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JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CAMBRriXJE, FIRST CLAS- SICAL MASTER OF UPPER CANADA COLLEGE, DO.MESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE LORD BISHOP OF TORONTO, AND INCUMBENT OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, YONOE STREET, TOHONTO. T 11 ONTO: PBINTJBD AT THE DIOCESAN PRESS. M DCCC XLIX. (T ? TO THE CHURCHWARDENS AND CONGREGATION OK 'itrinttii (Cl)uri-I), iltno ^'tr^ct, Zoronta. THIS MEMORIAL OK THEIK LATE UK LOVED PASTOR IS R E S P E C T F i: 1. 1, y I N S C U I n E I> . J I ^VK ALSO UUV.BS TUV UOLV NAME FOK ALL THY SERVANTS PKrAnTEP THIS LIFE IN TUV FAITH AND FKAU ; BESEECHING THEE TO UIVE l,S C.UACE SO TO FOLLOW TlIKi.1 OOOD EXAMPLES, THAT WITH T.IEM. WE MAV HE PARTAKERS OF THV HEAVENLV KINGDOM. GRANT TH,5, O FATHER, FOK JESUS CHRIST'S SAKE, orR ONLY MEDIATOR AND ADVOCATE. AMEN.-/ myer in the LiUimh f"r the Church Miltlant. A A MEMORIAL. 7 i Hi:b. xiii. 7. — ^^ llemcmhcr them which have the rule over you^ icho have spoken unto ijou the word of God : whose Jliith J'ol- loiVf considering the end of their conversation.^* The Apostle, in these words, refers to certain persons who liad been the means of phuitinif tlie Gospel of our Lord Jesus (.'hrist amonycave it. into your character, and life, and practice. The Apostles, as we can see in various places in tlieir • t/c/Safftf. — This word occurs in the New Testament only in 1 Cor, x. 13, and in the text, — a verhal coincidence helping to prove that St. Paul is the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. This, and another which I have observed, viz., lirKTvvayatyi), occurring only in 2 Thess. ii. 1, and Heb. x. 25, may be added to tlie coincidences pointed out by Wordsworth, in his Hulsean Lectures on The Canon of the Scriptures, Lect. ix. p. 231 . ■ dvaOnapovpTf^, studying as an artist would his copy. t 7 1 t t • t« Epistles, f()ro5«a\v tlie danja^cr which the Christian Society wouKl l)c ill, of varyiiij^ from its first Faith, as time rolled on, and its first teachers were removed away. Hut this varying St. Paul, in the chapter from whicli the text is taken, shews wouhl he wron^i^. * Our Lord Jesus Christ,* he says, 'does not change. He is the same, yesterday, to-(hiy, and forever : therefore, His faith. His truth, Ilis word, — the contents of His revelation, — its facts, its doctrines, its institutions, can- not vary and change. Adhere therefore to your Faith,* the Apostle says, 'as you have been taugiit it: take as your sUmdard and copy the Faith as your first Teachers delivered it to you, and believe that it is able to bring you, at the close of your Christian career, to as happy and triumphant an end us that to which, under God, it brought them.' My brethren, you well know why I have chosen this passage of Holy Writ for your contemplation at this time. The bereavement which it has been God's will that you should suffer is of so recent a date, that I have no need to call upon you to remember him who, in the Apostle's sense of the expression, had the rule over you, and who spoke unto you the Word of God. Your minds are full, and ever will be full, of the memory of him, and your hearts are even now bowed down by the heavy blow which has been inflicted upon them. You mourn not alone, my brethren : the void created is painfully felt, and will be more and more felt, throughout the whole of our community. I think there never has been amongst us one who, so young in years, and sojourning for so short a time in our midst, ever obtained so large and distinct a place in the affections and respect of all, as he had done who has just been taken away. By those amongst us who had the earliest opportunity of observing his character, he was quickly perceived to have in him the germs of a rare worth ; that, sprung from an old English stock, he was of the old English stamp — a man of sterling honesty and straightforwardness in word and deed. God had endowed him with a mind of excellent capacity, and a high education ... •! trained and furnished it'. Study, observation, and experience, had added, and were adding, to its stores. His gifts and talents were essentially practical ; ' He received his education (1st) at Edward the Vlth's Grammar School, Brutoii, Som«?rsetshire, (2nd) at the ancient Grammar School of Rugby, at the time niidcr tiie Headniastership of Dr. Arnold, and (3rd) at University College, Oxford, where he took the doCTeeof Bachelor of Arts in 1837. 8 and though he himself would often depreciate his own powers of imagination and fancy, none saw more quickly and enjoyed more truly than he, the beautiful, whether in the physical world, or in the productions of the human mind and human hand, in the world of Art. The excellences of the authors that had become his favorites in the English, and the anlient classic languages, were often dwelt upon and pointed out by him, with a hearty zest. And the truth and wisdom of Shakspeare, — the grace and grandeur of Milton, — the quiet majesty of Hooker, — the music and poetry of Jeremy Taylor, — the statesmanlike phi- losophy of the great Grecian historian, — and the graphic splendors of the Homan, — together with the masculine con- ciseness and thoughtfuiness of the Annalist of the early Imperial period, — each seen>ed, when instanced and cited, with the living voice, by him, to fall upon the ear with a peculiar effectiveness and meaning. His clear and retentive memory made him a well- informed and ready scholar. His sound judgment rapidly singled out from amidst a cloud of words the strong points of a good cause, and the weaknesses of a bad one. And in the numerous questions brought up by the stirring events occur- ring of late years in the Old World, he found a large field where he was fond of exercising this his power of discrimina- tion. He soon grasped the substance of that which was brought before him : the valuable parts of a whole book were speedily assimilated and embodied in lucid order, as a part and parcel of his own thoughts. His capacity for numerical studies, — for historical, geographical, and statistical investi- gations, — would have rendered him in many departments of life, besides that of the public instruction of youth, an able and useful man. Possessed of much self-command, and freedom from the control of mere feeling and passion, the decisions of his well- regulated, well-balanced understanding were always valuable, and not unfrequently applied for. With great strength of will, there was blended in him a child-like simplicity and gentleness, and, at the first glimmering of a just reason and cause, a readiness to yield to the views and word of another. His energy and determination, arising alike from his natural temperament, and from his confidence in the principles on which he acted, infused a portion of themselves into those that came into contact with him ; and in many an instance, at 4 9 \ t 5 i i\ J, I critical moments, helped to steady, uphold, and encourage, iti the path of duty, others less happily constituted than iiiinself. Ti>ese distiui^uished endowments he devoted to the cause of Education, and to the public service of the Chuicli. In both departments of exertion, what he took in hand, he did well, and executed eiirnestly, without noise or |)arade. As an Instructor of youth, he was emincntlv successful : and in him the CoUcijiate body of which he was a member has lost an important contributor to its usefulness. Tirm, patient, penetrating^, and kind, his influence on the younij^ was of the most impressive and salutary character; and there are none, I think, who have been brought as pupils under his care and tuition, but will ever retain a respectful and affec- tionate remembrance of him'. As Secretary to the Association which has been ori^a- nized and incorporated for the management of the temporal affairs of the Church within this Diocese, his talent for the transaction of general business was quickly discovered and highly appreciated*. And there is no doubt but that the force of his character, and the many excellent gifts and endow- ments from God which he possessed, would speedily liave obtained for him, in any department of life, the same percep- tible influence amongst his fellow-men as that which he exercised amongst us, his brethren, botli of the clergy and laity, in this his secular capacity, within the Church. But it is not of him, my brethren, simply and generally as a man and a scholar — but of him in the special aspect of a Christian man, and Christian minister, that 1 am to speak to you on this occasion. And this I would desire to do, with truth and simplicity, as you his people, would desire to hear him spoken of, — as he himself would desire to be spoken of, if spoken of at all. Recall to mind then, my brethren, briefly with me, your late beloved pastor, in the points of view in which St. Paul in the text exhorts the Hebrew Christians to remember their departed spiritual rulers and guides. Glance at his Faith — his Life — his Death. I. Consider, first, my brethren, his Faith or Belief, — for this it was that moulded and produced his Christian character. * He was appointed Second Classical Master of Upper Canada College, in 1843, by Sir Charles Bagot, then Governor General of Canada. ' He was appointed Honorary Secretary to the Incorporated Church Society, in 1844. B 10 His Faith mav be described in one word as beings tliat of tlie Cliurcli, taken in its several parts, simply and literally, as defined and laid down in the three Creeds, and enlarjrcd upon in the Offices of the Prayer-book. In this Church-view of Divine Truth he found the key to the understiindinj^ of the Holy Scriptures, the Old Testament and the New, and an easy reconciliation of otherwise apparently conflictin^j^ doc- trines. He submitted his own judi^ment in all his religious teaching to that of the Church'. And this, my brethren, as^ you who knew him can well conceive, not blindly or super- stitiously, but from the calm conviction of his understanding and reason. From the timt when he first determined on presenting himself as a candidate for Holy Orders, he was diligent in studying the fundamentals of the Church's teaching, having prejudices pt the outset, as many a man before him has had» previous to investigation, against some of the Church-views, which he was afterwards so clear and impressive in setting forth*. And it was a beautiful phenomenon to see tlie per- fect coincidence that at length by a slow process ensued be- tween his resolute, but gradually convinced and subdued and enlightened understanding, and the doctrines and practices of the Church^. As with regard to the Church itself, he was historically compelled to confess that it was the actual Society founded by the Saviour, coming on in unbroken unity and continuity to this time, so with regard to its tenets and institutions, as held and enjoined by the Church in this Empire, he was histori- cally compelled to see that they were the very tenets and institutions which had been delivered to it by Christ, its Founder, and His Apostles. And when at length he was clearly convinced on these points, and had submitted with dutiful heart to tlje force of these solemn truths, he felt liimself endued with strength and certainty. And this strength and certainty increased daily as his studies went on, for he found that now ' Hooker's expression was often in his lips: — "An heretic, by the help of Almisrhty Hod I will never he I" — which indeed was only a rejMJtition of Augustine's.— " Errare posmrn : fitrretirus esse nolo." ' Woiks which in the earlier stai'ies of his stndies helpcti him in his nndei- standing of the Church, and the Church-viows o'" ^''risfian-doctrine, were Bishop Mant's Disrourses on the Church and her ".linisf rations. Ilivinsrtons; I'almer's Treatise on the Church of Chnsi, Jiivin<^fons; Bishop Pearson's Exjtosituni of the Creed, ami Rose on TheConnnission and consequent dutiet of thcCler^, Kivingtons. • He was admitted by the Bishop of Toronto to Deacon's Ordera, Oct. 29, 1S43. and to the Priesthood, Oct. 20, 18-14. ti i » 1 ■ i > 1 11 he had ^ot into harmony with the o^reat Teaclicrs of the Cliurch wIh) had lived in tlie aj^es ail aloiij^: and often would he express his wonder that he iiad not sooner perceived the marked consent that afterwards became to him so observai)le in their writintrs on the c)pics brouj^ht up for the study of the theoloijian in the Book of Common Prayer. And he would regret that in so many instances it is left to the younjr and inexperienced and uni^uided to work out a knowledge of these matters in Divinity for themselves'. The too prevalent ab- sence, in times past, of distinctive and decided teaching, on the subject of the Church-views of Christian doctrine, lie perceived, was the cause of much error, and contrariety, and uncertainty, where Truth, oneness and certainty ought to be conspicuous. For his part, after groping for a while in dark- ness, and standing in great peril of heresy, nay of schism, he happily at last, by the grace and mercy of GoH, worked him- self right, as he used to express himself, and found his feet planted upon the rock of the Catholic Faith, as held, he could historically see, " always, by all, and every where," within the Society founded by Christ*. Hence, my brethren, the quietness and the confidence with which he spake the Word : hence the authority and so- lemnity with which he preached, a? from the depths of a sure and unruffled mind; commending what he uttered, by its manly reality and soberness, to the consciences of all that heard him; teaching not merely as one who felt that he was subjectively ritfht, but as one who knew for a certainty that he was delivering out to the people the objective Truth of God, which is, like its Author, the same yesterday, to-day and forever. Early, my brethren, — even from the very beginning of his ministry, — he thus intelligently determined, and acted on ' Bishop Bevfiitljic's Kaposilion of the C/iunh Cale'/nxni was lliat u»eil iti his Sunday .'^rliool — u copy of wliicli li<' liimislicd to all the teachers of the his/her classes. IJi*.li()p Maul's Faniilittr and ensij (hiide to the unUrstanliii^ of the Church Calpchism, was also a class-book in his sclux)!. ' His rocrplion of the truths contained in tlie much misunderstood xviith Article of the Ktiijlish Church, was in ucconlanc«? with Archhishop Laurence's Jhimplmi JA'clurea on the suhjiM-l — .in (tftrnijif to illustrate thoxe .Irtirlrs of the Church of En inland, which the Catvinisti iinpropc.rt]) ronndrr as C'iilrini!i'/<' Editor's Pretace. pp. 31, 4t), New York-Kd.,) partly hy the tone of the ago in which he hved ; and partly by the difference in ttie dates of thr- several parts of those writinijs — the later productions being of course taken to express the most truly the results of the author's study and experience. * " Will you then give your faithful diligence always so to minister the Doctrine and Sacraments, and the Discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this Church and Realm hath received the same, according to the command- ments of God ; so that you may teach the people committed to your Cure or Charge with uU diligence to keep and observe the same?" " Jnfiuvr. I will do so, by the help of the Lord/' — Vitle Office fur the Ordination of Ihmtit. 14 thrown away? its sanctification mij^ht still be perfected. At this stii^c of his experience, the decision of the Church on the subject of "Sin after Baptism," which is contained in the xvith of the "Articles of Religion," to be found in our Prayer Books, presented itself with peculiar force to his mind and greatly pacified it, — inasmuch as his case was therein pre- cisely met and provided for. That decision runs thus: — " Not every deadly sin willingly committed after baptism, is sin aorainst the Holy Ghost and unpardonable. Wherefore the grant of Repentance is not to be denied to such as fall into sin after baptism. After we have received the Holy Ghost we may depart from grace given and fall into sin, and by the Grace of God we may rise aj^ain and amend our lives. And therefore they are to be condemned which say, they c.in no more sin as long as they live, or deny the place of forgive- ness to such as truly repent." These words of the Church, my brethren, were often in his lips, — as indeed were all the decisions contained in the Articles, — any portion of which, from his excellent gift of memory, he could repeat, with accu- racy andfacility\ Henceforward he may be described and spoken of as one who truly repented; and in the consciousness of his sincerity in the exorcise of that grace, he felt a strong hope of salva- tion grow up within him : the blood of Christ, he now saw clearly, cleanseth from all sin ; and although no man, after falling from the grace of baptism, can stand before God with as clear a confidence and comfort as the man who has walked with God from youth, yet the promises of Holy Writ, he saw, were enough to quell the fears of the greatest sinner, when truly penitent: he was soon convinced, that a returning prodigaymight still hope to be seen by the Father whom he had forsaken, when yet a long way off, and be welcomed by him. * He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel:' * Our sinful bodies are made clean by his body, and our souls are washed through his most precious blood.' Such were his hopes — such his holy reasoning ; and feeling himself to be thus forgiven much, therefore he loved much ; he laid him- self out to spend and be spent in the service and work of Jesus Christ the Saviour — not to merit thereby acceptance at ' On boiiiu rocniirod 1o translato.asa portion of his oxorciscs in the exami- nation for IX'acon'.sOmcM-s.otioortlie Articles of tho Church into Latin, he informprave. He always, however, 1 think, carried about with him a stronij^ impression, that his life would not be a lony: one. It was CJod's will tliat for several years past he should have a thorn in the flesh — a frequent tendency to the malady that was the means of carryinjr him off. Hence in the Apostle's sense of the words, he died daily: he daily lived, that is, in a state of preparation for the g'rave. Our Heavenly Father, we know, scourt^elh every son whom he receiveth. How happy is the result when this dis- cipline produces the effect intended. In your late departed pastor, we have good reason to believe tliis effect was ])ro- duced. In June last, he assured me that he never experienced so truly and really the consolations of religion, as he did then in the midst of great pain, and in the prospect of immediate death. "I am persuaded" he said, — aiul how he dwelt upon tliose words of St. Paul, throwing into them a force which I shall never forget — " I am persuaded that neither dentli ncu* life — nor things present nor things to come — shall be able t(» separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." — " I die " he said then, as he said again so touchingly at the last administration to him of the Sacrament of the Holy Communiou tho day before his death, — " I die at the foot of the Cross." There, my brethren, he had lived. There, since the tinu; of his return in repentance ami renewed faith to his Heavenly Father, he had placed himself. " God be merciful to me a sinner !" had become the substance of every prayer, and the blood of the suffering Saviour, the only foundation of his hope for final acceptance on the great day of account. Who now, my bretliren, amongst us, would call him back, if we could? When you reflect on what this life is to every man, whether priest or private Christian, who has to pass throuj^h its discipline — a state full of contrasts — full of changes — full of dangers — full of snares — oh, who would wish to call fore very naturnlly bo pnintrd uiit to llu; Chrisliiins of Judoa, 1o whom lliis Kpistlr* appears lo he adtliv^sml." Scniumt jirca-hcd brfhrc the rnircrsilij oj" Chjhxf, IH'.ll, Ui\iiia;tons. 20 t • i ,1 ffl ;>{ the brother who has found a harbour from its ills back to mingle again amongst us ? Who can call to mind such scenes as that, for example, in the brief history of our departed friend, which these walls were witness to only some fifteen months^ ago, at which many now sitting here were present — and then contrast them with such scenes as that sad assemblage of high and low, young and old, bowed down with grief, and dissolved in tears within these same walls on Wednesday last, — and not desire — earnestly desire — to advance forward into the next stage of our exist- ■ence — where the only changes to be experienced will be from glory to glory, and where sorrow and sighing and disappoint- ment will be shut out forever? Surely, my brethren, in this view of things, — to depart as better ! — your beloved pastor — the places tiiat have known him here on earth, shall know him and see him no more — but our loss, let us be assured is his great gain. We shall go to him, he will not — neither let us desire that he should — re- turn to us. Remember' therefore, my brethren, him that had the rule over you, not so much as selfishly longing for his presence again amongst you, as thanking God for the blessing which was loaned to you for a season, and seeing to it, that you be able to account well at the last for its good use. Remember, especially now that the solemn emphasis of death is added to their weight — remember the words that he spake unto you. Adhere to his Faith, — the Faith that he taught you with such clearness, certainty and fidelity. Prac- ' This refers to his marriage, which had been solemnized in Trinity Church, only fifteen months before the solemization of the Funeral Service over his remains, in the same Church. ' It has been determined by the Churchwardens and Vestry of Trinity Church, to erect within the sacred building a mural tablet of white marble, bearing the following inscription :— '' To the memory of the Reverend William Honv- wooD Ripley, B.A-, of University College, Oxford, First Incumbent of this Church, Son of the Reverend Thomas Hyde Ripley, Rector of Tockenham, and Vicar of Wootton Bassett, in the County of Wilts, England. After devoting him- self during the six years of his ministry, freely, without money, and without price, to the advancement ©f the spiritual and temporal welfare of this Congregation and neighljGurhood, and to the great increase amongst them of the knowledge of Christ and His Church, he fell asleep in Jesus, on Monday the 22iid of October, 1849, aged 34 years. — He filled at the same time the office of Honorary Secretary to the Church Society of the Diocese of Toronto, and was Second Classical Master of Upper Cinada College. This Tablet is erected by the Parishioners of this Church, as a tribute of heartfelt respect and affection. ' Remember them that have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God : whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.' Hebrews xiii. 7." 21 t tically adhere to this Faith, by iivinir it, even as he did. Consider, yea, study liis iioly' life— strive to attain to his cheeriiiiT, exemplary death. Pain and doubt and trial over, he now, in the paradise of God, with brijrhter hope, and clearer certainty, and more sus- t'lined patience, tlian can fall to the lot of any man wiiile in the flesh here on earth, waits the day when, with all those who are departed in the true Faitli, he shall have his perfect con- summation and bliss, in body and soul, in the everlastirnr glory to which our Lord will admit him, when he shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quick and the dead. In the memory of him, which will always dwell within your hearts, think that your Lord speaks to you: in the me- mory of his gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, think that your Saviour beckons you upwards toward Himself: think each one of you — and, when you hear the words, reflect upon their real force and meaning — think, each one of you, that you are thus invited, thus addressed, thus warned — " If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me." Matt. xvi. 24. APPENDIX. r! Two or thiof cIiiiracforisMc soiitences a|^- lino added from tlio Tvcporls, kc, which proceeded from the pen of liie subject of the preceding nieiiwriul. I. A GOOD WORK Br.GLN IN' THK CHURCH. " It is inipossiltle to Iwk around without ackiiowledijiji",' that there is till too mnch anioiiifst us for whioli we reqiiirt? to he him.'hled; there can still }« seen too great a ii(<(iectof the Lord's day, a;id of those .sicred oidiiiances. which, when rightly received, are. by Christ's institution, intended to quicken the Christian to a deeper sense of liis duty, and at the same time strenu'lhen him ibr thi> due pertbr- mance of it. 'i'lu-re is amon'jst us too little of that laitii which piuilies the heart. improves alllictioiis. andoverconus the world. But while we j.ray tor a better and holier state of things, anl, under the grace of Goil, use every honest exertion Ibr this purpose: it is at the same time permitted us to believe that a considerable improvement has really taken place, and that a gowl work is jroing on, which it is trusted will be lasting.''— iCus/cr licporl uf Tiinity Church, 1841). II. PERPETUITY TO BE EXI'KCTED OXI.Y TO THE RESULTS OF LABOURS CONnUCTm OX TRUE PRINCIPLES. " The successful working of the Church Siciety for four successive years, stands as a living witness, that a holier and more Jaithtul state ol things is gradually spreading amouirst us. Jt will be seen, that not only has a check been given to the natural tendency of the human mind to that vague" system of religion, of which sincerity is the only test, but also (when we remembe'r that the teaching of the Church of Gotl is, by a Divine necessity exclusive), a sound and practical belief is silently establishing itself that, as there is but one way of redemption, so theie is but ' one body' of Christ, and one divinely apjxiinted ark of saKation ; and men are learning, that the main opposition to the spread of the Christian religion arises from the want of unity in its professors. *• The history of the pa^l has forced this truth upon humble and reflecting minds with an unearthly reality. They have seen that the most vigorous attempts to plant the Gospel without the Church, have, M'ith liardly any excejition, either failed and been broken up in the moment of temporary success, or have died awav with the human agents who went forth to proclaim the glad tidings, or else have dwindled down to a sickly state of lukewarmnes<5, and in many cases have ileiie- nerated into mere rationalism. Durinir the three centuries which have elaj^ed since the National Church was enable«l. by the Divine grace, to purify herself, and 2',^ return to hor primitive faitli, many such exertions have lieen made with nlmost a primitive zeal, hy those who lii.-sentcd rroiii her, and much has hcen done wiih such a holy hatred ol' sin, and such evident self-detiial. that w(.' mav not donl)t hut that, on some occasions at h'ast. the ansri'l of (iod (N'scended, and stnred the fold waters ol' heathenism and inlidelity ; but still, in the moment of sncci'ss were sown t!ie hitter seeds of disunion, and consecinenliy ol' ruin. There \va>; no promise of por an