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 ■ I have not, I fear, selected, the season oi the 
 year hest calculated to insure the general attend*^ 
 ance of those whom 1 have invited to meet me oft 
 , this occasion, protracted, especially as our spring 
 has been by a winter of unprecedented length and 
 severity ; but as it is not improbable that I may, 
 after a little time, be absent from the country for 
 geveral months, I have thought it desirable not to 
 forego the opportunity, early as it is in the season, 
 to hold those visitations of the Archdeaconry 
 which, in the course of arrangements previously 
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 charge refer* almost exchisively to the consider»» 
 tion ofiie temporal affiurs of tfee Church ;— a cii* 
 cumstance which aflfordsmethe qpportu^ty of ex- 
 tending to the lay members of the several: parishes 
 as r^iesent^ by their Churohwaidens,1he coun- 
 
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 much of the real welfare of the Churoh, — its 
 extension, order, and edification,— depends upon 
 a eecure and healthlia ocmdition of ita temporal 
 affairs. 
 
 L And here I am first led \o notice, what must 
 always engage our common interest and sympa- 
 thy, the large tract of country within this Diocese, 
 containing a very considerable and increasing 
 population, as yet nhsu|^lied with the ministra- 
 tions of religion as furnished by our branch of the 
 Church Catholic; the vaat harvest of souls, and 
 the few and most unequal amount of labourers to 
 gAtheHt in. Itie^ut a slight mitigation of this 
 disheartening picTOe, that, in many cases wfiere 
 •0 much spiritual desolation prevails, there are 
 eflbrts put forth to supply it apart from the agency 
 and dir«9ction of the Church, that many men of 
 nnquestionable earnestness and piety, npt belohg^ 
 ing to our communion, are labouring in fliosfi 
 iemote and neglected spots, and often with th^' 
 evidence of practical good. We contend that thui 
 mitigation of the evil is but slight, because 0^ 
 system upon which the religious teaching of t^ 
 several Protestant denominations of Christians, is 
 conducted, does not ensure itspermanence or regu- 
 larity, or any consistent aifiierence to the modes of 
 doctrine and instru^on inculcated, but is attendee) 
 with the hazard of fluctuation^ variety and even 
 contradiction. Again, in this manner of religious 
 teaching, pursued by a numbwr who are divided 
 in sentiment, and who> in a^min^ kt the ^<|ttisi^ 
 
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 of the "one Catholic and ApOstolio Church.'*— 
 We have no reAlization of the «< builiing ^f 
 framed together," revealed as the condition o! fflfo 
 household of believers and the family of the Lord ; 
 nothing of that sympathy and mutual love which 
 the Lord, in his valedictory prayer, desired that 
 the members of his body^ the Church, should 
 manifest ; nothing of that concert and union in 
 working for the glory of God and the gwelfare of 
 men, which the whole organization of the Church 
 implies. And above all we see in such a system 
 of diversified and conflkj|ng teaching, an opposi- 
 tion to what we hold as Ifble^mri obligation,— the 
 maintenance of the Church of Christ upon the 
 principles laid down in the Word of God, as 
 respects her polity, sacraments and prayers 5 
 principles from which We have no right or power 
 p deviate, << lest haply we should be found to fi(;ht 
 against God." 
 
 II, From the contemplation of this discourag- 
 Mi^piCtur^Wepass on naturally to the considera- 
 tion of the means of ameliorating our condition of^ 
 spiritual destitution in this diocese ; of changi^, 
 if we can, the wilderness intoagarden,— ofcaus- 
 iiig that barren land to" rejoice and blossom as the 
 
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 the oonchMion, that this is not to be eflpBCted by 
 tlw exercise, however succesfcfnl, of 1^ pew 
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 lure been long bound to it by hnbit and oonvio. 
 tion, .and thus predisposed for its truths and privi, 
 leges, it may, even.upon the voluntary system, 
 be maintained. A congregation is, in that case, 
 rooted and grounded in their appreciation of, and 
 attachment to, its principles ; and they have them- 
 •^Ives, it may be said, consolidated its outward 
 establishment by a liberal appropriation of their 
 worldly means: it runs little risk, therefore, in 
 such an instance, of failing from due support. But 
 this cannot be expecied where tTe population are 
 poor and scattered, and where from long disuse, 
 the doctrines and practice of Christianity are in 
 opposition to established habits of thought and 
 action ; where, at aU events, if the sense and 
 appreciation of religion be not wholly lost, it is by 
 no means so strong or lively as to ensure a Volun- 
 tary maintenance of it. We should hardly ex. 
 ' pect a people voluntarily to adopt and support that,!- 
 which contradicts their cherished and conititu- 
 ^tional propensities^^for in ftuch a case, we have to 
 diwrm opposition, rather than, look for sympathy 
 ^d aid : we have to inculcate the love of religion," 
 before we can look there for co-operation with us 
 in sustaining it. 
 
 Looking at the numbers of the poor in worldly 
 condition who are to be classed amongst the spirit- 
 nally destitute, we see, at once, too, that accordimr 
 to the natural working of the mere voluntary ey«-. 
 tern, many wpuld naver be reached at all 3 the boon 
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 here and there cultivated— rich, and flourishing, 
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 between. That such is no mere fanciful antici- 
 pation, but borne out by sad experience, is proved 
 by the condition of the neighbouring country of 
 the United States, which its ovrn truest friends 
 and best citizens will have no hesitation in Veri- 
 fying. There, in the large spaces intervening 
 between the towns and villages,- in short, in the 
 rural population, generally, if there be not anj utter 
 religious desolation, there is a growth of tar^s, in 
 the shape of sects entertaining the most discor- 
 dant, unsound and perilous opinions, so strong and 
 iwM^ig^ ineradicable, that it creates even more 
 digress and apprehension than a total destrution 
 
 of the means ot grace. 
 
 3. To provide against consequences like these 
 tnd to ensure the general and^qual difiusion of 
 the blessings of religion, Almighty God was 
 pleased to reveal to the world specific rules and 
 directions. In his blessed book we have a 
 distinct declaration of his will that a provision 
 ihould be establbhed isfc the maintenance of ^ 
 feiigion, which should be beyond the reach Of 
 human caprice or popular infidelity. We haya 
 indications that it was his desire and poei- 
 tivo command from the beginning, that men 
 iSiould \m bound to an appropriation, for^fhtt 
 temoe t>f religion, of a fixed, share of thei^ 
 aabfltance,—- on appropriation so reguls^ed that 
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 tbAt Abraham, ^ft^JT |t remftrkltble victory, ahookl 
 pfty. the tenth of all the apoils to Melchizedeo, th« 
 priest of-the Molt High God. And that this wa« 
 not an accidental or isolated case, but the effect; 
 Vid working of a fixed and revealed principle, it 
 ^Videntfrom the vow of Jacob, that, if permitted 
 to come back to his own land in peace, after hit 
 proposed sojourn, he ^* should surely give the ten^ 
 unto God of all that He should give him." Thit 
 cannot be thought an accidental or mere voluAtarjr, 
 act and impulse, affecting only individual cases ;ot 
 we should hardly observe, in two successive in- 
 stances, the same proportion of religious gift. But 
 «we can be at no loss as to the Divine inteqpoaition 
 in regard to this rule, and by inference of the 
 ^Divine sanction of it from the beginning, when wm 
 find the principle of this religious appropriation of 
 the tenth to God, embodied in the Jewish Law, 
 made to stand as an ordinance for ever. 
 
 ■How completely, my brethren, do ikoti UlUft 
 these disprove the arguments that are, in 
 days, so loosely and recklessly advanced 8g«ii|ui| 
 an established and national provision for reUgioBl 
 How entirely do they overturn the allegatiali^ til 
 wildly put foi^, and ao strangely credited^ th«fc.« 
 AEtiopftl {ffovidion for God's Churoh is a n^o«al 
 •iniiatid tbiiti by such an applioation ««l dip 
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 what name we will, cannot be wrong, when eo- 
 faroed thus explicitly and po§itiTel||,by a Dif ine 
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 God, it is erident, settled this amongst His an- 
 cient people for the consolidation and perpetua- 
 tion of His Church in all after times, rather than 
 because -it was demanded by present wanU or 
 circumstances. At the tim^ when the whole 
 economy of the Church was thus regulated and 
 epmpleted^ we should hardly imagine amongst 
 the people of Israel ati indisposition to make 
 - bomitiful and saffieient offerings for the service of 
 aieir heavenly Benefactor, It was a time in 
 which they were under the infltience of continual 
 miracles— when signs and wonders were being 
 wrought perpetually for their deliverance j a time 
 in which, of all others, the voluntary system 
 would Ihave worked prosperously. Yet, God, 
 nevertheless, for the benefit of His Church in aU 
 fiiture ages, fixed for it a permanent endowment. 
 ^ And we can understand, that where a complete- 
 ness of organization was settled for the S\ate> it 
 would be derogatory to, and a slight of God, if th« 
 flame care and pains were not given to the strtto** • 
 t»re of His Church- The comparison would, at 
 no time, be advantageous, if then should see an 
 orderly and systematic, and well-balanced ar-^ 
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 man's welfar^j» as a mortal being,-«-8hould ej^M- 
 bit^' every care and liberal provision ; while the 
 Church of God's appointment and for God's hon- 
 our, should be left like a child in the wilderness^ 
 without position or resting-place^ to be sustained 
 by a passing' chaxity> and with nothing byt the 
 impulse of a sympathetic benevolence to keep ^t^ 
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 3.' It is strange that Christian men should be 
 found spes^i|ig agaiiiust the lawfulness of State 
 endol^ments for religion^ and asserting that t|iey 
 ^re in contravention of the Divine command^ with 
 such V facts as these beforetbem. But, they will 
 argue, this was a condition of n^ngs. applicable to 
 tbe Jewish economy, and not calculated for the 
 purity and simplicity of the Christian dispensa- 
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 that if theVpnnctjpi^e be correct in tke one case, it 
 cannot be inapplicable in the other: there is 
 noticing in the nature of things which! Can,justify 
 tli^ distinction that is alleged to exist between 
 the two. We might be affected by such a pf^- 
 fumed difftinction, if we discovered in the New 
 Testament one word prohibitory of that principle 
 •<;-one word there which went to say or teach that 
 public appropriations for feligion were, under the 
 Gp^l) not to be made. "We must infer, indeed^ 
 quite ilie reverse from several facts and incidental 
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 ^ thertj of the existenise inihe etolieit days df 
 Chrirtianity, of a common fund for charitable and 
 ecclesiastical purposes ; because a voluntary and 
 impulsive generosity— giving to-day, and with- 
 holding tOdftorrow— was not deemed effectual to 
 that end. Moreover, we fkid St. Paul frequently 
 epeaking of the obligation of Christiaiis in this . 
 TQspect, in a way th^t assures us that the ana* 
 logy with, the Jewish dispensation was meant to 
 be' kept up: for example this, " The Lord Jiath 
 wdaimdy that they who preach the Gospel Ihould 
 Uv^by the Gospel:" that is, perfemptorily and 
 positrvely, and not as a \^im or itiere feeling 
 iriight dictate. It does not appeal to b^ left to 
 individual liberty or choice ; but a coustr^nt and 
 obligation, by a Divine ordinance, is imposedv \ 
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 ment, any very express directions, or any formal 
 arrangements, upon this point, it was from the 
 same cause that minute directions up6n some 
 Other subjects^ were omitted there^— because it 
 was unnecessary to be thus explicH. It was un- 
 necessaiy to inform men, in a minute and detailed 
 manner, of the way in which they were to maiii* 
 ' taltt the ministers ef the Church; because, from 
 all antecederrt rule and eustom, they were sufR* 
 ciei^y itistructed in that duty, they would na* 
 to^Hy act upon that rale, and cany it outfuUf;^ 
 ae soon as it was in t*ie3r power to do so. And 
 liistoiy teiehes us that th^y dKd so. Wlwn cu| 
 cmos^iiieee* warranted^ gifte increased. Tl|r 
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 •nd offoinngs flowed into t)u* oammoii treasury^ 
 Juid that it might have this ooniuaoa aspect and 
 iofluenoe, the Bishop of each Diocese was placed 
 in charge of it^^to be allotted and distributed, 
 voder hia direction and according to his judgment^ 
 fi^ the maintenance of the ministry and olher 
 iodeaiastical objects. He^, then, was an en* 
 dowment; the best which^ under circumstances, 
 -tSuiatians could make. Those were days of per- 
 secution^ when auch concentrated or tangible pro* 
 ]foAf as landed reseryations, for instance^ wouidy«Mr 
 Hfia unhappily the case now,— ^ery speedily be 
 lleized upon> to gratify the spite of pagan prieeti 
 INT satisfy a i^vato cupidity. ^ ,_./,. 
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 eaiKie Christians, and when Christian influence, 
 from the vaatly increased number of ooDT^rts, 
 miextended farand wide. Then gifts and oief^ 
 hifi were profxirtionaUy larger, and the ancient 
 ^1e of maintaining religion by specific ai^propria- 
 tidlia of a tj9nth, or even more, not only oam^ tQ 
 bd uniTeraaily acted upon amongst ChristiatM^ 
 ti^|»Q«tiyed the sanction of law, a^d waimido 
 mU^ in a fixed and unalterable way. a ' ; 
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 i|i»N»d. principle always believed m, and aeted 
 irpon, nptil ewparatiyely a very laite peiiod^ thai 
 « l^fiaupi was made here, in thii ?i^yiD0e,Jif 
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 meatis AouW be set apwi by whiok tile lewshing 
 of Christian tnith^tiirough »U time, ehould be ea- 
 
 eared. If we we cerreot in saying, tbat til« 
 Cletgy Reserves in this Provinee were the gift Qt 
 that excellent moaarch George the Third, became 
 
 he sancticaed the appropriation with all the hear- 
 tiness whi^ befitted a Christian and virtaoui 
 king ; we are equally right in sayinjyc that thfey _ _ 
 weie the gift of the British nation, declared^ m ' > 
 solemn enactment ©f the House of Lerds mA 
 Commons; It was not a mere act oi the.iU?y»l 
 prerogative, but the Joint work of the three bwa^ . 
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 : touching this property, nor the hard strugglei W^ 
 
 fierce contests to which it hae given im^* It'm 
 needless now to-do ao, because a aettlemenljC 
 the protracted dispute has long since been eie^te* .. 
 
 by Imperial legislation ; tor whatever may liaT# 
 been our conscientious objections to the Act; of 
 ISilO, the Church of England in thia Provinof , ^ ^ 
 ^|it)j. qi» voice accepted the decision whi^>^ • 
 mrifff the « vexed qttestion,'f and regardedrA: , 
 «|]Kal adjudication of the whole diiqpute. It 
 ^vpui alao generaUy believed that the pnblii? iiM»d: 
 Uriwld iiow for ^er be at wit upon thji inatti^ 
 i^ that we aboold henoe^th anjoy the ppoekii 
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 whioh » war of party disputes, oombining so 
 many temptaticms to personal aggrandizement, 
 •re wont to drive men who engage warmly in 
 them, opened again this question to the heat and 
 •trife of the worst days of the past. 
 ^^^Thd'Church conld not stand still in the warfare 
 that raged around her; bqt, with gentle mien 
 •nd forbearing temper, assumed her strong shield 
 •C l*itH, and her invincible weapowi of truth. 
 • ^Th» odnflict, through the blessing of heaveri, has 
 tiws far not been detrimental to her, itbr shaken 
 , W in the least from hor position of strengA. 
 The t^oent appeal to the country,— backed, on 
 1h8 part of the enemies of the Church, with every 
 ^umny that could excite the popular prejudice 
 ^\«g4in«t her,— has. resulted in a considerable gain 
 ' bihe number of her zealous friends in the popu- 
 jftpHbranoh of the Legislature, and the signififeant 
 «9tclii8ion of those who, during the last two years^ 
 had, in onr Legislative Assembly, taken the pro- 
 minent lead against her. 
 
 ^l^v^Tbe notost unhappy and repulsive ieatu*6 W 
 Ai« le^ent agitalion is the native by which those 
 |wftii to be aicttxated who have been the most 
 fitwwfd in it It ha? ildt been a mere strile <ff 
 •ect, iK» Rjea}0ii$y as to the manner of partHion J 
 it irasj^ the claiming by one df what wis con- 
 ndered to be too largely held by another ; no 
 IteflM rivi^^ as w^ migbt call it, as to whifHK 
 x^^itt body aiMd h^ it in their power to 
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 iid«i| in ijontravontion of all Christian praotioe, 
 the declared motive and the industrious effort hai 
 been to alienate this property entirely from reli* 
 gion» and separate it ftom every use that might 
 bear upon the welfare of the Church of God. 
 'The plea is,— and that wiU datch the fancy, 
 because it affects the personal interests of many, 
 *-that th^ ptoperty, called Clergy Reserves, 
 should be appropriated for the benefit of general 
 education ; for the wider extension of that know* 
 ledge, which, without the sanctifying infiuence « 
 of religion^ only increases man's ca,pacity and 
 power to do mischief. But, taking up the argtt* 
 ments of the mere utilitarian, if an education 
 merely for the work and enterprises of the worlds 
 be important,— and we do not deny it— should 
 not efforts incomparably greater be made to secure 
 mreKgtoiw education,— an education for the soul 
 MMi for immortality? Is, it not a general admia^ 
 iion, that we jihould never get on, in law or juris- 
 prudence, or in the commerce of life, without the 
 application, in some way and to some extent, of 
 a moral ai^d religious restraint. We are ol)liged, 
 in many thinSfs connected with the transactions 
 of life, to rely upon the force of conscience; in 
 many eases, to depend upon the solemn value 
 ittaohed to an oath. X^ut where would be the 
 effieapy w meaning of an oath without a religi- 
 ous cc^^fetion? How socat^wild its solemidty 
 disappear, and^itsetf become shgoere word and 
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 ' ^fdue attached t» leligioua obligations ; and WP 
 ^fiftaaUy affiim, as with one voice, that «iich ob]i- 
 ^[«tioD8 are to be taught^ and urged, and deepened, 
 mid difiueed* And yet persons, avowing ti^is 
 ▼6iy conviction, will reckleialy jfUng away the 
 means for maintaining, and perpetuating the 
 knowledge of these obligations, and even rob t)ie 
 Chuioh of God— the appointed agent for upholidr 
 ing and diffusing thein,-H>f the heritage assigned 
 her jfor that very end. 
 
 ^jfc, While such, my brethren are the ^evioet, 
 lind soch the open warfSare against us, it does nc(t 
 become us to be passiveor silent. It appean, in 
 this emergency, to be most desirable t^iat eacli 
 paxish should exhibit, in its leading members, at 
 least, an oiganisation which would be ready fof 
 any actio^ when danger is^ threatened, and where 
 oonstitutional resistance is imperatively called for^ 
 CJombination and union fbrthe protection and wel* 
 %e of the Church is, under such ciroumstancei^ ■ 
 lUit only justifiable but necessary. 
 ..v7. There is nothing, in this warfare against # 
 <l|p||p^ored cause which has distressed us mom 
 than the hct tha| a British statesman should, fpr 
 •n instants have countenanced this popular del^ 
 «ioa, or have uttered a word that could favour a 
 •oheme of spoliation so entirely at variance witb 
 tha^iptoftbe British constitutiiul, and sq ad«, 
 IPiii^# the teaching cfGod*B holy word. Wm 
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 •tirongy and the saonfice of what should be be]4 
 most saeredf wab ready, it appearsi to be made.«-i^ 
 But let us hope that due rdleotion upon the in^ 
 justice, the grievous sin, of such en abeudonment 
 of a property on which the spiritual welfare of 
 millions may depend^ will only confirm the rese* 
 lution and make the determination irrevooablei 
 never, while British faith and justice can claim to 
 be respected, to divest one acre of those landSy ^ 
 one shilling of their revenue, from the sacred 
 causa to which they have been assigned. We 
 oannot, for an instant, admit the plea that ihe^ 
 people of this country may,' of right, deal as thejjjr < 
 please with this property ; because itis nelnoWji 
 publio property, but one solemnly set apart, and 
 speeially dedicated to holy uses : it hu^fer yeeie 
 been employed, in part at least, for religidus puf^ 
 poses ; and it pannot, without the most flagrant tim 
 ohition of justice, be diverted from such uses, \m*i 
 less it can be proved that it has been perverted to 
 objects hostile to the State, and such as threateni 
 tp overturn the moral order or Bocial peace of the 
 country. Nor have we any confidence in the aif| 
 sertion that the Parliament of this country are thii 
 best jud^s of the manner in which this proper^ 
 should be applied any more than Hhat they ha^* 
 the best right to make such an appropriation oli| 
 as they may deem expedient. We doubt the o^^ 
 while we deny the other. We doubt the jEiurQesJI 
 and sotthdness of the judgment whioh. w^ocdd b<i ' 
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 Hod weempbaticallydenf the right to Iw inher- 
 iliit, as they eontendi in a mere section of the in-» 
 habitants of a greAt Empire. Often, when our 
 wdrldly interests are concerned, and the bearings 
 at trade and commerce are discussed, we claim to 
 be esteemed and treated as part and parcel of thii^, 
 I^piie,^li|e the inhabitants of one of the coun« 
 ties of Engiand. Let the claim, then, of ou3f ' 
 fellow »u)|so|iin Great Britain and Ireland ST 
 treeted as reoipfocal ; let the privilege be conce- 
 ded to theni ^ich we ask for ourselves. Let the 
 pHboiple be aidhinitted and acted upon, that the 
 Cleigy Reserves are not the property merely of 
 fte uJiabitants of this Province, but of the Empire 
 it laige,P-on th««i high ground of constitutional 
 light^ and for weighty practical reasons alsot. Our 
 Fiovince is receiving Continual accessions 6f po- 
 polation fh)m the Mother country, and those emi- 
 grants, we contend, have a right to every existing 
 privilege in the Colony. It were, therefore, on 
 lliepart of this Province, an arbitrary assumption 
 of right to make laws or statutes which would' 
 Abridge them of any such privilege,— of that h^h 
 teli^ious privilege, especially, which xnight be, 
 twught to reconcile them most to their expatria- 
 Hon fitom their native land, to alienate this ^^ 
 jrof»%/tlien, would be to dispone of tha%,l& 
 |6me temporal and selfish advantage, wW^^ 
 fefige to the nuUions of our fellow subjects m 
 United Kingdorti, as tnuch as to ourselves; And 
 '1M^i^f>m alienate titispioperty> would be to deal 
 
 
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 in a mo0t hiigh-handed and and arbitrary way with 
 an inheritance which belongs a« much to posterity 
 aa to the present generation. It has con^e to ua, 
 emphatioallyy with an entail, — stamped and bound 
 as such by the most solemn pledges and engage*- 
 ments: and we should be in the last degree 
 presumptuous \ and unrighteous in exercising a 
 Iraud upon, and a palpable injury of posterity, by 
 destroying of our own free will that entail., 
 — Our neighbours in the United States appear to 
 deal more sacredly and righteously with suoh 
 questions. With them it is held to be uncomtUu^ 
 tional to interfere with property conveyed to cor- 
 porate bodies in trust ' for sacred pulses. It 
 would be ruortifying, if we should b^ ' forced ti 
 pl^ce British justice in unfavourable contrast with 
 republican integrity, 
 
 Sv lU. But while we contend for a provision for the 
 maintenance ol^ religion which shall be beyond 
 the rfiach of hazard and uncertainty,—beyondthe 
 papriciousnessfand risk of the voluntary system> 
 as that is now commonly undeFstood and acted 
 tipoa; we must not, xx^ brethren, under-rate, or 
 feel ourselves relieved from, the obligations which 
 that systej^legitimatele viewed, imdoubtedljT 
 oompreheno^ Chr^ians^ will hardly be denied^ 
 are under a constraint just as strong as were Hm 
 Jews to contribute of their substance to the canee 
 Oif God ; and there is nothing in the force or olaiiiui 
 'd the Gospel dispensation ao low or inferior jui 
 oompariaon of that of the law# &4 to make na he^l^ 
 t«te«bout tha duty of i^iving «t^ )eMt. |m i«i0ei..m 
 
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 ftqnired to do then. It matten not whether this 
 be an obligation forced njjoja, ub by the letter of the 
 Urn of the land, or not : we are oopipelled to its 
 exeroiae by the law of oonacienoe and the law of 
 God. - .,.. ^ > 
 
 "■■ h Atid here, first, let us aoourately nnderstahd 
 w^t is the nature and origin of the law of the 
 land upon the sulfjeot, where such law existtr 
 Kings and private individuals, out of A prqusrty 
 vhiok was undeniably their own, solemnly dedi* 
 4Mited to God that proportion of its fruits or revenue 
 whiok, from the beginning of time, appears to 
 iMYf been rendered back to the great Giver by 
 Miktmttponiy earthly proprietor. Thaf special 
 «DBSeoration, made voluntarily and rightly by , 
 themselves, they rendered permanent and perpe* 
 tual by the sanction of law : they bound upoa 
 their ^osterity,^upon aU who should hereafter b^ 
 4he peasessofs of that property^ — the same appio* 
 piiation tat pious or charitable uses : it went dowil 
 iitmi genemtieR to generation with that we}I* 
 imdenlood iiad acknowledged entail of one^tenth 
 lor God and hii^ Church. Let none say, then^ 
 Itlilit either individuals or the state have power t^ 
 alieiuite that entailed appropriation : it is as muich , 
 til^ property of God's Church, as the rent or 
 W KI^ffBf elaime^ by the owner of any oidinalf 
 
 iMbom those to whom he may lease it. ^ 
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 Maft^r we shall stand or fall, as we obey mc negWot 
 that duty. There is ab«auty, too, in this voluntary 
 exercise of the obligation to render oar dues to 
 God : in the free working of this part of charity, 
 we are better testifying the influence of its whole 
 grace in our hearts. And this indebted Appropria- 
 tion can be given fijdly and unostentatiously' 
 through the medium of the ordinary and long- 
 established channels. It can be made through ^ 
 the annual pew-rent,— the offertory alms,— the 
 direct contribution for the maintenance of minis- 
 ters,— the fixed allotment of Church Institutioita, 
 through all these it can be distributed fully 
 and equitably. Yet, with the best intentions, 
 there will be but a capricious and^doubtful, and 
 perhaps a scant appropri^ion to God's cause and 
 iefvice, if the rule of << laying by in store,*' be not 
 acted upon rigidly and conscientipusly. There 
 must be an habitual reservation, a systematic set- 
 ting apart of what thus belongs to God; eke, 
 ,when the claim is presented, and this meet sacied 
 of aU dues is called for, it may not be ready, and 
 jthere will be perchance a shuffling excuse, and^ 
 last the hard-hearted denial of the whole!., v^^t 
 J t. In speaking of the channels and ag^heyi 
 ihiough which that bounty may be made to efifed 
 ' its pious end, I cannot refrain from mentioning 
 ; specifically that valuabte institution, the ikwrtk 
 ySociMy ; in and through which the alms and offer<»r- 
 -Inga of Chiirchmen m8yi>e made to work in ha»- 
 im o ny fog God^a glory, a nd t h e we lfa re of our 
 
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 ^«<ioiii me bore any urgency of appeal in i£/ behalf,: 
 
 at works for a large rariety of pioua and benetolent 
 
 fNtr^oses ; and if, like other institutions of human 
 
 . ooustruction, and upon which human mftrmity 
 
 and temptation can be brought to bear, it should 
 
 liaye its season of shadow and adversity, we 
 
 •hall mU|il help to dissipate the cloud than suffer 
 
 the darkne^ or distress to accumulate and deepen 
 
 rsround it. Earnestly, then, would I urge the 
 
 lormation of an As^ooiation in every parish or 
 
 loisMon where one does not already exist,— the 
 
 Appointment annually ef active ofiicers, — and the 
 
 >^teady and vigorous working of the whole machi- 
 
 ilMry which i&e oenstitijjiamfornishes, And I 
 
 Would vliture to "pe^SMMpy onlHto dti% 
 
 Inoumbent upon all ClX^^iefih the Diocese to 
 
 iHiake the collections in its behalf, or for its trusts, 
 
 4rt or as near as possible to the time when they are 
 
 jiiired in the announcements made by the 
 
 fity of the Bishop. I mention this, because . 
 
 Acing over the lists of periodical aoknovr* 
 
 -lodgments contained in the Annual Reporta (rf 
 
 the Society, we observe many cases in whiohy 
 
 Joi one or other, or perhaps for all, of such 
 
 idbjeotfl, n» ooilectioos have been made. I do not 
 
 ithinky my reverend brethren, that we have hare 
 
 iW|^ diaoretioiiary power. .Whether the object 
 
 >4i(^e ^o<^leotion accords, or not,^with our owii^ 
 
 jgriyate opinion of its fitness or ithportanoe, ob» 
 
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 dlftotod, and leave the result to their own e|ipt#* 
 oUtion, by God's help and dinotk(% ^ ita taltt^ 
 or urgency* 
 
 n J^* Wo have spoken of spirituil deatitutiony— 
 n^y desolate places in the l»ndf— a vast moral 
 desert, and bleak solitude around ua r while, then, 
 we turn our anxious thoughts to Xhs means an4 
 resources for maintaihing those who are to culti- 
 vate and till it, we arie bound to look, with equal ___ 
 earnestness, for those who shall be the labourers 
 in this wide and fruitless region. If we had, 
 at this moment, boundless pecuniary means at 
 our command, we have, confessedly, not the men 
 on whose maintenance they could be expended. 
 It is vain to be looking to the Mother Country fof 
 inadequate supply of labourers in out Colonial 
 vineyard : we may, now and then, at iMig inter- 
 vals and in scanty supply, obtain those who can 
 bring us from our father-land the knowtedge and 
 flie experience which there are there so many bet-» 
 4Bt opportunities of obtaining. B^t the cWldren of 
 the Church in the Mother Country are alive to 
 tfceir own wants now, m a degree which a quatN 
 ter of a century ago was unknown : the Church 
 there is, on every side, lengthening her cords and 
 : Btrengthening her stakes ; and, therefoie, there ax» 
 but few to spare for Work in the Lord's vineyard 
 beyond the seas. Moreover, the richest endpiw* 
 meats of learning acquired ito the unrivalled 
 Universities of the Mother Country, —the invalm-s 
 1^ expe r ience obtained by judioioue and f ailh r 
 fttl training in l^er admirable pftrootual iyste^^^r^^p- 
 
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 tioEwith the high a&d gitted and excellent of the 
 earthi— *all these, if transported to otir ihorea^ 
 would not alone, or at onoe, oomiiensate for the 
 #an> of that local experience which is so eseeiH 
 * tkJ to ministerial success; that sympathy with 
 the feelings and habits and wants of the countryy 
 without which the best zeal and the highest ta- 
 lents would have comparatively a bahren exercise* 
 While,then, for a^i'adequate numerical supply of *^ 
 >x Ministers, we ipfiudt look chiefly to ourselves, we 
 i|te iKHmd to seek fof them, and encourage themi 
 fod train them from amongst ourselves, as pror 
 mising, on the whole, the most extended and per^ 
 ttianent usefulness. A large interfusion of labout- 
 ivs from our father-land with those who are reared 
 imongst ourselves, we shall always regard as a 
 boon * the habits and experience of the old world 
 tKUbe most advantageously intermingled with 
 the sentiments and sympathies of the new. 
 
 l;*But, in this acknowledged deficiency of la- 
 bourers, what fact meets us? Only here and 
 tiiere,— ~a i^nute fraction in comparison with the 
 mimbeirof those who engage in other professions, 
 ^NHjire young men, from our older and more influ- 
 IHltial families, coming forward as candidates for 
 tjie saoied ministry. Itjiurely cannot arise firaa 
 any. impression that it ranks not amongst the 
 mitt hcNiourablQ of professions, and the most gr»<* 
 tifying of employment, that we find, in so maoy 
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 difltinotion. But here we might argue that weatth . 
 aoon perishes, whereas iha saUsiactioa of beingi 
 iathe moat exalted sense, useful to manikind> 
 nayei dies: we might «how that human fameW ,. 
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 not: above all, we may contend that weaie i^ 
 thaAvocation, working for immortality, and th^ 
 t)i0 commendation and reward of our Mak« aaA 
 Be^emer is infihitely beyond all the satisfiwti0» 
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 a. Coatemplating this scaccity of candidala* 
 for the saered ministry, we are ted t<i ask ^^^ 
 tb© dedioation, in certain oases, of a son to tto 
 minifilry ot the sanctuary, be not amongttth^ 
 WRa we ow to God. We may have our diMibt«^ 
 whether talent and disposition shall, in alter ywaiir 
 walizath© wisdom pf that vow; yet this naed 
 nolbe regaided as irrevocaWo, i^ ^ exemae of 
 a soun^ pnidence should constrain us to chaag^ 
 tikw dtatiactian of that child. Certain it is, hf^^ 
 mfet, that such dedication of a child is moallik^ 
 td enauie the corresponding training ; white tWI 
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 !8. In regarding ttj^PHpilrcity ofjiabourers in the 
 Tineyard of the Lord amongst us^ we are naturally 
 led to some remarks upon the Institution in which 
 candidates for the sacred ministry may, with 
 God's help, be furi^jphed with those varied quali- 
 fictitions w}iich are necessary for the high and 
 aolemii work before them. Such an Institution 
 we now haye, as complete as is needed for nrer^ 
 sent purposes, in our Church University of Trimty 
 College at Toronto. I need not repeat to you^ 
 brethren^ the circumstances which have led' to 
 the fontationiof this Institution : suffice it to say, 
 that the undertaking was fwced upon us as con* 
 /soientious Churchmen. Futtftig out of the ques- 
 *tion the high character of j the gentlemen who 
 conduct the University of Toronto, we could not 
 entrust the education of our youth — of those, espe* 
 \ oially, designed for the ministry of God^s Chnich^ 
 •-40 an Institution which recognizes no Church 
 prinoiples; which excludes religious teaching aa 
 an habitual and systematic training; which al» 
 lows no public exercise of the duties of devottoa 
 -#itiiin its walls ; and which discourages so point* 
 idly the employment of those who would^ from 
 pij^ssion and habit, be most disposed to Inciil* 
 e«tl^ the doctrines and practice of ClU3itiani^r# 
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 the teaching, we are thrown necessarily npon oar 
 own resources as individulil members tif the 
 Church; i^nd in making these arailable to the 
 maintenance of our CollegCv much vigour and 
 zeal and liberality must, in every quarter, be put 
 forth. God, in his goodness, has so far greatly 
 prospered the ri^tepus endeavour ; but the suc- 
 cess which Hb favour has already begotten, in 
 giving fresh vigour to our hopes, should impart 
 new life to our energies in its behalf;** Itxnight ' 
 be advisable to have, at leasTin some of our 
 larger and wealthier parishes, a column in the 
 annual subscription-list of the Church Society, 
 for such a? might feel it in their power to bestow 
 a special contribution, from time to time^ if not 
 from year ta year, towards this important object. 
 And tibere nwiy be not a few, whoj in apportipn- 
 ing a share of their proj^rty to pious-and charitable 
 nses after their deaths toight be vrillmg to appro- 
 priate a. legacy in money or land towards our 
 Church University ; and perhaps only a hint or ' 
 suggestion' on^ our parts maybe needed, to ensure ' 
 in many quarters a willing j and it may be a libe- 
 ral aid, in this manner, towards its permanent 
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 equitable a- distribution as poissible of the labourers 
 who may be at command; that, while vacancies 
 ttttf in the firtft instance supplied, there may h^ 
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 sUrength tmongst the many olaimants oC the 
 advantages of a resident clergyman. To effect 
 this desirable end, I would suggest that the 
 several Rural Deans do annually make a re- 
 port to their respective Archdeacons, or to th© 
 Examining Chaplains of the Lord Bishop, if more 
 
 oonveiiientj of the several places within the 
 bounds of the Rural Deaneries which require the 
 services of a clergyman. It would be. d©»imble, 
 at the same time, to state what proportion of the 
 population of puch places, respectively, pertain to 
 the Church of England, and the distance of each 
 from any accessible ministrations; what is the 
 largest space which a clergyman, if appointed, , 
 might be enabled advantageously to occupy; and 
 what preparations have been made by each for 
 the encouragement, and towards the support, of 
 a resident minister. In this way, by a compam- 
 tive ^estimate of the wants aiil claims of the places 
 thus reported, there could be the exactest justice 
 exercised m the allotment of those, be they few or 
 many, who should year by year be added to the 
 ministry ; and in this way no ground would be 
 left for the complaint, which is now sometimes 
 expressed, tha^t the Revenue from the Clergy Re-* 
 serve Fund is not equitably distributed as respects 
 the claimants whom it is made toreadh. 1 would 
 oidy add. upon this point, that the report, to tiie 
 beiiiMi^^^"^^^ ^ ^^^ referred, should be in 
 the hands of the Archdeacons, or of the Bishop!* 
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 hpld ahout the boginniug <rf October in each yew- 
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 ihat the remarks and suggestiona it should con- , 
 tain must bear almost exclusively upon vrhat i^ 
 fers to the temporal circumstan©es of the ChuroB^ 
 and the efficiehcy\of its outward organisation as 
 ' affected by its financial resources. But I cannot 
 conclude without reminding yon,---a8 we are 
 bound to remind one another,— that, in. this case 
 for, the external prosperity of the Church, we have 
 mainly in view the inaintenance of that by which 
 its internal vitaBty ao^ troth may be assured and 
 perpetuated. We have the Lord's promise that 
 a the gates of hell shall not prevail against hia 
 Church;^' and we should be of little faith, in- 
 deed, if we did not rely vipon ii& exactest fulfill- 
 ment of that promise. Yet, strong and immove- 
 able as our confidence may be, we have x»& 
 warrant for the relaxing of our individual exer^ 
 tions: on' the contrary, the indications in God V 
 word are most clear and positive that we should 
 be « fellow-workers with Him" in upholding and 
 extending the filly framed edifice of His Church, 
 U we do not employ the means, graciously vouch- 
 safed to us, for thus mainUining this holy stmc- 
 ture, and especially in what lA so essential to its 
 purposed benefits^ its ministerial appointment*, 
 we are to believe that God wiU shift the trust and 
 deposit of Hia ark, the Ghuich, to more faithftl 
 hands, who will chefifdl it as the treasure it 
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 hare eaoh of us oar talentsy in respeot to duty to 
 God's Churohy to employ to profitable aocount. 
 Upoa the Clergy alone: rests not this weighty 
 trnstt our brethren, who are, as Churchwudensy 
 Ihe lepresentatires of our several congregation^ 
 ihould feel, as we trust 'they do feel, that the 
 duty of upholding the goodly structure of the 
 Church, in idl its completeness, devolves largely 
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 den duty, let us act in unison as well as with vig* 
 bhr and faithfulness^ Let us testify that our work 
 is one, by harmony of acti<m ; that theM uTa^mr 
 mon bond of union,f— one Lord to serve, one &ith 
 to oontend for, one treasure above for which to con- 
 centrate our efibrts. And let us prove by holiness 
 and pureness of living, as well as by zeal and de- 
 TQftedness in labour, that the reward we aim at is 
 one far be3rond these fleeting- and perishable 
 scenes ; that the gaining of souls to Christ, and 
 not the acquisition of the possessions of the world, 
 is the motive for << rising early, and so late taking 
 rest, and eating the bread of carefulness." ^ . 
 May we, my Reverend brethren, in a fitting 
 oontemplation of our awful responsibilities as am- 
 bassadors for Christ, be instant in declaring thto 
 whole <ceansel of God, and earnest and actiye in 
 those labours of love, whiph attest the genuin#*> 
 nelB of llith. Persuaded that the only foundation 
 of hope and trust is Christ crucified, may We 
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