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B. : I'RINTKD UY THE HUN PnBLISHIXG COMPANY. 1882. i NARRATIVE. Previous to 18t5 tho Province of New Brunswick formed part of the Diocese ')f Nova Scotia and was visited as a rule triennially ))y the iiishops of tliat See. On Sunday, tht; Jth of May in this year, The K(H'. John Medley, M. A., of Wadhani College, Vicar of St Tlionias, in the City of E.veter, England, was consecrated first Bishop of th(^ newly formed Diocese of Fr<;dericton, in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, and immediately eml»arked for his new field of labour, taking possession of the Cathedral Church, Fredericton, N. B., on St. Barnabas' Day. In 1879 Dr. Medley, now M(^tro])olitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, received the noblest tribute of confidence ever j)aid to a Jiishop l»y clergy and laity — the right to nominate his successor V»y the Canon for the appointment and election of a Bishop Co-adjutor. Su(th concession of right by the Synod of the Diocese was indeed exceptionally great and cannot be quoted as a precedent ; for it is enactt^l that " the provisions of this Canon so far as they relate to nomination by the Bishop shall not extend beyond the Episcopate of the present Diocesan unless the Synod siiall otherwise order."' The nomination and election of a Bisliop Co-adjutor in accordance with the terms of the aforegoing Cai'.on took place in the (Jity of St. John, N. B., on 12th and 13tli January, 1881, and it is worthy of especial remaik that tfie nominee of the Metropolitan, The Bev. H. Tully Kingdou, Vicar of Good Easter, Essex, England, was unanimously elected by clergy and laity. The whole debate on this important ([uestiou was conducted with the best of feeling and an utter absence oi })art} spirit. The consecration of 1 he llev. Dr. Kingdon took place in the Cathedral, Fredericton, N. B., on Sunday, July 10, 1881. 5T1 b'O- Tlw Mctidpolitaii wns ussiitcd in this consivratiou liy two nisliopH from liis Kcclcsiiistical Province, viz :- -The Jvi-^lit R«'v. Tli(> liisliop of Nova Scotia, icprcscnti!!^' the oUh'st ('oh)iiial See of the Chinch of Iui<,'hiii(l, and tht* Jii<,'ht Ke\'. The IJisho]) of (.Quebec, whose j>re(lecessor, Dr. Momitaiii, was R(!ctor of Frederictou from 1814 to I<sl7 and assisted at the consecration of the Cathedral tliere in IS;-).".. From the sister Cliurch of America, to sliow their sympatliy, came the Piishop of th»^ adjoining' Diocese of Maine, Dr. If. A. Neely, and the Bishop of Albany, Dr. W. C. Doanf^, whose fathei', forty years before, liad been th(! first Amei'ican Bisiiop to ]>reai;h in an l']n}„dish Church.* The morning of the consecration was bright and unusually warm. A large number of clergy and laity attfMided the first s(!rvice of tlu; day at K a. m., wlien the Rev. J. H. Talbot read the prayers and tlu; Bishops of Maine and Albany the lessons, the absolution being j.'ronounced by the Metropolitan, At 9 o'clock people began to assemble in the Cathedi-al from all directions, and less than an hour afterwards th<! spacious nave and aisles were crowded to their utmost capacity. At 1 1 o'clock standing room could not be ol)tained and many persons were unable to gain admittance at all. The interior of the sacred ediiice was beautifully decorated with flowers, a conspicuous feature of the oi'uamentation Ix-ing 1200 roses, the generous gift of Mr. Alfred Kay of Fredericton. It was exactly eleven o'clock when the procession entered the west door of the Cathedral in double file, .singing tht; Hundredth Psalm, the choir uniting in the last two verses. Divinity Studknts. Messrs. Frith, Hanington, Hooper, Montgomery and Parlee. ' F. W, Yroom, Deacons. E. P, Flewelling. *Dr. (i. W. Doano, nishoj) of New .Jersey, (ui 2n(l Sppt 1841, prpiichcd at the I'oii.st'i'ration of the Leeds Piuisli (Imrch of which the late Dean Hook was then Viear. hy t\V() lit licv. il Sec of Quchoc, 1)11 from i-al tlicro iny)at1iy, ■. n. A. (' fiitlici-, )r('iu'li in iniisuuUy tlie first read the sous, the ral from ions nave 1 o'clock re unable decorated Miig 1200 tered the Aindrodtlx 'arlee. 'hnvelling. consecration A. V. Wiggins, W. J. Wilkinson, W. (). iJavmond, J I. II. Ncales, II. \l. r.arl.cr. I.e|{. W. Fowler, (»eo. Love, .1. II. Talhot, .1. If. S. Sweet, a P. Wilson, J. Ruslitoii, (J. II. Sterling, .1. Lock ward, T. Neales, F. Alexander, W. Lei J. Me Kiel, W. S. Covert, ii. E. Smith, (I. (i. Koherts, I). W. Pickett, H. M. Spike, E. A. Warneford, S. J. Jianford, ]{. Sinionds, Canon Scovil, I'iMK.STH. V, 'i'owcrs, W. Civrr, .J. W. .Millidge, N. M. Hansen, ( ). S. Newnhani, J. Iv l"'l('welliiig, ''. I'\ \\ iLTgins, A. F. Hilt/, F. S. W. I'cutrcath, 1). FiMsvtli, (A Willis, L. A. H.»yt, Canon Partridge, J. U. Canipl.el'l, H. S. Wainwright, T. Ii Howling, < ieo. SclioHcld, W. H. Street, ]). I. Wetmor-e, I). M. Ijliss, W. Jatt'rey, Canon J)eVeb(!r, A. II. Weeks, James Neales, ('anon Walker. Clkk(;y KkoM Nova Scotia. K Shreve, J. A. Ivaulhack, W. H. Snyder, .J. ( ). Ruggles, L. M. Wilkins, H. C. Moore. The Bishop Co-ad jiitor elect (walking by himself.) Pi.shop Neely, of Maine, fol lowed by his chaplain, Canon Ketchum. Jiishop Williams, of Quebi'c, followed l)y his chajdaiii, Ke\-. James J»oydell, M. A. lUsliop P)inney, of Nova Scotia, followed by his chaplain, Archdeacon Cilpin. Jiishop Doane, of Albany, N. Y., followed by his cliaplain, Canon Fulcher. Canon Medley, chaplain to the iVIetropolitan, (bearing his crozier.) The Metropolitan (wearing the mitre recently sent him from England.) 6 As th«' procession filed up th« i'<Mitral aislo the olor^y opened coluiiiii and tlu^ iJishops took post as follows : — The JJi-ihop of Nova Scotia at tlu^ t'antoriiinost .sinlilcf on tin* rij;ht ; the Mislmp of (.^uchec at the first sedili- on the rij^dit, the IJishop of Maine the \v»!sterinuost ciiair on tluf left, th(» Bishop of Alliany the ciMitral sedile on tlui ri;;lit; the IJishop (/o-adjutor elect, at a chair set for him near the throne of the Metrop(»litan. The .Metropolitan ])roceeil(Ml at onct; to the Holy Tahh^ and commenced the (Jommuaion Otllce. The liishop of Xova Siroiia nnul th(! ItJpisth^ from Acts '20 c. 17 v., and tli(^ jii.sh()p of Maine the (josj)el from St. Matthmv, 28 c. KS V. The Nicene (^i-ccd was tluMi said, followed by the anthem " How lovely are the mess(Mij,'ers that preach us the <;ospel of jxiaco." The liishop of Alltany pn^ceded hy Deacons Vroom (of Petit- codiac,) and H. 1*. Fhnvellini,' (of IJay duVin,) and his chaplain, Oanon b'uleher, then pi'oceeded to thi; indpit and dtdivered the sermon, as follows : SKllMON. i;xlioii will) all Inii^i-Mill'iTMi;,' siikI iliK'irinc.— 1 1. TiTiiotliy iv c 'Jil v. (latter part.)* There ai-e three; reasons why it seems to me that these words fur- nish fit food for our cf)nnnon study hen; to-day. 1. The Pastorid r][)istles of St. Paul are the liand-hook of a lUsliops constant study, as tliey run over with the tender and the trtMiiendoiis solemnity of his i'esponsil>ility to God, for it is to he home in mind that Timothy is the pn^cise and perfect type of the liishop in the C/hurch of (lod to-day. We stand on no narrower foothold than this : A Bishop is a man derivin<^ through the Apostles, from Jt;sus Christ, power and duty to do what Christ commanded the Apostles to do. Then; is no break in the goldeu chain, no split in the close mesh. Nor is there link of the base mental and the ilumsy forging of human invention in the chain, or thri^ad of human spinrang in the net. The union of the universal ICpiscopate is alike direct and divine with Christ through the Aposth's, and the "laying on of hands" for ordination as for con- firmation, is "a principle of the doctrine of Christ." There is *i !t i« woitliy (if remark tliat tin' HislKip rlioso as his text part of the passaRo sck'ctotl l)y Ills latlnr liic I5isli(i|) ol' Now .Icrscy, fort y-sevcn years het'ore, on a similar occasiou. S('e till' Uisliop of New Jersey's Sermons, London, Lngland, 1842, page 23G.J (! oil the ii;;lit, the l>isl\()|) <»f itor elt.'ct, "iil)lt"i iiud Oc. 17 v., ew. 28 c. I Low •in ' 30." (of Potit- fhiiplaiu, ivered tlie ter part.)* words fur- )Ook of a r and the it is to he ypc of the narrower irough the hat Clirist the «^ohhni )f the base (! cliain, or I! universal irough the as for (-'ou- There is :issagL' sck'ctcil Hilar occasion. noitlier time nor need to argne this point here, in any bringing for- ward of the witnesses. Ihit the inipoitanee of its ueeeptunce does need to he dwelt upon in the fare of u new foe. The Presbyterian tln'oiy of paiity is iis intelligibh- and consistent us it is nnttnable iiiid uiiscriptiiral. So is the iiiiii;;ination of poor Kdward Irving, overltalanced and overboine liy tlie fury of un enthusiasm, earnest as it was erratie. lUit the theoiy iri//iin tlie ( hureh whii h gilds its Presbyterianism by the ajologrtif glorilication of an inspired ingenuity on the part of tht- Apostles to invent the Kpiscopate as a eonvriiient foini or order, mciiis im oik eivable to any one who knows the purjiose of the great forty days, or remendx-rs the olijeets for which the llolv d'host was <!i\)n. "The tldnus concernin*' tlie Kingdom of (Jod," the Cirifns JJri. (juestioiis, that is to say, of eon.stitution, of policy, of order, of jx'ijietiuition, octuj»ied the whole mind and time of our «Iear Lord risen, with those "witnesses chosen before," to whom, lie, (Jod, "showed himself openly after lie rose from the dead.'' And when the day of the Ascension came, and ^'-e Catholic; commission of th<' ('hristian Ministry was uttered with this parting benediction of the ever-present Christ, its <lefiniteiiess, "teaching them to observe all things wliatso<'ver J ha\(' commanded you," was as distinct and e.\cliisi\c of iiii] ertinent innovation on tlu^ jiart of man, as the great, (iod-lik** perpetuity of the promise, " Lo, I am with you ahvay," was positive evidence; of the unchangingness and permanence of the system which Chi'ist commanded. 'I'luf disciples waited for the juomise. 'J'hey wen- assembled together in that upjxT loom consecrated as no Cathedral can be, by the tirst luicharist and by the post-Kesurrection manifestations of ('hri.st. Their tirst act was to continue the aiio.stolie olHce, and on this added ajiostle, as on tho.se who had chosen him, eaim^ tlu; seal and sign of the Lord's favor, the gift of tli(! Holy ({host — given for what I To make them witty of inven- tion, clevca' in device, ingenious in discovery? No; hut to "guide them into all truth," by "bringing all things to tlieii' remembiain'c whatsoeviir Christ had said to them," either with the earthly lips of His going in and out among them before the crucitixion, or with the unearthly lips of that spiritual mouth which taught tlu'iii tlie things pertaining to the Kingdom of (iod. The Ej)iscopute suc;ceeded the Apostolate, not as a new order, not as a convenient cun; for dis- orders which had arisen, not by tlu; arrogant assumption of one elder to rule and rank his ecjuals, but as St. Cyj)rian * puts it, ^^vicaria unlludtione" by an ordination which put bishops in the place of the apostle.s. St. Timothy is set by the Apostle St. Paul [* See S. Cyprian! opora. Piul.siiM, IT'JCi, ]> 11.^. 'riiccxjirosioii is used by Hisliop Firmiliun in a letter to St. ( yprian, lip, Ixxv, j 8 to select (I Tim. iii. i-.S), to ordain (1 Tim. v. 22), to rule (1 Tim. V. 1, 17-li'.)) the very ehlei's of tlie Cliureh, wliom the apostle describes as overseers oi* liish()j)s in tlie Hock. Il(; was, that is to say, o\('i' those who were iii the Chureli. Epiiphroditus in I'hilippi; Titus ill ('ret.-; the aii,ij;els in the seven Asian Ohurches; Clement in Rome ; Polyearj) in Smyrna ; Timotliy in lilphesus, were Bishops such as we are to-day, ap[)ointed by apo.stles, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, to do what apostles did, c. (/., ordain and rule ''Iders ; and in thus !'oiitiiaiin<j; their otHee the apostU^s were ol servinj,% and teachiiiLC others to ol)servo what Christ had commanded them, as the Holy dlhost " bi'oui,dit these things to their remembrance." We are sueli "isliops, or we are intruders and pretenders anci usurpers ; a disorder, and noi an order in the Church. No anti(i[uity, liowever remote, that does not go back to the great forty days and the ascension ; no authority of apostles, or college of apostles ; no sooth- ing suggestions even of the guidance of the Holy Ghost, apart from Christ's direct command, m.\rts the claim of the Catholic Episcopate. Against himself we ([note the great Jiishop of Durham, the only considerable suj)2)orter of this semi-Presbyterian idea, as he writes, "Episcopacy is so inseparably interwoven with all the traditions and the Itelief of men, like Irciueus and Tertnllian, tliat they Ix'tray no knowledge" of a time when it was not ;" and we add the well- known passage from the Ei)istle of St. Ignatius to these very Epliesijms, (which Bishop Ijightfoot places in the earliest years of tile second century :) "The!)ishops settled in the utniost borders of the t^artli are by the will of /esus Christ.'* 2. I find an added reason for the fitness of these words to our sermon lu.'re to-day. St. Paul, the aged, looking *"n,\'ards the time of his de{)artur(% with the great outlook of the crown laid up, and the vis<"a behind him of the tinished course and the good light fought, ihrew all the deep intensity of his nature into his exhorta- tions to his dearly beloved son. I need not make more pointed, I dare not make more personal, the parall(;lism h^~'e. I feel that the chief honor and the greatest difficulty of my position to-day is, that I am compelled to be the mouth-piece of my most revered and reverend iacher, the Metropolitan, as he charges his successor in the labors of this arduous see, "before God and the Lord Jesus Christ," to " preach the Word, to be instant in season and out of season, to re})rove, rel)uke, exhort, with all long sufiering and doctrine." Earnestly we pray that the "hour of his departui'e " is not at hand; but when it shall come, witnesses will rise on every hand to testify to the good fight he has fought ; to his keeping (*l^) ad i:i)lii'sii)s (J:<. The passage is also quoted by the Bishop of New Jersey, in diifereiU words, iknnuns p. li^'J.] CO lib Was linge one the the f; Th cumii with resj )( ) 9 e (1 Tiin. ,e apostle that is to I Philippi'- 'lenient in e Bishops St. Peter, ders ; and •vin;,', and I theui, as ice." We usnrpc^rs ; ^', however s and the no sooth- apart from Rpiscopate. I, the only he writes, traditions ■hey Ix^tray Id tlie well- these very st years of ost borders >rds to our Is the time lid uj), and good light lis exhorta- re pointed, feel that 1 to-day is, evered and accessor in ord Jesus and out of tiering and parture " is (! on every lis keeping New Jersey, in of file faith ; to his remenibranco of tiie word of the Lord Jesus, " It is more blessed to give; than to receive ;"' to his thorough fur- nishing unto all good woi'ks, and as to how he behaved himself in. the House of God. Meanwhile, thank God, he lives to enjoy ih(5 noblest tribute of conlideiice ever j)aid by clergy and lay people to (\ I'ishop, honorable to tliMii as to ' im, and will live, we trust, to vindicate bt?for<^ his diocese that cuutideace, by the pro\tm wisdom of his choice. It is in no common degree tlus relation repeated tliab existed between St. Paul and St. Timothy. ."id and lastly. I have chosen these words liocauso they seem to me in their double suggestion eminently litted to tin* demands and dangers of our time : " Long sulfering and doctrine." 'i'he maintenance of doctrin(% ([uite as much as the oxerci.se of discipline and tlu; succession of authority, is entrusted to the Episco[)ate. The {)romise of guidance into all truth is given to t'le Apostles. Th(!y are the commissioned te:.;cher8, and the commis- sioners of tlu! teachers, of the things that Christ commanded to Ite observed. They are the witnesses to (Jhrist unto all the ends of the earth. The injunctions to keep what is committed ; to hold fast the, form of sound words ; to feed tin; flock ; to commit to faithful men that they uiay be abh; to teach others also, were giv(!n to them ; and Nicea, Constantinople, Kphesus and Chalcedon witness to the fact, that the P>ishops gathered into general councils defined and main- tained the faith, so that in t'le fai-e of mediieval coverings-up of truth, or of more modern dilutions of it, one is not afraid to clial- lenge contradiction of the statement that the truth in its fulness and its proportion has not been kept, or held, or taught, a})art from and without the; Kj)isco|)ate. The creeds of Christendom are no- where in the world to-day "confessed with the mouth" of common worship, outside of that great body of beli(!vers whose centre of unity is tlu^ collected l!ipiscopat(^ of the un Roman Catholic Church. Home has not only sulistituted Tridentine decrees and Vatican decisions, but has lost the E/ilscoptitus, having merged it in tlie Episcopus ; and Pi'otestantism puts a profession of faith for the confession of Chi-ist. The jar keeps long the |)ei'fume with which it was once imbue<l, and religious belief, still more religious lite, lingers yet in the sherds of the Church's broken unity. But the one \ase of the Catholic creed needs the stopping and the sealing of the ['Episcopate to preserve fresh and fragrant the pure fulness of the faith. This is the reason why St. Paul pours into St. Timothy's ear the cumulated and culminating urgency of tlu^ injunction arming him with the ofrensiv(; and defensive weapons of his authority and his rcsponsiljility ; reprove, rebuke, exhort ; clench and convince with i 10 stroTiL' arirniHcnt ; show tlic error of fal.so teacliiiii' 1)V iiiai'iiit'viii2 the value of the tnith and imposing; severe peiialtifis for its (h'fiuiiiuif ; and hy (uiti'eatv, hy coufereiu'e, \>y pleadiiii,' jiersuasioii, that I'ci-all the very olliee of the Parach'te, uri,'e, " witli all U)n<r sutl'ei'iiiu; and doctrine.' For only so, as each Bishop in his own s[»hei'(^ (•(uncs up to the measure of liis own responsihility ; and as the collected Kpiscojtate of all (/hristian centui-ies conti-ols anrl corrects the individual iUsliop, so shall tlm truth he maintained, if thei-(; is need to descend to practical proofs, to common sense and i-anonical evidence, it is to be found in the final responsihility of each l>isho}) as to the admission of men to the sacred ministry, in the duty of each i)ishop to addi'css his cler-^y from time to time in what ai-e c.vlled chari,fes, (takiujij Saint Paul's own words, "I char^^e thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ') and in the position of a iJishop secui'ed from the j)Ossi])ilities of that most daniLfei'OUS snain^, the love of popularity, by tlie fact that, independent of all interferenc(? and influence of merely human and material considerations, he is free to have the courage of his convictions of the Truth. " With all lon<f-sufierin<; and doctrine.'" We are not left to anv (]uestion or uncertainty as to the distinctness and definileness of this word ; it is the favorite expression of the New Testament Scn-iptures for describing that which is most lix(>d and definite. It passes from our Lord's a})propriation and applications of it to his own i-evelation of all truth: " My doctrine; is not mine but His that s(;nt me ;" " If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine: " from tliis it passes into those two mo.st set and «e(tled of all expressions, "The doctrine of the Apo.stk;.s," and "the form of doctrine," as used in tlie I'ook of tlie Acts, and in the Epistle to the Romans ; and so the cliarge of tlie Apostles is to set forth tin; whole, complete, balanced system of the faith. It is the teaching of dogma to which St. Timothy is urged. W(> have received it in crcin] and (catechism and sacramental otKce. It is our goodly lu'ritage, Jiot for the coin[)lacent contemplation of sj)iritual self- conceit, but to be held up and lianded down. Neither the stam- mer-ng lips of uncertainty, nor the shut lips of cowardice are the tokens of a teaching Church. And where tin; Dible, taught from lectern and stall and altar, is contradicted by tlu; pul[)it ; where the service of the Church is denied by tln^ sermon of the preacher, men will ([uestion liis commLssion or his conscience, and be justified in what they do. No man can look out on th(' rt^ligious world to-day, without the sense of danger ; not altogether in the encroachments of unbelief, for that is only the old tide, advancing and receding, marking its vvav(!-lines on the beach, which by and by the flood will wash away ; the V UuL i <'anip Th(^.: sei'v' abov wliii Wl giv to II of t not disus And Upoli llOUC- due level ruisin lai'ge by sii tll(! ol wln'i' I fi i: 11 T,ijuit'yin<2; Ict'iuninij; lilt I'i'call •rin^f ;in(l couu's up collcctctl ■ivrts the 1 thei-(,' is canonical ell r.ish(ip n> duty of Avhat are liariic thee ot'al>ish<ii> •o, the h)ve tM-ence and e is free to left to any iiileness of Testanunit Ictinite. It )i it to his ue Imt His know of the ul «cltU'(l of the form of ) Episthi to t forth the teacliini:^ of (>ivcil it in oui- ,L:;oo(lly )iritual sclf- r th(^ stani- (lice are the tauuht from ; where the I'cacher, men justilied in without the of unhelief, , niai'king its wash away ; not merely in the; assnmittions of sinence, for that is only the main,d('(l reading of the great revelation by those who will read it better when they have studied moic, -as schoolboys, not liaving yet learned to spell, couk; through theii- lilunders by slow degrees to read : and not much in the growth of schemes and associations of error, for either by disintegration or division they are lessening and losing tlieir hold on thoughtful men. The danger lies rather where we look for safety and li\e in fancied security. The old war cries of men earnestly contending for tlu; faith have died away. The great principles contended for in the last generation, within this Chun-h, are either held or allowed on every hand. We are con- gratulating ourselves on the obliteration of old party lines ; the dying out of party s[)irit, and the drawing together of men that st()(Ml apart. Meanwhih^ steadily and stealthily, the thought is creeping oven' tlu; minds and hearts of men, that these contested points are not imj)ortant. They have dropped out of sight and out of mind ; and the grass and the flowers, too often the fading grass of mans theories, and tlu; nnfragrant flowei's of mans rhetoric, have o\(Mgro\vn tin* gi'ound of asserted ])i-incij)les, and the rock of the positions that wei'e W(m in tlu; earnest contentions of earnest men. Practii'al Christianity, pcu'sonal religion, W(jrks of love — tlu^se are the walrhwords of the day. And they are great words and true. Bui as facts tliey are not — they cannot live, without faith ; and faith cannot live without something, and so)nething delinite, to believe. These things are simply faith exi)ressed in life, in character, in servici'. And to jiold to them instead of faith, to magnify them abov(! it, to overlay and overgi'ow faith with these, is to kill that which giv(>s them all the virtues and all thi^ value that they have. What Moly l>a{)tism is as the new l)irth ; what Confirmation is as giving the Holy Spirit; what the Holy Eucharist is as nourishment to the soul ; what the nuuistry must be for the due administi'ation of the sacraments : these; are truths which, to leave untaught and not held is to eat out and sap away, by lowered estimation and disus(» and de[>ravation, the very .sources of lift; of men's souls. And it is jilain, I think, to b(; seen, that this very drawing together uj)on a new ground, of men who once met in the old battle-tield of lionest maintenance of their convictions, is dangerous, because it is (\\n\ not altogether to the u))lifting of the whole Church to a higher level of belief, though that in part is true, not altogether to the raising of new issuers, and the changing phases of tht; tight, but in a large degree to a dangerous tendency t<j secure a sfM'uiing agreement, by smoothing otl' tin; sliai'p outlines of clear definition, l)y evacuating the old syndK)ls of part of their meaning, l»y rejoicing in a chai-ity which docs not rejoice in the truth ; by loving not the truth and peace, 12 but peacn with disroi^ard of truth. Tlie period of nierj^i'd dilleroiices is in (hintjor of becouiing a period of iudirt'erentisni. Let me take some ilhistratious of tliis drift and tendcucy of our time, h^st I seem to some to be a mere ground Uiss ahirmist, or a stirrer of strife among brethren. Tiiere is no time here to speak in any detail of the recent revi- sion of tlie New Testament. We churchmen are, jx'rhaps, less con- cerned about it than others, because for ourselves no textual criticism will rob us of our Lord's Prayer with its larger use of the word evil, its aoristic, that is its undefined time of forgiveness, or its liturgical doxology, and because' we are used, in our Psalter, to the thought of ditlering vc -^ions, neither excluding, l»ut each ex- plaining the oth(;r. When the time comes we shall examine and accept or reject, in whole or in part ; and casual criticism is not hasty, in any student of the Greek New Testament, since the questions raised by the revisers have been all under consideration for years before they began their work. But of tlu; general tone of the new translation, it is plain to see that, both in avowed motive and inevitable result, there is at once an enervation of language and a d(;teriorati( i of truth. There is a specimen of })oth these things, not loss of rhythm merely, but loss of force and fulness of meaning and of language in the change proposed in this passage, "with all long suffering and teaching," and it is carried out with a consistency of motive as well as of phraseology, in the other parts of Scripture, wherever the word didache occurs. "The Apostles' doctrine" becomes "the Apostles' teaching." The form of teaching is put instead of the " form of doctrine," while the noble passage in the Epistle to Titus, "holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught," is reducfnl to "holding to the faithful word" "which is according to teaching." V/hatever object may have been meant, the one certain to be attained is that of diluting the thought of a definite and distinct system of declared truth, and the drift is in various instanc(!s precisely the same. Nothing can be gained by drawing the line of absolute demarcation among the words teraa, seweion and dunmnis, wonder and sign and power, but to pander to the popular notion that miracles were not of the essence of our Lord's life. To set "signs of divine presence" in opposition to "thaumaturgic acts ;" to prefer "mighty work" to "miracle" generally (only two places being in terms excepted by the author of tiie companion to the Revised Version,) is simply to throw the weight of the new translation against the superhuman element of Christianity, to cast a question upon the miracles which our Lord wrviuj/tf,, which must grow into a doubt of the miracle, that our Lord was ; till by and by, it will be claimed that the Incarnation and 13 itleiviu'es i-y of our iiist, or a Ljeut revi- , less con- o textual ISO of the vcncsR, or Psalter, to ■j each ex- iinine and ism is not since the isidei-ation ■ral ton(! of n avowed 'rvation of lOn of hoth and fulness \is passage, but with a other parts Apostles' of teaching ^ issage in as he hath d" "which )t'eu meant, lought of a drift is in gained hy ,vords teras, ,o pander to nice of our position to "■' generally thor of the the weight clement of h our Lord le, that our incarnation and the Resurrection are synihols iuid not scriptural facts. It is far nearer the truth of the original, {l»ecause a niii'acle is a sign wrought liy flivin(> power,) to call nil those si(/iis, tnirm-fis, wliicrh the mighty j)oiW7' of < Jod in Christ wrought to assure men of liis deity. hi like manner wliile the distinction is true between Ifades and (leluMina, and valuahje, and wliile our English word, hell, (a covered place of safety,) belongs wlieiv th(> ci-eed puts it> — to the place of depart(>d sj)irits what could have been the etleet, if, in the nine places whei-e it means the place of })unisliment, Gehenna or Tartarus had taken the pla(.'e of hell, as the American revisers seem to have desii-ed? Simply to get out of the Jiible what they call "the fearful word hell,'' and so get rid of the fearful thought of hell, from the language; and the thoughts of men ; to f)liiy into the hands of the maudlin modermiess of "etiu'iial hope," wliicb seeks to Ih' kiiidei- than the merciful (Jod; and to remove from the minds, not of scholars but of readers of the; Bible, tlie fear of everlasting punishment ! Just the same tendency occurs in the soft(Uiing of the words that teach the uwfulness of the eternal judgment. What is the valut; of the exchange of ".Judgment of hell" for "damnation of hell," or of he that believeth not shall "be condemned" for " lie that believeth not shall be damned f Is there any real ditierence of meaning? The revisers hardly will claim that the judgment of hell is not damnation. But the aj)pearance of the cluing*; implies another meaning, a softer word to convey a gentler theory. And so, by a strange admission of the involved danger, the author of the com- }>anion to the revision says that damned, which occurs in St. Mark xvi. 1(1, is Koiv (why now 1) "too strong an expression, and has been amended in the revised version." I am not undertaking to criticise the work of the Revision Com- mittee. It may have value as a commentaiy— as a common-place book, from which more margii;al readings will som»; day be added to the authorized version ; and so it cannot be condemned ill whole or out of hand. Nor except as their cho.sen mouthpiece gives their reason, have I ventured to assimi motives to tlieir work. But I tak(; the instaiu-e both of result and of i"t;ason as signs of the times, and I claim that the enfei^bled En<disli of the new words is but a type of th(! enervation of the truth of revelation, the cutting away and smoothing otl", the toning down of what is sharp and strong and clear ; the sjieaking of peace where there is no peace, after the man- ner of the false prophets ; the type of the danger of our day to attract and assimilate the many l)y generalizing stattuents of truth ; as against the duty of uttering with the certain sound of the trumpet, 14 the trutli, tlie doctrine of Christ, wliethcr iiicii will liear or whether they will t'orlH^tir. 'I'uriiin.ii; froiii this to instances less startlinii;, hcu'.ause they are tlin uttei'anccs of individuals, hut none the less siLjnidcant, you wiii recall recent utterances fj'oni the old Banipton t^iundation, assit,'nin<j; to huiuan in'j;enuity the ptjlity of tlni Catholic Chuich: you will tliink of tlie ])i'()<,fressin;,' secularization of the colleges of Oxford : of conce}(tiens of Holy Scripture, and of th(^ nature of our di\ine Lord, freely uttered in the American Chui'ch, so humanitarian as to reduce both to an almost human le\cl : and of an English \oi''e, elo(|U'nt and earnest, claiming in America, not long ago, that "lilieral theology is th<! backbone of the Church of England :" and delining liberal theology to comprise, in its turn credo, '' the non- Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews ;" the insisting, "not on the cei-emonial, tln^ dogmatic or the portentous, but on the moral sidt^ of religion ;'' the composite character of the Pentateuch ; "the mention of tin; second Jsaiah without alarm or scandal," "the com])lexity of the nnitua! i-elation of the four Gospels ;" " the resolution of the doctrine of the Trinity into its l>iblical (?) character;"' "the non-reap])earanc(! of tln^ doctrine of the atonement in tli(( ci'ude form common both in Protestant and Jvoman Catholic (churches in former times ;"' "the condei. nation (.)f the Athanasian creed by ludf of the English clergy and its silencing by the Irish Church ;'" and "miracles," including n(!cessarily the incarnation and r(!surrection, "no more made the chief or sole bi'sis of the (nidence of religious ti'uth." Surely the Church, of which this is tlu^ back- hone, has become well-nigh invertebrate, and tlie most skilful com- parative an;>.tonust could hardly construct a l)ible, a Church, or a system of doctrine that would stand together, of what lil)eral tiieology leaves of tlu; vertel)rie of this fossil, which it consigns, along with the Cln'istian institutions, to the museums of curious l)ut worthless antitpiities. We have not so learned Christ. Finding fault with tlie past will neither correct the present nor save the future. But in the midst of tendencies and drifts and curi'cnts such as these, we have need not as men of little faith, but as men of earnest love for the old faith of (-reed and Scripture, to beset^ch Him to rouse us to our (lang(n'. Who though He seems asleep is sure to bring the ship safely to shore. Against the dogmatic statement "then; is i.o dogma," we must lift uj) the re})roof, tlu^ rebuke, the exhorting with all doctrine, and while we thank (Jod for its army of defenders in our age, Pusey and Words- worth and ALagee and Liddon and Sad'"r, who confront the forces of the deiiiei's of the faith, we have need, as Bishops in the Church of God, to remember our tremendous responsibility to ke(;p what nurin )iensi( •stil wouli skirni lookoi out])o any in and h one o of tl fiilnes wildci unlieh' and 1 truth, frittci oi'der unt(» 1 as the ■i I IT) or wlu'thoi' lit'V are tlu" t, you wiii u, assi«j;nin<4 1 : you will Oxford : of our (li\ine tiiriiui as to iiflisli voice, li a-'o, tlio.t illaiul :" auc! », " the non- he insisting, , but on the rcntatcuch ; aiulal," " the ipels;" "tlie Biblical (?) w atonenient luiu Catholic ! Athanasian by the Irish ■arnation and the evidence is the back- skilful coui- Church, or a what lilieral 1 it consigns, )f curious V)ut present nor id drifts and tie faith, but Scripture, to gh He seems Against the t lift up the and while we y and Words- >nt the forces in the Church to keep what lias b(M '1 conmiitted to us, to hand on unimpainnl the doctrine we liave r'-.'ei\('d from fait' fid men ; to cliar^e nien tliat tliey teacli no «)tlier doi-trine ; to war a good warfai'e, holding faith ; to lie nourisjied up in till' words of faith and of good doctrine; to tak(^ heed unto ourselves and to the doctrine ; to labor in the word and dortrine ; to liohl fast the form of sound woi'ds : to continue in the thini;s we ha\(! learned and have l>c"ii ; ssiired of, knowing of whom we have learned them, even of the (Mnirch of (Jod, which is tlu^ witness and kee{)ei' of the word : to pivach the word, to be instant in season and '.-lit of season, to repro\'e, rebuke, exhort with al' long-suH'ei'ing and doctrine. For suieiv the time has come when men with itching ears have heaiied to themselves teachers and are turned away from the truth and tnrufd to fables. Standing to-day in the pi'oud position of ])o|iularitv, witli what they think tlieii- following, these so-called leaders of so-calli'd liberalism are really tl'.e creatures of the crowd, born of the itching ears of men, who heap to themselves the teachers that will speak unto them smooth things and pi'ophesy dtveits. Xot so miK^h in the way of controversy, nor in following tlu; inventors of the nev,' doi-trincs into all the wanderings of their ways, but in the simple, steadfast proclamation of the whole counsel of (rod, in stand- ing in the old ])aths, in the maintenance of the standards and syndiols of the faith, in the pnisentation of positive and unchanging truth against the evei'-changing and varying forms of error ; in thes(! ways we are to witness for Christ. The ])arleyiug (tf pickets during th<> time of truce, the laying jiside of weapons in a sus- jiension of hostilities, the disarnung of soldiers while the enemy is still armed — tiiese are surely things which no wise couunander would allow ; and though the conflict seems at rest, or the skirmishers to be on other than the old lield, we must b(^ on the lookout against the feints of a cunning and siditle foe : leaving no outj)ost won, unguai'ded, and keeping fresh atid liright, ready for any unexpected us(^, each portion of that jnim^jdy of ( Jod, -buckler and helmet, and sword and spear, girdle and sandals,— without each one of \\ hich no soldier is fully armed. Abovc^ all, let us beware of that cessation of all contest which nu'ans indill'ercuice, unwatch- fulness, betrayal, surrender ; when men, having ntade a solitude, a wilderness, a dead level of indistinct ind(Miniteness, a very waste of unlieli<'f and disbelief, a gi-eat sand stretch of shapeless, colorless and endh^ss monotony, call it -peace. There is no gain to the truth, to the Church of Christ, when w(> break down or deny or fritter away the barriers of doctrinal atatemc^nts oi" ecclesiastical order that protect those who are within, in order, not to draw others unto us, but simply to make ourselves as defiuiceless and unprotected as thev. A man wlio reclaims and fences in a bit of broken wood- 16 laiid has fiirtlior<>(l and lu'l[)C(l on tlu^ cultivation oi tlio world. But the man who al)aiidon.'. md lets out into the wihhirncss a cultivatc^d Meld, Ixt'lps to niakt; jjfood land waste; si^^ain. In AnKM'ica the anxious thini,' iihout th«! Church to-day is its ^'rowth. The prayer of the dyiiii^ Frciieh pastor for the elementary i^races suLCi^ests tlie need of our laity to-day foi- th(! eh-meutai-y t»"uths of C-hristianity. "^I'hey have need to 1»<! taui^ht which he tlu; first principles of tin; oracles of God, tlie j)rineiples of the doctrine of Christ. AFen and women born and brought u[) in the Church are not trained, as they were a gfMieration hack. 'J'Ik^ Jiil)l(! is not read, tlu^ c:,techism is not h'arned, th(! trutli is not i)roved, tlu^ faith is not preached, the Church is not set foilh as it used to he; and when to this luiif- leavened mass you add tlm constantly increasiiii^ (|ua,ntity of utttirly uideaA'ened douifh ; when you (!idaj'<^(f tin* half Iviiowledife of chui'ch- men hy the utter ignoraiu-c! of all thfolo<.';y, of men horn and hronidit up in tlu! shap(.'less and .systeudess confusion of sectarian hodie.s, the danger is that the yeast will h(! smothei-ed out of life. Thaidc (iod, recited creeds, recuri'ing seasons and read Scriptures, con>pel a cei'tain amount of constant instruction in the Faith. lUit the principles of the; doctrine cannot he left out of our teachini:;. I'he foundation nuist he laid again, and often, it we would go on unto perfection. ivxhoi'tation in all doctrine is the crying need of our day. Thei'e art; not many (h^niei's of sacramental grace, of aj)ostoii«j order, of liturgical worshi]>, hecause tliere an; not many asserters of these things to-day, These; are Iargf>ly accepted if not carried out. Men are devoted to scientific investigation, to textual criticism, to ti;(; fact or the degree of the inspiration of Holy Sciipture. Wo mu.st b(; watchful and faith+'ul in these cont(;sts too. l»at by and hy, when science lias become, by its full unrolling, parallel, up.on a lower plane, with revelation ; when varying texts and varying translations are found not to contradict and not necessarily to sui)ersede, but oi dy to illustrate one another ; when the slieep have come to hear the voice of the Lord speaking in the word of which He is the r(;vealer — by and by these old questions, in that strange wliirligig of errors, ■"'ill come up again ; and it will not do for us to have forgotten, to have failed to teach, to have; laid aside the line of defence and the armory of argument with which the great theologians f»f the English Church put to fliglit the armies of the aliens, in the day not unrecognized, thank Ciod, of Englan^i's visitation. But it must be with long sufFering and patience. Patience with men in error, in urd)elief, in disbelief, is the first qualification of successful teaching. Denunciation, condenniation, the inde> and the inquisition, are too much, the tendency of positive teachers in an<l imjKM' contrt have I out p( tf) ('(III COMI'M Ciu-ist munic kee[)iii biiildt' fulfil' defaci of it- do no I they lionor in it a or mis princi hranc tares, doctrii the li\ circum ]n"ov(;s The hii the )u'( all jiai saving Imini 1 orld. But t cultiviit,(itl l\\v anxious lyer of the tilt! need of lity. Tli.'y tli<! oiaclcs and woiiK'U ;ln'V were ii iisii» is not •cached, ihe o this half- y of utterly (■ of chureh- and broi-.i-dit ( l){)dies, the Thank (iod, s, f<)n>pt'l a, h. lUit the ichin.ij;. The go on unto ; need of our , of apostoli^J i' assertcrs of carried out. criticisiu, to inture. We Lit l>y and hy, dlel, ui-on a and varying 1,-cessarily 10 10 sh(!ep have ord of which that strange t do for us to (Ic the line of h the groat uinies of the of England's ^atieiice with lalitication of [\e index and e teachers in pv -rv d<')iactni('iit of learning to-day. "In neckncss instructing *no.s(' that opposo tll('nls((lv(^s,'' is tiic apost f's injiuictiou to the Bishop. Angry controversy, l»itter crimination jukI uniiicasurcd coiidcinnation are weapons of a carnal warfare. Least of all I'au they he used in the ine\italile coiiteiiilihi,'s among Christians for accurate statements of tin; faith. '• When ^Moses '.)und the I'lgyp- tiaii striving with the Israelite he slew the lilgyptian, hut when he saw the two Isnielites tight he said, "Ye are hrethren, why strive ye?"' Against moral error or denial of the faith, the sword; Init even then the sword of the Spirit ; hut against imperftH-t helicf, half truths, the mistakes of ignorance, the lack of knowledge, the impe: f('ctions of education, long suileriiig and doctrine. We are too much at fault ourselves in our inheritance of the cold hearted and half faithless years of our' Church lite, in our timid and imperfect setting forth of t. ;ith, in our inconsistencies of life, that contradict our sy.steiu of helicf, to he angry with those whom, if we liave not repelled, w(! havc^ failed to attract ; and the ell'ort to tind out points of agreement rather than to dwell on points of (liU'ereuce, to construct with patieiuMi from such I'ound.ations as we have in comuion, I'ather than to tear down with \ioIciice the denials, is the Christian-like and the Apostolic way ; even as the Master com- municated with the .Jews in the reading of their scriptures and [he. kee[iiiig ot' their feasts and the worjiliip of the synagogue, and builded their petitions into the structure of the Lord's Prayer, and fultilhid instead of desti'oying the law; and as Saint Paul did not deface the altar on the Areopagus, hut only ell'aced the tii'st syllal)le of its insci'iption, till it should read, '• To the known ( Jod." Men do not contend for error kiuiwing it to he such. C(juiiting it truth, they lo\c it because thev uhink it truth, and for that lo\(' we must honoi- them, separating them from what they hold. All error has in it an element of truth. It is truth (utluM- overrated oi" overlaid or misajjplied or exaggerated. It could have no Viic hut for the princii)le of truth which it contains. To destroy it root and branch, to root it out, to burn it, is to destroy tin; whe.it with the tares. Surgery dill'ers from butchery in patient discrimination, and doctrine is not denuncia+ion, because it is long suH'ering. Again, the living liolders of eriur to-day hold it by force of education, of cin-umstances, of surroundings. The sect idea, which is disuni(.)n, proves its real longing for unity by perjietual elibrts for alliance. The holder of the parity of ordt;rs believes in (i succession, and in the MVA'xl of an authority to minister. The very sect which most of ail narrows the recipients of iloly Baptism, and counts it not a saving ordinance, is overscrupulous about a certain method of its Iministration. And Christian men and women wlio do iwf. "discern 18 the Tiord's IkkIv" in the IFoIv I'^iicliarist, oat and drink in a manner, so far as serious itrepai'atioii ;,'<n'S, not unworthy ot tlic rt'co^cnized pn!s«Mic<'! of the Lord. "The " loni,' suHei'iii^" teacher will ratluM* seek out the partii'h^s of the ti'uth in t\wy imperfect systems, Ity presriitinL,' to tlieui the maifnet of the whoi. 'ith of the Churt'li, than crush with tlie violent hammer of con. lation, the earthly matter, which (;an hi- sepiirate I from t\u'\\\ oy care. VV(: must not fori;(it that the (Miarity which " believeth all tiiinj^'s," al.so " beareth all thini^s," and it will he a soi*(! sin on any Christian soul, if by harsh woids, and the desire for mere personal victoiy, and lack ot love, he should rep(d tho.se and drive th(MU away, who are " not far from the kini^dom of Ood." As in morals, the true hatred of sin i.,q-o\vs out of and consists with ,i,'r(\at lov(! of sinntTs, so in I'eliLjion, impatience and intolei'ance of error, makes us lon,L,' sull'erin^', con- siderate, symj)athetic, t(md(!r, very purak/eftil — if the: (expression may be rescrently ustsd — to tiuun that are in error, that, throujjh us, as W(! retlect Ifim whns(! li;j;ht and life is love, CJod may show them t\w \i<f\\t of Jlis truth. I am Kurt; I s[)eak for all our homo Episcopates wluui I say tliat we are '^iad to honor and conijfratulate the vfrnerabh; Metropolitan of Canada ; glad to welcom(! you, my brother, to Ix; to him as Joshua to Moses, and, in your turn, to take the pei'ils and the honor of leadtu'ship in this part of tins Church of Cod ; and glad to take our representative part in twisting in again the strand of our succession into the great electric (Nible of our common connection, through St. Paul and St. .)ohn, with the chief Bishop niul Shepherd of our souls. 'i1u'(ia(l of minute and microscopic insigiulicance each lUsliO]) is in this great ro|)o of wire, instinct and tingling with a mighti(!r current than magnetic life can have, the presence of the Holy Ghost; articulatte with the voices of ins])ired nn-elation and of tlu? uniM'ring tradition of the yet undividt'd Ciiurch ; and girdling what is gi'eater than continents, the centuries and countries of Christendom, through vvhicli it luns and binds them to eternity, to Christ, to heaven. vScien(!(!, in its studies of the still undiscovered success of el<;etric pow(er, has used it in a twofold way, to transmit the written and the si» »ken message, /roin n/'ir. And, as so often the {)liysical is the type of the spiritual, the material wonders of telegraph and telephone sug^'est th(! mightier mystery of grace. Nature h;arned late and used for lowi'r vnds, the Icisson of (dectric wires ; but this continuous I'jpiscopate of the Church, witnessing and keeping the word, lias ti'anscribed and transmitted from age to a<;e the message of the written S.-riptui'e, autluuiticating witli its signature that the message cam(; at first from Cod, was borne u})on its mission by tlie force of the Holy (ihost, and is with absolute accuracy written down for > men to apjilicat transmit tun. k'lih promise guiding, Jlis Idix not hear slieep of Patd, an of Knni tlio.se sli or now, linist of the sIh'C] cares an Lord to increa.'.o feet be ]i that Coi "cries ii llf niay I)romise, me." F His teac but Jesu tilings t consecra shephen that tin encourai absolvin food of and folic her(! ; an no evil," And we in a I'ci brother, shall rec The s( moved t( his seat 19 > for mm to rend. Still mni-c pfrsdiiiil is our rcliitidii (o llic ndicr ttiipliciitiou of this siiirituul force, to Im- almost tlic |iiissi\t' trans 111 ittiM'S, Ity this t<'l<[.|i()iiic calilin;,', of thr iihoin- (on i,i>iiii> mm tun kfffoH, the voice of the (Jood Slicphcrd. 'Ilnic is no other promise for th.- work that Christ has ;,riveii us t(» (h), of callint;, K'lidin^', ^^atlierinir, feeding;, folding- the lUuk Jle pun hased with Jlis Ithiod, l»ut (Jiily this. 'Die sheep /irar His voice, ours lliey will not iiear. Nothing has e\(r come of hearini,' iiiiman voices, to thc! HJieep of Clirist, liut error and loss, hunger and scattering; 1 am of Paul, and ! of Apollos, and I of ('e|)jias; or in the modern n.iin.s of Koine, of Wesley, of Calvin. To the onefold of the one fleck, those sheep come only who hear the Sheiiherds voice. Not here or now, not on earth or in time, l»ut in eternity, ihank (iod, that, viifsf of Jesus Christ's consti-aining love shall he made tine of all the sheep, " tliese also I niNsf I. ring." Meanwhde my l>rotiier, ''our cures and studies are to he tuined," as we "go before the face of the Lord to jtrepare His way;" to decn-ase ourselves that "He may inerea.'.e ;" to withdraw ourselves ; to let "the sound of the Master's feet be lieard l)eliiiid " us ; to he such "ambassadors for Christ as that (jiod will beseecli men by us;" to be tin; voice of Christ who "cries in the wilderness" after I/Is slieep which I/r has lost, that Iff may bring them Home. Filled with the |)resence of His promise, " I (i/n with you." w(' .say with Moses, "/ Am. hath sent me." Filled with the i)ower of His grace, witli the perfectness of His teaching, with the purpose of His life ; preaching not oiirsehes, but Jesus Christ and Him crucitied ; seeking not our own but the things that b«; Jesus Christ's; .so commissioned so conti( .cd, so consecrated by Him; we who are set to be " She|»lierd.s of tin; shepherds of the sheep," shall so set forth and show Him unto men, that they will hear His voice as we beseech or bh-ss, instruct, encourage, warn, n^prove, direct; His voice, in ours, regenerating, absolving, sanctifying, pleading the jjower and feeding wi;h the food of His own sacrifice; and hearing, they will know His voice and follow^ Him in a "a green pasture and beside waters of comfort" here; and then "through the valley of the shadow of death, fearing no evil," aiul thtMi "todwcdl in the house of the J>ord for ('Ncr. " And we, being such pastors, alike in rei)resentativr authority and in a real presenting of Him only unto uen, O, my Father, my brother, my brethren, "when the chief Si epherd shall apjx'ar, we. shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." The sermon being concluded, the chair of the ]Vretro{)olitan Avas moved to the centre of the sanctuary by tlu; Deacons, and he took his seat thereon. The Bishops of Nova Scotia and Quebec then 20 went to tlir ('oiiuimiiioii mils and iiiPt tlic nisliop I'll«'ct and leading him, tilt" |{iKli')|> of Nova Scotia hy th(( rii^Iit hand, and the nisliop of C^ut^))ec by tlic left, prcHcnttMl him to the M»'tro|)olitan. Tlic l»isho|i of Nova Si'otia, as Senior lUshop, said the wohIh of presentation. In the ahsfMice of th(^ "Queen's niandati; " as preseril»ed in the rnliric, the Metrojjojitan ealied for tho record of the eh'ciion which was hnuI as follows, by Cunon Partridge, from tiie steps near the Kagle lectei'n. r, Francis T'aitridgt;, Secretary of tlie Diocesan Synod of Frech-ric- ton, do herelty certify to all whom it may couc(!rn, that at a special meeting; of the said Synod, held on tin; thirt(;enth day of .January last, under the j)rovisions of the canon for the appointment and election of a Bishop-Coadjutor, 'J'h(! il(;v. llollingworth 'I'ully King- don, \I. A., of Trinity College, Cambriilge, and Vicar of Cood Fastei", in the County of Essex, in Fngland, was (^lecteil to tho ollicf of j>ish(»p ( 'oadjutor of this said diocese, and that no canonical imptidiinent to his consecration (jxists. (liven undei' my hand and tlus seal of the said Synod, at Fiedcjric- ton, in the Province of N((w IJrunswick, this ninth day of July, in tln^ year of our Jjord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. (Signed) FiiANCis Pautuiduk, Sec'y of the Synod. This having been read, the Bishoi)-elect took the oath of due and canonical obedience to tlie Metroi)olitan of Canada in the following form : [n the name of Clod. Amen. I, Hollingworth Tully Kingdon, chosen Bishop-ljoadjutor of Fredericton, with the right of succession in case of \acan(;y to the Si-e and Diocese of Fi-c^dericton, do profess and promise all due and canonical reverence and obedience to the Metropolitan of Canada, and his succes.sors in that ollice: So help me (loil, through J(!sus Christ. Tho Metio})olitan then moved the congregation to pray, in the words set forth in the foi-ni of consecration. The two Bishops, who had presented tlie Bishop-elect, then returned to their S(!dilia, the Bishop-elect to his fornuir place outside the Communion rail, and, after a pause, the Rev. Canon JMcidley and the Rev. H. H. Barber proceeded to the stejjs of the Chancel near the Kaglo » i / Lectern, and conu The I questioiK cnih'd, tl habit, wl The F Metropo Hide of t having b other IJii elected Tal)hi an and reni( at the n( then coll who brou conixi'ega The n( Aletropo the Com connnun Hung, " After J)imittis through recessioi Servant At th in the in from St. thunder Jiis Lore Thus connecti Diocese 21 > / Xa'cU'VU, and, knocliii^ down, chaiitcd the Tiitimy, tli« clergy, clioir mill coiii^rcpitioii clnmtin^ tlic rj'SjtoiiscH. Tlif liiraiiy »mmIc(1, tin* Mt-tropolitaii sitting; in IiIh chair, tlion • lucstioncd tlw Iti.sliop clfct, uh iu tlio form of conscc'ration. This ♦•ndfd, th«' I'lshoji <|((t retired to assume the rest of the Episcopal haltit, wliih' the oc^^aii phiyed a short voluntary. Th(! Elect, proprily vesttMJ, rc'turned and kneeled iu front of the Metro|>i<litan, atul the other liisliojts canu! down and stood on either sidi! of the Metiojtolitan, wjio commenced the Veni Creator. This havinj; heen smii.'. tii(> Mi-tropolitaii proceeded to the (Consecration, the other Uisliops assistint; liv layinv; their hands upon the head of the elected Hishop. 'I'he Metropolitan then proceeded to tlu; Holy Table and counneneed the ( )ir('rtory ; when the two Deacons advanced and removed the chair from the cfuitro of tlu^ ('liancd to tin; spac(! at the north end of the Holy Tuldc. The alms of tlu! people were then collected and cari'ied to the rails and delivertMl to the Suh-d(!an, who brought them to the Metropolitan, who oll'ered them, the wliole coni;regation rising. The newly consecratiid 33ishop then brought the elements to the Metropolitan, who placed them on tin? TaJ)le, and proceecled with the Communion Seivice. 'i'he congregation then retired, except the communicants. After the consecraticjn j)rayer, Hymn .'V23 was sung, "1 am not worthy, Holy Lord." AfttT the Metropolitan had pronounced the Blessing, the Nunc Dimittis was sung, and the procession returned to the Vestry thi'ough the transei)t in the same order as before, singing as a recessional hynni the song of Simeon, " Lord now lettest Thou Thy Servant depart in peace." At the evening service in the CJathedral the procession formed as in the morning and the Bishop of Quebec prea,ched, taking his text from St. Luk(i 10 c, M v. Just before the sermon a tremendous til under and rain storm came on which rendered inaudible most of his Lordship's discour.se. Thus closed the interesting, solemn, and important services in connection with the consecration of the Bishop Co-adjutor of the Diocese of Fredericton. It was the first instance of the consecration «< 22 of a Bishop of the Anglican Comnmuioii in the Maritime Provinces. Few of those present had witnessed before the consecration of avx Ancrlican Bisho].. Few of the present generation can reasonal.ly hope soon to l)ehohl again such a ceremony. Notwithstanding the vast assembly which crowded every part of the Cathedral, the utmost decorum prevailed from the beginning to the end of the solemnities. The spirit of the occasion was felt by all. The music was appropriate and admira])ly rendered. The responses came back from the assembly of clergy and laity with impressive distinct- uess. , All must have felt that it was indeed -ood to be present on sucli :m occasion and in such company, imbued with the spirit of brotherly love and Christian unity. All must have come away impressed to son*- extent with thf deep solemnity of the services in which they had engaged, thanking God for His past mercies to the Church in this Diocese, and prayer- fully looking forward to the future. \ i !es. an })lv the the the was ack nct- ueh erly the cing yer- \ i •/