuKStenberg calls it. I North I^ritish Review for April 1862. ising speculations— it has been so from the days of Origen— are wrou2,bt out by those, whose connexion with the daily needs of human souls, if it exists at all, is slight. The living, working pastor, who takes living care of souls, brushes away these cobwebs, at every step. These " Idob of the Den" vanish, when they are confronted with the confessions and the wrestlings of penitent sinners, or the agonies or joys of dying men ; and they leave, in all its fulness of strength and beauty, the truth they have obscured ; affording an awful com- mentary on the Saviour's, words, " I thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." In these two most vital matters, then, in the proclamation of the Gospel and the extension of Christ's Kingdom, and in the maintenance of the Faith " whole and undefiled," we may feel, I think, that God has been, " with us, as He was with our Fathers." Full, indeed, of comfort is this brief retrospect of fifty years ; though there must go with it the acknowledgment of much shortcoming, the conviction, that with more faith and more zeal, far greater triumphs might have been achieved. The service and the place separate my words from any ordinary phrase of compliment, when I say, that in all which has been accomplished, that ministry, for the lengthened usefulness and good example of which we give thanks to God, to-day, has borne a part that will not be for- gotten. And now, Brethren, shall wc venture to look forward to the coming half century ? Few of us will see the anniversary which shall close it. Some, perhaps, who are now in the " dew of their youth," may see it, and may jcall the memory of this day. But, for most of us, our stewardship will have long been ended, and wc shall bo waiting the awards of the 14 great day of doom. Yet, others will have been baptised into our places, as we have been baptised for the dead who have gone before us, and the same great work will still be going on ; going on, while there is ono heathen to be enlightened, one si-iner to be converted, ono disciple to bo trained ; goint^ on, while there is error to be combated and truth to %q maintained. Under what conditions, or devebpments of the world's history, this work is to be done, we do not know, nor need we care to ask. The bonds that bind the Church of God in one, the presence of the Holy Ghost, the Apostles' Doctrine, and Fellowship, the Breaking of Bread, and the Prayers, are far above the changes and chances of this world's progress. They live in regions higher than the highest level of earthly interests and purposes ; and they enable the Churcli— if so she will— to be a peacemaker and a healer among the nations. Moreover, Brethren, as I look on, along that future, I cannot but feel that oppo'-tunitics and duties may be in store for our Church, which are alike cheering and awful to contemplate. Many years ago, it was said by a devoted adherent of the Pa- pacy,* that '• if ever Christians should re-unite," it would seem *•' that the movement must take its rise" in the Anglican Com- munion ; that being, as ic were, " one of those chemical media which are capable of producing a union between ele- ments, in themselves dissociable;" audit has occurred to more than one thoughtful mind in our day, that if ever this reunion — the fulfilmotit of the Saviour's latest prayer — shall come, it must be on the basis of Polity, Piitual, and Doctrine, on which Christians stood before diversities grew up ; just, as in the prismatic spectrum, the various colors all blend where their di- vergence began, in the ray of white uncolored light. 0, then, if it might be that God was purposing to make our Reforoied • Th3 Count de Mai.sti \' . 15 Church, holding the primitive ways, and, yet, adapting them to the necessities of the ages and the generations, the '' pre- paring type for the Churcli of the latter days !" Is it a dream to hope it ? At least, let us remember, it will not make us dream-r.^ to live, and labour, and pray, as it it were, indeed, to be so. For if we will thus live, and labor, and pray, then those who come after us, shall, indeed, " rise up and call us blessed." Then, as time advances, and the har- vest ripens, and the world and the ':;hurch are made ready for their several consummations, they may say, as we can say to- day, " We have hoard with our ears, God ! our fathers have told us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them." ■ I ^ SKETCH OF PROCEEDINGS AT TUB CELEBRATION OF TUE FT FT IE Til ANMYRCSARY OF T'lK ADMISSION TO HOLY OIlDEilS OF TUB LORD BISHOP OF QUEBEC, aKI} AUmviDIj jloo»i JUBILl^i' CELEBKATIOX. i i ■« U. At the Diocesan SynoJ helil on 1st of July, tlio follovang llesolution was earned by acchanatioa, all the 3Ioiubers of the Synod rifting up and remaining standint,', while the Bishop, with much emotion, expressed his grateful scuto of the kind feeling, and allectionate attachment involved in the resolution and the manner of its adoption. " Moved by Mr. W. G. Wurtcle, seconded by Rev. J. W. Williams. " That a Comraitteo be appointed consisting of Rev. Rural Dean Milne, and the Rev. E. W. Sewell, Messrs, II. S. Scott, J. B. Forsyth, wiih tlie mover and seconder, to prepare aa address of congratulation to bo presented on behalf cf the Synod to the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, on 2nd August next, being the day on which his Lordship will (D.V.) com- plete the fiftieth year of his ministry, and that on that occa- sion as many of tlio Clergy and Lay Delegates as can con- veniently attend, do make it a duty to be present, and further that Divine Service be celebrated in the Cathedral Church, with the administration of the Holy Communion, and that a Sermon be preached on the morning of that day, and that the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D. D., Assistant Bishop of Connecticut, be rec^uested to preach on the occasion." In accord.HiCO with the above resolution, on Saturdav, 2nd August, ]S<32, tlio members of the Church of England in thid Diocese, celebrated the i'liUeth Anniversary of the admission to the sacred iiini&try of their venerable and beloved Bishop. 50 rarlriir tlie linlf century tlironi;1i wliich Uh LorJ^^liip h.'is l;..Loii:c'.l it) f'!.- luliiliii.'iit of Iii.s f;nluou.s <1i;ti;'s, ho has not tli)ct voice the fallow- ing .— ' i ' ' ADDRESS. ■ To the P.ijlt r.evcrcndF.'on cnnllrmer], have received tho Lord's Supper, nt your hands; and many of m of the Clofiiy have been admitted into tho sacred Ministry of the Chureli by your Lordsliip; words must tiioroforo fail ade quitely to convey all that is in our hearts this day. Of your diligent 1 ibors as a Turish I'riest at Frederick ton and at Quebec, of tho privations and trials cheorlully borne by yourLord.ship in your many and arduous missionary journies, extending from lied Tuver to Ga.«pe, both belltro and since your elevation to the Episcopate, and at a time when, from the absence of the facilities now I'lijoyod, travelling involved hard- ships and dingers of no ordinary Kind, wo cm, iiiany of us, Fpealc only from the grateful reports of others. Their ujemory, however, still 11 res, and will ever remain to the Church the itnconscious legacy of a devoted missionary, willing to f-pend, nnd be spent in the service of his Lord. For more than luilf tho term of your niini.strv. your Lord- ship has di.^eharaeu the duti.s of a Bishej) in tlio Cuuroh of Cod, how fj.it!, fully and lu.w devotedly is kuov.-n to all. For !-^eve:al years, sust.,iiied by indeiutigablo energy and unflagging zeal, your Lord-I,ip was the Difrhop of a Diocese stretching from Lake Huron to the Atlantic; and now when liappily, that vast diocc>o lias been subdivided into five, each of dimensions sufllciontly an;p!e to task the energies of a bishop of its own, we cannot but congratulate ourselves that our lot has been cast in that [oilion of it which still remains under your Lordship's personal supervision. We trust that it nny be neither presumptuous in us nor unwelcome to your Lordsliip. if now, when about to meet together in the House of God, and to partake in faith and love of the Holy Eucharist, we first gladden our hearts with » 22 brief and scanty rotioj'pect of some of the many blos.sinys wliich t!io i;rcat head of tlio Ciiurch liaa vouehf^arcd to t\ih Dioce&o during your cpi::Copatc. Inadequate as arc, in number, tlio Clorjry in this portiou of tlio JiOrd'.s vineyard, .still would Avo lift up our hearts iu aoleum thanksgiving when wo rclioct that not a fuw of tho poorest and most remote Ecttlenients in this Province arc this day chc(Tcd and ble?sed with the ministrations of our beloved Church. 3Iay God, by Ili.s ITcly Splrlf, enable U3, one and all, clergy as well as laity, to render for tho time to come a truer and more active obedienea to ouv Crucifad and Ivisen Re- deemer, and to be more self-denying in our labors ou behalf of our brethren for whom he died ! Ample provh'eion has been made for the maintenance of a Bucoessor in the See. The Clergy lleservc Fund forms a nucleus for the endow- ment of the Diocei-e. Ten separate ondov/mcnts have been established, and aro steadily increasing, and to these live others will be added iu (he course of the present year= The management of the llnancial affairs of the llural Mis- eions has been recently conlided to a Board, under the direc- tion of the Diocesan, a measure from which we auiici'jate tho bapf'icst results. Tho University of Bi^liop's College, founded and endowed chiefly by your Lordtihip's exertions, has now been for seventeen years in successful operation. During this period tho College has sent forth forty-five Clergymen, to labor cither iu this or some other Diocese of the Province. For twenty-one years the Incorporated Church Society baa fonfprred incalculable benefits upon tho Diocese. ^^< 2d ^^< Tli* sagacit r wLich moved your Lordship so anxiouilj tor desire and so strenuously to promote the inaujijuration of Syuo- dical notion, lias bctm evinced ])j the succcs!» which has al- ready attended the periodical meetings of our Diocesan Synod. When wo look around and see the increasing brotiierly love and Christain toleration prevailing amongst us, truly would we take up the I'rialmisfs word^, and say with him : — ' How pleasant and joyful a tiling it h for brethren to dwell toge- ther in unity.' And it i;^ the heartfelt conviction of tho.iC who now address y(mr Lordship that fur this real unity, peace, and concord, we arc mainly indebted to the gentle wisdom, and the holy ex- ample of our bolovod Bishop. On the courteous and Christian suavity which so eminently distinguishes your Lordship, on your scholarly attainments and tlicological learning, of which we are justly proud ; on the depth and delicacy of your kindness; on the single- mindedness with which you discharge the grave duties of your office, wo vrould willingly enlarge, but for reasons which cannot and will not be niisunderstood, we forbear. That you may live long in the enjoyment of that intellec- tual vigor and bodily activity which you continue to mani- fest ; that we may for many years yet to come reap the fruits of the wisdom of your counsels, of the excellence of your ex- ample, and of the paternal gentleness of your government, is, we beg once move to assure you, liight Reverend Father in God, the heartfelt, unanimous prayer of the Church in your Diocese. Quebec, August 2, 1862. On behalf of the Committee of Synod. Chas. Hamilton, M. A., W. G. Wurtele, Clerical Secy, of Synod. Chairiaan/ 3. Bell Foesytii, Lay Secretary. I To which His Lordship returned the following llEPLY. " The Address which h:is just been re;ul to mo from my dear brethren of the Cl',>r:;y and h\Uy oftliis DIucose, cmnot possi- bly be otherwise than acceptable to my feelings ; and what is especially grateful to me and precious in my estimation is the afleetionate tone by whicii it is marke.l. The only drawback from Its value, is the consciousnesjj, on my own part (a com- mon thing perhaps to say, but it is said miw, in the utmost sincere conviction) of the manner in which your goodwill towards me has prompted you to overcharge the picture both of my labors and of my qualiiications. I an) almost sorry f.r the elfect, but I cannot i[a irr .■! with the c la-e. It i-^ comfort- ing to me more tli m tongue eiti tell or pjn d-'-ciibe, to re- ceive the assuran;;:! that my Mi.iistty in the G.ispel of Our Lord Jesus Clii'ist, his, by the L)K's.si;i.: of Ilim who -ivo:h the increase, bejn pr:tduc';ivc to w!::itevor c::to.:it, of thoso fruits which constitute the end and obj.o' of the pastoral charge in its diiTorent grades. In my own rctnispeet of my Ministry, if I may venture perhaps to hope that I have re- ceived mercy to be faithful, and if thus I have enjoyed aa exalted privilege, yet I cannot fail to bo touched by u hum- bling sense of multiplied failures and deficicDcies, and thence to need all the encouragement which juay be afforded to me. I thank you then, from my heart for the cheering effect of your present address ; and I trust it will help to stimulate me, in the small remainder of my days upon earth, to a closer and closer preparation for the night which cometh, wdacn no man can work. It is a happy thought that so many kind members of the Church, Lay as well as Clerical, have given their tim?, their counsel, and their constantly active help, in establishing and advancing thoso undertakings and institutions of the Diocese, to which referenco is made in your address. \[ >v 25 ,MoM^^^^ T,e Anthe. for the occasion ftoo.P.ata LI -,9, ion. r t;r:;o;a:i « sohoo, Mi^e. bury, Connecticut. .HofoUowin,Hy,n.wasthensungin.hichtheCon«re. gation heartily joined. When all Thy mercies, my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view,! m lost lu wonder, love, and praise. Unnumber'd comfo^^s^^ .^ Boul Thv tender care bestow d, T^pfore mv infant heart conceivd ^tromwbom those comforts flow d. When in the slipp'ry paths of youth With heedless steps I ran, Thine arm unseen convey d me sate, And led me up to man. When worn by sickness, oft ha^^ With health rencw'd my face , And when in sin and sorrow sunk, Eeviv'd my soul with grace. Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; No'?!, theW a cheejMJ.e^^^^^ That tastes ihyse g"vs -ij 27 s. an al. LI. ite- by aie- igrc- Through cv'ry period of my life, Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death in distant worlds The glorioufj theme renew. Through all eternity to Thee, A joyful song I'll raise ; But 0, eternity's too short To utter all Thy praise. After the Sermon the 31st Hymn was sung. Come, Holy Ghost ! our souls inspire And lighten with celestial fire ! ' Thou the Anointing Spirit art, Who dost Thy sevenfold gifts impart. Thy blessed unction from above Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The darkness of our bounded sight ; Anoint our heart, and cheer our face. With the abundance of thy grace ; Keep far our foes ; give peace at home,— Where thou art Guide, no ill can come. Teach us to know the Father, Son, And Thee of both, to be but one ; ' That through the ages all along ' This theme may form our endless son"- : Praise be to Thine eternal merit, ° O Father, Son, ?ind Holy Spirit ! Th3 Rev. J. H. NicoUs, D. D., read the Offertory Sentences and a Collection was taken up on behalf of " the Mountain Jubilee Scholarship." The Holy Communion was administered to a large body of the Clergy and Laity, the Bishop of Quebec being the celebrant— He was assisted in the distribution of the elements by the Assistant Bishop of Connecticut, the llev. H. DeKoven, and the Ilevds. Rural Dean Wood, M. A., G. V. Housman' M. A., and J. H. Nicolls, 1). D., Chaplains to the lord 28 Bishop of Qucboc. The Bcncdiotion by tho Bishop of Quebec closed this most interesting service. The following is the list of the Clergy who were present. Of the Diocese of Quebec. Rp.v.W. A.Ai.AMSOx.D.D.D.C.L, Rrv. E. (;. Parkin, " (}. V. HOUSMA.V, il. A. « C. ITamiltox, 1\[. a. " K. J. I'ETUY, 15. A. " 1\. fr. FlKES, " D. IlOUERT.-ON', " H. ItoE, JJ. A. " E. W. Skwei.l, " C. Fox, B. A. " E. Shout, " J. Svkes, " W. S. YlAL, " J. W. Williams, II " S. S. Wood, M. A. <' A. J. WOOLUYCIIE, II " n. a. w^v^!I), " L. ('. AVuRTELK, r.. A. " A. AiJ.EX, M. A. Yi. M. FoTlIEIUilLL, " A. Balfoui!, " J. 11. .TP.X1CIX^!, B. A. " \V. Kixfi, " (I. J. Magii,!,, B. A. " W. C. Meriucx, B. a. " 11. ^riTCUELf., " .1. n. NicoLLS, D. D. " W. KicHMOxu, B. A. " (:. Roberts, '' V. A. Smith. Eev. E. Hatch, M. A., Rector of the High School, Quebec. Oe other Dioceses. Rev. Caxox Thompson, M. A., Assistant IMinister ov tho Cathcdnil, IVIontreal. Rev. Henry Hope, Eov. T. r. RoDAKTS, Assistant Minister, St. Catherine's, Dioceso of Toronto. Rev. H. DeKovek, M. A, I'rofe.ssor, Berkeley Divinity School, Middlebury, Diocese of Connecticut. At the close of the Service the Lord Bishop of Quebec was attended by a large nur.ibor of the clergy and congre- gation to the Finlay Asylum, on the St. Foy Eoad, when that institution, then recently finished, was formally ope^ied with a special service and an address by his Lordship. The ceremony had been purposely deferred until this auspicious day. In connection with the celebration the following circular had previously been issued. " Quebec, 24th Jidy, 18G2. " Deau Sir.— It is proposed to mark in perpetuity, the full completion of our venerable Bishop's service of half a century ■^•1% i I I I ' I f 29 ill tlic Christian Ministry, by establishing a Scholarship or » Prize, in the T.^niversity of Bishop's College, Lonnoxville, to bo called, the "'Mountain Jubilee Scholarship" or " Prize," as the case may bo. A sum of 81000 wouhl endow a Fcholarship with $80 a year. A sum of 8r)00 would yield a revenue of 840, which might be spent on a medal or on books, to be given annually as a prize. If the sum (of $1000) necessary to establish the scholarship be raised, it is proposed that the scholarship should be open to all candidates for Holy Orders, and tenable for three years. If the sum of 8rj00 only be raised, it is proposed that the prize shall be given to the Divinity student who affords most satisfiiction to the Examiners in Elocution,— the reading of a chapter in the Bible, and of a portion of the Liturgy, being included in the cxiunination. The suggestion that the completion of the 50th year of our Bishop's service in the Christian 3Iinistry, should be marked in some enduring manner, in addition to the formal presenta- tion of an address from the Synod, and the solemn services to be held in the Cathedral on the Anniversary itself, has pro- ceeded from so many quarters that the proposal is certain to recommend itself strongly to every member of the Church. Your co-operation is invited in making this proposal known in your neighbourhood. In order to afford an opportunity to every member of the Church to join in this work, it should be understood that the smallest contributijns will be admitted. In order that the proposal may become a ftict before 2nd Au'^nst, it is evident there is no time to be lost in forwarding contributions. Om hope that others would have undertaken this matter so must be our apology for the short notice which IS now given and our unwillingness that such an excellent suggestion, pro- ceeding simultaneously from so many, should not be carried into execution, our defence for putting ourselves forward. Your obedient and humble servants, JAS. BELL FORSYTH, C. N. MONTIZAMBERT, A. J. WOOLRYCHE, C. HAMILTON, HENRY ROE. Contributions may bo sent to C. N. Montizambert, Esq., Quebec." In answer to the above appeal the sum of $950 was at once cheerfully subscribed, and many friends from abroad have promised donations, which, when received, will swell the amount considerably beyond the sum mentioned in the Circular. W, G. W. Quebec, August 30, 18G2.