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My Reverend Brethren and Brethren of the Laity :

Addressing you from this place for the first time in
Synod assembled, as your Bishop, you will readily
understand me, and sympathize with me, when I say,
that having taken a survey of the holy, vast and im-
portant work committed to my trust, I feel over-
whelmed with the magnitude of the Charge, and the
responsibility of my Office,

But for " the grace of God," I should despairingly
cry out, in the language of the Apostle : — " Who is
sufficient for these things ;" and the consciousness that
I have your prayerful sympathy, is an unspeakable
comfort tc me.

Feeling more strongly, than I ever felt belore, the
constant need and guidance of the Holy Ghost, let me
entreat you to remember me always in your prayers,
that grace may be given me to be '* a wise and faithful
Servant," giving to the family of God, committed to
my over ight, "their portion in due season ;" serving
God in this Office to the glory of His Name, and to
the edifying and well-governing of His " Church,
which He hath purchased with His own blood."

It is you who — under God — have placed me in this
high and responsible position ; all I can promise is — by
the grace of God — to labour diligently, pray fervently
and constantly for the good of the Flock of Christ over
which I am called to watch, as one who must give an
account for his Stewardship.

CONSECRATION.

The 24th of August last was to me a solemn and
memorable day — my consecration to the Episcopate.

IV.

The Most Rev. the Bishop of Montreal and Metro-
politan of Canada acted as Consecrator, The Right
Revs, the Bishops of Ontario and Toronto as Presenters,
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Michigan, The Right
Rev. Bishop Bedell — Assistant Bishop of Ohio — and
The Right Rev. the Bishop of Duneden assisted in the
service, and in "the laying on of Hands." A large
number of the Clergy and Laity were present also.

My friend the Rev. Dr. Boomer — now Dean of
Huron — preached an able and eloquent Sermon, suited
to the occasion, which has since been published in the
last journal of our Synod.

The late lamented Bishop of Huron was unable to
be present, owing to his then feeble state of health,
which was a source of deep regret not to ine only, but
to all who took part in the solemn Service.

Since then " it hath pleased Almighty God of His
great mercy to take to Himself, the soul of our dear
brother."

It is but due, that we, who have met for the first
time in Synod assembled, since the demise of our late
Bishop, should put on record our tribute of love and
respect for his memory. From my long and intimate
acquaintance with him, I rejoice to bear here my pub-
lic testimony, that he was a true, experimental and
faithful Servant of Christ — ever jealous in every posi-
tion he occupied — for the simplicity of Gospel truth.

What success attended his labours, under God, as
Bishop of this Diocese, focts speak ! The^ number of
Clergy more than doubled during the 14 years of his
Episcopate. He has gone ripe for the garner to his
heavenly rest. His last illness, which was very trying,
he bore with true Christian fortitude, being enabled
continuallv to realize the love and faithfulness of his
Saviour, and to enjoy the full assurance that when his
earthly house of this tabernacle was dissolved, he
would enter into possession of the house, not made

with hands, eternal in the heavens. Truly and sin-
cerely could I give utterance to the words of Scripture,
as I was bending over his grave : — " Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord ; even so saith the Spirit ;
for they rest from their labours, and their works follow
them."

We shall soon proceed to take counsel together and
to deliberate, in what way we can best promote and
further the interests of our beloved Zion. And while
engaged in the necessary business to discuss Canons
and make or alter Laws for the good and economic
government of the Church, I trust that every utterance
and act within these walls will testify that we have
the mind of Jesus ; that we are actuated by a spirit of
brotherly love and holy zeal, and that we are truly
** knit together in unity of Spirit, in the bonds of
peace and in righteousness of life." Let it be our
united prayer, that by the power and influence of the
Holy Ghost, this Synod may prove fruitful in blessed
results, to each and all of us, and tend to strengthen
our union and sympathy in loyal attachment to our
ancient and blessed inheritance of " Evangelical truth
and Apostolic order."

EPISCOPAL ACTS, &c., &c.

During the short period of my Episcopate, T have
been enabled to visit a large portion of the Diocese, a
detailed report of which will be printed in the Journal
of the Synod.

I shall here simply give a summary of my work : —

3G0 liave been confirmed.

9 persons have been admitted to the Diaconate.

3 have l)eeu Priested.

3 Churches have been Consecrated.

y opened for Divine SeiTice.

I preached 05 Sermons

Made 35 Addresses.

Administered 11 times the Holj* Communion.

Baptized 10 persons.

Travelled about 3,500 miles.

VI.

CHURCH SERVICES, &c., &c.

The subject of abbreviating our Services, and how
to conduct them with a view of securing, a far as pos-
sible, harmony of practice, and making them more
suitable to the several wants of our larger Parishes, and
more especially in regard to our extensive and widely-
separated Mission-Stations, has often been brought
before our Synods.and the Bishops are not unfrequently
appealed to for counsel and authority on these matters.
Anxious to meet the wishes of the Clergy, I would
affectionately recommend — until the Synod of this
Diocese, or the Provincial Synod has authoritatively
passed a Canon on this subject — the following for your
guidance : —

1. The Public Services in Churches or Chapels, to begin always with one
or two of the Scripture sentences, as provided by the Rubric, viz. : " The
Minister shaU READ with a loud voice, some one or more of these sentences of
Scripture,' ^c, Jfc.

2. In Parish Churches, the Morning Prayer ; the Litany and the Commu-
nion Office, may be used as separate services, provided that the former and
the latter be '-Jth used during the Forenoon of E trery Sunday; and that
the Litany may be used either in the Forenoon or Afternoon.

8. That in Missionary Churches where the Clergyman ministers to more
than one congregation on the same day, he may curtail the customary
Morning Service, so long aa one or more of the three Offices be used in its
entirety, and so long alsa as the several congregations shall have each one
of the Offices brought before them at least once a month.

4. That when the Holy Communion is administered, there shall be a

Sause after the Prayer for the Church Militant, to afford opportunity for
fon-Communicauts to withdraw. And when there is no Communion, the
Service conclude with the Prayer for the Church Militant, Collect, and
Benediction, as ordered by the Rubric.

5. Before the Sermon, the Lord's Prayer may be omitted, and a Collect
used only.

In Reference to VESTURE and POSTURE, &c.,&c.,

I would recommend the following for adoption, which
I have taken from the Canons of the " Church of Ire-
land :— "

(a). " Every Presbyter and Deacon at all times of his publie ministration
of the Service-s of the Church, shall wear a plain vhite Surplice with
sleeves, and such minister may wear Bands, and upon the Surplice the cus-
tomary Scarf or Stole of plain silk, and being a Graduate he may wear the
Hood pertaining to his Degree. And no minister shall wear any other
ecclesiastical Vestment or Ornament, provided that any minister shall be
at liberty to wear a plun Black Gown when preaching.''

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VII.

(b). " Every Minislcr at all times of bis public ininiHtration of tbo Ser-
vices of the dburili, shnll HDealc in a distiuct voice, uoci so place himself
that the people may convenVntly licarlfitn unto what is saitl, and in no case
whpn he is otfeniig up prayer uhuli his bacl( be turned to the Cungregatiou."

(c). " Every MiniHter, when saying tlie Priiycr of Consecration in tlie Her-
vice prescribed for the administration of the Lord's Bupper, shall stand at
the North-side of the Table,— by wliich, both liere and in the Rubric of the
Communion Office, is to be understood that sid»; or end of the Table which
in Churches lying East and West, is towards the North."

(d). " The Communion-Table shall be a moveable Table of wood, and
shall have such decent Covering as the Ordinary shall approve of; but for
the administration of the Lord's Supper it shall be covered as provided by
the Rubric."

(e). " No Minister shall elevate the Bread or Wine used in the celebra-
tion of the Lord's Supper ; nor shall lie give, or by word or gesture appear
to give any adoration thereto ; nor shall he bow the Head, or do any other
act of obeisance thereto."

CONCERNING THE HYMNAL TO BE USED IN

TH^S DIOCESE.

Until the Synod haa finally decided on this question
also, I would recommend the one generally in use in
this Diocese, or that published by the S. P. C. K.

Gladly would I have recommended the use of
"Hymns Ancient and Modern," but having lately
very carefully examined the same, I have no
hesitation in declaring — while admitting the excel-
lency and Scriptural character of very many — that I
cannot approve of the present Collection. Not because
that some of them are translations from the Romish
Breviaries, but simply from the fact that many of
these hymns are unscriptural and contrary to the au-
thoritative teaching of the Church of England.

I would equally object to such false teaching, come
from what source it will. I do not exaggerate when
I say that some of the Hymns — objected to both by
the moderate "High Church,"and"Evangelical Schools,'*
— boldly teach the Romish doctrines of Transubstanti-
ation ; the Real Presence in the Sacramental Bread
and Wine ; the Adoration of the Elements ; Invocation
of Saints, and other kindred false doctrines, which
caused our separation from the Church of Bome at the
cost of England's " Noble Army of Martyrs."

VIII.

INVOCATION OF SAINTS is distinctly taught in
Hymn 50, which is a translation from the ROMAN
BREVIARY. The Proto-Martyr St. Stephen is thus
addressed : —

" First of Martyrs, thou whoso name

Doth thy golden crown prociaira ;
Not of flowers tluit fade away

Weave wc this TJ I Y CKOWN to-day. •. ;,

' ' Sec, 4.C., to. \

See also Hymn 53, which commences thus : — ' .

" A Hymn for Martyrs sweotlj' sinj; ;
.' For INNOCENTS YOUR PRAISES bring." ■\ .

ice, tLO., Ac.

In Hymn 376, The Virgin Mary is still more boldly
thus invoked : —

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" Shall we not love thee, MOTHER DEAR,

WJHMn .Tc>;iiH loved so well V
And in his Temple year by year,

TH Y j oy and glory tell ?" , , , >. ; ,. ■ ■ . ,/ >

Surely our praises and adoration ought to l^e offered
up to the Cceator only, and not to His creatures !

In Hymn 96, the CROSS, the THORNS, NAILS
and LANCE are idolatrously thus addressed :—

*' Thorns, and Cross; and Nails and Lance, ' "^ /:

.,.,.. ,.,' Wounds our treiitsiire that enhance, i . '..<•': ';.r'; ..t'

Vinegar, and (jiall and Reed, , \r ./ , . »

■ And the pang His soul that freed — ! ' >• ■' •.

May THESE ALL our Spirit sate, . ( '; ''■..■■

And with love ii/ic6?ia<e ; >; ' , ;■ ! ;- '

In our souls plant .virtue's root ' "' ." il

1 And mature its glorious fruit." •• .. . ■-;

Sic, tic., Slc.

The REAL PRESENCE of Christ in the Bread and
Wine, and the ADORATION of the ELEMENTS are
])oldly taught in Hynms 203, 206, 242.

Hynni 84, the " Vexilla regis,'" is used in the Romish
Church in the Mass, on Good Friday ; and Xhe^^Adoro
te,'" 206, composed by Thomas Aquinus, is addressed
to the Holy Eucharist ; and Hymn 221 is a translation
from the " Dies /nc," which is usually sung in the
Masses for the dead.

These few examples or specimens, will suffice to
show that my voice of warning against the use of that

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Hymn book in our Cliurches or families is not raised
too early. ;■ ., ,■^ ,..'-■:, :^- ^;■'-? rrv •■: -; , ,•■ ■' ■.,:,:,,,

It is true that this Hymnal has ])een adopted by
many Churches on both sides the Atlantic — even hy
Non-Conformists — but I believe this has been effected
by insidious persevering efforts on the part of Ritualists
to force it. *'/jer fas aut ne/as," on the Clergy and
people, who were no!, or who are not aware of the
poisonous admixture of that Collection. The very ad-
mixture of Romish with Scriptural Hymns, set to
attractive music, increases the danger, and against
which I would warn all who love and desire to retain
the Scriptural character of our beloved Church in all
her services. . .

The Compilers have taken good care to administer
the poison homoeopath ically — in small but effectual

globules. , , if rri, : f

If all the Hymns were unsound, they would at once
have been detected, and very few would have been
deceived. It was therefore a skilful masterpiece of our
Anglican Romanizers to administer the poison in small
doses, not to be perceived immediately, but to effect
nevertheless eventually their purpose, of undermining
the Scriptural Constitution of our Reformed Church.

The rapid and wide circulation of these Hymns can
be traced to the confederate and re!:<oli)te efforts of the
Anglican Romanizers, who engaged in the undertaking,
pushed it forward with a view of supplanting the
Hymn Books of the S. P. C. K. and others, in which
they have wonderfully succeeded. Many of our more
vigilant Churchmen, becoming alarmed at this, brought
the matter before the Bench of Bishops and the House
of Lords, with a view of counteracting the dangerous
tendency of** Hymns Ancient and Modern."

"The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States of America," at their last General Convention,
and the " Church of Ireland," in Synod assembled,

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adopted Hymnals of their own, in which the objection-
able Hymns in "Hymns Ancient and Modern" have
been studiously, advisedly, and carefully omitted.
Thus in a direct and indirect way have the two noble
branches of the Mother Church authoritatively con-
demned the very Hymns to which I object. I have
no doubt that our English Houses of Convocation, who
have now under consideration a Hymnal to be adopted
by the Church at large, will follow the above example.

The Editors of the "Priests' Prayer Book," known
as the most advanced Ritualists, are so satisfied and
delighted with the good services "Hymns Ancient and
Modern" have rendered to their cause, that a more ad-
vanced Hymnal, known as the " London Hymnal," is
to be circulated broadcast in the Church, at Home and
in the Colonies.

These Hymns are only a part of a scheme to fami-
liarise our minds with Romish phraseology and doctrines,
and thus gradually, but surely, to train our people —
especially the young — for the reception of doctrines
and practices contrary to God's Word, contrary to the
teaching of our Church, and for the rejection of which
the Roman Hierarchy condemned our noble Reformers
to be burnt at the Stake.

It is a deplorable fact, that while these Ritualists
are wearing the uniform of the Church and eating her
bread, they are at the same time invading her sacred
territory by perseveringly teaching doctrines, and in-
troducing practices diametrically opposed to her autho-
ritative and dogmatic teaching as embodied in her
Liturgy, Homilies and Articles. For instance : — Our
Article XXVIIL Scripturally protests against the sub-
tle idolatry involved in TRANSUBSTANTIATION,
or the change of the substance of the sacramental bread
and wine into the real, natural, and incarnate body of
our Lord — a theory which makes the Sacrament destroy
itself, as such, by merging the sign, into the thing
signified, and in the very language of that Article, is

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declared to be " repugnant to the plain words of Scrip-
ture, overtliroweth the nature of a sacrament, and
hath given occasiou to many superstitions ;" and again,
our Article XXXI., which in bold, and faithful lan-
guage condemns the Romanist doctrine of the SAC-
RIFICE OF THE MASS, as being "blasphemous
fables and dangerous deceits," are notwithstanding,
undisguisedly, and in defiance of all protests, taught
by these Ritualists, as can be amply proved from their
own authorized publications. . ,<

I shall here give only a few quotations to show that
my remarks are not exaggerated : — -

In "The Church of the World," page 236, we read
thus :

" Nothing can ever make up for the loss ot the perpetual Presence of
God incarnate, under the form of bread, on the altar ; or for the practical
change which has turned our Clergy from a sacrificing Priestliood into a
preaching Ministry." < -..

After Consecration of the Elements, the Communi-
cant is directed in " The Little Primer," page 07, thus
to pray : —

'•By the words of which the hread becomes the body of Christ and the
wine the blood." " I believe, O, Jesus, that Thou art truly present ; I wor-
ship Thee as the Shepherds worshipped Thee, as the wise men adored
Thee."

In the same "Little Primer,'* page 16, the Commu-
nicant is further instructed thus to act : —

" To bow down the head and body in deepest adoration when the Priest
says the awful words, and to worship the Saviour then verily and indeed
present on His altar."

The PROPITIATORY SACRIFICE of the MASS
FOR THE DEAD is taught in "The Altar Manual,"
pages 12 and 16, in the following prayer : —

" Grant that the Sacrifice may be a propitiation for me, and for -rill for
whom I have offered it."

The DOCTRINE of PURGATORY, which our Art.
XXII. dogmatically declares to be a "fond thing, vainly
invented and grounded on no warranty of Scripture,
but rather repugnant to the word of God," is neverthe-
less believed in, and taught by Ritualists in the "Tracts

XII.

for the Day," Nos. 2 and 10, pages 28 and 46, in which
the following words occur : —

" Those who are neither with the saints nor with tJie damned suffer preat
anguish, and that meantime their souls are benefitted by the prayers, and
offerhi;;3 of the Church, and by alms given in their behalf; and that those
who have not died beyond the pale of Salvation receive mitigation in their
Bufferings, and ultimate release ; and that possibly those who are lost gain
a mitigation which may last through Eternity.

Further, that by omitting the practice of " men flocking to the altar of
God there to offer up their prayers in conjunction with the A.ll-prevailing
Sacrifice for their departed friends, the dead have been defrauded of their
right." "Worse than all that, through a great part of Western Chris-
tendom the voice of prayer for their peace and refreshment has already
ceased for 300 yeare ; thus the perfecting of the saints has been retarded,
and the great day of final reckoning postponed."

INVOCATION OF SAINTS and ANGELS is taught
and practiced : —

" O, Holy Michael, Prince of the tieavenly Host, pray for us,"

Again : —

" Blessed Mary, Mother of God, ever Virgin, pray for \is."—(Vide Invoc.
of Saints and Angels, by Rev. 0. Shipley, p. 66.)

But the worst feature of these Ritualists is that
they determinately remain within the bosom of the
Church, while they are abusing and reviling the Re-
formers, the Church of the Reformation, and the
Bishops, who, in faithfulness to their trust, remon-
strate against their teachings and practices. A few
quotations in proof of this will suffice : —

A writer in GJmrch and the World {Ed. 1866, p. 237,)
says : —

" Our place is appointed us among Protestants, and in a communion
deeply tainted in its practical system by Protestant heresy ; but our duty is
the expulsion of evil, and not flight from it."

In the ''Church Neivs;' May 5th, 1869, is the fol-
lowing : —

"They (the ministei-s) carry on a schoc', and are indefatigable in visiting
the poor, and in infusing into the veins of an ignorant and unsuspicious
populace the poison of Protestant heresy." — " Pest of Protestantism.''

In the "Church Times;' Sep. 3rd, 1869, the following
words occur : —

"But we should much prefer seeing attention centred on Theological
matters and q.'estioTiB of discipline, and extirpating that ulcerous cancer of
Protestantism vvhich must be fatal, sooner or later, to any Church that does
not use moral steel and fire upon it."

"By way of protest against the monstrous figment of ProtestantlBm."— /Mrf-

XIII.

In the "Church Times;' Jan. 28th, 1870, the follow-
ing language is used : —

" We are bound to correct one of t!je speakers [at the Islington Clerical
Meeting] wbo remurkod that the Tnvctarian School, whatever its good
points may be loses sight of the distinctive doctrines of the Reformation.
We do not lose sight of them at all. We are busy in hunting them down,
and have no intention of foregoing the chase till we have extirpated them.
That is plain speaking enough, we trust."

"Anathema to the principles of Protestantism."— Pa/««r'« Letter to
Oolightly.

Dr. Littledale, in his Lecture on Innovations, calls
the Reformers

" A set of miscreants and utterly unredeemed villains."
" What.we should like to know, has the Church of England to do with the
spirit and principles of th^ Ileformers, except to get rid of them as soon as
possible. We wUl have nothing to do with such a set."— CAurcA News,
Feb. 19, 1868. .

" The work going on in England," writes the Editor of the Union Revtev,
" is an earnest and carefully organized attempt on the part of a rapidly in-
creasing body of priests and laymen, to bring our Church and country up
to the full standard of Catholic taith and practice, and eventually to plead
for her union with the See of St. Peter."

" We are weekly praying in behalf of the Holy Father, and for restored
communion with the See of St. Peter."— 2%^ Union Review, p. 397.

" If we were to leave the Church of England, she would simply be lost to
Catholicism. Depend upon it, it is only through the English Church itself
that England can be Catholicised {i.e. Romanized), and to give up our posi-
tion in it^ with all the innumerable opportunities it offei-s, would be to leave
our '"ountry a prey to infidelitj' To join the Roman Catholic Church in
any but a corporate capacity would be, in our opinion, to sin against the
truth." — The Union Review, p. 410.

"We give the people 'he real doctrine of the mass; the name will come
by and by. So with regard to the CuUus {or worship) of the Virgin, we are
one with Roman Catholics in faith, and we have a common foe to fight.
There may be a few divergences of practice on our side, but we seek to
make no terms : we come in the spirit of love and humility ; and we are
sure that the chief Shepherd of the Flock of Christ (the Pope) will deal ten-
derly with «»." — The Lnion Review, p. 41 1.

" Protestantism, as a living force, as a proselytizing power, is extinct. Its
work is done ; we must increase, Protestants must decrease. Justification
by faith, the most immoral of Protestant dogmas, has run its tether, and
happily died of self-strangulation." — Chv/rch News, Nov., 1867.

" We hope to draw the Protestants to the Church of Rome. But when ?
ah ! when ? The time cannot be very far ofiF. We deriv« our confidence ,
from the progress of the past. In twenty years hence Catholicism will have
83 leavened our Church, that she herself, in her corporate capacity, will be
able to come to the Church of Rome, and say, ' Let the hands which have
been parted these three hundred years be once more joined.' '^—The Union
Review, p. 384.

To advance and propagate these principles in the
Church at home and abroad, the Kitualists have been,

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and are regardless, and utterly indifferent to the peace
of the Church. They have agitated and divided house-
holds, Churches and Parishes ; they havt^ thrown Con-
gregations and Flocks into unseemly and mournful
collisions ; are determined to defy all custom, law and
authority, both of Church and State, and take up a
deliant position against all Episcopal interference or
remonstrance with their Romanizing innovations and
practices.

Alarmed, however, at the bold encroachments of a

system so subversive to the doctrines, principles and

discipline of the Church, some of our Archbishops and

Bishops are nobly protesting, and taking measures

against these Ritualists and their practices, in clear

and unmistakeable language : — The late Archbishop

of Canterbury (Dr. Longley) in reply to an Address

presented to him by the English Church Union, on the

3rd February, 1866, at Lambeth Palace, said : —

" I cannot but feel that those who have violated a compromise and
settlement which has existed for 300 years, and are introducing vest-
ments and ceremonies of very doubtful legality, are really, though I am
sure quite unconsciously, doing the work of the worst enemies of the

Church I confess I have witnessed with feelings of deep

sorrow, the tone of defiance with which the recently introduced practices
have in some instances been supported."

Engluh Church Union Monthly Circular ^ 1866, p. 73, 74.
The same Archbishop, in answer to an Address from
the Members of the National Club, I9th Feb., 1867,
said : —

" I am by no means insensible to the dangers which at this moment
beset the Church of England from the revival of certain ceremonial
observances and the introduction of changes in our Ritual, symbolical of
Doctrines at variance with those of our Reformed Church. The answer
which I gave to the Address of the English Church Union twelve
months ago sufficiently indicates my feeling on this subject, and subse-
quent events have only tended to confirm the justice of the remarks I
then made.

" With an anxious desire to follow after that charity which thinketh
no evil, I now find it impossible to evade the conviction, that among
those who are joining in the present movement for the restoration of
Eucharistic vestments, the use of incense and candles in the day time,
Hie oflFering of the Holy Sacramnent as a propitiatory sacrifice, and the

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elevation of the consecrated elements for the worship of the people,
there are many who are resolved, if pij^siblo, to obliterate in the formu-
laries and worship of our Church every trace of the Reformation. The
publications which are the acknowledged exponents of these opinions,
leave no doubt in my mind upon this point, and having had some expe-
rience in times past of the tendency of such a movement as this, I have
the less difficulty in interpreting its real bearing. Sixteen years ago I
had to contend with an attempt of somewhat the same character, at St.
Saviour's, Leeds, where among other innovations the practice of confes-
sion after the Koman usage was introduced, and as soon as 1 proceeded
to reprove it by the exorcise of discipline, some of the Clergy of that
Church showed themselves in their true colours by seceding to the
Church of Rome."

In the posthumous Charge of Archbishop Longley,

these words occur : —

*' Now, it is far from my intention to impute to all those who have
taken this ill-advised step of adopting the sacrificial vestments any symr
pathy with Roman error ; but I am constrained to avow that there are
plain indications in some of the publications which have been issued as
manifestoes of the opinions of that section of our Church, that some of
its professed members — yea, even of her ministers, think themselves at
liberty to hold the doctrines of the Church of Rome in relation to the
Sacrifice of the Mass, and yet retain their position within the pale of
the Anglican Church with the avowed purpose of eliminating from its
formularies every trace of the Reformation,a8 regards ith protest against
Romish error. The language they hold with respect to it is entirely
incompatible with loyalty to the Church to which they profess to belong.
They call it ' a Communion deeply tainted with Protestant heresy ;'
' Our duty,' they say, ' is the expulsion of the evil, not flight from it.'
It is no want of charity, therefore, to declare that they remain with us
in order that they may substitute the Mass for the Communion ; the
obvious aim of our Reformers having been to substitute the Communioo
for the Mass."

Extract from Remarks made by the present Primate

(Dr. Tait) to the Archdeacons and Rural Deans, who

assembled in his Library at Addington, October 4th,

1871:—

" No one can take up a newspaper or travel in a railway carriage
without being confronted with the fact that the laity of England are
alarmed by seeing that there are some of the Clergy who are bent on
restoring the mass and the distinctively Roman doctrines which this

country rejected at the Reformation It could not be

denied that there were some churches in the country where the Romish
mass, which our Reformers died to resist, was sought to be restored, and
he must ask, — Can the Bishop's authority stand still while the affec-
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the benefits which the Reformation had conferred upon this country ?
We hear, it is true, a plea for liberty in the Ciiureh ; and such a pica
must not be treated lightly. Liberty we must not lose, but it must be
liberty within the limits of the law. If the Jiishop is called upon by a
proper authority, it is ividont that he must act, and it may be that he
may find it necessary to act of his own accord. In judging of what is
lawful in the Church, he must remember that he is a Bishop of the
Church of England, and not of that of Komc."

The Archbishop of York (Dr. Thomson^ in his reply

to a Lay Deputation in 18GG, used tlie following

words : —

" The use of strange vestments and ceremonies, which neither we nor
our fatliers have seen, hiis often been spoken of as childishness and fri-
volity. I have never been able to regard it from its ridiculous side. 1
believe it has gone along with a deliberate intention to alter the doctri-
nal position of the Church of England, by introducing into our services,
ornaments, vessels, and gestures, which are not prescribed in our order
of Common Prayer, and which not beiuK prescribed, are, in effect, ex-
cluded from it."

The late Bishop of Carlisle (Dr. Waldegrave) in a

Pastoral Letter to the Clergy of his Diocese, in 1866,

said : —

" There can be no longer any doubt that there exists at this moment
within the pale of the Church of England an organized combination, the
object of which is the re-instatement amongst us of those distinctive ob-
servances and doctrines of the Church of Rome, which were cast forth
at the time of the blessed Reformation.

"The Sacrifice of the Mass, with all its attendant vestments, lights,
censings, and prostrations ; — Auricular Confession, with all its conse-
quent sacerdotal influences, loosening family ties of God's institution,
and working through fraternities and sisterhoods of man's invention, —
these and other essentially Popish teachings and practices are now incul-
cated and defended by men who have subscribed to the formularies,
and who retain their position as ministers of the Protestant Establish-
ment of our land. With these formularies themselves an actual dissatis-
faction is no longer denied ; while the endeavour is made to supplement
what is defective, it not to neutralize what is considered to be erroneous,
by the introduction of hymns of ominous doctrinal import, in unaccus-
tomed, but highly significant places in the celebration of Divine worship.
Nay, more than this, services are held, over and above the Daily Prayer
and Communion OflSce, for which there is no legal warranty whatsoever,
and in which the Romeward tendencies of the devotee meet with more
satisfaction than he could otherwise attain within our borders. Nor are
there wanting plain indications that even Mariolatry itself is regarded
as that to which a close approximation may very desirably be made. Oi
the issue of all this there can be little question. . . . - . If things

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go on us they do at presont, who shall say that a fearful reaction, similar
to that of the latter half of the 17th century, shall not, even before these
things come to pass, shake to their foundations both the Church and
the Throne of these Realms ?" — (pp. 1 to 3.)

The Bishop of Llandaff (Dr. Ollivant), in acknow-
ledging a dedaration against Ritualism, signed by
upwards of sixteen hundred htymen of Monmouthshire,
in June, 1868, said : —

" That in his opinion the Sacramental theory which it is the avowed
object of the Ritualistic movement to uphold, is neither the doctrine ©f
the Church of England nor of the Catholic Church of the very earliest
age. With regard to ' practices,' the Bishop said that, although he
deemed many of them to be in themselves matters of entire indifference,
and though he thought a narrow-minded exclusiveness or a disregard of
decency and order in the conduct of Divine Worship was as much to be
deprecated on the one hand as superflous ceremonialism on the other,
he believed a great responsibility rested upon the clergy, if, by the in-
dulgence of their own sflf-will, they give needless offence.'' — St. Jamet'
Chronicle, June 8, 1868.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells (Lord Arthur Charles
Harvey), in his Charge, delivered in 1871, says : —

" It appears to me that a great effort is being made at the present
time to set the plain teaching of the Church of England concerning the
Lord's Supper aside as insufficient, and to substitute for it a doctrine
identical with that of the Church of Rome, identical in all but the
metaphysical explanation by which it is justiBed. A physical change
in the elements by which they become the natural Body and Blood of
Christ locally present on the Altar, in the Hand and in the Mouth, and
so proper objects of adoration ; a real sacrifice or offering up of Christ
as a Propitiation ; the true Priestly character and powers of the cele-
brant ; the proper altar, and all the adjuncts of true sacrificial worship,
seem to me to be t ight in our new school. In other words, on that
central doctrine O; the sacrifice of the mass which Cranmer declared to
be the root of all Romish error, a great effort is being made to supersede
the doctrine of the Reformed Anglican Church, and to restore that of
the Church of Rome. . . . When I add that there are societies of
English Churchmen whose professed object is to bring about a reunion
with Romc,and unprotestantize the Anglican Church,that it is understood
that a considerable section are on the eve of a schismatical separation
from the Church of England, in order to be free from all interferenoe
with their religious tastes and tendencies, and that the Church of Rome
has stronger hope of the return of England to her allegiance to the Pope
now, than she has had at any time since the Reformation, and makes
the conversion of England the subject of her unceasing prayers, I think
I have said enough to show that there is a considerable change in the

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ftttitade of the Church of Enjrland towards Rome, and no Jnconfiiderable
danger arising to licr from that quarter." — (pp. 11 to 13.)

The Bishop of London (Dr. Jackson), in his Charge,
delivered in Nov., 1871, used these words: —

" But when wc find the * Catholic revival,' so oallcd, asserted as the
antithoHis and antidote to the Ket'onuation, which u: deplored as u mis-
fortune if not a sin ; when its work is admitted, and indeed avowed to
be to undo what was then done ; when Holy Scripture is disparaged as
the rule of Faith unless as supplemented and explained by * Catholic
teaching,' and the Thirty-nine Articles are couiplained of us an unfair
burden, put a«ide as obselete, or interpreted in a scn.ie which, if their
words can be wrested into bearing, is undoubtedly not that which they
were intended to bear ; when the doctrines of those who drew them up
are disclaimed as uncatholic and condemned as heretical ; when language
is u.sed, popularly and without qualification, on tliR subject of the Holy
Eucharist, which, whether capable or not oi" being absolved, under quali-
fication, of contradiction to our formularies, is not only declared by Pro-
testants but claimed by Romanists to bo identical with Transubstantia-
tion ; when seven Sacraments are again taught, and Confession with
absolution is enjoined, not as an occasional remedy for exceptional
doubts and sorrows, but as the ordinary rule of a holy life, and the
needful preparation for Holy Conmiunion ; when Prayers for the dead
are recommended and Purgatory more than hinted at ; when the cultut
of the Virgin and the invocation of Saints are introduced into books of
devotion, which are framed on the Romish model, and adapted to and
distributed among persons of all ages, ranks and occupations ; when,
finally, we are told, that in order to stabilitate the conquests over Pro-
testantism and re-Catholicise the (Jhurch of England, it still remains 'to
make confession the ordinary custom of the masses, and to teach them
to use Eucharislic worship, to establish the claim to Catholic Kitual in
the highest form, to restore the Religious Life" (meaning the life of the
Cloister), * to say Mass daily, anO to practise reservation for the sick,'
when this movement is thus developed in its results or explained by its
supporters, it is not possible that it cotild be received by Jiishops of the
Reformed Church of England with anything but disapprobation, warn-
ing, and sorrowful rebuke, unless they were unfaithful indeed to their
office, their vows, and their Master the Lord Jesus Christ. There are,
as we have seen, causes at work which tend to limit practically and en-
feeble the authority of the Episcopate; but fidelity to the distinctive
principles, doctrines, and discipline of the Church of England is not one
of these. It is no source of weakness ; it is a ground and necessary
condition of strength." — (pp. 51 to 53.)

Let it be borne in mind that the practices and novel-
ties objected to, and protested against, are of modern
growth, not the work of " High Churchmen of the Old

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School," but of modern RitualistH, or rather Roraani-
zers. The latter have Hoii|i;ht to Bhelter themselves
under the name of ''High Churchmen." I hesitate not
to declare this a misnomer. Tlieir proper name should
be Romanifita, and their proper place- is, or ought to be,
in the Church of Home, whither many, after having
led others astray, have legitimately gon(;.

It is painful and distressing, that it should be neces-
sary, in this our day, to protest against Romish doc-
trines, revived, and taught by men within the bosom
of our Reformed Church. ^^

We need hardly remind you that fierce were the
controversies on these questions between the Champions
of mediieval corruption, and Evangelic truth, and which
ultimately resulted in the blessed Reformation,

The denial of Rome's Dogmas of " Transubstantia-
tion ;" '*the Real Presence ;'* "the Sacrifice of the Mass,"
and the other kindred errors, caused the fires of Mar-
tyrdom to be lit, and rather than yield or compromise
their convictions, the Reformers gave willingly their
bodies to be burned. Had they held the doctrines
which are now so unblushingly taught by the Ritual-
ists, they would have escaped the scaffold and the stake.

Let us, therefore, value our Book of Common Prayer,
secured to us by blood. For in that " Book," — honestly
and grammatically construed — there is not the slight-
est foothold for the errors protested against.

For three centuries our Book of Common Prayer has
exhibited the faith of the Anglican Church. Accurate
and distinct in stating truth ; firm and unflinching in
opposing error ; and scriptural throughout, our Articles
have been a bond of union amidst all the varying ex-
travagancies of doctrine and discipline, which from
time to time have threatened to divide the Church.

Our Prayer Book is a precious legacy, a rich inheri-
tance, the value of which they can best judge of and
appreciate, who know how dearly it was purchased, and
what blessings it has conferred. Nor can we better

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either honor the memory of those martyred Reformers,
who have bequeathed it to ns, or glorify Him, whose
servants they were, than by defending it whilst we
live, and transmitting it, if possible, unimpaired to our
successors.

I feel, therefore, sure, beloved Brethren of the
Clergy and Laity, that you will all agree with me,
that it is the imperative duty of the Bishop to use his
official and personal influence, and all the appliances
of Church machinery to maintain in all purity and
godly simplicity, tlie faith, worship and discipline of
the early Church, as it has been restored to us at the
time of the Reformation. As a witness for God in His
Church, a Bishop must not be iniluenced by fear or
favor, but his aim nmst ever be to feed with the pure
Word and doctrine of God, the Flock of Christ com-
mitted to his charge.

While ruled in doctrine by the " Oracles of God,"
he must be guided in his office of government and
discipline by the authoritative teachings and Canon
law of the Church that has chosen him to be a Bishop.

Hence it is his duty to watch vigilantly, and guard
the Church against all change and iimovations in doc-
trine, practice, worship and vesture, unless warranted
by Holy Scripture, and distinctly sanctioned by the
legislative authority of tlie Church. -

While prudence, large-heartedness, and impartiality
should ever be prominent features in a Bishop, it must
be acknowledge(i that other qualifications and charac-
teristics must be blended with the above. With the
dangers which threaten the Church from within and
from without, a Bishop must be a man of decision, de-
termination and nerve, to enable him faithfully to
exercise his functions as an " Overseer," and a "Watch-
man on the Tower of Zion." ,

There is much — and rightly bo — required from a
Bishop in his office. When the question at his conse-
cration is solemnly and plainly put to him : — *' Are

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you ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and
drive away all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary
to God's Word ; and both privately and openly to call
upon and encourage others to the same ?" his reply ia
equally plain : — '* I am ready, the Lord being my
helper."

Here is the limit of a Bishop's impartiality — fidelity
to his vows !

There are men to be found who will go beyond the
teaching of the Prayer Book and the Canon Law of the
Church, or omit what they ought to do, and act as if
there was neither discipline. Law or Bishop in the
Church ; who are determined to be guided simply by
their own fancies and notions, or in the language of
the Prayer Book : — " Such men as are given to change
have always discovered a greater regard to their own
private fancies and interests than to that duty they
owe to the public." — Vids Preface. They seem appa-
rently regardless of the consequences, anarchy, and
confusion that must sooner or later afflict the Church,
if everybody was permitted to do what seemeth best
in his own eyes.

From the experience in the past, the Bishop is in
faithfulness and duty bound to put a stop even to
" little beginnings," if they are likely to grow into
evils — as they have done in the Mother-country — and
to exercise through good and through evil report, that
wholesome discipline which shall tend to "keep the
unity of the body in the bonds of peace."

Bishops on both sides of the Atlantic now feel and
truly admit that had the " little beginnings" of the
Innovators been stopped in time, we should not have
had so many sad defections from the Church, and es-
caped much, if not all, of that unseemly strife now
agitating and disturbing the peace and harmonjr of
the Church, and we should have had none of that de-
fiant spirit against the Law and Rulers of the Church,

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which is so sad and glaring a chfiracteristic of the
Ritualistic Party.

That my remarks on the question of Ritualism and
Ritualists are not exaggerated, I will give here a quo-
tation from a Lecture delivered on the 12th of May
last, by one of the highest Dignitaries of the Roman
Church, in the R. C. pro-Cathedral, at Kensington,
Lontlon. Monseignor Capel, a great friend ol the R.
C. Archbishop Dr. Manning, and one of Rome's ablest
Ultramontane propagandists, delivered a series of Lec-
ture .^ on " TJie present movement towards Catholicism in
England,'^ in which he denounces *' these Anglo-Catho-
lics" who, he said, " imitate Rome to the fullest possible
extent": — •' i>

" He condemued Ritualism as a revolt against Archhiahopa, Bishops,
Convocation— evervtl;ing. Wl\ile he had the greatest affection for some
engaged in the movement, he also knew of others who were dishonest, and
held men's souls in servitude. Where, he asked, was the authority' of these
men ? Dr. Newman gave hack to Oxford the authority it had given him,
and that was the first impetus given to the movement called ' Catholic'
But how changed ! How marvellous the contrast between the conduct of
Newman and of the men who now di'-ected, not the movement, but worked
in it, who defied their Archbishops and Bisliops, who defied all authority,
and claimed for themselves an authority that no Bishop or priest of the
Catholic Church dare claim ! For them the voice of the Bishop was not
the voice of authority. Notwithstanding the Articles of the Church of
England, this new body of men loudly declared, on their own authority,
that there are seven Sacraments, and not two. Notwithstanding the asser-
tions of their own Pmyer Book, they permitted the adoration of the Body
of the Lord. Notwithstanding the distinct voices of their own Bishops,
and the distinct expressions of their own '" -ayer Book, they were obliged
to contort and pervert the latter, so as to gi?e a colouring to their own
position. Their Prayer Book said that those who were in trouble of con-
science should turn to their Clergy, and seek from them counsel and com-
fort ; but the practical commentary of the Ritualists upon that was to insist
upon all persons going regularly to their confession. They went further,
and permitted the use or statues and images at devotions, and all that
Catholics did in their devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Where was the
smallest ground for their authority to do this? If the Ritualists were
asked for their authority, one of their answers was that they followed the
practices of tb'" Church of Antiquity. That was utterly false, because the
rites they had introduced into London, such as the ' The Three Hours'
Agfmy,' were unknown to the Ancient Church. These were not practices
of antiquity, but practices introduced since the Council of Trent. Earnest
as these men were, great as were the sacrifices they made, they had not a
shred of authority for what they did. If they had any authority it might
be summed up in the sentence : They imitated Rome to the fullest possible
extent. Was it possible there could be a living power in that body 1 When
men were in doubt, and were takine, onward steps to the Catholic Church,
Uiese Ritualists who had defied their Bishops were in the habii of saying
they would take upon themselves the responsibility of their people's souls.

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Neither Pope, Bishop, nor priest hntl a right to hold a position of that kind ;
but the Ritualists havint? usurped authority and defied their Bishops, laid
down such things as these. In such servitude did this authority hold peo-
ple that — and an English audience would scarcely believe it — these people
dictated whom their tlocks should see, whom they should know, and whe-
ther they should visit their friends or not. Where was the Catholic priest
who dare do such things without bringing down upon him the severest cen-
sure of his Church V Catholic priests had nothing to do with these things.
Their authority was spiritual ; but to dictate to people whom thev were to
see and whom they were not tose« — to tell people it was a deadly sin to
enter a Catholic church in tliis country, but not so across the Channel, was
to him the very acme cf folly. He knew people who were held in a t^ervi-
tude.in this respect that was to him simply appalling. Were he to read
to the congregation letters in his possession written on those very points
by people who were becoming Catholics, he felt sure each person present
would scarcely believe what was read. There was this abyss between the
Catholics and the Ritualists. The former had an authority and submitted
to it ; they believed in an luthority, but the Ritualist.a believed it not, be-
cause thi y were bound to Lake authority from themselves."

A Bishop, faithful to his vows, cannot and dare not
be a passive spectator, when he sees the enemy coming
in — though slyly and under false colors — to assail and
pull down the very bulwarks of the Church over
which he has been placed, in the Providence of God,
to be a faithful and diligent Watchman.

God forbid that we should so miserably, either by
timidity, or for the sake of ease or popularity, betray
the sacred trust reposed in us. Nay, let us ever, and
at all hazards, be true to the Church, which has been
purged from Romish error and superstition by such
men as Cranmer, Latimer, Ridley, Hooper, and a host
of illustrious worthies ; who, like a " noble army of
martyrs," did not count their lives dear unto them-
selves, but sealed with their own blood the testimony
for the pure and unadulterated Gospel of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.

Believing sis I do, that '* Ritualism" — whether in its
incipient or advanced form — is full of " erroneous and
strange Doctrines ;" in direct opposition to the teach-
ings and principles of the Church of England, as I
have shown ; that it has done and is doing great injury
to the Mother Church in England, o d will be equally
a source of trouble and strife to the Church on this
continent, if permitted to gain ground in any way,

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shape or form, — I deem it my duty, in this my Pri-
mary Address to the Synod, to express myself, on so
important a subject, in plain, decided and unmistake-
able language : — I am resolved, "God being my helper,*'
to do all in my powe'.' to maintain in this Diocese the
purity and simplicity of doctrine, worship and dis-
cipline, in accordance with the teaching of the Church,
as set forth in our Liturgy, Articles, Homilies and
Canons ; and we dare not suffer the introduction of a
System so unsound in doctrine ; so Romish in its cere-
monial, and so defamatory to our noble martyred Re-
formers. By God's grace, I will be true to my conse-
cration vow — " ready, with all faithful diligence to
banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doc-
trine contrary to God's Word.*'

To effect, as much as possible, harmony of practice in
our public ministrations, and to avoid giving offence on
the one hand or on the other, let us resolve — one and
all — to adhere strictly to the Rubrical directions of the
Prayer Book, neither adding thereto, nor omitting
what is prescribed therein.

Nothing better or more forcible can be said on this
head, than the following trom the Preface of the
Prayer Book : —

'.' And although the keeping or omitting of a ceremony, in itself consi-
dered, is but a small thing ; yet the wilful i"id contemptuous transgression
and breaking of a common order and disci, le is no small offence before
God. ' Lei aU things be done among you,' suiih St Paul, 'in a seemly and
due order.' The appointment of the which order pertajneth not to

PRIVATE men ; THEREFORE NO MAN OUGHT TO TAKE IN HAND NOR PRESUME
TO APPOINT OR ALTER ANY PUBLIC ORDER IN CHRIST'S CHURCH, EXCEPT
HE BE LAWFULLY CALLED AND AUTHORIZED THERETO."

If a difficulty occurs in the interpretation of a
Rubric, let it be referred to the Ordinary, or to the
Synod — the proper authority to decide on such and
similar questions. My heart's desire is that we all
should be Churchmen according to the Prayer Book.

As Tar as I am concerned, you may rely upon it, my
Brethren, that I will endeavour, by God's grace, to
administer the affairs of the Diocese with all the im-
partiality becoming the sacred office of a Bishop in the

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Church of God, and that I will, to the utmost extent
of my abilities and judgment, manifest on all occasions,
and towards all my brethren, that I am not influenced
by '* party feelings," or by a " party spirit." And my
own heart tells me, that you, my Brethren, on your
part— like one man — will unitedly and heartily aid
me in carrying out, in all integrity and honesty, the
principles of the Church in accordance with her Articles,
" in their natural and grammatical sense," and in har-
mony with due Church order and discipline.

THE CHURCH SOCIETY.

It aftbrds me real pleasure to reiterate here, the wel-
come fact stated yesterday in our Annual Report, that
the Society's Income this year has reached the sum of
$12,184.09, being an increase of $2,161.22 over that of
last year. This is a cause of great thankfulness to
God, who has graciously inclined our people to devise
more liberal things.

Having had abundant opportunities during the win-
ter — while visiting a large portion of the Diocuse — to
advocate the claims of the Church Society, I rejoice to
record here, that my appeals have everywhere been
cordially and liberally responded to. In some instances,
contributions have more than doubled, and the promise
of increased efforts both on the part of the Clergy and
Laity to swell the lists of regular Subscribers to the
funds of the Society, has greatly cheered me.

But we must not shut our eyes to the fact, that our
want of men and means, are great hindrances to our
growth. Our present staff of Clergy is inadequate to
occupy efficiently the vast Mission field, and our pre-
sent Income, while insufficient to meet the growing
wants of the (Jhurch, is also sadly out of proportion to
the resources and duties of the Diocese. As a conse-
quence of these and other causes, some portions of our
Diocese are wholly, or in part neglected, for which
there is no necessity, if the Church en masse would

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only rise to her high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us at the commund of our Master, at once assume
an aggressive attitude, and deem no hindrance insur-
mountable where duty calls. If we love Christ as we
ought, we bIuiII discharge the sacred Commission in-
trusted to us : — " Go ye into all the world and preach
the Gospel to every creature ;" and if we love our
neighbour as ourselves, we shall not look upon his spic
ritual destitution with an unfeeling heart, and pass by
on the other side. Love to Christ and love for souls
will induce action. The work of God is pressing. We
positively do not keep pace, as a Diocese, with the
growth of our population. According to the last
census, we have a population in this Diocese of 000,500
souls, being an increase ot 127,755 within the last ten
years. Many of our Church people, I need hardly tell
you, are like sheep in the wilderness, having no shep-
herd. Many Townships are unrepresented by our
Church, who have not even an occasional visit from a
Clergyman to testify that the Church cares for her
children, and would not suffer the few or the least
of the flock to be forsaken or neglected. There is
another fact which ought to be known, and stir us up
to increased exertions, that the Diocese of Huron, not-
withstanding that the number of Clergy has more
than doubled within the last fourteen years, has never-
theless the fewest laborers in Christ's vineyard of all the
Dioceses in this Province, in proportion to our present
population : — The Diocese of Toronto, with a population
of 619,646, has 139 Clergy ; that of Ontario, with a
population of only 391,000, employs 75 Clergy; while
our Diocese, with a popuhition of nearly double that of
Ontario, hiis only 90 Clergy.

Surely, our duty is plain. We ought to pray fer-
vently to the Lord of Harvest to send more laborers
into His harvest, and we ought to labor more dili-
gently and perseveringly to fill the Treasury of the
Church Society — our only medium under God — t^

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enable us to supply the Hpiritually starving people with
"the Bread of Life."

To meet the immediate and most pressing necessities
of the DioceHe, wo must enipU^y at once not less than
live or six travelling Missionaries, to visit tlie remote
and most destitute parts of the Diocese. The young
men, whose ordination you have witnessed to-day, are
both able and willing to go forth as Evangelists, in
the true Apostolic Spirit, to make known far and wide
" the unsearchable riches of Christ." Let us all follow
them w'^^h our prayers, that God the Holy Ghost may
make them able and successiul "Ministers of the New
Testament." But looking to the vast field before us,
with a rapidly increasing population, we shoul'^ not
rest satisfied until Ave have— in addition to the resi-
dent Clergy — a travelling Missionary for every County
in this Diocese, locating him in some central place,
where he can conveniently reach the whole Church
population in that County ; collect the numbers to-
gether in their respective settlements for divine Ser-
vice ; distribute Bibles, Prayer Books, Tracts and
other good Books. By such a method I feel sure that
we shall not only hold our own ground, but gain the
respect and co-operation of " all who love the Lord
Jesus Christ in sincerity."

Let it be borne in mind that the wealth and
resources of the country are ample to meet every re-
quirement and exigency of the Church, to make our
Zion " a name and praise in the earth." AVhat we
really need, is a consciousness of our wants, and a
knowledge of our rich resources, with hearts and minds
sanctified by the spirit of God ; filled with the love of
Christ, and then there will be no lack of means to
carry successfully forward the work of God.

We are certainly living in a day of unprecedented
prosperity in every department and branch of industry.
The fields, the mines, the oil regions, the shops and
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generous return for labor and capital. Many have
become rich who a few years ago had to struggle with
difficulties. Professional men of industry and honesty
are accumulating fortunes, while the industrious
mechanic and day-labourer are making for themselves
comfortable " homesteads."

Let only this temporal prosperity be made subser-
vient — for the extension of Christ's Kingdom — as a
grateful acknowledgment to God for all His mercies :
oh, what could v/e not accomplish ! >. ■ -

There ia one happy feature in our Diocese which
augurs well for advancing the Master's cause — our
Union ! I speak from heart-felt conviction, based upon
experience, when I say, I believe there is no Diocese
where the Bishop, Clergy and Laity are more united
in heart, work and purpose, than in this happy Diocese
of Huron. The Clergy as a body are laboring faith-
fully and cheerfully for Christ and His Church, each
in his own respective sphere in peace and love, giving
no heed to party strife or feeling. Our Laity are be-
coming conscious of their responsibilities as members
of the Church of God, and that they have not as yet
made full use of their means, talents and capabilities,
as they might and should, which is the best sign and
pledge of reviving and increasing life for the Church.

The very consciousness of advance has a natural
tendency to inspire us with increased vigor, the moral
effect of which will no doubt soon become apparent.

True, we shall always have to contend with some
difficulties, hindrances, and even opposition in our
work for God and His Church ; but with the precious
promise of the gracious Master for our support : — " Lo,
I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world " — we can surmount every difficulty and trial,
meet every opposition, and rise with a godly determi-
nation to the level of every emergency, ever bearing
in mind that the cause which we have to maintain and

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propagate, ia not the cause of man, but the cause of
God.

Give then, my Brethren of the Clergy and Laity,
this work of God your care, and your whole-hearted
Hympathy. Though you have done better than before,
for which I feel thankful to the Head of the Church,
and grateful to you for your ready and cheerful co-
operation with me, yet I know we can do a great deal
more, nay, must do more, if we love our Zion, and
desire to win souls for Christ. Let us not be satisfied
with our eftbrts, until we have succeeded in securing
every member of the Church a regular Subscriber to
the Church Society,

May God grant us the open hand and the willing
heart, and the godly determination to do with all
cheerfulness and with all our might, what our hands
find to do. Yea, may the Spirit of God, and the con-
straining love of Christ prompt us to give up ourselves,
our substance, our souls and bodies, as a reasonable,
holy and living sacrifice unto God. • '

• DIOCESAN CATHEDRAL.

You have witnessed this day the laying of the Cor-
ner-Stone of our Huron Cathedral. I feel thankful to
God that my project to erect a Diocesan Cathedral, that
shall be free to all, meets not only with your approval,
but with your warm-hearted sympathy as you have
both personally and in your Address, presented to me
this morning, evinced. ^ , . ^

Accept, beloved Brethren of the Clergy, once more
my sincere andgrateful thanks for your cheer and encou-
ragement in this and in all my plans for strengthening
the stakes and lengthening the cords of our beloved
Church.

There are other topics of deep interest in connection
with Diocesan work, which I should have liked to bring

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before you, but I will not on this occasion trespass any
longer upon your valuable time.

My prayer shall be that God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Hoy Ghost— one Triune Jehovah —
may be present with us in all our deliberations ; keep
lis united in love and peace, and enable us, indivi-
dually, and collectively as a Church, to maintain and
propagate with all diligence and simplicity the faith of
Christ " which was once delivered unto the saints."

I. HURON.

RECORD OF .

August 27. I preached in St. Paul's, London, in aijj of

the City Mission Fund.
Sej). 3. Consecrated a beautiful little Church at Thames-

ville ; preached twice ; confirmed 44 ; addressed the

candidates ; baptised 4.

Sep. 4, 5, 6. Attended Church Society Business.

iSep.S. Attended Huron College ; addressed the students.

Sep. 10. Preached in St. Paul's, London, and in the
Hellmuth Colleges.

Sep. 1\. Left for Montreal to attend the Provincial
Synod.

Sep. 13. Read the Litany in Christ Church Cathedral,
and assisted in the administration of the Holy
Communion.

Sep. 17. Preached in Trinity Church, Montreal, in aid
of the Montreal Diocesan Church Society.

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Sep. 24. Preached in St. Paul's, London, referring in
my sermon to the demise of the late lamented Bishop
of Huron, who departed this life early on the Friday
previous — Sep. 22.

Sep. 25. Attended the Funeral of the late Bishop, and
performed in conjunction with the Rev. Dr. Boomer
the Funeral Service.

Sep. 27. Opened the new Church on the '* Indian Re-
serve," Sarnia ; preached to an Indian congregation
and confirmed 4 Indians.

Oct. 1. Preached in St. Paul's, London, the Funeral
Sermon on the late lamented Bishop.

Oct. 8. Preached in St. Paul's, London, and in the
Hellmuth Colleges. ; * < •

Oct. 11. Consecrated the Churcli at Dresden ; preached
once ; confirmed 11, and addressed the candidates.

Oct. 15. Preached in the evening in Huron College
Chapel, in aid of Church Society.

Oct. 17. Confirmed in Tilsonburg 34 ; addressed the
candidates ; preached once, and administered the
Holy Communion.

Oct. 22. Preached at Delaware in the morning ; con-
firme i 29, and addressed the candidates.

Oct. 22. Preached in tlie afternoon to the Indians m
Oneida Town Church ; confirmed 40 Indians ; ad-
dressed them and administered the Holy Communion.

Oct. 24. Had a Meeting of the Dean, Archdeacons, and
the Rural Deans, &c., submitting the " Pastoral" to
them, which met with their hearty approval.

Oct. 29. Consecrated the Church at Wingham, and
preached twice.

Oct. 30. Preached in Leech ville ; baptized 3; and ad-
dressed the people on the subject of their future
Minister, and who complied with my conditions.

Oct. 30. Addressed a large gathering at Listowel
Church ; stated conditions on which a Clergyman

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would be appointed, which conditions were cheer-
fully complied with,

Nov. 1. Candidates for Holy Orders presented them-
selves for examination.

Nov. 5. Ordained one for the order of Dencon and
three for the Priesthood, in St. Paul's, London.

Nov. 6. Attended a Vestry Meeting of St. Paul's, Lon-
don, when $4,000 were unanimously voted towards
the proposed Diocesan Cathedral.

Nov. 9. Attended Land Committee Meeting of the
Church Society.

Nov. 12. Opened a new Church at Moncton ; preached ;
confirmed 19; addressed the candidates ; administered
the Holy Communion, and baptized two.

Nov. 12. Preached iij. Mitchell in the evening ; con-
firmed 51 ; addressed the candidates, and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion.

Nov. 13. Spent some hours with the Rural Dean of
Perth, the Rev. E. Patterson, to make arrangements
for Church work In his Rural Deanery.

Nov. 13. Attended Grace Church Vestry Meeting,
Brantford.

Nov. 14. Met the Clergy of the Rural Deanery of Brant
at the residence of the Rev. Canon Nelles.

No^. 15. Attended a Meeting of Trinity College Cor-
poration, Toronto.

Nov. 19. Preached in the Hellmuth Ladies' College,
and administered the Holy Communion. ,, \

Nov. 26. Preached in Hellmuth College. i

Dec. 3. Preached in St. Paul's, London. .r . » ,

jD«c. 8. Addressed a Meeting at Seaforth in aid of the
Church Society, and baptized Rev. Mr. Starr's child.

Dec. 10. Preached in Huron College Chapel.

Dec, 25. Preached in St. Paul's, London.

J96C. 27. Preached in Brantford, and addressed a Meet-
ing in aid of Church Society.

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Dec. 28. Preached in Paris, and addressed a Meeting
in aid of Church Society. . , .

Jan. 2. Preached in St. Thomas, and addressed a Meet-
ing in aid of the funds of the Church Society ; was
also present at the Ruri-Decanal Meeting for the
County of Elgin.

. Jan. 3. Addressed the Parochial Association of St.

Paul's, London.

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Jan. 4. Attended the Ruri-Decanal Meeting of the
County of Oxford, at Woodstock, and in the evening
addressed the Parochial Association of Woodstock
Church.

Jan. 6. Preached, and addressed a Meeting at Point
Edwards in aid of Church Society. j, , . . j ^ ^ ,

Jan. 7. Preached in Sarnia in the morning for Church
Society, in the afternoon at Corunna, and in the
V evening at Mooretown. . . . , , ,

Jan. 8. Addressed a Meeting at Strathroy for Church
Society, '-v^,, .- ■,;;.,,k,v.: ,,'..„,,,;■» ,;,; '.^ . ; ,^.,,.

Jan. 14. Preached twice at Ingersoll in aid of Church
Society ; contirmed 40, and addressed the candidates
and administered the Holy Communion. '

Jan. 15. Addressed a Meeting at Ingersoll in aid of
Church Society's funds.

Jan, 16. Attended a Meeting of the Church Society at
Delaware.

Jan. 19. Attended a Church Society Meeting at St
John's, London Township.

Jan. 19 & 20. Examined a Candidate for the order of
Deacon.

Jan.2\. Confirmed in Stratford 56 ; addressed the can-
didates ; preiiched twice ; ordained one Deacon, and
administered the Holy Communion.

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Jan. 22. Addressed a Cliurch Society Meeting at Strat-
ford, and aided the fonnation of the District Church
Society in that Rural Deanery.

Jan. 23. Preached once ; confirmed 20, and addressed
the candidates.

Jan. 28. Preached in St. James' Cathedral, Toronto, in
the morning in aid of the Funds of the Mission Board
of the Diocese ; preached also in the evening in the
Cathedral.

Feb. 4. Preached twice at Simcoe in aid of Church So-
ciety.

Feb. 5. Attended the Annual Church Society Meeting
at Simcoe, also the District Church Society Meeting
of that Rural Deanery.

Feb. 11. Preached in St. Paul's, London.

Feb. 14. Ash-Wednesday. Preached in St. Paul's,
London.

Feb. 15. Preached in St. Jude's, Brantford, in aid of
the Church Society. .

Feb. 18. Preached for Church Society in Sandwich in
the morning ; in the evening at Windsor for the
same object ; confirmed 17 ; addressed the candidates,
and addressed the Sunday School children in the
afternoon.

Feb. 19, Attended the Essex Ruri-Decanal Meeting at
Windsor in the afternoon.

Feb. 19. Church Society Meeting in the evening, when
several of the Detroit Clergy were present, who
aided the Mission cause effectually by their able
speeches.

Feb. 20. Preached at Chatham for Church Society.

Feb. 24. Attended the Annual Meeting of the Church
Society at Clinton.

Feb. 25. Consecrated Clinton Church ; preached in the
morning, and administered the Holy Communion,

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Feh. 25. Preached in the evening at Goderich in aid
of the Church Societ3%

Mb. 26. Attended a Meeting of the Church Society at
St. Stephen's in the afternoon, and a similar Meeting
in the evening at Goderich.

March 4, 5 & 6. Church Society Meetings, kc. ;

■ March 7. Clerical gathering at Norwood House.

March 10. Preached in the morning in St. Paul's, Lon-
don, and in the evening in Huron College Chapel in
aid of the Church Society.

March 17. Preached in Gait, morning and evening, in
aid of the Church Society, and addressed the Sunday
School in the afternoon.

March 22. Preached at Glencoe ; confirmed 17, and ad-
dressed them.

March 24. Preached in St. James' Cathedral, Toronto.

March 29. Good Friday. Preached in Christ Church,
London.

March 31. Easter Sunday. Preached at Woodstock,
and administered the Holy Communion.

April 7. Preached in St. Paul's, London,

April 14. Preached in Hellmuth Ladies' College.

April 16. Attended Church of England Young Men's
Association.

April 21. Preached in Hellmuth College.

April 23. Preached in Huron College. ^

May 5. Preached in Hellmuth Ladies' College, and ad-
ministered the Holy Commumon.

May 6. Attended the Ruri-Decanal Meeting at Wood-
stock. Preached, and addressed a Meeting in aid of
the Church Society.

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May 13. Pre.'iclied in Christ Church, London, on behalf
of the Church Society.

May 19. Preached in St. Paul's, London. v

May 26. Preached in St. Paul's, London,

May 26. Attended a Meeting of the Church of England
Young Men's Association.

May 27, 28 & 29. Examination of Candidates for Holy
Orders.

June 2. Preached in Huron College Chapel, addressing
especially tlie young men to be ordained.

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