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 **Wliatito«y«r wum writtvii nrorvtiiiiit, 
 writtuii fur our lenriiiiif(." Itom. xv., 4. 
 ■ 'I'lii! volume of tliu l>ouk of CoUh iniinl ia 
 (■fiiiHtaiitly unrolling itMvlf, luiil poiiiliu^' to liy- 
 j^oiiu vVuiitH, tiH II li-HMoii, uikI illiiMtriitioii of 
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 rccMnln of Oud'h luUit iKmIIiij^m witli fliu 
 . < 'liurvh and pfoplfj tinuw nom; fuller of tfiu-li< 
 iiig tlinn tlint.tti wliiiii I am uskin^ your iition- 
 tion. 'I'lmru hc-i-uim to uia ti Htriking tuiiilot;y 
 lietwviin tliu uvitntH of that <liiy iu iHraul, ami 
 tliix day in tliu fHoci'Huof Huron. 
 
 Tlivu tliu Head wan removid fn.ni tlio Hody 
 of the I'roiiVtH^ antl a4'liur«li niourm-tl hJH ali- 
 tj^l^'' A faithful aervant was honourud l>y 
 ■HWation from tlic hvHiw of liiK lahourM unil 
 trf jttft, and callod to rent. 
 
 It iH oven MO now. For, tliouah ino "thaiiot 
 of liru aiul horHCH of lire," in tuMrimony of Iliit 
 Master' H anprohation, are Bent to carry our 
 late revcrod Head to hiii'homc, yvt, the j»rin- 
 ciploH of luM faith, *'tlu! man and biH comniuni- 
 cationn" for many a long day, aru proof to u« 
 clear as eye-niylit, that "an ftlu'uidant en- 
 traucc* haH been administered" tu lienjamin 
 Huron 'tinto'theoverlaMtinL' KiuL;(him of Cod's 
 dear Son !" 
 
 As than, ao now, "groat s^arehings- «>f 
 heart"' |iruvail among thoso who love (Sod'a 
 causo above all other, aa to the future. It 
 was a dark day in Israel when the Miutterwas 
 taken away from the hcotlship of the (Jhurc-h. 
 The Church was not so with O04I, tiH\ (irMl's 
 ' cauau demanded. The world was" il 
 Churob. Idolatry reigned in high ]i]ac'es 
 . Kings aiidqueena bad forgotten their eonim 
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 thu |M!0|iia l«v«l t« lia%»i it »» '.". 
 
 Only (:hsiis« immiim, «li»t«ii niul i»liur««, wul 
 tint liintiiry ol thrtt «lay i« tlu) liiNtovy of thl* 
 
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 (imr.li ill thiK UikI " " »""' «««ily i«>»' ••vfl 
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 Imvo iipiMftrtMl to tlio Cliunhftt o tiMm wlitii 
 the <|Uftliti«iili«'H'« o( tlui «««!«! iimiii.f <i.MlHtti«- 
 ihI no u.!t).loa for tlio i»oi*co niiil iirotpwrity of 
 tiK) tiiiirch, wlmn hin hmfT'trioil exiMiv^iico 
 w. mill tuiuh, mid liin wnightof chai»ct«reii- 
 (oriTo hiH ti-achiny. ■ \ 
 
 <;«KrH wayn wurenot, nm not tt« »iftn h.wiU, 
 thorufore, ho Kavci not, j,''^'*^*'' ""^ ft<««>untM of 
 hiM inuttom thin, nor of tho ni.ittur now, ovor 
 which wo mourni w they ili«l ! 
 
 He hiiU u» rout in hin love for iim, iiml tlio ^ 
 eiHue wo hrtvt! at heart ! l»« witiHtieil witlt hi»t ' 
 aiH|.eii>tftlioi>» ! •'Whntthou knowoHt not now, 
 thuu tthiilt know Jieroafter !" 
 
 My piiritoiio in to ilraw your iitteiitioii to tho 
 ohiit |.«int» of thin hintory. an.l ^M>|»ly them to 
 our iireHont i-ireuuiHtaiiei-^' 
 
 'liire*! i»artien are introiliieeil to our notu« : 
 The OKI I'rolihot; hi« HueteMHor; the Honn of 
 the I'rophetM, tlw traiiieil KvanKelintH, wlio, 
 thereafter, were to i»reaili, anil teftch, tho 
 wonln of tho I'rophetH. . . . 
 
 iiio hritt in Heeii full *f years, weaned and 
 eiire-worn, anil heart-ntriekeii, alone, iu th« 
 niiilst of fricnilH, craving the |iroiniMe(l reHt,^ 
 taking hi» last niiniitteriaT journey, aH he viHitr 
 thttMchool at tho Jordan, at Both«l, ot Jericho, 
 uiving oaeh hi« parting charge. 
 
 Next, the faithfuJ and attached Kcrvant, 
 young and strong, and eager for Ood'b work, 
 undaunted by dit!icultie8, and only waiting 
 i;od'« time, to do i;od'8 bidding. ., 
 
 * And, laat, the young moii, whoso cye« the 
 Lord htw ni>eiie«l to boo both worlda in their 
 tmo light, and whoso hearts ho has inelineil to 
 chooBO tho lietter part, and Ui^hur work 
 of tho ministry, now fitting for their work. 
 
 A short time since, a countoii)ait to this 
 pietnre might have been soon in our midst, 
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 lltirw in a IwKiiminK full of hrtpt., aimI th.urul 
 (!oiiiuH,_niiit no oiii- in diHH|.|io1iit.il. it wam 
 with hiiii, nit it' wiw, una tv.r uill Ik-. "||o 
 tliutK'Hth fiMth. nii.l wtejH^tli. l.«miiiK im«. 
 •■1..IIH Hind. mIiuII, ilonl.tliWN, ,/i»».e HKiiiii, HiiiiK- 
 lU;:,' liiN Mlu{n..H Hitli liiin ! " And tw, jift^r a 
 iiiiuiHtry of iiurtc thin »*ixty yimrH, tui Klimlin 
 I'liwoM his i1«y, lid canvurkuii lip twico ft»u».atlf 
 liiira.;l.« wrought hy iiii. Iiivn.l.^; Ii:i<l lucii inor»^ 
 • oiiHtHiitly miK.iiJJ hJM |iro|iiiv tliaii hin pro.l.roH- 
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 Tlif iiiiintlt.' ijf tin; I'rt.f.htt, iim In- .ui.'.imU, 
 ciiiiiinj,' tioMii t)ii )ii<t niit;ci-MMor, im irMij^it ♦»! Ihh 
 iMfiiig JitMl'H trhtwuf. With tlijit iimiitio 1... 
 wrought luH first luirftik-. "Whore iit llm 
 l.«)ril (iotl of I'liijah ?" uritl itu thu Ninittutt Wii- 
 ttirK purtml liitliVr tuitl thither, thty mtintnl " 
 tti »:iy, "He in hen-, atill with theti; th.-iijih 
 Wijiih ho iu)t horc, thu Cotl of lllijali i» !' 
 
 -To tiny t^ur i!hiirehuH inoiifii, but not nn 
 thoHO withtiut hojio. Wo weop over tmr Iohm, 
 tivor liiuii wilt., Kfter yeara «l hikfil Ktirvito, 
 'whilntthiH country wn« forty yo.u-M younger 
 thnn il ia to dny, hna f©il>;ht tho li^ht, iuhI 
 kc'pt thu fikith, iinti linisheilhiii rour«o;«ntl yot 
 ourtuara may w»ll ItuHtftumhetl. 
 
 The (;od of our latu Itiahop im here, with tho. 
 DiotJfHe liu HM lovotl, thuugh hu ia taUun from 
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 And, a thou^jht fnll of cohifort it ia, tlru pro- 
 (diintiua which Jiavu gt>uu l.cforii of Imh hutiutt- 
 Hor. foretell .1 future, at the hia«tUi|Hally lion- 
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 ishod hiH uartlily niiliistry to enter uii his 
 heavenly uiiiiiatratious. 
 
 It will be well for'ua to rcmomber it is not 
 the office, but the official, it is the Bishop, and 
 nut thu Bishopric, that is to be a blessing in 
 his day," o^^therwisc. Our Bishop will be tu 
 us wliat (rod makes him ; and, for the most 
 jpart, God .the Spirit wlll.inake him what wo 
 oak iiim to make him. " The Bishop's "heart 
 isin the Lord's hands." (See Hos. x., 13.) ' 
 
 If this Diocese will that our newly api>oint- 
 ed Shepherd shall bo all' that our Chief Shep- 
 herd would have him to be, all that His Spirit 
 can make him to be, he will be so. Our re- 
 solv;e will place hiniy in faith and prayer, in . 
 His hailds^^y^io has the power to lit the in- 
 strument for lTt»'>'Wark, and so keep Jiimin 
 working, as to make hi8""Wovk.a.suticess.. .,. ..i'^ 
 
 We risk much of what we might have^ much 
 '"'^f what, as a diocese,' we might enjoy, by forr 
 getting thai his duties iluid obIigati<Ais, and 
 ours, are reciprocal, and to be mutually dis- 
 chiirged. If ho is hca«l,"''we are members of 
 the b<idy? If it be his to guide, it is ours to 
 follow. If his oiiice be a loving ciire, our care 
 is to sympathise with him. His office is in^ 
 deed, a burthen, and our high privilege and 
 bounden duty it is to bear the burthen, with 
 him ! 
 
 Let our Bishop confidingly 6ast himself on 
 the sympathies of his diocese, and let not One 
 of his diocese ever meet him otherwise than in 
 . like spirit. I ask you always have this ques- 
 tion before you : Is he, where he is, for nim- 
 selfj or f<or us ? For us, doubtless, if we un- 
 derstand aright the mind of God, and the 
 teaching of our Church. 
 
 The Church: of this Diocese, like tbeX'hurch 
 in Israel, had pre-intimations of what are now 
 ■ ■ events.. 
 
 WSi as they, found profit by obeying the 
 Divine sugcestion. Then and now the Church 
 has verified God's word by Amos, HI. 7,— 
 "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but 
 He revealeth His secret unto His servants 
 the prophete." 
 
 Scripture warrants me in saying that events, 
 however strange and sudden, would never sur- 
 
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 W of l>rophecy.-'^I.ioh lcad« ua oTe in! 
 ready for aiiy event. "^ un 
 
 _^We close onr eye. as the light of the Si.irit 
 edfoVn^rrtlM''*."'"?' "^"'lare "Htlypuniah- 
 
 duty. l>oth waiting for what each kniw wai 
 at hand, wheu (Ipd'a niinistuiing spirits cZI 
 i re^'W'!^''"^'" ««Vhariot8 of fire^Jd hor«rof 
 iire and separated the master and his ser- 
 
 rnTH.l"*rr^."iu?'"'*° »»i« work, whilst tak- 
 ing the other to his wages. 
 
 •^ The path of duty is the path of safety ; may 
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 Wisha-H exolamati«»n, My Fath*r f My 
 rather ! oxprosses a «tr»i,g soime of losn.asif it 
 were u-rpperable, bnt cutoring at once on his 
 
 Zf^-^ T'"^?"*''' "" '^ l'"«'>*r master at the 
 hrst dirticulty, he tests the lo-esence of (Jod, 
 VVhereisthe I^rd God of Elijah >" and at 
 <«.ae the God of Elijah stands forth astheGml 
 or J*ilisha. 
 
 ^ Join with iiie in earnest prayer, that what 
 Eh ah 8 mantle wa« to Elisha, the vacant chair 
 
 of Jienjaimn (Jrouyn nmybe toisaac Hollmuth 
 an ever-preserit proof of God's choice; that 
 though the lo^wa. cast by the hand of man, 
 the dispoMl thereof was the finger of God 
 XVI. Prov, 33. ■ 
 
 The office of a Bishoj) in the Churdi ef God 
 18 what an Angel might covet, and who i» 
 sufficient for It. God might have delegated 
 an Archaijffel to the charge, anil he would 
 have failed if unsupported by the God of all 
 grace. 
 
 In our regard for the office we are apt to 
 forget that Bishops are men and not (^od 
 Ik'sh and not spirit j that the treasure is in 
 earthen vessels, and that these Tessels of 
 earth are of very ditferent form and quality- 
 some more and some less, mixed with the 
 more precious metals, ami yet, if they Imj ves- 
 sels htte.! for and used in the master-service 
 
 
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 iiicaiia to eouvcy hleFsiiigs to thu Churuli .froui 
 the i'ountain of all good. 
 
 liihroin him who Butrers hiihaelf to be plactd 
 arf C4<ief I'iwtor oyer ub, we have aright to ex- 
 ^ct ultu^i ; but nut too muclu It is a place 
 Whonour which, it ia,n.(;».t.wxo«g to covet, and 
 y«t he who should ^ilace himself there, by 
 that very act, would prove himaelf unworthy 
 of the place. 
 
 And yet; once there; the ,I)ioceio may not 
 make his a place of thorns and snares, nor yet 
 may the Bishop complain if he find it not a bod 
 of roses. 
 
 For doing God's work the Bishop and his 
 Diocese must be labourers together with God. 
 In seedtime alid harvest, in summer and win- 
 ter, the spirit of Boaz and his Ke^pora — "the 
 Lord be with you" — "the Lord bless theo"— 
 (Ruth ii. 4.) mnst be the mutual prayer each 
 for each other, resjwnsivo expressions of the 
 deepest interest in each other's well-being and 
 success. 
 
 Responsibility is not alone with the Bishop 
 >-the Diocese hsis its duties and responsibili- 
 ties. He is executive, but they are self-legis- 
 lative. Together they make "laws, which it i» 
 his to execute. The Church of the living 
 Grid is personified, not alone, in the Bishop. 
 
 Though he is head, his Diocese is body, 
 heart, hands, and feet. The head would 
 greatly err nhould it say to the body, "I have 
 no need of thee," and the body would equally 
 forget itself, did it say to the Head, "I hftTe 
 no need of thee !" So closel joined 
 together, as they are, no one member 
 can suffer without all suffering with 
 it. The Bishop could not long be ill at 
 ease, but that sooiier or later he would infect 
 his Diocese, and the waning health of the 
 Diocese would, in th6eud, sicken the Bishop. 
 . Seldom, if ever, in the history of the Church 
 of God, was more demanded of our Rulers, 
 than in our day ^id generation. Ours is a 
 day of activities — all is in motion. Events 
 crowd on us, startling events, but which frdm 
 their frequency, cease to startle. If our 
 Branch of the Church is to answer the high 
 
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 imriMjso of itH «lori(iod Ueml. BiRhopR. PrieiitR 
 liii.l l)wM.oii8, aiid tli(! smallest of the Hock 
 co.ain.ttca to tb« d,a,.ge of those u.i.ler she,,! 
 ia '"" ''^ *''" peculiarity of the 
 
 • We nued iio_ .»cw <.iga»ization, but wo rlo 
 m'e«l a new spjiit an.l reiiewe«l enerirv' We 
 are wise to walk_.',, the old paths, Lutwi .nust 
 .emeiiiher that the paths in which o.ip fkher« 
 -wa ked are not iiow a» then, the i-eaceful 
 walks of duty, the calm letieats for th«)uaht- 
 tul_ preperatious for co.niug duties and a 
 holiw, happier state. 
 
 Kvery day nnud collides v.^th mind, thouRht ' 
 with thought, syBtein with avstom, s.. that 
 t hole needs III the .niuistei-wodld he direct 
 the pubho mind, a .inicknes« and self-adai.ia- 
 tion to l;a8.sing thou-ht, ninch-akin to what 
 wo see m the driver of a locomotive. The 
 tlniigt<vbe<lone nmst ii.o done at once, if to 
 be! do.ie mth i»ro/it. It must be done well, if 
 done with advantage. No delay ! no half- 
 heai-tednesa ! . Ko love of ea.so and self-indiil-: 
 gence, and w)ien from any cause wo cannot 
 longer command the qualilicMioiis needed for 
 the place, retirement from ollicc, and coinniit- 
 tal to othe.s duties to which We are no longer 
 atlequate, will best serve our churches' inter, 
 est, juid our o\v.i honour and peace, Jiacofe 
 in a well-ortlured, hard-working church is no^ 
 . for the incumbent, but the iiicumbent is for 
 the place. 
 
 "-It is not, that all on tins acbject hua boeit 
 saiil that could be said, that 1 now draw to a 
 close; but because 1 fear to weary vou by 
 Baying more. •' •' 
 
 iu^H"* ^® "^^^ *" riiake our foregoimr 
 thoughts, purposes and put our i>lan8 into e\" 
 ecution, isthatour Church, from our bishops 
 dt.wiiwards, should be baptised ofthe Spii-it 
 and of Fire! I do not say that some altera- 
 tions might no^ be imiirovemontg, but 1 do 
 say that the greatest improvement Would be 
 more of Christ in the heart and life. For tlu» 
 we need to bepourd out on all "the spirit of 
 I»rayer and supplication.'* For our Wshops 
 that a double p«i.tion «.f the gifts and gr.utes 
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 have core of soiula, thAt tliey may truly pleoHo 
 Him, wh(wo meat it was to do the will of the 
 Father that sent him and finish his work, for 
 the congregntions committed to their charge, 
 that the Lord would daily ad«l saved ones to 
 His Church. 
 
 For this let us pray as individuals, tind as 
 parishes, whenever wn uicct to^fether ia the 
 Church, in the family and intho closet. Let 
 us have for this one day in every week, so 
 that every member of the Diocese, though 
 separate in body, in heart and( in spirit may 
 meet, together, and so claim the firomisei— 
 "Whatsoever two, ite.," xviiiJ Mat., 19, 20. 
 O for a more abiding, more cobivincing sense 
 of obligation to our. Lord and Maeter and only 
 : Saviour— coming f/om a de^r and more 
 thorough knowledge of Him, to whom we owe 
 all we have, and are and ever shall be. He 
 loved us, and Kave Himself for us, that wo 
 might give ourselves to Hun. For us He 
 lived yid died, and revived tuat all should 
 live to hiiJi. 
 
 We need to prove ourse>ve3 his-r-more 
 prayer, more faitli, more patience, more self- 
 dunyin, self-forgetting, seif-devotifm, watvh- 
 iug, waiting— looking for the coming of the 
 day of the Son of G<xl, and tjien though ours 
 be not the chariot of fire, to convey us home, 
 yet, "Absent trom the body, wtf ah"all be pre- * 
 sent with the Lord. " •. 
 
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