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•• My Iiifi0tiim U tHrt iif ihu wimtUI." ^r. JniiM xviii. ji&.

riurri.' nrc prolwhly fi?w c^irncut CHrt«iii(iii» who dw tm at
iimen MnrtUnl fliid |)er|tkx(.'tl dtlbe uotiiraM t>ctwc<}ii lti«
Krfatne«* of ihc Church'* claim and the a|>|Ktr»iit inDagrv
ncM of the Mcam nt her i)ii|)OsAt for hn (H.'com|>llnhiiiciit.
For n timt, It nuiy Ik?, »II iiccm» to |o well, (itid then wd-
cicnl) , rtPi In n momtnt of irtvcltition, tfic whole »cenc ii lit
up M with (I c old, Hdd HRht, while the Hcarchfng ((ucntioif i»
ira'»iMibly U)fiic in ujkmi vm that will brook tio ttV(i»ion,
" How iiwny loaye* have ye"? iWhai nieaiw have yow at
your dlH|)Oiial wherewith to carry througli U»e high renotve ?
And nf length we niunter courage to make our coutu 4nd give
our annwcr. We have hut five Iwrley loaviJii and two ftjhci,
and what are ttvey amongst »o many ?

Vcs, It is nO old exiHTJence, an old m the day* of the ftr»t
apostle* on the CallKan hills, jwrt of that discipline of
necessary trial which the Church of Jewus Christ in a sinful
world can never escape. The uhccasrng demand for faith
ami hope— faith to distribute when the stock seein* so
scanty; hofHs to go forward when theo()slacles seem so great.
It is the necessary law of the growth of the Kingdom of
Jesus Christ. As true in the and and 3rd centuries as ever
in the 19th, that the mass of the |K)wer and of the-jyealth of
the world so frequently ranges itself on the opi)osing side,

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refusing its adhesion to the greatest and most stupendous
of all the heroic- tasks that have entered into the minds of
men. , ^

' Thrco^^t^ast, as I have said, is familiar to us in the Cana-
dian Clni^rh. There are a thousand causes incident to the
present stage of our progress, \Mliich bring it home sharply
and unceasingly to all those who set themselves to any high
emprisif in the great Master's Name.

()nt/thin[<, however, is (piite certain. 'I'he contrast can
ncvcr/in the very darkest hour of the Church's struggle, he
half as lerrihie as it was in the throes of the Church's birth,
at tli'e.time when the great Master first uttered the words of
the text, v^ — 7 '--'^~ 7 '

* The picture has been drawn by a.masterhand in the
Gospel. Oil the one side, the Roman governor with the
strong legions at his back, conscious that he represented the
whole might and power of Imi)erial Rome ; and on the
other, the helpless prisoner, so soon to die, spurned and
• rejected by every human force on which he could count, the
very emixxdimcnt of abject failure, of absolute weakness.

How impo-isible it seems not to sympathi/c with the sharp,
searching fpicstion, "Art thou a King, then " ? How diffi-
cult to banish all misgivings, all sense of apparent unreality,
as wc watch those sacred lips that cannot lie, frame so calmly,
so unhesitatingly .the strong undaunted claim, " My king-
dom is not of this world," and ^et, if wc will but listen, the
very words themselves go far to answer our difficulty. My
kingdom springs not out of this order in its present fallen,
/imperfect state. Its foundations are laid strong, firm, and

/ immovable, buf not based upon the changing, shifting phe-

' hpmena of this world ; rather are they imbedded deep in that
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wilfulncHS cin ever shake, fixed a»"iti 5\ll the bahol ton^uetl
-voices of human contrailii:lion% upon the iiniuov.ihlo ■4>asis
of an irrcvocahle Divine Decree. Yc», the turn (if the eon-
versation shows that another scene, altogether reinovoil from
the juUKiiuni of Tilate, wa.n passing before the mind of our
I,ord. 'I'he vociferating crowd, (the relentless ruKrs, the
vacillating judge, all have given place in our Lord's sight to
the vision of that worhj^ (iod from whence He tamo --the
source of His abiding sSvcreignty. The trained a< iimon of
the Roiiun judge once again I'inds itself at fault while he re-
cognizee his entire inability to grasp the workings of the '
prisoner's mind as he pr()cec<ls, "for this Qwd was I born,
and for this cause came 1 into the worKl to bear witness unto
the truth." , I

Our Lord's thoughts were clearly far away, fixed uliotlihe , ;
■ Divine purpose displayed in the very Creation of jnan,. .des-
tined at length to .be realized despite all that sin and hate,
can ever accomplish ; ui)oii the eternal purpose to crown
Humanity in its Cull develoi)ment by the gift of Himself,
and then to sum up the whole cycle of things in Christ They
were lixed upon that sui)reme niis.sion from the Kallicr, in
virtue of which He came to the world ol men who ki\ew
Him not, and whose ignoriince of their true destiny could
only be done away by the revelation of His own bitter sac-
ritice ; upon the priestly work for man, to which He had
now consecrated Himself, on all that yet vcmaineil to be
done in the last and awful oblation so^soon to be completed.
They were fixed upon His saving purpose to insert thus into
the corrupt mass of Humanity the pure influence of 1 lis own
perfect Life and Will ; upon the power of that cleansing
Blood, by which the falseness of our sinful state was to be
put away, and men prepared once more to receive the Eter-

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nal Spirit of Truth. Yes, these, it is clear, arc the concep-
tions which quickly pass across the background of our
Lord's mind, as after the emphatically reiterated claim to
His sovereignty He adds in explanation, " For this cause
came I into the world, that I might l)ear witness to the
-truth."

Just as deep down beneath the world of human things,
lie ill all probaijility undiscovered sources of i)hysical energy,
so deep beneath the surface of our common life lie the
sources of the Divine Kingdom ;, fixed not in the i)hcnome-
nal but in the Eternal, not in the sphere of sense but in that
of Divine spiritual realities which onlj the spiritually quick-
ened can discern, not in the passession of material wealth
or force or power, but in the fruits of the Incarnation, the
Passion, and of Pentecost,. in the treasures of saintly life and
character which follow from the entrance into Humanity of
the Will of Jesus Christ welcomed and assimilated, in the
lives of His saints.

And yet though the true life and glory of the Church be thus
hid from the common eye ; a matter of faith, as our Creed
reminds us, the faitK^ which can discern working in the
tangled complicated mazes of human purpose the strong
patient power oi the Incarnation, the energies of the
Passion, the gentle influences of the Eternal Spirit. Though
all this be so on its inner Divine originating side, yet in its
outward manifestation it must be exhibited like other forces
through the operation of human wills. It must reveal itself in
the field of human action and not merely in the ideals of hu-
man thought. It must take its station with other things upon
the broad field of actual human history. It must subject
itself to the laws of '^sociation which govern all vigorous
and powerful effort. Its source is yonder but its workings

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arc here. It is an actual force that must l)c rcckonejd wjih
like all other actual forces, ami like them too inustMHuhmit
itself perforce to be weighed auU estimated by the scales of
human judgment. The very words of our I.ord r^und us
of this aspect of the Kingdom, even if tlie irresistible pressure
of experience o could ever let us forget it. "For this end
was / fioni, for this cause came I into the world."

Just as the ctt^rnal purpose of the Fatlujr and the eternal
mission of the Son and the Spirit were to be reali/cil in
time in the actual setiuence of historic event, so the work of
the Church is necessarily conditioned and differentiated by :
the varying enviromnent in which from lime to time her lot
is cast. It, must be hammered out by the strong continuous
effort of obedient wills. On the earthly side it niust be sus-
tained and energizcfd by the supply of those natural forces
whjch (lod has placed in our hands that we may then hallow
and corisecrate them to Mini. The Church is necessarily
dependent in a real sense upon the food that coines out of
the earth for her support; whilst she is none the less fed by
the Ikead of Heaven and partakes of angels' food, yet she
ortinot escape the law of subjection to earthly and historical
conditions, which we trace so vividly in the life of the great
Master Himself. One special consequence of this wc will
notice.^ ■ . / .;

The Chiirch's subjection to the law of associated ^\\^rk
will necessarily cause her spirit to pass beyond the embodi-
ment of individual lives, and to realize itself in the more endur-
ing and /stronger corporate life of corresponding institutions.
It is as/a body that she i§ to permeate society. It is through
the associated force of institutions that much of her highest
work must be done. We know how, in the institution of
the Holy Orders, or-of the Corporate Body of the Episco-
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howpcrsislcutly it lm» always been exhibited in" the actual
historical workings of the Church. A|id yet there it A
subtle danger here which lies very close to this undoubted
truth- a danger against which we arc consjtantly warned,
whether in Holy Scripture! or in the sad record of the
Church's past. It is the danger of mistaking the body for
thu life, the casket for the jewel, the institution for the Spirit
by which it was created. We know, would to (lod we may
never forget, the necessary judgment which ever follows
upon so fatal an error—the unfailing protection is with-

Iplrawn, the seed of ijnmortality is lacking— the institution
which has thus Injcome false to its. own origin is left to share
,the common fate of all earthly things, deprived of the true
spirit of its i)crmanence.

■ Wc know well how the sad i)rocess is begun. The suc-
cessive steps by which the purity of the ideal is obscured,
and the world of divine things is dimmed by the attractions
of the world of sense. We begin to " number the ^)c{)l>le,"

. to count ui) the opposing forces. We make concessions
to the spirit and temper of the world, instead of diawing
closer to ourselves the forces of the unseen order, the mighty
forces of Prayer aniC Eucharist and Sacrifice. I need not
remind you of the position of the RomanChurch a§ an
obvious evidence of the results of yielding to this temptation.
We know how glorious was the estimation of that Church in
its purer days in the sight of Western Christe^idom, which
loved to see there the one Apostolic See of all. the Western,
world. How splendid were the victories ^h^ won for the
cause of Christ, as amid the throes of the dying Empire of
Rome she brought the barbaric peoples beneath the yoke of
Jesus Christ. Yet the very greatness of the triumph proved
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the iccmin^^ ncccHsilicH of her rude environment, to lower
her high ident at least to the comprehension of titesc rude
Honn of the faith, to im|)ose upon them wlmt she considered
tlic necessary yoke of Roman Immlage rather than (Kitiently
to labour on and train them at length into the full freedom
of the sons of (lod.

The pages of hintory record in clear cut letters the neces--
sary judgment which has followed upon such a surrender to
the world-spirit. • The corrupti(wi and decay of modia'val
Christcuilom, the coiuradiclions and failure of modern
Pal)alism ; all emphasi/c ihy lessons of fidelity to Ihc truth,
to the highest aspects of our work, whalevxr our <ircum-
stances m»iy he. Nor nuist we yiefd to the ten^ptation of
supposing that any individual worker, however much his
work may he blessed and valued, is aught but an instrument
for the inanifestation of those spiritual forces which lie behind
all individual life. S. Telcr gives place to S. Jan\es, S. Paul
to S. John, but the one Spirit, from whom these great apostles
nverc energised for their work supplied their place with the
jCatholic Episcopate. The lesson is for our comfort in all
time. Beneath the diversities of operations lies trvcr the
abiding Personal Spirit*

The high ambition of this University is to embody in this
Canada of ours, as the great Christian Univerjjities of other
lai\ds have infill ages done, something of the spirit of the
great Master's words, " To bear witness to the Truth." No
motto could better describe the great object for which how-
ever imperfectly we are daring to strive. We dare not be
content with the partial antitheses of half truths, nor allow
the separation of intellect and character, of reason and
faith, of mind and heart. We are bound to seek ever, and
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more and more make all krmwledge one, lo that the know-
pledge of Man and of Nature may Ntlll contimic to Ik; the
portal to the knowledge of (io<l. Our aims are well known.
It l» unnecessary here, at any rate, to dwell u|Wn them.
Our power to carry thcn» out in ever growing fulness, to repro-
duce them in the actual life history of our students, where
does it lie? First and foremost, in the recognition of the
•acred and binding obligation of the task, thus laid upon ui:
in such a way, I mean, as will not permit of the lowering of
our own ideals to something more in harmonj^with po|)ular
favour, or for the sake of present advantage imperilling our
power to discharge our task in the fullest and best way. It
is not in the direction of radically changing our methods
that the path of truo wisdom would lead us. Rather let us
set iK'fore.us, as our constant and supreme object, the repro-
duction of the spirit of Trinity in the^arts of her sons, the
doing our Own special ^vork in the highest and best way. So
shall we, in (lod's own good time, find Our every need sup-
])lieii by the loyal devotion and loving lil)erality of her sons
and of this Canadian people. So, and so only, shall the
Trinity we love become a light and a praise in this Province.

Above all, let us plead with the blessed Spirit, the alone
Lord and (liver of all true life, that He would graciously
vouchsafe to supply all our necessities of loving service, and
train up a continuous succession of men, able and devoted,
for our every time of need* Amen. '

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