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But supposing it to be so, I am noved to offer to you one or two considerations which, as it seems to me, ought to make thoughtful persons desirous of keeping things somewhat as they are. If I think I can aid in guarding a neighbour from a seriou.s mistake, I am bound to do so j and if my words are disi-egarded, I still enjoy the pleasui*e of having done what I could. You know what a deep interest I have taken in the Life and Cai-ecr of our ever-memomble bishop, Dr. Strachan, and in the his- tory and i-eputation of St. James's Church, especially on his account. As evidence of this, I of courae point to my " First Bishop of To- i-onto, a Review and a Study," and to "Toronto of Old," wherein the annals of St. James's Church fill thirty-five octavo pages. Now it is the memory of Bishop Strachan which, as it appears to me, ought to act as a bar to such a change in the character of St. James's Church as is said to be contemplated. 2" There can be no doubt that it is a part of the C'hurch of England system to have iu each of its dioceses a representative church-edifice. This has evidently been a principle in the outward economy of the English Church wherever practicable, in the dioceses of modern foundation, as in those of a foundation many centuries old. Such a representative building is not only a seemly symbol of unity, but an actual subsidiary to unity, not at all to be despised. With the true instinct of a bishop, and following the example of great bishops in other parts af our communion, Dr. Strachan laboured, long before he had himself attained to that office, to create a representative church- edificr for Western Canada. He rendered as noble as possible the church which was likely in the future to V)e the chief church of a dio- cese, and where the bishop of that diocese would probably exercise his functions. While still a presbyter, in 1818, he transformed the un- pretending barnlike shell, in which had assembled the infant congregation of St. James during a period of about twelve years, into a churchly edifice, with a])propriate arrangements within,, and marked, without, by a graceful tower and belfry and spire. And when, after the lapse of some fourteen years, this, structure was found altogether too snmll for its congregatioUy he caused it to be taken down, and its place supplied by a church of much larger dimensions and more dignified in point ofT style, fashioned in fact closely after the plan of the English, cathedral at Quel)ec, and the then Christ-Church of Montreal, and constructed as they were, of massive stone. Through the instrumen- tality of Dr. Strachan, the English Church was thus as worthily represented in Toronto, in 1833, as it was, at the time, in Quebec and Montreal. In 1839, howevei', the solid and spacious building, expected to suffice for the prospective needs of the English Church for many a year, was desolated by fire; and this at the very juncture when its pastor was about to be summoned to England for consecra- tion as first bishop of Toronto. The pi'ompt energy of the bishop- elect, as by a slight anticipation we may style him, was equal to the occasion. The loss was quickly repaired. His devoted people, ever ready at his call to assist him in his heroic enterprises, were now doubly forward to do so, being proud of the fact that their pastor was to be their bishop, and their ch'irch-edifice further distinguished by becoming his cathedral. St. James's was restored, and, by the completion of its tower and spire, made even more seemly than. 4 8 "before. And the edifice, thus reconstructed and perfected, might have been, at this hour, doing duty as tlie cathedral of Toronto with a certain modest dignity, just as tlie original cathedral at Quebec, built in 1304, is still doing. But disaster again carae. Like its predecessor, this church was also destroyed by tire. Again the bishop passed through the ordeal nobly. Again the enthusiasm of his flock stood him in good stead, and the outcome of the crisis was the beautiful building which now graces our city, and gives cha- racter and finish to its whole aspect. Here to his dying day the ■ever-memorable bishop sat, ruling with wisdom and justice; and here most fittingly, amidst surroundings which he had toiled to -create, to preserve and to perijetuate, his mortal remains were deposited. Without dwelling any further on the history of St. James's, I -simply ask if it is not a kind of undoizig of an important part of our first bishop's life-work, to strip it of the character with which ihe had invested it, and divert it from a use to which he expected it ever to be put, in accordance with a universal and beneficial practice in the communion whose interests he had so much at heart? Should not the pewholders of St. James's Church, the succes- sors and representatives of the bishop's own flock, be the last to assent to what would look like an act of disloyalty to his memory ? " Ye have not many fathers !" was the aged Paul's pathetic appeal to sons in the faith who had begun to shew themselves somewhat for- getful of him in his absence. I venture to cite these words to you, and leave them to their eflect. There is of course a sense in which we must call no man father. Nullius add'ictus jurare in verba magistri is a motto as good for a Christian man now as it was for the heathen poet of old. But as between the first bishop of Toronto and the congregation of St. James's Church, in perpetual succession, the term " father," as used by St. Paul, can never cease to be scripturally lawful, and full of force. In fine, I would ask in regard to the change said to be con- templated, whether, besides shewin/; a want of fealty to the departed bishop, it would not be likewise f. kind of wrong to the Church of England throughout the city and throughout the diocese? Not- withstanding what may be said, have not the members of our communion, in accordance witli the temper of their forefathers, bugun to take a degree of pride in the beautiful building which for so long a period has been the outward and visible sign of their church and system ? Notwithstanding what may be said, is there not in this feeling a certain tie of oneness .amongst the people of the diocese, which it would be a pity to unloose 1 And would not violence be done to this good j.nd useful feeling, if all the mem- bers of the Church of England throughout the city and through- out the diocese were to be told that the representative building of their communion and place of their bishop's chair, was no longer the well-known mother-church of Toronto, but one of its offshoots — one of tlie lesser and i-ecently founded churches of the city? Fancy the dismay — nay, the honest resentment — among the members of the Church of England in one of the dioceses of England, if they were informed that the noble etlifice which from their childhood they had been wont to regard as a kind of ecclesiastical focus and rallying- point, was no longer to be viewed in this light ; but that now one of the lesser parish churches of the cathedral town must be substituted in its stead ! Suppose the Minster at York or Christ Church at Canterbury thus dislodged from its place of honour in the minds of the church-people of Yorkshire or Kent, and think of the confusion of thought, and real sorrow of heart that would ensue ! Would not the effect, in a certain measure, be similar among members of our communion throughout the diocese of Toronto, if the status of a cathedral were to be taken away from the beautiful and conspicuous building which so long has been invested with that character, and transferred to an edifice of comparative obscurity amongst us ? As I have already said — I cannot believe that the pewholders of St. James' Church are, as a body, willing that anything like this should happen. But my long experience with congregations leads me to fear that all this might happen " without their knowing," as people often say when it is just too late. We of the clergy teach congregations, very properly, to love quietness and to be docile ; and, to its honour, the gi'eat bulk of every congregation is dis- posed to be so. Stirring advocates of change take advantage of this fact, when a point has to be carried ; sometimes for good, as I am quite ready to allow, but also sometimes for the contrary. It has become therefore essential in these days that, to a praiseworthy love \ of pence, there should be added watchftilness uiul intelligence ; antl a readiness, should the occasion require it, to come forward and act, even when it may be personally inconvenient and not pleasant to do so. If this line be not adopted, the well-disiKjsed and law-abiding amongst us will find themselves continnr'ly thrust to the wall. The few will dominate and compromise the many. The general interests of our chuicii and communion will sutler; and our prestige and influence will no longer be what they were. I am aware of the difficulties that beset the cathedral question, now that it has been opened. But I cannot believe that they are so great that good feeling, candour and generosity might not sur- mount them. It is most desirable that the issue of the present crisis should be an enduring settlement. I can only add my mite of recommendation ; which is, that inquiry should at once be made, if it has not already been done, as to the methods by which similar difficulties, involving probably interests more complicated than any which are presented here, have been met and adjusted, in recent times, in England, at Ripon, Manchester, St. Albans, Truro, Liver- pool and Newcastle. Would not all acquiesce in the arrangements and mutual accommodations which English justice and good sense have dictated under very similar circumstances ] H Very sincerely yours, H. S. 10 Trinity Square, Toronto, June 1st, 1882.