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JOURNAL 
 
 OF A. 
 
 SPECIAL MEETING 
 
 OF THE 
 
 pob of i\t §mtst of Coronlo, 
 
 xiELD FOR 
 
 THE ELECTION OF A BISHOP 
 
 TO 
 
 Fill the Vacancy in the See, caused by the Death of the 
 Right Reverend ALEXANDER NEIL BETHUNE, D.D., D.C.L., 
 
 Second Bishop, 
 
 On the 27th and 28th Days of February, and the 1st, 3rd, 4th^ 
 5th, and 6th Days of March, 1879. 
 
 WITH APPENDICES. 
 
 TORONTO: 
 PRINTED FOR THE SYNOD, BY ROWSELL & HUTCHISON, 
 
 1879. 
 

 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 1. Prsliminaary— Memorandum. 
 
 Page. 
 8 
 
 2. Order of Proceedings for tlie Election of a Bishop, prepared by the Executive 
 
 Committee of the Synod. 
 
 3. List of Clergy and Lay Eepresentatives entitled to Vote at the Election, prepared 
 
 by the Honorary Secretaries and revised by the Court on Contested Seats. - 
 
 4. Journal of the Special Meeting .--.... 
 
 (1.) Sermon by the Rev. A. J. Broughall, M.A. 
 
 (2.) Address by the Very Reverend the Dean of Toronto, as President, on 
 
 opening the Synod. 
 (3.) Proceedings and report of twenty-four Balk 's cast. 
 (4.) The Dean's closing remarks. 
 
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 19 
 
 APPENDICES. 
 
 1. Letter of Acceptance by the Bishop elect (Archdeacon Sweatman, M. A.) 
 
 2. Certificate of Election sent to the Most Reverend the Metropolitan, - 
 
 Page. 
 49 
 
ELECTION OF THIRD BISHOP OF TORONTO. 
 
 ■ «»» » 
 
 PRELIMINARY MEMORANDUM. 
 
 The Right Reverend Alexander Neil Bethune, D.D., D.C.L.., was 
 elected Coadjutor Bishop to the Honorahlc and Right Reverend John 
 Straehan, D.D., LL.D., First Bishop of Toronto, on the 21st day of 
 September, 1866. He was consecrated as Bishop of Niagara on the 25th 
 day of January, 1867, and succeeded to the vacant See of Toronto on 
 the death of the venerable Bishop Straehan, 1st November, 1867. 
 After an Episcopate of more than twelve years, Bishop Bethune was 
 called to his rest on the 3rd day of February, 1879, in the 79th year of 
 his age. 
 
 The See of Toronto becoming thus vacant, the Canon of the Synod 
 of the Diocese provides for the election of a Bishop, as follows : — 
 
 **' On a vacancy in the See, the Dean, or the Senior Archdeacon, or 
 in his absence, the Archdeacon next in order of Seniority, or in the 
 absence of an Archdeacon, the Senior Rural Dean, shall, within one week 
 from the occurrence of said vacancy, summon a meeting of the Clergy 
 and Lay Representatives, to be held at the expiration of twenty days 
 from the date at which said meeting shall be summoned, to elect a suc- 
 cessor in the See. 
 
 " On the election of a Bishop to a vacant See, or to a new See, the 
 Clergy and Laity shall vote separately by ballot : the Clergy by indi- 
 vidiials, and the Laity by parishes. A majority of the votes of each 
 Order shall determine the choice, provided that two-thirds of the Clergy 
 entitled to vote be present and vote, and that two-thirds of the parishes 
 entitled to vote be represented and vote, otherwise two-thirds of the 
 votes of each Order shall be necessary to determine the choice. 
 
 " Any clergyman elected to be a Bishop and holding at the time of 
 said election any preferment, or benefice, shall resign said preferment or 
 benefice prior to his consecration." 
 
In pursuance whereof the Very Reverend the Dean of Toronto 
 issued the follow "ng 
 
 SUMMONS : 
 
 Pursuant to the Canon in such case made and provided, I, The 
 Very Reverend Henry James Grasett, D.D., Dean of the Cathedral 
 Church of St. James, in the City of Toronto, hereby summon a meeting 
 of the Clergy and Lay Representatives of the Synod of the Diocese of 
 Toronto, to be held at the School House of the said Cathedral Church of 
 St. James, in the City of Toronto, at the expiration of twenty days from 
 the date hereof, that is to say, on Thursday, the twenty-seventh day of 
 February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
 seventy-nine, at which time such meeting is summoned to elect a suc- 
 cessor in the vacant See of the Diocese of Toronto. 
 
 Dated at Toronto, this seventh day of February, in the year of our 
 Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy -nine. 
 
 (Signed) H. J. GRASETT, D.D. 
 
 This summons was communicated to each member of the Synod 
 with the following circular : — 
 
 Synod Office, Toronto 7th February, 1879. 
 
 Dear Sir, — Subjoined, 1 beg to hand you the summons convening 
 the Synod to elect a Bishop for this Diocese, issued by the Very Reverend 
 the Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. James, pursuant to the Canon 
 in that behalf. 
 
 The Order of Proceedings will be issued in due course. 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 (Signed) WM. P. ATKINSON, 
 
 Secreta/ry-Treasurer . 
 
 On the 11th of February the Very Reverend the Dean issued the 
 following circular : — 
 
 Reverend Brethren and Brethren of the Laity, — In the 
 vacancy of the See, I deem it my duty to commend to you the accom- 
 panying form of prayer, to be used both in Divine Service, and also in 
 jour more private devotions. 
 
 I am, Reverend Brethren and Brethren of the Laity, 
 
 Your faithful servant in Christ, 
 
 (Signed) H. J. GRASETT, D.D., 
 
 Dean of Toronto. 
 
A PRAYER TO BE USED, BOTH IN PUBLIC AND 
 PRIVATE, BEFORE THE MEETING OF SYNOD. 
 
 ALMIGHTY GOD, our Heavenly Father, who hast purchased to 
 Thyself an Universal Church by the precious blood of Thy dear 
 Son, mercifully look upon the same, and at this time so guide and govern 
 the minds of Thy servants, the members of the Synod of this Diocese, 
 that they may faithfully and wisely make choice of a fit person to serve 
 in the sacred office of a Bishop. And to him who shall be chasen to 
 this holy function, give Thy grace and heavenly benediction ; that both 
 by his life and doctrine he may set forth Thy glory, and set forward the 
 salvation of all men 3 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Subsequently the Executive Committee of the Synod sent to each 
 
 member the following 
 
 ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS 
 
 OP A 
 
 SPECIAL MEETING OF THE SYNOD, 
 
 HELD 
 
 FEBRUARY 27th, 1879, AND FOLLOWING DAYS. 
 
 #> 
 
 OFFICIAL NOTICE OF MEETING. 
 
 The Very Reverend the Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. 
 James, in the city of Toroi 0, having issued his summons in. pursuance 
 of the Canon of Synod in that behalf, to assemble the Synod of this 
 Diocese, on Thursday, 27th February, 1879, for the election of a Bishop 
 to the vacant See of this Diocese, the Executive Committee hereby 
 notify the Clergy and Lay-Representatives of the Synod that they are 
 summoned to meet at the City of Toronto on that day. 
 
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 FORM OF PRAYER TO BE USED BEFORE AND DURING 
 
 SYNOD MEETING. 
 
 Prayer Jor the Divuie Blessing. 
 
 ALMIGHTY FATHER, who in the beginning of the Gospel didst 
 cause the Ai)Ostles and Elders to meet together under the guidance 
 of Thy Holy Spirit ; and hiist promised, through Thy Son Jesus Christ, 
 to be with Thy Church to tlie end of the world ; Vouchsafe, we pray 
 Thee, to be present with the Synod of this Diocese now about to assemble 
 \or now asse/nb/ed] ; give unto them the spirit of wisdom, patience, love, 
 and of a sound mind ; and so direct, sanctify, and govern them that they 
 may seek truth and peace ; and that tlirough them the saving Gospel of 
 Christ may be more effectuidly i)reached and ministered ; Thy dis- 
 persed sheep gathered into the fold, and Thy Holy Church established, 
 strengthened, settled, united, and sanctified ; through the merits and 
 intexxessiou of the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord. — Amen. 
 
 A Prayer for Unity. 
 
 OGOD, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Savioui*, the 
 Prince of Peace ; give us grace seriously to lay to heart the great 
 dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions. Take away all hatred and 
 prejudice, pnd whatsoever else may hinder us from Godly union and con- 
 cord ; that, as there is but one Body and one Sj^rit, and one Hope of 
 our Calling, one Lord, one Faitli, one Baptism, one God and Father of us 
 all, so we may henceforth be all of one heart, and of one soul, united in 
 one holy bond of Truth and i'eace, of ITaith and Charity, and may with 
 one mind and one mouth glorify Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.. 
 — Amen. 
 
 A Prayer for the Divine Guidance of tJhe Synod. 
 
 OMOST GRACIOUS LORD GOD, who by Thine only begotten 
 Son, our Loi*d Jesus Christ, and by Thy Spirit in His Holy Apos- 
 tles, didst institute the sacred order of Bishops in Thy Church, to feed, 
 to build up, and to govern ; We humbly pray Thee to be assisting to 
 those who are appointed to choose out one to serve in the office of a 
 Bishop in this Diocese ; and so to cleanse their hearts from earthly and 
 partial motives, and so to guide and direct their judgment, and overrule 
 their designs and operations, that he whom they shall choose may be the 
 best fitted, by piety, wisdom, and charity, by singleness of heart and 
 earnestness of spii'it, to enkindle amongst us a more living godliness, and 
 to promote the extension, the purity, the unity and stability of Thy 
 Church, to the glory of Thy great Name, and the hastening of the perfect 
 kingdom of our blessed Redeemer, through Him, who with Thee and tha 
 Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth one God blessed for evermore. — Amen.. 
 
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GENERAL ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS 
 
 ARRANGED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE DIOCESE. 
 
 i 
 
 F(yr Thursday, 27th February, 1879. 
 
 At 10 am. — Morning Prayer and Sermon, with tbe celebration of the 
 Holy Communion, in St. James's Cathedral. 
 
 Offertory to be devoted to the Mission Fund. 
 
 At 2.30 p.m. —The Very Reverend the Dean will take the Chair, at 
 the Cathedral School House, and the Synod will proceed to business. 
 
 The Court for the current year on Contested and Doubtful Seats of 
 Lay-Representatives in Synod, api)ointed by the Bishop, will be in 
 attendance, viz: — Samuel B. Harman, Esq., D.C.L., Chancellor of the 
 Diocese, George M. Evans, Esq., M.A., S. G. Wood, Esq., LL.B., Rev. 
 A. Sanson, and Rev. John Langtry, M.A. 
 
 Note. — The calling of the Roll by the Clerical and Lay Secretaries having been 
 dispensed with, each Clergyman and Lay-Representative is required to sign his 
 name in a book to be provided for that purpose before taking his scai. 
 
 ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
 
 1. At 2.30 p.m. — The Oj^ening Prayers appointed for the occasion. 
 
 2. The Rev. J. H. McCollum, A.M., and F. D. Barvvick, Esq., the 
 Committee appointed for the current year to • meet before the Synod and 
 examine the Certificates of the Lay-Representatives, to present their 
 report. 
 
 3. Contested cases, or doubtful Certificates mentioned in said Report, 
 (if any), as well as any objections made to the claims of Lay-Represen- 
 tatives on the Synod List to seats in Synod, to be referred for final 
 adjudication to the Court on Contested Seats. 
 
 . 4. The Dean's Opening Address. 
 
 5. Scrutineers shall be' appointed, consistiiig of two Clergymen and 
 one Layman, to take the Clerical vote ; and of t\Vo Laymen and one 
 Clergyman, to take the Lay vote, according to the regulations hei'eafter 
 mentioned. 
 
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 Appeals (if any) having been heard and adjudicated upon, the Lists 
 handed in by tho Court shall be regarded as the Lists to govern the 
 Election of a Bisliop. 
 
 Thereupon the Synod shall adjourn to meet in the Cathedral for the 
 purposo of Ballot and Election, at such time as the Synod may appoint. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE CATHEDRAL. 
 
 The Synod having been oalled to order at the hour appointed, the 
 Clergy on the right of the Chair, and the Laity on the left, the Dean 
 will request that a few moments may be devoted to private prayer, 
 and that during the Balloting there shall be no manifestations of feeling, 
 but that all, by quiet and orderly demeanour, shall pay the deepest respect 
 to the solemnity of the sacred duty in which they are engaged. 
 
 The Balloting will then commence, and be conducted according to the 
 following regulations : — 
 
 L— THE CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 (1.) The Scrutineers shall take their place at a table to be provided. 
 
 (2.) The List of Clergy, handed in as aforesaid, shall be delivered to 
 them, and no vote shall be received which is not on such list. 
 
 (3.) A Ballot-box shall be provided with a lock and a slit or gi'oove 
 in the top, through which the Ballot shall be dropped into the 
 box, which shall in no case be unlocked or opened until the 
 Scrutineers have retired with the same. 
 
 (4.) During the process of taking the Ballot all parties shall keep 
 their seats until the name of a Clergyman be called by the 
 Secretary, when he shall approach the Scrutineers' table and 
 hand to the Scrutineers a folded paper containing the name of 
 the Clergyman for whom he desires to vote, and return to his 
 seat, which folded paper shall be dropped into the Ballot-box, 
 and the Clergyman's name shall be marked off on the list as 
 having voted ; and the others shall be called in like manner until 
 the list be exhausted. 
 
 (5. ) The Scrutineers shall see that the result of their scrutiny corres- 
 ponds with the number of those voting, as ascertamed from the 
 list mai'ked as aforesaid. 
 
 (6.) The Registrar shall receive the Report of the Scrutineers, and 
 proclaim the same to the Synod. 
 
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 II.— THE LAY VOTE. 
 
 (1.) The Scrutineers shall take their place at a table to be provided. 
 
 (2.) The List of Parishes or Missions entitled to vote handed in as 
 aforesaid, shall be delivered to them ; and no vote shall be received 
 which is not on such list. 
 
 {3.) A Ballot-box shall be provided with a lock and a slit or groove 
 in the top, through which the Ballot shall be dropped into the 
 box, which shall in no case be unlocked or opened until the 
 Scrutineei'H have retired with the same. 
 
 (4.) During the process of taking the Ballot all parties shall keep their 
 seats until the name of the Parish or Mission is called by the 
 Secretary, when the Representatives thereof shall approach the 
 Scrutineers' table, and each Representative (if there be more than 
 one) shall severally hand to the Scrutineers a folded paper 
 containing the name of the Clergyman for whom he desires to 
 vote, and shall return to his seat : the several folded j)apers thus 
 received shall be then placed together in an envelope, which shall 
 be sealed, and dropped into the Ballot-box, and the Parish or 
 Mission shall be then marked oflf on the list as having voted ; and 
 the others shall be called in like manner until the list be exhausted. 
 No name or endorsement shall be placed on the envelope for 
 reasons hereafter mentioned. 
 
 (6.) The Scrutineers, having retired, shall record the vote according 
 to the contents of each envelope. If two Representatives vote for 
 " A,*' and one for " B," the vote shall be recorded for " A." If 
 the Representatives vote, one for " A," another for " B," and a 
 third for " C " ; or if there be only two and they each vote for a 
 different Clergyman, the vote shall be recorded as lost. 
 
 (6.) The Scrutineers shall see that the result of their scrutiny corres- 
 ponds with the number of envelo])es representing the Parishes or 
 Missions voting ; say, for example, there be 120 envelopes, the 
 vote (by way of example) may be returned as — 
 
 50 for A. 
 
 30 for B. 
 
 20 for C. 
 
 10 for , D. 
 
 10 lost votes. 
 
 120 
 
 i»;t 
 
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 ^'■^'J~J?^ *^^^^^ arrartgetn^nts the prifaciple of vote by Ballot will be 
 tully enforced— the Scrutineers being as unable as any one else to 
 know what Parish each envelope represents ; and consequently 
 now its Hepresentatives severally or collectively vote. 
 
 (7.) The Registrar shall receive the Report of the Scrutineers, and 
 proclaim the same to the Synod. 
 
 Not less than half-an-hour shall elapse between the taking of each 
 13allot (if more than one be found necessai-y) ; the precise time to be 
 named by the Dean, and announced by the Registrar. 
 
 During the proceedings no discussion shall be allowed or point of 
 order verbally raised; but any ap]>eal shall be reduced to writing and 
 presented to the Dean, whose decision thereon, announced through the 
 Registrar, shall be final. ^ 
 
 The Synod shall adjourn from time to time until the Balloting is 
 concluded, and the election is made. 
 
 When the Balloting is concluded, and the election is made, the Dean 
 wil proclaim the result ; and, having pronounced the Benediction, will 
 declare the Synod adjourned. 
 
LIST OF CLERGY AND LAY REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 or THE 
 
 SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO, FOR \ 
 
 1878-79. 
 
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 Prepared by the Secretaries of the S\. ob in accordance with Secti 
 Thirty-seven op the Constitution, and Revised by the 
 Court on Contested Seats. 
 
 Parish or Mission. 
 
 Albion and Mono 
 
 Allistou 
 
 Apsley 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 Ashburnham and Otonabee 
 
 Atherley and Beayerton . . 
 
 Aurora, Oakridges, and 
 King 
 
 Barrie 
 
 Batteau.t 
 
 Berkeley and Chester 
 
 Rev. W. F. Swallow .. 
 " VV. M. C. Clarke 
 " Philip Harding .. 
 " W. C.Bradahaw.. 
 " H. W. Robinaon. . 
 " C.W.Paterson,B.C. 
 
 " Canon Morgan 
 
 " L. H; Kirkby . . . . 
 
 •' C. Ruttan 
 
 Lay REPREaENTATIVEB. 
 
 Jamea Donaghy. 
 R, Lawrence, M.D. 
 G. McManu.s, 
 
 Alexander Marling, LL.B. 
 Frank Wootten, 
 Wm. Davey. 
 
 Major Etlward Leigh. 
 Robert H. Bethune. 
 Marmaduke Willaon. 
 
 H. C. Burritt, M.D, 
 H. T. Strickland. 
 George C. Rogers, 
 
 J. O. Revell. 
 Morgan Baldwin. 
 W. H. Howland. 
 
 Stephen Fry. 
 
 Hon. C. J. Douglas. 
 
 James Armstrong. 
 
 James C. Morgan, M,A. 
 Charles H. Clark. 
 James Henderson. 
 
 H. P. Blachford. 
 Lewis Moffatt. 
 Col. D. E. Boulton.. 
 
 Peter Paterson. 
 G. F. Frankland. 
 iDr. FothergiU, 
 
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 Pabisb or Mission. 
 
 Bobcaygeon 
 
 Bolton and Sandhill . 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 Bradford and West Gwil 
 limbury. 
 
 Brampton 
 
 Brooklin, Columbus, and 
 Ashbum. 
 
 'Cameron and Dunsford 
 
 Cannington 
 
 Cardiff and Monmouth 
 
 Carleton 
 
 Rev. H. C. Avant 
 
 " W. H. Clarke, B.A. 
 " A. W. Spragge, B.A. 
 " I. Middleton, B.A . . 
 " Frederick Burt .... 
 
 '♦ R. A. Rooney 
 
 " John Vicara, B.A . 
 
 Lay Reprbsentatites. 
 
 Cart Wright 
 
 Cavan 
 
 " Joseph Gander . . . 
 
 " John Carry, B.D 
 
 John Creighton, B.D 
 
 W. B. Read. 
 Andrew Finlay, 
 William Thurston. 
 
 Robert Johnston. 
 Thomas Fisher. 
 C. J. Campbell. 
 
 Lieut. Col, R. Tyrwhitt. 
 Joseph Fennell, Senr. 
 J. W. H. Wilson. 
 
 T. A. Agar. 
 
 His Hon, Judge Scott. 
 
 William Golding. 
 
 Lieut. Col. G. H. Grierson. 
 Wm. E. Hodgins, M.A. 
 Henry Pellatt. 
 
 John Ireton, Sen. 
 James Browne. 
 J. H. Knight. 
 
 John Hall Thompson. 
 Alfred Wyatt. 
 
 Charleston and Cataract . 
 
 T. W. Allen, M.A., 
 Rural Dean 
 
 Clarke . 
 
 'Cobourg 
 
 " Canon Brent, M.A. 
 
 [M.A. 
 " Canon Stennett, ) 
 •* J. W. Forster.... j 
 
 Jabez [Gander. 
 George Gander. 
 Isaac Ritchie. 
 
 N. W. Hoyles, B.A. 
 Frank Arnoldi. 
 Thomas Shortiss. 
 
 Wm. McLauchlin. 
 Archibald Lattimore. 
 
 George Needier. 
 Robert Vance. 
 Thomas Willan. 
 
 Charles A. Rankine; 
 
 David Taylor. 
 
 F. Covert Moffatt, B.A. 
 
 Fred. Farncomb. 
 Joshua Adams. 
 William Farncomb, 
 
 W. D. Bum. 
 A. Hewson. 
 George Wilgress. 
 
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 Parish ob Mission. 
 
 Golborue and Brighton 
 
 Coldwater 
 
 Collingwood 
 
 Cookstown . 
 
 Craighurst and Vespra 
 
 Credit 
 
 Darlington 
 
 Dysart . 
 
 Etobicoke 
 
 Fenelon Falls. 
 
 Galway 
 
 Georgina . 
 
 Gore's Landing 
 
 Grafton 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 Rev. H. D. Cooper, B.A. 
 
 " W. H. French. 
 
 ' * Joseph Fletcher, B. A. 
 
 A. B. Chafee, B.A 
 
 " T. Walker, B.A. 
 
 " A. Macnab, D.D. 
 
 " Geo. Ledingham. 
 
 ' ' Canon Tremayne, 
 M.A. 
 
 " Wm. Logan, M.A. 
 
 '• JohnBurkitt 
 
 " Canon Ritchie, M.A. 
 
 Lay Representatives. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Wilson, 
 M.A 
 
 G. S. Burrell. 
 W. G. Bidwell. 
 F. W. Austin. 
 
 James Graham. 
 James Scott. 
 
 Alex. R. Stephen, M.D. 
 Lieut. Col. Bligh. 
 Captain Edward Wheeler. 
 
 R. Snelling, LL.D. 
 John Patersou. 
 H. B. Nicol, M.D. 
 
 'George Sneath. 
 Robert Leadlay. 
 William H. Partridge. 
 
 T. M. Hammond. 
 J. Goldthorpe. 
 Robert Cotton. 
 
 Thomas Batting. 
 John Arthur Codd. 
 Wmiam T. Scott. 
 
 C. J. Blomfield. 
 G. W. Buckland. 
 Capt. Hoo]>er. 
 
 James Eastwood. 
 Benjamin Goldthorpe. 
 John D. Evans. 
 
 Thomas Roberts, 
 John Catto. 
 John A. Barron. 
 
 C. A. Brough. 
 Frank E. Hodgins. 
 
 Capt. Sibbald. 
 
 J. Herbert Mason. 
 
 John J. Vickers. 
 
 Chas. Thompson. 
 
 F. W. Kingstone, M.A. 
 
 Robert Baldwin. 
 
 Robert Z. Rogers. 
 James Barnum. 
 Charles S. Drummond. 
 
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 Paiush or Mission, 
 
 Hastings and Alnwick. 
 
 Holland Landing and Sha- 
 ron 
 
 ClEHOTMAir. 
 
 InnisfU 
 
 Keswick 
 
 Rev. 
 
 Lindsay . . 
 Lloydtown 
 
 Man vers 
 
 Markham, St. Philip's. . . . 
 
 " Grace Church 
 
 Minden 
 
 Mulmur 
 
 Mulmur West 
 
 John McCleary . . . 
 T. P. Hodge 
 
 E.W. Murphy, B, A, 
 Wm. Jupp .... 
 
 Lat Repbesentativm. 
 
 W. T. Smithett, 
 D.D., Rural Dean 
 
 C. B. Dundas, B.A 
 
 " Henry F, Burges 
 
 John Fletcher, M. A. 
 Rural Dean 
 
 Anthony Hart , 
 
 
 J. E. Cooper . . . 
 George Nesbitt, M.A 
 
 John Blacklock. 
 William Drope. 
 William Skinkle. 
 
 James Parnliam. 
 W. H. Thorne. 
 John Selby. 
 
 Hon. G. W. Allan. 
 Dr. R. Lund. 
 E. Pangman. 
 
 Howard Bo veil. 
 Capt. Stupart, R. N. 
 Dr. Spragge. 
 
 Adam Hudspeth. 
 Hartley Dunsford. 
 Philip Saudford Martin. 
 
 John T. Jones. 
 C. S. Gzowski, Jr. 
 Dr. Byers. 
 
 George Sisson, 
 
 Charles H. Brereton, M.D. 
 
 George Reynolds. 
 
 John P. Davison. 
 
 Charles Brown. 
 
 His Honor Judge Boyd. 
 
 Henry Tane. 
 Charles Brioknell. 
 James Trawu. 
 
 James K. Kerr, Q.O. 
 John Gillespie. 
 S. S. Peck. 
 
 William Wilson 
 Richard Brett, 
 J. W. McCleary. 
 
 Newmarket 
 
 North Douro 
 
 H. B. Owen, F.R.L.S 
 
 C. R. Bell, Mua Bac. 
 
 George S, C. Bethune. 
 J. R, Armstrong. 
 Charles Unwiu, jr. 
 
 R. J. Davison. 
 
 C, W. Lee. 
 
 W. H. Ashworth. 
 
 J. Dinwoodie. 
 Roland C. Strickland. 
 Beverley Jones, M.A. 
 
15 
 
 Parish or Mission. 
 
 North Essa 
 
 North Orillia and Medonte 
 
 Norwood, Weatwood, and 
 Belmont. 
 
 Omemee and Emily 
 
 Orillia , 
 
 Clergtman. 
 
 Rev. W. W. Bates, B.A. 
 
 James H» Harris . 
 
 Edward Soward . . . . 
 
 K. H. Harris, B.A.. 
 
 A, Stewart, M.A., 
 Rural Dean 
 
 Oshawa 
 
 Penetanguishene 
 
 Perrytown 
 
 Peterborough 
 
 Pickering and Port Whitby 
 
 Port Hope, St. John's 
 
 «* St. Mark's . 
 
 Port Perry. 
 
 Scarborough 
 
 Lay BEPRrSENTATITES. 
 
 Hon. James Patton, Q.C. 
 Capt. F. Denison. 
 J. W. Young. 
 
 B. Homer Dixon, K.N.L. 
 John Hipwell. 
 
 George Myers. 
 
 John Butterfield. 
 Henry Alley. 
 John Alley. 
 
 Wm. Shaw Cottingham. 
 Hon.Vice-Chancollor Blake. 
 Clarence W. Ball. 
 
 EVank Evans. 
 
 C. S. Elliott, M.D. 
 Charles Ellis. 
 
 C. C. Johnson. 
 
 Samuel Hills 
 
 
 John A. Hanna . . 
 
 J.W.R.Beck.M.A. 
 
 P. Clementi Smith, 
 
 [M.A. 
 
 Johnstone Vicars, 
 M.D. 
 
 F.A.O'Meara,LL.D. 
 
 J. S. Baker 
 
 C. E. Sills, B.A.... 
 
 E. Horace Mussen, 
 B.A. 
 
 James Carraichael. 
 John Cowan. 
 Mattiiew Western. 
 
 Sheriff Jarvis. 
 Thomas Hodgins, Q.C. 
 Edgar Hallen. 
 
 Thomas Camjibell. 
 
 J. S. Wilson. 
 
 J. R. Cartwright. 
 
 A. P.Poussette, D.C.L. 
 George Burnham. 
 W. E. Sherwood. 
 
 John Blow. 
 John Woodhouse. 
 Kivas Tally, C.E. 
 
 Thomas Moore Benson. 
 Charles T. Bingham. 
 Seth Smith. 
 
 James Calcutt. 
 William Henderson. ' 
 Henry Alfred Ward. 
 
 Daniel Ledingham. 
 John Rolph. • 
 
 William I3ond. 
 
 Stephen Westney. 
 Richard Steers. 
 Robert Boyd. 
 
16 
 
 Parish ob Mission. 
 Seymour and Percy 
 
 Shanty Bay 
 
 Stayner and Creemore . , . . 
 
 Streetsville 
 
 Clirothak. 
 
 Rev. R. W. Hindes, B.A, 
 
 Lay REPBBSEJJTATlVEa. 
 
 Arthur L. Colvell, 
 Richard Ough, M.D. 
 
 Sunderland & West Brock 
 
 " W. R. Forster. . 
 
 W. S. Westney.B.A. 
 
 ** Edward Warren 
 
 Tecumseth , 
 
 ThornhiU & Richmond Hill 
 
 TuUamore 
 
 " Thomas Ball 
 
 " Robert Shanklin. 
 
 ..William Grant, M. A. 
 
 Toronto, St. James's Cath- 
 edral. 
 
 St. Paul's 
 
 (I 
 
 4t 
 
 <{ 
 
 Trinity East.. 
 St. George's . . 
 Holy Trinity.. 
 St. John's 
 
 Very Rev. Dean Grasett, 
 D.D....[B.A.. 
 Rev. W. S. Rainsford, 
 " R. W.E.Greene, B.A 
 
 " Canon Givins.D.C.L 
 
 " Alexander Sanson 
 
 
 J. D. Cayley, M.A 
 C. H. Mockridge, 
 
 " W.Stewart Darling) 
 
 " John Pearson, M.A > 
 
 i' H. W, Davies, D.D ) 
 
 " Alex. Williams, M.A 
 
 W. E. O'Brien. 
 C. C. Bridges. 
 J. O. Browne. 
 
 R. J. Cole. 
 William Millie. 
 John Carter. 
 
 Wm. Magrath. 
 John Ballinger. 
 John Frazer. 
 
 Thomas Purvis. 
 
 S. B. Harman, D.C.L. 
 
 J. D. Smith. 
 
 George J. Caviller. 
 Richard Coflfey. 
 Thomas Carter. 
 
 Edmund Seager. 
 Joseph Keffer. 
 William Cook. 
 
 I. M. Chafee. 
 James Craven. 
 Isaac Blain. 
 
 Daniel Wilson, LL,D. 
 
 J. George Hodgins, LL.D. 
 
 Clarke Gamble, Q.C. 
 
 Robert Sewell. 
 Bernard Haldan. 
 George Boyd. 
 
 William Gooderham. 
 Thos. W. Rawlinson. 
 F. LeMaitre Grasett, M.R 
 
 William Gamble. 
 
 Samuel W. Farrell. 
 
 H. W. M. Murray, M.A. 
 
 William Ince. 
 
 S. G. Wood, LL.B. 
 
 W. T. O'Reilly, M.D. 
 
 Samuel Shaw, jr. 
 John Maughan, jr. 
 Thomas G. Bright. 
 
 .Wis 
 
17 
 
 Parish or Misaiow. 
 
 Toronto, St. Stephen's 
 
 St. Anne's, 
 
 << 
 
 « 
 
 CLERaTMAX 
 
 •* St. Peter's. 
 
 St. Luke's. 
 
 " Chxxrch of the Re- 
 deemer. 
 
 AUSamts'. 
 
 St. Matthias . . . . 
 
 St. Thomas's. 
 
 Grace Chi;rcli . . 
 
 St. Bartholo- 
 mew's and St. 
 Matthew's 
 
 St. Phihp's .. 
 
 Church of the 
 Ascension. 
 
 Uxbridgo 
 
 Waverley 
 3 
 
 Rev. A.J. Broughall,M.A 
 " J. M. Ballard, B.A.. 
 " S.J. Boddy, M.A.. 
 " John Langtry, M.A 
 
 Lay RKPRESENTATIVEil. 
 
 F. W. Coate. 
 
 S. J. VanKoughnet, D.C.L. 
 
 Maxfield Sheppard. 
 
 R. N. Gooch. 
 
 Col. G. T. Denison. 
 
 Thomas McLean. 
 
 " Septimus Jones, M.A 
 " J. P. Sheraton, B. A. 
 
 " A. H. Baldwin, M.A 
 
 R. Harrison, M.A. 
 
 " J.H.McCollum,A.M 
 
 W. T. Boyd. 
 W. J. Coates. 
 P. D. Conger. 
 
 Clarkson Jones. 
 John Hague. 
 William Plummer. 
 
 A. H. Campbell. 
 J. L. Bronsdon. 
 R. Dunbar. 
 
 A. McLean Howard. 
 
 Charles Fuller. 
 
 J. W. G. Whitney. 
 
 Percy Beverley. 
 William Peacocke, Jr. 
 
 •' J. P. Lewis 
 
 Geo. I. Taylor, M.A. 
 
 " J. S. Stone 
 
 Marcellus Crombie, M.A. 
 John Canavaii. 
 M, M. Matthews. 
 
 Hon. Edward Blake, Q.C. 
 F. A. Ball. 
 Joseph Bickerstaflf. 
 
 Aid. Allen. 
 John F. Hart. 
 Henry G. Collins. 
 
 Lieut. Col. R. B. Denison. 
 Geo. M. Evans, M.A. 
 Lieut. Col. C. S. Gzowski. 
 
 " S. W. Young, M. A. . Samuel B. Smith. 
 
 Charles Magrath, D.C.L. 
 I Thomas D. Delamere, M.A, 
 
 " John Davidson, M.A C. G. Hanuing. 
 
 H. M. Howell. 
 George Solly. 
 
 " Philip Tocque H. S. Strathy. 
 
 IH. P. Savigney. 
 
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 Parish or Mission. 
 
 West Mono 
 
 "Weston 
 
 Clibgtuan. 
 
 Lat Ripribbntatitis. 
 
 Rev. W. A. Johnson 
 
 A. J. Burrowes Close. 
 G. B. Morley. 
 C. J. Agar. 
 
 John Dennis.* 
 Lt.-Col. Hans Gracey. 
 
 '• A. J. Fidler, B.A . . 
 " Ogden P. Ford, B.A. 
 
 " Gustavus A. Ander- 
 son. 
 
 Whitby 
 
 Woodbridge and Vaughan 
 Wyebridge and Midland 
 
 York MUls | " Canon H. B. Osier. . 
 
 •• T. W. Paterson, M.A 
 Ptepresenting One Hundred Parishes and Missions. 
 
 York Township, Christ 
 Church. 
 
 John Ham Perry. 
 
 George Young Smith, LL.B. 
 
 John Wolfenden. 
 
 William Duncan. 
 Thomas Fielding. 
 John Brown. 
 
 Wm. Parker. 
 
 F. Barlow Cumberland. 
 
 F. D. Barwick. 
 
 George Robson. 
 C. H. Mercer. 
 J. Cooper. 
 
 Philip Armstrong. 
 Thomas Elgie. 
 Weymouth G. Schreiber. 
 
 Trinity College 
 
 Trinity College School, Port 
 Hope. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker 
 
 M.A. {Provost). 
 Rev. Wm. Jones, M.A. 
 • ' Algernon Boys, M. A. 
 
 *' C.J.S.Bethune,M.A 
 " W. E. Cooper, M.A. 
 •• W, 0. Allen, B.A. 
 
 Rev. Canon Scadding, D.D. 
 " A. Lampman, B.A. 
 '• Vincent Clementi, B.A. 
 " T. J. Hodgkin, M.D 
 
 Rev. S. Briggs, M.A. 
 " S. S. Strong, D.D., D.C.L. 
 " George Hallen, B.A. 
 " F. J. S. Groves. 
 
 Rev. W. H. Wadleigh, B.A. 
 
 C. H. MOCKRTDGE. B.D., 
 
 Hon.[Clerical Secretary. 
 
 J. GEORGE HODGINS, LL.D., 
 
 Hon. Lay Secretary. 
 
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 JOURNAL OF A SPECIAL MEETING 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Jgttfld of iht iioasi* 0^ Mmotiia, 
 
 HELD FOR THE PtTRPOSE OF 
 
 ELECTING A BISHOP TO THE VACANT SEE, 
 
 ON 
 
 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 1879, 
 
 AND FOLLOWING DAYS. 
 
 FIRST DAY. 
 
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 AFTERNOON SESSION. 
 
 Thursday, February 27th, 1879. 
 Purauant to notice given by Very Rev. the Dean of Toronto, in 
 Accoi-dance with the Canon i-elating to the election of a Bishop, the Synod 
 of the Diocese assembled this day in St. James' Cathedral, at 10 
 
 o'clock, A. M. 
 
 Morning prayer was sung by Rev. J. D. Cayley, M.A., Precentor 
 of the Synod. The sermon was preached by Rev. A. J. Broughali, 
 M.A., as follows; 
 
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 20 
 SERMON. 
 
 "Remember them which have the rule over you." — Ilebreiva xiii. 7. 
 
 With much hesitation I have accepted the invitation, so kindly givea 
 me, to preacli before you to-day. And in addressing myself to this duty 
 I would remind you of the peculiar circumstances under which we are now 
 assembled. 
 
 It is the first time since the foundation of the See that our diocese has 
 been without a head. Our late Bishop, so recently and unexpectedly 
 taken from us, was coadjutor when the first Bishop of Toronto entered 
 into rest. But this dny we meet, on summons of the Dean of this 
 Cathedral Church, to elect a godly and well-learned man who may be 
 consecrated to the oftice and work of his i)redecessors. 
 
 We have had the high-principled and intrepid Bishop Strachon, the 
 equally high ])rinci})led but gentle Bishop Bethune, both of whom most 
 of you can recall equally with myself. It is in God's hands to give us a 
 successor to these. What his special qualifications or peculiar character- 
 istic will be we need not conjecture. The Lord uses various and differing 
 instruments to work His will. In the service of Christ one man differs 
 from another ; each has his gift, the same blessed Spirit dividing to every 
 man severally as He will. From the first, Jesus " calleth unto Him 
 whom he would." In the apostolic band thei'e was gentle love and ardent 
 zeal, courage and caution, humility and forwardness, gentleness and power. 
 And the Master who chose them all was alike pleased with the fiiithful 
 service of each of His servants. But for this at least we can all without ex- 
 ception desire to pray, that he whom the Great Head of the Church shall 
 be pleased to give us for a Bishop may be "a man full of the Holy Ghost 
 and of faith," a man "endued" as the apostles were, "with power from 
 on High." 
 
 It will be in the rememln'ance of many members of this Synod that 
 such topics as "the. ministerial character," the "sufficiency" of the 
 clergy, the " marks" and jjcculiar functions of the Church, and also the 
 requisite "qualifications of a Bishop," have been discussed by successive 
 preachers who have addressed you. 
 
 I think, therefore, that I cannot do better on the present occasion than 
 remind you very briefly of the way in which we ought all to regard the 
 Bishop vj'o may be given us. It is a subject, too, which can be treated with 
 greater propriety under existing circumstances than in the presence of one's 
 Diocesan. " Remember them which have the rule over you." It is true 
 that the words were addressed to the laity, and that reference is made to 
 spiritual leaders or guides who were already reckoned ^among "the spirits 
 of just men made perfect." But the j)rinciple involved in the text will 
 extend to the clergy also. The injunction of the apostle will cover tbe 
 case of both clergy and laity, and will suggest the manner in which both 
 should order themselves in regard of him who is over them in the Lord. 
 
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 Their Bishop is to be reincmherod in life as well as in death. " Obey 
 them tliat have the rule over you, and submit yotu-selves," is the command 
 which is given a few verses below. And so St. Paul, in the earliest of his 
 epistles, writes to the Tluissalonians, " We beseech you, brethren, to know 
 them which labour among you, and are over yon in the Lord and admonish 
 you ; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake." 
 
 Let us note, then wJi.y Christian people should remember their Bishop. 
 
 First, because he is over them *• in the Lord." Brethren, this is the 
 dispensation of the Spirit. The Church is the house of God, and its mem- 
 bers are not of this world even as their Head was not. Christians are 
 born from above. Our city is in heaven, our home is there ; we are 
 destined for heaven, and our thoughts and aspirations should be heavenly 
 and heavenward. As we live in the Spirit so should we walk in the 
 Spirit, not walking by sight but by faith, recognizing sjjiritual men as 
 well as spiritual things, and submitting to them as to those who care for 
 our souls. Our religion teaches us that we have spiritual pastors and 
 masters no less than civil rulers, and to them we owe due reverence and 
 submission. A Bishop is not a mere secular officer or worldly official. 
 He is our father in God. He is Christ's minister and steward of the 
 mysteries of God ; the angel of the Church, responsible for the well-being 
 of his charge ; made an overseer by the Holy Ghost, yea, a partaker of the 
 Holy Ghost for the work and office to which he is called ; a feeder of 
 Christ's sheep ; a ruler in the house of God. He is a leader and a guide 
 for anxious souls ; he presides over us, and admonishes us. 
 
 And besides this we should remember him and esteem him very 
 highly in love for his work's sake. He "has the rule" over us ; he 
 ♦* labours" among us Laborious indeed is the work of a Christian Bi lop 
 involving too often an overstrained mind and a jaded spirit, as well as 
 fatigue of body. His work is the Lord's work, which is above all thing.<? 
 to aim at the salvation of precious souls purchased with no less price than 
 the effusion of Christ's blood. The government and administration in the 
 Church of Christ to which he is admitted involves more than mere ruling 
 and ordering, difficult as these are in themselves to accomplish efficiently. 
 In the Ordinal, he is reminded how among other things he must give 
 himself to prayer and the study of God's word, that he may be able to 
 teach and exhort with wholesome doctrine, and to withstand and convince 
 the gainsayers. He is to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange 
 doctrines contrary to God's word, and both privately and openly to call 
 upon and encourage others to the same. He is to maintain and set for- 
 ward as much as lieth in him quietness, love, and peace among all men. 
 The diocese is his parish. On consecration his sphere of work is enlarged, 
 the field is made wider in which he is to laboiir ; he is by no means 
 released from the duties of a priest, by being made chief pastor. He is 
 himself to work ; he must keep others at work, with this one thing in 
 view, that the sheep of Christ and His children who are scattered abroad 
 may be sought out and saved through Christ for ever. The words of the 
 
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 Good Sho[)1)ei*d " otlicr slieep I have" — "other slioop'* — must rinfr ju lug 
 ears continually ; and ho must repeat the cry to his l)rethren in the mitiistry 
 till all 1)0 gathered in, that not one may be missing in the day of the Lord. 
 Unceasing, and untiring, faithful, and loving is the service to which he is 
 bound by the terms of his otlice, the grand objtict and end of which is the 
 honour of God and of his Christ. Is there not need therefore that we 
 should remoml)er him who has the rule over us, and speaks unto us the 
 word of (lod ] 
 
 And how are we to remember our Bishop 1 
 
 By acknowledging him as such. It is incumbent on us to recognize 
 the office to which ho is a[)pointod, and the work im}>osed on liim by the 
 Great Head of the Church, and also to extend to him the consideration, 
 and reverence, and love, so fairly duo to one in his ])osition. Here is the 
 first step towards the performance of that duty which devolves upon us 
 all in this matter. We are to *' know" him as being over us in the Lord, 
 and to esteem him very highly on this account. Due regard is to be 
 paid to his teaching and admonitions as well as to the power of govern- 
 ment w'th which ho is invested. 
 
 And next, we are in the language ,of Scripture, to obey him and 
 submit ourselves. 
 
 The Bishop of a diocese is the outward and visible exponent of that 
 unity which should mark the members of the Church. And to follow 
 him freely, and dutifully yield to his godly direction, will do more than 
 anything else towards harmonizing and binding together the several parts 
 of the body. Peaceful and loving subordination to the head will help 
 marvellously to the avoiding of internal trouble. 
 
 The Clergy, it is true, owe canonical obedience to the Bishop ; but 
 we want more than this, we want something even better than this. All 
 of us clergy and laity alike, owe him scriptural obedience; I mean thab 
 obedience which is so clearly reconmiendovl in the passages of Holy Scrip- 
 ture already quoted, and which is thus imposed upon us by God himself. 
 It he is to rule, we must obey. The right to govern implies the correlative 
 duty of obedience. That is a poor dominion where there is a reluctant 
 submission on the part of the governed. In the Church of God above 
 all it is desirable that there should not be mere passive obedience, mucli 
 less ought there to be passive resistance, but a willing compliance with 
 the directions of competent authority. 
 
 Not only do we need a Bishop able to rule, but we require a clergy 
 and i)eople ready and willing to obey. Authority has been afhxed by 
 God himself to the ministerial office, and the same power has enacted 
 corresponding obedience and submission. The office is authoritative ; the 
 duty which we owe would seem to be self-evident. 
 
 And more than this, we should remember our Bishop in our 
 prayers. " Brethren, pray for us," is the repeated request of St. Paul. 
 He needed the Church's prayers and the prayers of every member 
 
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 and 
 
 in our 
 It. Paul, 
 member 
 
 tliereof, and feeling liis need he ever urged uj)on them the performance 
 of thin duty. Let us liave more prayer and wo shall have more love and 
 more work. It will strengthen the hands of our chief pastor, and cheer 
 his spirit, to feel that day by <lay from every part of the diocese, prayer is 
 ascending to God on his behalf that he may have grace and strength for 
 the duo discharge of his olfice, so that on the great day of account, when 
 he along with ourselves must aj)pear Ixifore the judgment seat of Christ, 
 he may be able to render his account with joy, and not with grief, to the 
 Shepherd and JJishop of our souls. 
 
 This day, then. Christian brethren, when we are met to olcct our 
 future Bishop, let us, in the first place, seek guidance from on High. Let 
 us pray Cod in all sincerity that he would order our wills and i)urify our 
 affections, and in answer to earnest and faithful [)rayer show us whom He 
 ^has chosen for this work and ministry. This is the jjoint above all which 
 we should seek to know. Our wishes and preferences are nothing as com- 
 pared with the will of God. 
 
 ►Surely the quick march of time bids us be up and doing. 
 
 As we look about this Synod, how many an old familiar face is 
 missing from our midst. 
 
 But let me remind you that the unseen world is a reality, and the 
 spiiits of the departed live. We know not the conditions of their being. 
 But if, in that " far serener clime " wh(!re they realize life more fully 
 than we do, or than they themselves did formerly — if, I say, their eyes 
 are not holden like ours, if they can witness our mecjting and our ])ro- 
 ceedings this day, what can we suppose t' at they wish more than that 
 we should address ourselves to the task before us in a spirit of Christian 
 love, and with the sole desire of ])romoting the extension of our 
 Master's Kingdom. Of this, at any rate, we are sure : we ai'e solemnly 
 charged ** before God and his holy angels " to do all for His glory. 
 
 Let us, then, '• enquire at the word of the Lord to-day." And when 
 he has given us a man to be our Bishop, let us each and every one loyally 
 rally aroimd him, and yield him that dutiful submission which is well- 
 pleasing to the Loi'd. Let us give him our sym])athy, our heart}- co- 
 operation, and our prayers and the work of God will again go on briskly 
 in oiu' midst. Only stand shoulder to shoulder, and the good old Diocese 
 of Toronto will soon be a praise in the land. Not weak and vacillating 
 in her policy, her ])riests clothed with righteousness, and her people re- 
 joicing in the salvation of God, and all striving together for the further- 
 ance of the Gospel, she must needs go forth conquering and to conquer. 
 No longer torn by party strife ; no longer quarrelling about externals or 
 about opposite schools of thought, or even different systems of interpre- 
 tation that may be put on the same divine law, and which are likely to 
 exist till the end of time, while souls are hungering and thirsting after 
 righteousness, and there is none to break to them the bread of life ; no 
 longer crippled in her resources, and so unable to accomplish her high 
 
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 mission in evangelizing the people, but endeavouring to keep tlie unity of 
 the spirit in the bond of peace, and rousing herself, and rising in her 
 might, and going forth in the strength of the Lord God to make disciples, 
 to baptize in His name, and to teach all things whatsoever He has com- 
 manded, that He may be glorified in the salvation of all : is this not a 
 consummation which we all desire, and for which we shall devoutly pray 
 and honestly labour 1 Be it ours, then, ever to keep this in view. Be 
 it ours to do angel's work on earth, and by deed as well as word make 
 this our watchword throughout the length and breadth of the diocese, 
 " Glory to God in the :iighest, and on earth peace, good- will to men." 
 
 The Holy Communion was then administered, the Very Rev. the 
 Dean of Toi-onto, being the Celebrant, assisted by the Venerable 
 Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A., the Venerable Archdeacon Wilson, M.A., 
 and the Rev. Canon Givins, D. C. L. 
 
 Proceedings in Cathedral School House. 
 At 2.30 p.m. the Synod reassembled in the St. James's Cathedral 
 School-house, for the transaction of business, the Very Rev. Dean 
 Grasett, D.D., in the chair. 
 
 The prayers appointed for the occasion were read by the Venerable 
 Archdeacon Wilson, M.A. 
 
 All the Clergy of the Diocese were present during Sessions of the 
 Synod except Rev. W. A. Johnson, of Weston. 
 
 All of the Lay Representatives were present at the opening of the 
 Synod except James Donaghy, Dr. R. Lawrence, M. Wilson, Dr. H. C. 
 Burritt, H. C. Strickland, S. Fry, *Col. Tyrwhitt, J. Armstrong, G. F. 
 Frankland, *Dr. Sothergill, Dr. Lund, *E. Pangman, P. S. Martin, A. 
 Hudspeth, J. Trawn, J. Hipwell, G. Meyers, R. J. Davison, Dr. Elliott, 
 C. Ellis, G. Burnham, J. Blow, J. Woodhouse, *Dr. Ough, J. O. Browne, 
 W. Millie, I. M. Chafee, J. Craven, W. Gooderham, J. Dennis, *W. G. 
 Schreiber, J. Ireton, Sr., G. Gander, J. Ritchie, R. Vance, Dr. Stephen, 
 Col. Bligh, Capt. Hooper, C. S. Drummond, *W. Skinkle, *H. A. Ward, 
 and J. Eraser ; and of these, the Delegates to whose names an asterisk 
 is prefixed, were subsequently in attendance during the Session. 
 
 Report on Certificates of Lay Representatives. 
 
 The Rev. J. H. McCollum, M.A., presented and read the following 
 Report of the Committee appointed to examine the certificates of Lay 
 Representatives : — 
 
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 25 
 
 The Committee appointed by the Executive Committee to meet at 
 least two days before the meeting of Synod, to examine the certificates 
 of the Lay Representatives, beg to report, that the certificates of dele- 
 gates whose names are in the official list herewith submitted, appear to 
 be correct. The following we have not placed on the list : — 
 
 King Station — All Saint8\ This election was held to appoint a 
 delegate in the place of the late delegate, Dr. Langstaff, now deceased : 
 (1.) There was no notice given of the death of the former delegate ; (2,) 
 No mention made that the necessary notice, on the two preceding Sun- 
 days, iiad been given ; (3.) The Chairman of the meeting, by whom the 
 certificate is signed, is the incumbent of Lloydtown, who for the present 
 does duty in the mission, though it has never been officially separated from, 
 but still forms part of, the Parish of Aurora, Oakridges, and King. 
 
 Marhham — Grace Church. The certificate states the appointment 
 of Charles Bricknell, in place of William Rolph, Sen., deceased, as dele- 
 gate for above named church. We find no notice of William Rolph's 
 death was given, and no mention of the necessary notice for the two 
 Sundays preceeding the election. 
 
 Peterborough — St. John^s. We find a certificate from the Be v. J. 
 W. R. Beck, Rector, of the election of G. Burnham, Junr., in place of 
 William Delaney, who has left the countr^\ Mr. Delaney has not sent 
 in his resignation. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 J. H. McCOLLUM, Chairman. 
 
 F. D. BARWICK. 
 
 Synod Office, February 25th, 1879. 
 
 The cases of Penetanguishene, Woodbridge, and Wyebridge, have 
 come in since our report was made, and we leave them to the Court to 
 be dealt with. 
 
 Moved by J. Geo. Hodgins, LL.D., seconded by R. Snelling, LL.D., 
 that the same be referred to the Court on Contested Seats. Some 
 -further names were handed in and referred to the same Court. 
 
 lowing 
 of Lay 
 
 The Dean's Address. 
 
 The Yerj' Rev. Dean Grasett, D.D., then delivered the following 
 Address : — 
 
 My Rev. Brethren and Brethren of the Laity : — 
 
 The occasion which has brought us together is one of deep, solemn, 
 and affecting interest. It has pleased our Heavenly Father to take unto 
 himself our beloved and venerated Bishop, whose remains have been com- 
 mitted to the tomb with every token of tlie respect and affection in which 
 he was held, both by his clergy and people. It affords me a melancholy 
 
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 satisfaction, as one his oldest friends, to embrace this opportunity of 
 adding my willing testimony to that of so many othei-s to the various 
 graces and virtues of his character. To the kindliness of his affections 
 and the winning gentleness of his manner a just and generoiis tribute 
 has been paid. 
 
 To those who knew the Bishop intimately, and were privileged to 
 see him in the retirement of his own family, there was in his demeanour 
 something singularly engaging — an unruffled calmness, a quiet cheerful- 
 ness a gentle and laiufiected courtesy and kindness which well befitted a 
 Christian Bishop. 
 
 He is indeed no longer with us, but Holy Scripture ])lainly declares 
 that the souls of God's people when delivered from the burden of the 
 flesh, are in joy and felicity. When absent from the body they are present 
 in the soul, even with Him who loved them and washed tlieni from their 
 sins in His own blood. That venerable form which is impressed upon the 
 memory of ns all awaits the glorious change when it shall arise clothed 
 with immortality. 
 
 We who remain mourn not only the loss of one who was amiable in 
 disposition, nor of one whose example was instructive by an unwearied 
 devotion to the duti(?s of his high and sacred calling and the purity of his 
 life, but we mourn the loss of a father in God, a ruler and guide. 
 
 Let us bear in mind, however, that under all circumstances and on 
 all occasions the Word of God is ever a light to our feet and a lamp to 
 our paths. We are there taught how to improve the loss of honoured 
 leaders. On the death of Moses the children of Israel wept for him in 
 the Plains of Moah tliirty days, but when that becoming tribute of 
 affection to a departed father a'\d benefactor was paid, the Lord called 
 them at once to proceed to the possession of the promised land. In our 
 conflicts such losses form no ground of desj)ondency. '* Behold, I die," 
 said Israel to Jose[)h, " but God shall be with you and bring you to the 
 land of your fathers." " Lo, I am with you always unto the end of the 
 world," is the assurance of the Captain of our salvation. 
 
 Every departure, then, to his glory, of a chief soldier of Jesus Christ, 
 is but a triumphant call to fresh conflicts, fresh progress, fresh victories. 
 The fulness of our God and Saviour is exhaustless, and it is a growing 
 fulness of blessing that He designs for his people. 
 
 If Moses be removed, Joshua must enter into Canaan. If David die, 
 Solomon's glorious reign must commence, and the temple of the Lord 
 must be built. If our Lord Himself be removed, His Church must be 
 established on a rock, against which the gates of hell shall never prevail. 
 If Stephen be stoned, the disciples shall be scattered to diffuse blessing 
 through wider and distant I'egions. The removal of Moses, no doubt, was 
 a great trial to the people of God. He was an eminent servant of the 
 Lord, full of self-sacrificing zeal for their weifai*e ; distinguished for the 
 
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 nity of 
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 tribute 
 
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 leanour 
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 fittecl a 
 
 declares 
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 present 
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 pen the 
 clothed 
 
 lable in 
 wearied 
 ;y of his 
 
 5 and on 
 
 lamp to 
 
 onoured 
 
 him in 
 
 bute of 
 
 1 called 
 
 In our 
 
 , I die," 
 
 n to the 
 
 d of the 
 
 s Christ, 
 'ictories. 
 growing 
 
 avid die, 
 .he Lord 
 must be 
 
 prevail. 
 
 blessing 
 ubt, was 
 it of the 
 J for the 
 
 meekness of wisdom, patience, holiness, and devotedness to the Lord. He 
 had been their leader and their law -giver for forty years. He liad intro- 
 duced remarkable changes, and was (rod'i mediator for bringing Israel 
 into a peculiar I'elation to God as a Kingdom of priests and a holy nation 
 full of blessing to the earth. But his removal was only a step onward 
 to a fuller triumph of the Church. May it be so now. 
 
 The Lord enal)le us all so to im])rove the allecting Providence and 
 bereavement we mourn, that it may lead us on, as Cln-istians, to new 
 labours and new triumphs in advancing the kingdom ol Christ. May 
 His Spirit be largely granted to us at this time. 
 
 And now the responsible duty devolves upon usof making the selection 
 of a godly and well learned man to be ordained and consecrated to the 
 work and ministry of a Bishop in this diocese. Unbiassed by feai* or 
 favour, let us see to it that in our hearts and conscic^^ces we believe him 
 to be replenished with the truth of Christ's doctrine and adorned with in- 
 nocency of life that both by word and deed he may faithfully serve God 
 in this office, to the glory of His name and the edifying and well governing 
 of his Church. 
 
 Having sought guidance where only it is to be found — at the throne 
 of the heavenly grace, in fervent public and social worship, and in earnest 
 closet supplication — we may take the comfort of believing that we have 
 not sought in vain. Should this be so — and God grant that it may — it 
 cannot fail to be a source of blessed encouragement to our future Bishop, 
 as well as to the people committed to his care, to feel that he has been 
 called of God, and appointed to his sacred charge in answer to prayer. 
 
 On motion, the following gentlemen were appointed Scrutineers to 
 receive the ballots for the election of a Bis'iop : 
 
 Clerical Vote — Rev. Canon Brent, lie v. J. McL. Ballard and Mr. 
 Henry Pellatt, moved by Rev. Septimus Jones, M.A., seconded by 
 Clarke Gamble, Q.C. 
 
 Laij To^e— Rev.A. J. Broughall, M.A., S.G. Wood, LL.B.,andG.]VL 
 Evans, M.A., moved by Mr. A. H. Campbell, seconded by Dr. O'Reilly. 
 
 Proceedings in Cathedral. 
 The Synod then adjourned to meet in the Cathedral at 3.30 P.M. 
 
 After proceeding to the Cathedral, an unavoidable delay took place,, 
 owing to the Court on Contested Seats being in Session. 
 
 At 4.45 p.m. the Court brought in their Report as follows : — 
 
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 REPORT OF COURT ON CONTESTED SEATS. 
 
 The Chancellor presented and read the Report of the Court on 
 
 Contested Seats, as follows : — 
 
 At a Court held in pursuance of section 37 of the Constitution of Synod for 
 the settlement of Contested Seats in Synod: Present — Samuel B. Harman, Esq., 
 D.C.L., Chancellor of the Diocese, Chairman; Rev. Alexander Sanson, M A., Rev. 
 John Langtry, M.A., S. G. Wood, Esq., G M. Evans, Esq., M.A. 
 
 Having heard and adjudicated on the following cases, the following judgments 
 are given: — 
 
 Mission. 
 
 Delegates. 
 
 Objection. 
 
 Decision. 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 Aurora, Oak- 
 ridges, & Kin?. 
 
 Stephen Fry. 
 Flon. C. J. Douglas. 
 J allies Armstrong. 
 
 Certificate produced of the 
 election of Mr. James Arm- 
 strong, in place of Dr. Lang- 
 staff, decen-sed, for All Saints 
 Church, King. The objections 
 taken are (l.)That there was 
 no notice given of the death of 
 Dr. Langstaff the former dele- 
 pate, (2) that there is no men- 
 tion made that the necessary 
 notices on the two Sundays 
 preceding the election were 
 given, (3) the chairman of 
 the meeting by whom the 
 certificate is signed is the In- 
 cumbent of Lloydtown, who 
 for the present does duty in 
 the mission, though it has 
 never been ofllcially separated 
 from, but still forms part of 
 the parish of Aurora, Oak- 
 ridges and King. 
 
 With regard to the Ist ob- 
 jection, it is pri'fiumod to mean 
 that no notice of the death 
 was sent to the Secretary- 
 Treasurer of the Synod. This 
 has been already adjudged to 
 be unnecessary except in cases 
 of a double return, see re 
 Grace Church, election of Col. 
 R. B. Denison. Case 10, 1875. 
 As to the 2nd objection, unless 
 such an objection is raised in 
 manner provided by the second 
 section of the Canon constitut- 
 ing the Court it is not consi- 
 dered to be within the province 
 of the committee appointed to 
 examine the certificates, or of 
 the Court to go behind a certifi- 
 cate sent in due form by the 
 clergyman or chairman of the 
 meeting at which the election 
 was held. As to the 3rd objec- 
 tion the Court had some doubt 
 as to this case coming under the 
 ruling in the Port Whitby case 
 No. 14, 1875, but on hearing the 
 Incumbents of Aurora, Oak- 
 ridges, and King, and of Lloyd- 
 town it was shewn clearly that 
 the latter merely held the elec- 
 tion at the request and as the 
 representative of the former, 
 and so signed the certificate. 
 The seat of Mr. Armstrong is 
 therefore allowed. 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 Markham, 
 Grace Church. 
 
 H';nry Tane. 
 .tames Trawn. 
 Charles Bricknell. 
 
 Certificate produced of the 
 election of Mr. Charles Brick- 
 nell in place of Mr. Kolph, 
 deceased. There are two ob- 
 jections taken, exactly simi- 
 lar to the 1st and 2nd in the 
 preceding case. 
 
 Same ruling as in preceding 
 cape, and the seat of Mr. Brick- 
 nell allowed. 
 
 No. 3. 
 Teterborough. 
 
 A. P. Poussetto. 
 W. E. Sherwood. 
 Oeorge Burnham. 
 
 Certificate produced of the 
 election of Mr. George Bum- 
 ham in place of J. A. Delaney 
 who has left the country 
 Only one ob1e«!tion in this case. 
 Bume as objection one in two 
 previous eases. 
 
 Same ruling, and the seat of 
 Mr. Burnham allowed. 
 
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 V'-fc 
 
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 Mission. 
 
 No. 4. 
 
 Woodbridge and 
 Vaugban. 
 
 No. 6. 
 Penetunguisliene 
 
 No. 6. 
 
 Wyt'bridge and 
 Midland. 
 
 No. 7. 
 
 Atherley and 
 Beaverton. 
 
 Delegates. 
 
 W. Duncan. 
 Thomas Fielding. 
 John Brown. 
 
 Sheriff Jnrvi?. 
 I'honias noilgins,Q.C 
 Edgar Ilalicn, 
 
 W. Parker. 
 
 K D. Cumberland. 
 
 V. D. Barwiek. 
 
 J. 0. Kevell. 
 Morgan Baldwin. 
 W. IJ. Ilowland. 
 
 Objection. 
 
 Declsion. 
 
 No form 1 objection raised 
 by the Conunitteo examining 
 certificates in this case, but a 
 certificate having como in 
 since they closed their report, 
 of the election of Mr. John 
 Brown in the place of Mr. 
 N. C. Wallace, resigned, any 
 question of irregularity is left 
 to be dealt with by the Court, 
 
 The certificate is regular ex- 
 cept as to stating that Mr. 
 Brown is a regular communi- 
 cant an omission which is sup- 
 plied by a written declaration to 
 that effect from the Rev. R. 
 Shunklin, hector of Thornhill. 
 The seat of Mr. Brown is allowed 
 
 No formal objection raised 
 by the C(jnimitiee examining 
 certificates in this case, but a 
 certificate h"-.ing come in 
 since they closed their report, 
 of tho election of Mr. Hulleti 
 on the 24th Febru«ry. nnj 
 ((uestion of irregularity is left 
 to be dealt with by the Court. 
 
 The point was laised in this 
 rase by counsel i)re8ent, that 
 till! Mission having at Easter 
 only elected two delegates, their 
 right of eluctidii was exercised 
 to its full extent for the current 
 year, and the recent election of 
 a third delegate was ttltra vires. 
 J'ection 2 of the Constitution, 
 providing fur the election of 
 delegates, reads " They shall be 
 elected at the annual Easter 
 meeting, or at any meeting upe- 
 n'alli/ called fur tliat purpoxe." 
 The Court arc luianiniousiy of 
 opinion that the spirit of the 
 Constitution is in favour of a 
 full representation, particularly 
 as every legitimate provision 
 for taking exteption to seats is 
 given by in subsequent sections. 
 They, therefore, overrule this 
 objection, and the certificate of 
 election being regular in all 
 particulars, allow the seat to 
 Mr. llallen. 
 
 No fonnnl oVjoction rai.sedl The certificate being regular 
 by the Commit tee examining in every particular, the seat of 
 
 certificates in this case, but 
 certificate having come in 
 since tliey clcsed their report, 
 of the election of Mr. F. 
 Barlow Cumljerland, on the 
 '24th February, in the place of 
 iir. F. W. Cuniberlund, re- 
 signed, any question of irre- 
 gularity is left to be dealt with 
 by tho Court. 
 
 Mr. F. Barlow Cumberland is 
 allowed. 
 
 Irregularity in election. 
 
 TlkC Court merely note this 
 case a'^ having been brought be- 
 fore tlieni, ( II Certain su))posed 
 grounds of irrcifularity, wliich. 
 having seen thi- Incumbent, 
 were shewn to be ba.«ed on 
 erroneous infbnnation. The 
 election is held to have been 
 perfectly regular, and the scats 
 are allowed. 
 
 By tho Court. 
 
 Toronto, 27th February, 1879. 
 
 SAMUEL B. HAKMAN, D.C.L.. 
 
 Chancellor of the Diocese, Chairvmn. 
 
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 FIRST BALLOT. 
 
 The Synod having been called to order, and a few minutes having 
 been devoted, by request of the Dean, to private prayer, the first Ballot 
 was commenced to be taken at 5 p.m., and occupied about one hour, 
 -when the Scrutineei-s retired, and, at 6.55, handed the result of their 
 scrutiny to the Registrar, who made the following announcement : — 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 107 
 
 Necessary to achoice ^'^ Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A., received 80 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 25 « 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M. A.... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. John Pearson, M. A " 1 " 
 
 Total 107 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 54 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A ... " 39 « 
 
 Lost 5 » 
 
 Total 98 
 
 As none of the Reverend gentlemen received a sufficient number of 
 
 Totes, in both orders, the Dean declared, through the Registrar, that the 
 
 ballot did not result in an election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned at 7 o'clock p. m. 
 
 SECOND BALLOT. 
 
 The Synod re-assembled at 8,30 p.m. The balloting commenced at 
 8.40, and concluded at 9.40 with the following result ; — 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 107 
 
 Necessary to a choice 54 Votes. 
 
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 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A., received 79 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 25 " 
 
 Ven, Archdeacon Sweatman, M. A... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. J. Pearson, M. A " 1 " 
 
 Rev. A. J. Broughall, M.A " 1 " 
 
 Total 107 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 50 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A ... " 41 " 
 
 Lost 7 
 
 Total 98 " 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned at 11 p.m. 
 
 SECOND DAY. 
 
 Friday, February 28th, 1879. 
 
 The Synod met in St. James's Cathedral, at 9,30 a.m. Morning 
 prayer was said by Rev. J. D. Cay ley, M.A., Precentor of the Synod. 
 
 In the absence of G. M. Evans, M.A., it was moved by the 
 Chancellor, secondea by the Registrar, that Mr. John Gillespie be 
 appointed to act temporarily as Scrutineer in his place. Carried. 
 
 THIRD BALLOT. 
 Fror 10.20 to 11.10 a. m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 105 
 
 Necessary to a choice 53 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A., received 79 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan... " 24 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. J. Pearson, M.A " 1 " 
 
 Total 105 Votes. 
 
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 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 100 
 
 Necessary to a choice 51 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 51 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A ... " 44 " 
 
 Lost 5 <' 
 
 Total 100 Votes. 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned till 12.30 p.m. 
 
 FOURTH BALLOT. 
 
 From 12.40 to 1.20 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 106 
 
 Necessary to a choice 54 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A. received 83 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan <' 21 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman. M.A ... ** 2 " 
 
 Total 106 " 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 100 
 
 Necessary to a choice 51 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 53 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A ... " 39 " 
 
 Lost 8 ** 
 
 Total 100 " 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned to 3.30 p.m, 
 
3^ 
 
 FIFTH BALLOT. 
 From 3.40 to 4.25 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 108 
 
 Necessary to a choice 55 Votes. 
 
 Veil.- Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A. ...received 81 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 26 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A ... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Total 108 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 99 
 
 Necessary to a choice 60 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 51 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A ... " 41 *< 
 
 Lost ^ 7 « 
 
 . Total 99 « 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned till 5 p.m. 
 
 SIXTH BALLOT. 
 From 5.35 to 6.30 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No of Clei-gy voting: ^ 106 
 
 Necessary to a choice .'**'* 5^ Votea^ 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A., received 80 « 
 
 Rev, Dr. Sullivan u 25 « 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A... « ^l Vota 
 
 Total 106 YoiMfi.. 
 
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 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 99 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Kev. Dr. Sullivan received 50 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A... " 42 " 
 
 Lost 7 '* 
 
 Total 99 '« 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned until 7.30. 
 
 SEVENTH BALLOT. 
 
 The Synod re-assembled at 7.30 p.m. 
 
 Moved by Dr. Snelling, seconded by Dr. Hodgins, that J. K. 
 Kerr, Q.C., be scrutineer of the Lay vote in the temporary absence of 
 Mr. G. M. Evans. Carried. 
 
 The Seventh Ballot was then taken. 
 
 From 8 to 8.35 p.m. 
 
 « 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 99 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A., received 74 " 
 Hev. Dr. Sullivan " 25 « 
 
 Total 99 •' 
 
 LAY VOTES. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 98 
 
 Necessary to achoice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan ... received 53 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A.... " 40 " 
 
 Lost..... , 5 " 
 
 Total 98 " 
 
 Hesult : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned until Saturday at 10 o'clock a.m. 
 
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 THIRD DAT. 
 
 Saturday, March 1st, 1879. 
 
 The Synod re-assembled in St. James's Cathedral at 9.30 a.m. 
 Morning prayer was said by Rev, J. D. Cayley, M.A., Precentor. 
 
 EIGHTH BALLOT. 
 
 The Eighth Ballot commenced at 10.25, and lasted until 11.05 a.m. 
 
 "While this Ballot was being counted, the Clerical Secretary read, at 
 the request of the Dean, the following statements to the Synod :— 
 
 '* As a report in the Globe newspajjcr of this morning of a meeting of 
 Delegates in St. James's School-house last night, (enoneously called a 
 meeting of the Church Association) utterly misrepresents the spirit and 
 feeling of the Delegates present, puts words into their mouths such as 
 were never spoken, and is calculated to beget division and bitterness of 
 feeling, those who are responsible for that meeting desire the Synod to 
 know that the aim of the meeting was to urge all to act in the Spirit of 
 Christian men, engaged in an object aiming at the highest interests of 
 the Church of Christ ; and in which conscientious men on both sides 
 have the same object in view." 
 
 (Signed) CLARKE GAMBLE, 
 
 Chaiiinan. 
 
 I also wish to add most explicitly that I not only did not speak of 
 the Provost as preaching Romish doctrine, but I do not believe it. On 
 the contrary I believe the Provost to be a Christian gentleman incapable, 
 as a member of the Church of England, of doing so. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 DANIEL WILSON. 
 
 Amongst other gross misstatements put into my mouth by the 
 irlohe reporter, I am said to have asserted the unpopularity of the Arch- 
 deacon of York (the Provost) in the Diocese. I never said any thing of 
 the kind ; I have never said one word derogatory to the character of that 
 gentleman. The statement about my conversation with a clergyman is 
 utterly garbled and untrue. 
 
 (Signed) S. W. YOUNG, 
 
 Rector y Church of Ascension, Toronto. 
 
9Q\ 
 
 RESULT OF THIlEiaHm BALLOT. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting , ,... 105 
 
 Necessary to a choice 53 Votes, 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitakcr, M.A., received 78 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 26 " 
 
 Rev. J. Carmichael, M.A " 1 Vote. 
 
 Total 105 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 100 
 
 Necessary to a choice 51 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 51 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A. .. " 42 " 
 
 Lost 7 " 
 
 Total 100 '* 
 
 Result : No Ejection. 
 
 The Synod adjourned for half an hour. 
 
 NINTH BALLOT. 
 From 12.20 to 12.50 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 109 
 
 Necessary to a choice 55 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A ....received 81 " 
 
 Rev. Dr, Sullivan... ..;;.,. " 25 « 
 
 Ven. ArcMeacon :Sweatman, M.A ... " 1 '* 
 
 Rev. J. P. DuMoulin, M.A.. " 1 Vote. 
 
 Blaok. „,.,.... 1 " 
 
 Tatai",. ....*. 109 Votes. 
 
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 LAY V'OTB. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 93 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 50 •< 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whituker, M.A ... " 42 " 
 
 Rev. H. Wilson « 1 y^t^ 
 
 '^''^^ ." 5 Votes. 
 
 Total 98 « 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Sjnod adjourned at 1.15 p.m. 
 
 TENTH BALLOT. 
 
 From 3.10 to 3.40 p.m. 
 
 Before taking this Ballot it was 
 
 Moved by Rev. A. Williams, M.A., seconded by Rev. Canon 
 Tremayne, M.A., that Rev. I. Middleton, iB.A., be Scrutineer of the 
 Clerical vote m the temporary absence of the Rev. J. M. Ballard, M.A. 
 Carried. 
 
 The result of the Tenth Ballot was repoi-ted as follows : 
 
 ■ CLKRICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 104 
 
 Necessary to a choice 53 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A., received 79 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan << 23 *< 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M. A... " 1 Vote 
 
 Rev. J. P. DuMoulin, M.A « 1 " ' 
 
 Total 104 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 99 
 
 Necessary to a choice , .* 50 Votes. 
 
 ■ Rev. Dr. Sullivan teceived 50 '* 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A.... " 42 " 
 
 Rev. H. Wilson « 1 Vote. 
 
 ^^^^-'"" 6 Votes. 
 
 Total ...., 06 « 
 
 Result : No Election. , r 
 
 The Synod adjourned until 4.30 p.m. 
 
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 ELEVENTH BALLOT. 
 From 4,65 p.m. to 5.40 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 100 
 
 Necessary to a choice 51 Votes* 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A., received 77 « 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan << 21 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M. A.... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. J. P. DuMoulin, M.A « 1 « 
 
 Total 100 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 50 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A.... " 39 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Blomtield " 1 Vote. 
 
 I^ost 8 Votes. 
 
 Total 98 " 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned until 7.30 p.m. 
 
 TWELFTH BALLOT. 
 
 The Synod re-assembled at 7*30 p.m. 
 
 Before proceeding to the 1 2th Ballot it was moved by Rev. A. J. 
 Broughall, M.A., and seconded by Rev. C. H. Mockridge, B.D., that 
 Rev. Canon Tremayne, M.A., be scrutineer of the Clerical vote in the 
 temporary absence of Rev. J. M. Ballai-d, B.A. Carried. 
 
 The 12th Ballot was commenced at 7.50 p.m , and ended at 8.30 
 p.m., with the following result : — 
 
 ^.*v^ 
 
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 t LERICAL VOTE. 
 
 l*fo. of Clergy voting 95 
 
 Necessary to a choice 48 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A., received 72 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 21 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A... " 1 Vote 
 
 Rev. J. P. DuMoulin, M.A " 1 « 
 
 Tctal 95 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 94 
 
 Necessary to a choice 48 Votes. 
 
 Rev Dr. Sullivan received 50 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A... . '* 40 " 
 
 Lost 4 a 
 
 Total 94 « 
 
 Result : No Election, 
 
 The Synod adjourned till Monday morning at 10.30. 
 
 FOURTH DAY. 
 
 Monday, March 3rd, 1879. 
 The Synod re-assembled in St. James's Cathedral at 10.30 a.m. 
 Morning Prayer was said by Rev. J. D. Cayley, M.A., precentor. 
 
 THIRTEENTH BALLOT. 
 From 11.15 to 11.50 a.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 10.5 
 
 N ecessary to a choice 53 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A. ...received 81 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 22 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman,. M.A ... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. J. P. DuMoulin, M.A « l «« 
 
 Total 105 Votes. 
 
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 • LAY VOTE. 
 
 Ko. of Parisjhes voting 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan..., received 51 ** 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A .... " 40 " 
 
 Lost Votes 7 « 
 
 Total 98 " 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned until 1 o'clock p.m. 
 
 FOURTEENTH BALLOT. 
 
 From 1 to 1.30 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 105 
 
 Necessary to a choice 53 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A. ...received 78 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan ..■ " 25 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A ... '* 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. J. P. Dumoulin, M.A ** 1 ♦* 
 
 Total 105 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 95 
 
 Necessary to a choice 48 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan .........received 50 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, JL A ... « 37 " 
 
 Rev. H. Wilson " 1 Vote. 
 
 Lost 7 Votefi. 
 
 Total 95 •* 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned at 2.05 p.m. 
 
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-a 
 
 FiFTEieKTH Fallot. 
 
 The Synocl re-assembled at- 3-. 15 p.m. 
 
 Moved by 'Rev. C. H. Mockridge, B.D., seconded by Dr. Snelling, 
 that Rev. Rural Dean Allen, M.A., be scrutinefei- of the Lay vote in 
 the temporary absence of Rev. A.J. Broughall, M.A. Carried. 
 
 The 15th Ballot was then taken, with the following result :— 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 105 
 
 Necessary to a choice 53 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A received 80 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 24 " 
 
 Rev. J. P. DuMoulin, M.A " 1 Vote. 
 
 Total 105 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting , 99 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 53 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A. . . " 40 " 
 
 Lost 6 " 
 
 Total 99 " 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned at 4.25 p.m. 
 
 SIXTEENTH BALLOT. 
 From 5.10 to 5.40 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No, of 'Clergy voting .. 102 
 
 Necessary to a choice 62 Votes. 
 
 Veil. Archdeacon Whitaker^ M.A., received 78 ** 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 22 " 
 
 V^. Archdeacon Sweatmau,. M.A,.. '** 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M.A »• -l " 
 
 Total ..- 102 Votes. 
 
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 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting go 
 
 Necessary to a choice !..*!!.'!!!!"!" 50 Votes. 
 
 S^''* ?^-,S»^^ivan received^ « 
 
 Yen. Archdeacon Whitaker, M. A. ... «« 38 « 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M.A '.* «« j Vote 
 
 ^^'* GYotes.' 
 
 Total QQ u 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned until 7.30 p.m. 
 
 SEVENTEENTH BALLOT. 
 From 7.45 to 8.20 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting Iqj 
 
 Necessary to a choice ...".'.*.*.*...' 51 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A. ...received 76 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan « 23 " 
 
 Rev. J. P. DuMouHn, M.A... ......... " "l Vote 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatmau, M.A ... « 1 " 
 
 Total 101 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 93 
 
 Necessary to a choice '..'.*.*..'.'. 50 Votes 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan ...received 55 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A. ... «* 37 " 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M. A « 1 Vote 
 
 ^°«* 6 Votes. 
 
 Total 93 (( 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned until Tuesday at 9.30 a.m. 
 
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 FIFTH DAY. 
 
 Tuesday, March 4th, 1879. 
 
 The Synod re-assembled in ^t. James's Cathedral, at 9.30. Prayers 
 ■were said by Rev. R. "W. E. Greene, M.A. 
 
 EIGHTEENTH BALLOT. 
 From 9.45 a.m., to 10.15 a.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 100 
 
 Necessary to a choice 51 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A., received 75 " 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan «* 25 " 
 
 Total 100 " 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 97 
 
 Necessary to a choice 49 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 54 ** 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A... . " 38 " 
 
 Lost 5 « 
 
 Total 97 " 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned for half-an-hour. 
 
 NINETEENTH BALLOT. 
 From 10.50 to 11.20 a.m. 
 
 CLERICAL VO'' E. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 102 
 
 Necessary to a choice .... 52 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, iVI.A., received 77 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 24 " 
 
 Blank 1 Vote. 
 
 Total 102 Votes. 
 
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 " LArV * VbtEr 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice !!!!!.".'."!!!!'.*.!.';; 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan ...received 53 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A. .. « 41 « 
 
 I^ost , , ,,_ 4 a 
 
 Total 98 -u 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned for half-an-hoiir. 
 
 TWENTIETH BALLOT. 
 
 From 12.25 to 1 p.m. ' 
 
 On re-assembling the following announcemeht was read to the Synod 
 by permission of the Dean :— ^ * 
 
 " The Archdeacon of York desires that no vote may, for the future, 
 be recorded m his favour." 
 
 The 20th Ballot was then taken with the following result :— 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 102 
 
 Necessary to a choice * 52 Votes 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M. A . : received 76 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan , << 20 *< 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A ... " 2 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A ... " 1 Vote 
 
 Rev. J. Pearson, M.A « 2 Votes. 
 
 Rev. J. Carmichael, M.A « 1 Vote. 
 
 Total 102 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 97 
 
 Necessary to achoice..... ....].].. 49 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan .......received 63 " 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M.A .4...,. " 40 *< 
 
 ^°'^ 4 Vote*. 
 
 Total 97 (I 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned for an hour and a half. 
 
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 TWENTYrFIRST BALLOT. 
 From 3.05 to 3.40 p.in. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting .. 100 
 
 Necessarv to a choice ,., 51 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Principa,! LoUey, M.A received 79 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 18 " 
 
 Rev. J. Pearson, M. A " 2 <* 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A ... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Total - 100 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting ,.... 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice , 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 51 "• 
 
 Rev. Principal Lob ley .. " 42 " 
 
 Lost 5 " 
 
 Total...... 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Syj^od adjourned for t;n hour. 
 
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 TWENTY-SECOND BALLOT. 
 From 4.40 to 6 p.m. 
 
 CLERICAL- VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M.A received 79 " 
 
 Rev.- Dr. Sullivan " 18 " 
 
 Rev. J. Pearson, M.A '< 1 Vote. 
 
 Total..... 98 Votes. 
 
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 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 98 
 
 Necessary to a choice 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 53 '* 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M.A " 39 « 
 
 Lost 6 " 
 
 Total 98 '* 
 
 Result ; No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned for an hour and-a-half. 
 
 TWENTY-THIRD BALLOT. 
 
 From 7.40 to 8.20 p.m. 
 
 Before taking this Ballot, Rev. L. H. Kirkby, M.A., was, on 
 
 motion, appointed scrutineer of the Lay vote in the temporary absence 
 of Rev. A. J. Broughall, M.A. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 95 
 
 Necessary to a choice 48 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M.A received 75 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 18 " 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A. ... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. J. Pearson, M.A " 1 " 
 
 Total; 95 Votes. 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 98 
 
 Necessary for a choice , 50 Votes. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan received 52 " 
 
 Rev. Principal Lobley, M. A ** 39 " 
 
 Lost 7 *< 
 
 Total 98 '» 
 
 Result : No Election. 
 
 The Synod adjourned. till Wednesday, at 9.30 a.m. 
 
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 SIXTH DAY. 
 
 Wednesday, March 5th, 1879. 
 
 The Synod re-assembled at 1 a.m. Morning prayer was said by 
 
 Moved by Clarke Gamble, Q.C., seconded by Dr. O'Reilly 
 That this meeting do now adjourn and that the next Ballot be taken 
 at half -past seven o'clock p.m., by order ot the Dean. Carried. 
 
 At 7.30 p.m., the Synod re-assembled when they proceeded to take 
 the 
 
 TWENTY-FOURTH BALLOT. 
 
 CLERICAL VOTE. 
 
 No. of Clergy voting 96 
 
 Necessary to a choice 49 Votes. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M.A ...received 88 " 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sullivan " 1 Vote. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A ... " 2 Votes. 
 
 Re V. Principal Lobley, M. A « 1 Vote. 
 
 Rev. H. Wilson, M. A " 1 « 
 
 Rev. Chas. Hamilton, M.A ** 1 « 
 
 Blanks 2 Votes. 
 
 Total 96 " 
 
 LAY VOTE. 
 
 No. of Parishes voting 94 
 
 Necessary to a choice 48 Votes, 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sweatman, M. A.... received 93 " 
 Ven. Archdeacon Whitaker, M.A ... " 1 Vote. 
 
 Total 94 Votes. 
 
 Result : The Election of Ven. Archdeacon S.eatman, M. A., as 
 Bishop of Toronto. 
 
 The Very Rev. the Dean, then declared the Ven. Arthur Sweatman, 
 M. A., Archdeacon of Brant in the Diocese of Huron, duly elected to be 
 Bishop of the Diocese of Toronto. 
 
 The Synod then adjourned to meet again on Thursday at 12 o'clock 
 noon. 
 
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 SEVENTH DAY. 
 
 Thursday, March 6th, 1879. 
 
 The Synod met in St. James's Cathedral at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The following annouucement was then read to the Synod : — 
 
 "As the Canons of the Provincial Synod require the assent of the 
 Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada to the consecration of 
 the Bishop elect of this Diocese of Toronto, the Veiy Kev. the Dean, as 
 Pi-fisideut of the Syn>od, declares the Synod adjourned, subject to his 
 call, should another meeting be required." 
 
 The very Reverend the Dean, then closed the meeting of Synod as 
 follows : — 
 
 My Brethren of the Synod, Lay and Clerical : — 
 
 After the adjournment last evening I despatched a telegraphic 
 message to Archdeacon Sweatman notifying him of his election, and 
 requesting an early reply, as our Synod had adjourned until to-day, 
 awaiting his decision ; I received his answer in the following words : — 
 
 *' I accept the election as a call of duty. Will write at once." 
 
 And now the duty which brouglit us together is discharged ; and I 
 cannot refrain from exj)ressing my confident hope and belief that 
 Almiglity God has been present with us to influtaioe our hearts and 
 direct our proceedings. T am the more confirmed in this conviction from 
 having witnessed the brotherly conduct, kindness, and forbearance, which 
 have been displayed on all sides, froiu the dignitaries who sat on my 
 right and left, to the youngest and humblest member of our Synod. I 
 took the chair with fear and trembling, I leave it with feelings of 
 gratitude to my brethren, and thankfulness to God. 
 
 It only remains that I declare this Synod adjourned, and pronounce 
 the benediction which closes it. 
 
 " The peace of God that passeth all undeiTstanding, keep your hearts 
 and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ 
 our Lord : And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and 
 the Holy Ghost^ be amongst }ou, and remain with you always. Amen. 
 
 (Signed) C,,H. MOCKBIDGE, BJ):, 
 
 Honorary Clertml Stcretari/. 
 
 (Signed) J- GEORGE HODGINS, LL.D., , 
 
 H<oihorary Lff,y Spfrj^tary.. 
 
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 APPENDICES. 
 
 A. 
 
 LETTER OF ACCEPTANCB. 
 
 The following letter of acceptance from the Venerable Arthur 
 Sweatman, M.A., was received by the Very He v. the President of the 
 Synod : — 
 
 Chapter House, London, Ont., March Gth, 1879. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Dean, — The announcement of my election to the 
 vacant See of Toronto, came upon me with great unexpectedness. I feel 
 that I can only humbly recognize the decision of the Synod as overruled 
 by the guidance of the Holy Spirit of God, and therefore calling me to a 
 duty which I dare not decline. 
 
 My attachment to this Diocese of Huron is very strong ; for several 
 years past I have been identified with its work in the Synod, and my fond 
 anticipation was to devote the remainder of my ministerial life to its 
 service. 
 
 It will cause me also sincere regret to sever the ties of interest which 
 bind me to the Parish of Woodstock. In addition to this, absence of any 
 desire for a change of sj)here is the sense of the very heavy responsibility 
 and arduous difficulties which must attach to the office of Bishop ot 
 Toronto, under the present condition of the Diocese. 
 
 With these considerations, nothing could have induced me to accept 
 so sacred and weighty a charge, but the conviction that in the almost 
 unanimous voice of the Synod, the summons of God to the work was to 
 be heard and obeved. 
 
 Having responded to the call, I am prepared to address myself to 
 what I regard as the grandest enterprise that could engage any man's 
 efforts — the leading of the Church in the Diocese committed to me, to that 
 state of temporal and spiritual prosperity, of honour and usefulness, 
 which can only be attained by a united, loving co-operation of all the 
 members of the body of Christ towards one great end — the glory of His 
 name, and the perfecting of his Church in the salvation of man. 
 
 Great as the task is which lies before me, I enter upon it with courage 
 and hopefulness — not only because it offers a great reward in the accom- 
 plishment of blessed results, but because I feel I can count upon the 
 
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 hearty support of tht).se wlio have chosen mo to do it ; and still more upon 
 the assisting, enabling grace of God who has been pleased to call me. 
 
 I feel deeply how much 1 stand in need of the prayers of the Churc^ 
 at this time, that God will endue me with all needful grace and spiritual 
 strength, and that ho will prcjjare me by >lis Holy Spirit to fill to His 
 glory the high olUce in His Church, to which I am to be set apart. 
 
 Asking you for your prayers that my judgment may be sound, my 
 heart re, my life holy, my faith pure and constant, and my labours 
 
 unrei. xng, 
 
 I am, my dear Dean, 
 
 Yours most sincerely in a common Lord. 
 
 (Signed) A11T?[UK SWEATMAN, 
 The Very Reverend Dean Grasett, D.D., Toronto. 
 
 B. 
 
 CKRTIFICATE OF ELECTION. 
 
 following Certificate of Election was sent on the 8th of March, 
 
 to t\ st Reverend Bishop Medley, Metropolitan of Canada, by the 
 
 Very Reverend the President of the Synod : — 
 
 " We, the Clergy and Lay Representatives of the Diocese of Toronto, 
 in Synod assembled, do hereby certify that at Toronto, on this sixth day 
 of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 
 seventy- uine, the Venerable Arthur Sweatman, M.A., Archdeacon of 
 Brant, in the Diocese of Huron, was duly elected, according to the 
 Canons of this Diocese, to be Bishop of Toronto. 
 
 *' Signed on behalf of the Synod. 
 
 (Signed) ''H. J. GRASETT, D D., 
 
 "Dean of Toronto, 
 
 " Chairman. 
 
 (Signed) ^'C. H. MOCKRIDGE, B.D., 
 
 '■'■Honorary Clerical Secretary. 
 
 (Signed) "J. GEORGE HODGINS, LL.D.. 
 
 ^'■Honorary Lay Secretary.^' 
 
 ToROKTO, March 8th, 1879. 
 
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 THE CONSECRATION CEREMONY. 
 
 The cer<>iiiony of the Consecration of tlie Right Rev. Arthur 
 SwKATMAN, IVI.A., hite Archdeacon of Brant, in the Diocese of Huron, 
 as Rishop of 'I'oionto, took place at St. Jjinies'8 Cathedral, Toronto, on 
 Thursday, the 1st of May, bein>,' the festival of the Apostles St. Philip 
 and St. James. 
 
 Mornin*,' prayer was said at 9.30 A.M., by the Reverend Canons 
 Stennett and Osi.er, and the lessons by the Reverend Canons Brent 
 and Morgan. 
 
 At 10.45 the Clergy and Lay- delegates assembled in St. James's 
 School IIou.se. 
 
 At 1 1 the procession jn-oceeded across the grounds from the School 
 House to the Cathedral, in the following order : — 
 
 The Verger. 
 
 The Lay Representatives of the Synod of the Diocese. 
 
 The Clergy, the Honorary Secretaries of the Synod (Reverend C. H, 
 
 Mockridge, B.D., and J. George Hodgins, LL.D.,) in 
 
 Surplices and Hoods. 
 
 The Venerable the Archdeacons of York and Peterborough. 
 
 The Very Reverend the Dean of Toronto. 
 
 THE BISHOP elect, 
 
 Attended by the Rev. Canon Scadding, D.D., and the Rev. Canon 
 
 Stennett, M.A., Chaplains. 
 
 The Registrar of the Diocese, Dr. Snelling. 
 
 The Bishop of Quebec, (Consecrator,) Huron, Algoma, Niagara, and 
 
 Montreal. 
 The Bishop of Fredericton, Metropolitan, being unable to be present, 
 the Bishop of Ontario was designated to take his place. Owing to 
 illness he was however unable to be present. The Bishop of Quebec, as 
 the next in seniority, presided. After the Bishops and Clergy and Officers 
 of the Synod had taken their seats, the Service commenced by the Rev. 
 W. S. Rainsford, Assistant Minister of the Cathedral, givinff out the 
 nymn : 
 
 " The Church's one foundation is Jesus Christ the Lord." 
 At the conclusion of the hymn, the Bishop of Huron preached the 
 following sermon from the text, 
 
 "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches.' 
 
 Kev. iii. 22. 
 
 He said : "One trembles, at any time, at the responsibility of 
 addref,sing a congregation of immortal souls, and feels the constant need 
 of the teaching of God's Spirit to enable him " rightly to divide the 
 
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 word of tnith," and to give ** to each his portion of meat in due season," 
 but more especially does one experience this, when called upon to address 
 a congregation, composed of Bishops, ])resbyters, and a large assembly of 
 intellectual laity. The promised aid, however, of the Holy Spiiit to 
 help us in every time of need, greatly encourages the feel)lest minister of 
 the Gospel to stand up anywhere — whenever duty calls — to proclaim 
 God's saving truth. Our prayer is, that God may graciously aid and 
 sustain us in the faithful discharge of our duties, by teaching us more 
 and more that " our sufficiency is of Him." May he pour down upon 
 us His Holy Spirit, that this day our hearts may be stirred to greater 
 zeal and faithfulness in the cause we have sworn to maintain, and may a 
 double ^hare of God's Sjurit be vouchsafed to him, who is about to be 
 set a])art as an O'/cn-seer of this portion of Christ's vineyard, that the 
 excellet ey of God's power may be manifested and magnified in all our 
 ministrations for Christ's sake. Amen. 
 
 " He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said unto the Churches." 
 
 Among all the solemn exhortations delivered by the Most High to 
 His believing ])eopl(^, or to those placed in responsible charge over thom, 
 none were nioie important in their character, or uttered under more 
 striking and imposing circumstances, than those addresset' to the Seven 
 Churches, which were then the hope and glory of Proconsular Asia. 
 
 The particular admonition intended for each of these Churches, was 
 conveyed tlirough the [)residing ministers on whom rested the weighty 
 care and 'Sponsibility of receiving, communicating, and executing the 
 instructions of their great Master and Lord. To them, therefore, the 
 chief j)art of each ohaige is addressed. But at the close of each, the 
 attention of the body of the visible Church is summoned : — As if in the 
 hearing of all the people, seven times the warning voice is sounded : 
 " He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the 
 Churches." All were interested in every word that proceeded from the 
 lips of the Divine Teacher. 
 
 Planted, as these Churches had been, in the face of untold difficul- 
 ties ; struggling oftentimes through the bitterest persecutions ; and 
 containing yet within themselves the elements of many weaknesses and 
 corruptions, tliv;y needed, in the absence of their ascended Lord, and the 
 approaching withdrawal of the last of the Aj)ostolic l)and, some sjjecial 
 message of warning, encouragement, ai-d reproof, that they might stand 
 more firmly on tiieir guard against the temptations by winch they were 
 surrounded ; battle more dauntlessly and determinedly for the simj)licity 
 of the Gospel, and purge themselves more effectually from the various 
 defilements by which, in many instances they had already stained the 
 garments of their Christian profession. 
 
 In all these respects these solemn messages were eminently adapted 
 to their important purposes. They show an intimate acquaintance with 
 the jiarticulai circumstances by which these different churches were sur- 
 rounded, and the peculiar- temptations to which they were individually 
 
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 subject ; as well as the various sins and errors into wliicb they 
 had respectively fallen. And if, in accordance with this perfect know- 
 ledge of their dangers, and imj)erfections, we tind in those ditlcrent 
 messages, counsels, warnings, and threatenings of no ordinary earnest- 
 ness, distinctness, and sincerity ; so, in the recognition of their faith 
 and endurance under the most grievous trials, we tind the warmest 
 commendations, the most precious j)romises, arid the most abiding 
 consolations. 
 
 If, on the one hand, there was set forth the " removal of their 
 candlestick," or, in other words their utter extinction as a branch of 
 the Church of Christ, and fearful visitations from (^od, "coming as a thief 
 in the night," so on the other, there was }>ictured to them '" the tree 
 of life in the midst of the paradise of God ;" " the crown of life;" "the 
 hidden manna ;" "the stojie with a new name ;" "the white raiment :" 
 "the shared throne ;" all emblematical of the blessing, ])ower, and 
 majesty eventually to be enjoyed by those who remained steadfast unto 
 the end, and unfailing pledges of the lledeemer's love, with that in- 
 ward life of peace which the world could neither give n»>r take away, 
 And, as in the subject matter of these addi-esses, so also in their mode 
 of deliverance how much was there to render them solemn and imposing ! 
 The Scene — the wild and dreary island in the ^gean Sea, from hence- 
 forth memorable and luminons through all time ; their Source — the 
 Divine Head of the Church, invested with all the attributes of Almighty 
 power and majesty ; the Instrument — the aged and beloved Apostle. 
 an exile " for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ;" 
 the Chosen Period — "The Lord's Day," henceforth to replace the 
 Jewish Sabbath, and co note the transition from the OLD dispensation 
 to the NEW; from the sterner rule of the LAW to "the glorious 
 libei'ty of the Gospel of Christ " ^^'here else can we find circumstances 
 of such a character, and so combined, as to add a greater force or dignity 
 to the utterances which they attended. "He that hath an ear, let him 
 hear what the Sj)irit saith unto the Churches." 
 
 Another remarkable feature in connection with those memorable 
 and solenni addresses to the Seven Churches of j^sia Minor, is, that 
 they are more or less appropriate to the condition of the Church of 
 Christ on earth in all her ramiHcations and at all periods of In-r history. 
 And if in every period, the Church may take heed with })rotit to those 
 utterances of her Divine and glorified liead, surely the days in which 
 our lot is cast upon the earth, can present no exception to the nde. 
 " He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith \into the 
 Churches." 
 
 Have we no dangers to meet ? No trials of our faith to enco iter 1 
 Has the antagonism between truth and error: between spiritual ly and 
 formalism ; between light and darkness ; between human depra /ity and 
 Divine purity ceased? Have we no fears without; no putrifying sores 
 within i Is the world yet vanquished for Christ] Are error and 
 superstition things of the past ! 
 
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 No careful student of the Word of God, and of the present state 
 and condition of the Church can fail to see, that what will preserve her 
 from corruption and make her a name and a praise in the earth, is 
 faithfully to adhere to Apostolic preaching and practice, as set forth in 
 God's inspired word. " He that hath an oar, let him hear what the 
 Spirit saith unto the Chiu*ches." Surely the admonitions of the Seven 
 Churches of Asia, of those of St. Paul to the different Churches he was 
 privileged to plant, are as necessaiy and as applicable to the Church in 
 our day as in Ajtostolic times. 
 
 Let us listen for a few moments to the instructions and warnings 
 of St. Paul, how to maintain the purity and simplicity of the Faith. 
 Having sent for the Elders of the Church of Ephesus, and having tirst 
 reminded them of his own wallc and conversation among them, he thus 
 addresses them : — " Take heed therefore unto yours(4ves, and to all the 
 flock, over the wliich the Holy Ghost hath made you ovei-seers, to feed the 
 Church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood." — Acts xx. 
 28. And looking into the future circumstances of danger, from without 
 and from within — not very ditferent from those in which we find our 
 own beloved Zion placed, when I now address you — he warns tliem in 
 these words : " I know that after my departing, shall grievous wolves 
 enter in among you, not sparing the flock ; and of your ownselves shall 
 men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." 
 — Acts XX. 29. 
 
 In this aff'ectiotiate strain of personal interest in Timothy, which 
 gives additional life and strength to his instructions designed for all 
 succeeding ages, the Apostle thus addresses him: "O Timothy, keep 
 that which is committed to tliy trust" — 1 Tim. vi. 20. If we carefully 
 examine the Apostolic instructions given to Timothy and Titus, we shall 
 find that xXunv jideUfy to the purity and simplicit_y of the Gosj)el in their 
 lives and doctrine, was his chief anxietv. Hear his language : " Take 
 heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine." — 1 Tim. iv. IG. " 1 give thee 
 charge in the sight of God, wlio quv^keneth all things, and befoi-e Clirist 
 Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, that thou 
 keep this commandment without spot, unrelmka\>le, until the appearing 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ." — 1 Tim. vi. l.'J, 14. " Study to show thyself 
 ap})roved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly 
 dividing tlie word of truth."— 2 Tim. ii. 15. "In all things shewing 
 thyself a pattern of good works : in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, 
 gravity, sincerity." — Titus ii. 7 
 
 These as well as many more passages of otluM- ]^]pi.stles, in which 
 the Apostle speaks of his own teaching and ])ractice, and of the un- 
 swerving sincerity and singleness of heart, with which he declared the 
 word of God as it truly was, may serve to convince lis also, that the 
 purity of the Christian faith has not only to contend against an unbeliev- 
 ing world, but is liable to be endangered within the boson) of the 
 Church ; wounded in the house of its friends, and corrupted by those 
 who ought to be its vigilant and faithful guardians. 
 
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 Where then, it might be asked, lies the remedy for this evil 1 How 
 shall the Church maintain its piuity of the faith and preserve itself from 
 defection % I admit the question to be one of momentous importance, 
 and not easily answered — much less capable of exhaustion — in a single 
 discourse. Nevertheless, we may confidently re[)ly that our '* path of 
 safety " lies in adhering to God's Word written as the surest guide for 
 our " instruction in all righteousness," and as thu best preventative from 
 departing from the purity of the faith as " once delivered unto the 
 saints ;" and to this •' j)ath of safety," the inspired writers, our blessed 
 Lord Himself, and the standards of our Church emphatically direct us, 
 as I shall endeavour briefly to show. "To the Law and to the Testimony, 
 if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in 
 them." — Isa. viii. 20 " The word of our God shall stand for ever," 
 (Isa. xl. 8.) but the fivith of fallible and erring men may decline. It 
 is, in spite of fluctuations of faith, and corruption in doctrine — both in 
 the Jewish and Christian Churches — that God's Word has been mar- 
 vellously preserved intact, and has from time to time ^ none oiit in its 
 sublime lustre, as a light shining in a dark place. But the natural man 
 lovef-j not this searching light, and hence the constant tendency is de- 
 veloped in one form or another to set aside the written Word as an 
 insufficient guide, without the authoritative teaching of the Church, 
 whatever that may mean ; but at the very best, it can only refer to 
 the glosses and comments of ftillible men. 
 
 The Scribes and Pharisees, learned in all the Jewish traditions, con- 
 sidered themselves, not only the guardians and rep-^ itory of God's Word, 
 but the only lawful and safe interpreters of that W ord. What was the 
 sad consequence of such teaching in the Jewish Church ? The rejection 
 of Jesus as their Messiah ! If we consult the New Testament how to 
 regard tradition as a guide to the interpretation of the Scriptures of the 
 Old Testament, we shall find an infallible Teacher in Him who "spake 
 as never man spake," and " as one having authority." 
 
 How did our Saviour treat the 'i aditions of the Church ? With 
 what rebukes did He rejjrove these guides of Church doctrine ? He 
 charged them with making the Word of God " of none effect V)y their 
 oraditions ;" and further warned them: "In vain do ye worship me, 
 teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."— Mat. xv. G, 9. 
 
 So far from ever countenancing a diflerent standard for Faith and 
 Practice than the written Word, the Saviour always rebuked those who 
 would adopt any other authority. To the Sadducees He says : " Ye do 
 err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God." — Matt. xxii. 29. 
 Even for proof of his own Messiahship, He does not appeal to the mighty 
 miracles He };crformed as evidences, but to the written Word : '' Search 
 the Scriptures ; for in them ye think ye have eternal life : and they are 
 they which testify of me." — St. John v. 39. 
 
 Surely, if the Scriptures were an insufficient guide for the individual 
 believer, or for the Church collectively, would not our Lord and His 
 Apostles have left U3 some distinct information on so inqiortant a ques- 
 
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 tion 1 but instead of this, we find botl) Christ and His Apostles, referring 
 believers and unbelievers, individuals and Churches, to the written word, 
 as the alone and ax, Aifficient guide : for " Scri[)ture is given by inspira- 
 tion of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, 
 and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, 
 thoroughly furnished unto all good works."- — 2 Tim. iii. IG, 17. And 
 it must be admitted that the Scriptures of the Old Testament were 
 more diOicult to be understood than the complete Canon of Scripture 
 now ha[)i)ily in our pos^'session. 
 
 The Bereaus were commended, as being more noble than those of 
 Thessalonica, because they searched the Scriptures daily, whether those 
 things were so ;" " those things," which even Apostles taught " with 
 signs and wonders!" — Acts xvii. 11. 
 
 However valuable the writings of good men may be in every age 
 of the Church — and we will not underrate them — yet the Scriptures 
 are the only infallible guide for sound doctiine and holy living. 
 
 '• The law of the Lord is perfect ;" conn)lete, entix'e, and unaltera- 
 ble, so that no man may *' add to it, or diminish aught from it." 
 
 "I testify," says the inspired Ayjostle, E-ev. xxii. 18, 19, "I 
 testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this 
 book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him 
 the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take 
 away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away 
 his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the Itoly City, and from 
 the things which are written in this Book ! " This is a solemn 
 warning ! 
 
 I speak advisedly, and from practical experience, when I say, did 
 but the Jews study their Bible — without the glosses and traditions of 
 their Rabbis — they would be constrained to acknowledge Jesus as the 
 Messiah, the Christ of the living God. 
 
 May we not assert, without fear of contradiction, that the retro- 
 gade movement and defections of many from our Church may be traced 
 almost exclusively to the importance they have been led to assign to 
 the traditions of the Fathers. 
 
 Let us now, for a few moments, listen to the doctrinal standards of 
 our Church on this important subject. 
 
 The following is the language of the Vltli Article : " Holy Scripture 
 containeth all things necessary to salvation, so that whatsoever is not read 
 therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man 
 that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite 
 or necessary to salvation." 
 
 If we are to hold that tradition is the proper interpreter of the 
 Bible, surely hero was an opitortunity for the Reformers to say so 
 but as if to guard us against the revival of errors of that kind, they 
 gave, in no mistakable language, their reason for accepting the Three 
 Creeds, not because they may be proved from the traditions of the 
 Fathers, but because "they may be proved by the most certain warrants 
 of Holy Scripture." — Art. viii. 
 
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 The testimony of the Ordination Offices is not less distinct than the 
 Articles, The Bishop puts the following solemn searching questions to 
 the Candidate for the Priesthood : "Are you ]>ersuaded that the Holy Scrip- 
 tures contain sufficiently all doctrine required of necessity for Eternal 
 Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, and are you determined out of 
 the said Scrij)ture to instruct the people committed to your charge, and to 
 teach nothing as required of necessity to eternal sabation, but that which 
 you shall be persuaded may be concluded and })roved by the Scii ure ]" 
 and again : " Will you be ready, with all faithful diligence, to baniHh and 
 drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's Word ; 
 and to use both public and private monitions and exliortaticMis, as well 
 to the sick as to the whole within your Cures as need sliall require and 
 occasion shall be given T The responsive pledge is : "I will, the Lord 
 being my helper ! " 
 
 Then again in the form consecrating Bishops — in addition to the 
 question already quoted — which is [)ut alike to a Bishop as to a Presbyter, 
 these also are to be put to the Bishop elect : *' Will you then ftnthfully 
 exercise yourself in the same Holy Scriptures, and call upon God by 
 prayer, for the true understanding of the same ; so as you may be able by 
 them to teach and exhort with wholesome doctrine, and to withstand and 
 to convince the gainsayers "?" and further. "Are you ready, with all 
 faithful diligence, to banish and drive awav all erroneous and strange 
 doctrines contrary to God's Word ; and both ])rivately and openly to 
 call upon and encourage others to the same 1 " The answer 
 " I am ready, the Lord being my he][)er." 
 
 When from the Prayer Book we turn to the Homilies, we find the 
 same distinctive and unmistakable sound as to the all-sufficiency of the 
 Holy Scri{)tures to guide us into all truth. It will amjily rej)ay one to 
 read the first Homily, entitled, " A fruithful exhortation to the reading 
 and knowledge of Holy Scripture." 
 
 No less distinct on this all-important subject, is the declaration of 
 the one hundred Bishops assembled in Conference at Lambeth Place, in 
 July last: "We proclaim," say the assembled Bishops, "the sufficiency 
 and supremacy of the Holy Scriptures as the ultimate rule of faith, and 
 commend to our ])eople the diligent study of the same." 
 
 Even from this im})erfect, and unavoidably, limited sketch of the 
 Church's teaching on this subject, it is clearly seen that she directs her 
 Bishoj^s and Ministers to no source of truth but the Bible, not to Tradi- 
 tion, not to Councils, not even to Catholic consent, but to the Word of 
 God ; and farther, she does not jmt herself first, but Scripture first ; she 
 teaches us that we are to go first to the Scriptures, not first to the Church ; 
 ■we are to jirove the Church by the Scriptures, and not the Scriptures 
 by the Church ; in short we are to prove every doctrine by that infallible 
 standard. This is what the Church requires of all her teachers and 
 people. We have, therefore, no right to teach any other doctrine. To 
 this we have solemnly pledged ouiselves — Bishops and Presbyters. 
 
 The Fathers of the Church of the Reformation secured to us this pre- 
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 cious legacy — God's written Word at tlie cost of their blood ! An inherit- 
 ance sodearly purchased ought not to be lightly esteemed, or permitted to be 
 put on a level with the traditions of falliljle erring men. Were the scat- 
 tered ashes of our Ilefotmers embodied ngain and reanimated, with what 
 fervo ir would they excite iis to hold fast — at all hazards — to the Bible 
 as the alone all-sutficient standard for doctrine and practice. Their own 
 martrydom, touching as the recital is, would not be their plea ; they 
 would })oint us to the Scriptures, which reveal to lis how God is in Ou'ist 
 reconciling the world unto Himself; how fallen guilty man may be saved ; 
 how Christ paid the ransom for sinners ; How he wrought out the Jitone- 
 ment for na ; how He died for our sins, and rose again foi" our justification. 
 They would point us — as clearly revealed in God's Word — to that one 
 sacrifice offennl u]>, on Calvary's Cross, once and for all and for ever, even 
 to " the Lamb of God which taketli away the sins of the World." They 
 would preach to us the grand doctrines — for which they were martyred 
 — ^justification "by faith oidy ;" sanctification by the Holy Ghost, and 
 fruitfubuiss in every good word and work — not as a ground for our acce])- 
 tance with God, but as an evidence of a living and saving faith in 
 Christ. To the maintenance of these doctrines, in their scriptural 
 simplicity, the Spirit calls the Church in every age, and to none mo re 
 audibly than to us, tlie guardians of the princi]>les of the Church of the 
 Reformation !" " He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith 
 unto the Churches." 
 
 Permit me now, my rev. brother and brethren of this Diocese, to 
 address a few words more esj)ecially to you. In the Providence of God 
 you ai'e, as a diocese, about to enter upon a new path, and, as I ti'uly believe, 
 under the haj)})iest auspices. Froni a period of continued depressed anx- 
 ieties, you are emerging into a more peaceful atmosphere, one more con- 
 genial with the spii-it of Christ your Master ; more suited to the growth of 
 individual faith and holiness of life, and more adajjted to the full and com- 
 plete development of the efforts and resources of the Church in this Diocese 
 for her a|)pointed work, under the administi-ation of one who, by an un- 
 mistakable interposition of Providence, has been called to preside over yon 
 in the Lord as your Chief Pastor, and in whom, I feel sure, you will ever 
 find a faithful, im[)artial, and wise admini.strator, and a syni[)athizing friend. 
 What may you not accom[)lish for God and for the Church in this Diocese 
 if, but unit(ul like one loving family, you strive together to do the Master's 
 will and work ! Be you ready on your part, as I know he will on his, and 
 we need have no fear of the result. He who is solennily to l)e set apart 
 this day as your Bishop comes to you as no " novice" orimknown, or untried 
 servant in the vineyard of the Tjord." Faithful in that wbichis least," he will 
 also be "faithful in that which is great." The friend of many years, person- 
 ally and intimately associated with me in many and important works — 
 scholastic, ])arochial, and diocesan — 1 am fully able to testify to his exellence 
 and worth ; having found liim "at all times" the consistent Christian, 
 the gentleman, and the scholar. He comes to you in the maturity of his 
 years ; in the ripeness of his judgment and experience ; in the soundness 
 
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 of the " Faith as once delivered unto the saints," and as re-affirmed in the 
 16th century by "our noble army of martyrs," and above all, I truly 
 believe, in that spirit of personal unreserved consecration to the Master's 
 service, without which all other qualfications, however desirable, would 
 fail of their eflect. tie comes to you as the harbinger of ])eace. Conscious 
 of his own honesty of pur])ose, he will hold out to all faithful and true men 
 the right hand of Christian love and fellowshij). Whilst impartial and con- 
 ciliatory to all, he will l)e faithful to his God and to the requirements of 
 his sacred office ; he will be true to his consecration vows. While " Ready 
 with all faithfid diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and 
 strange doctrine contrary to God's word,'' he will also ** set forward as 
 much as shall lie in him, quietness, love, and peace among all men." 
 
 Under such a leader, and with such a field before you as is presented 
 by this rich and important Diocese, you have the brightest prospect under 
 God for '' peace and hap[)iness, truth and justice, religion and piety." 
 
 But we would, in conclusion, couple words of congratulations and 
 encouragement, with those of counsel and of warning. And my brother, 
 the occasion, and the times in which we live, demand this at our hands, 
 if we would deal truly and faithfully with you. 
 
 In looking for prosperity in the future, the Church must be mindful 
 of the past. " He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Sjurit saith 
 unto the Churches." 
 
 In contemplating fresh works, and greater conquests, you must 
 recognise the true source of your strength, and the real secret of your 
 success ; if you would go forth to certain victory, and attain to greater 
 successes in the future than any in the jnvst, see that the grand essentials 
 of the Gospel are yours by conviction, and by the teaching of the Holy 
 Ghost ; see that you are clothed with the whole armour of God, and that 
 your weajfons are not carnal, but spiritual ; that the sword in your hand 
 is "the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." 
 
 But whilst the words of our text are a[iliciible to every n)inister of 
 the Gosj»(?l, and to every ])rofessiiig Christian, they are esi)ecially so, to 
 those who have been called to be ovei'seers in the Church of Christ. As 
 theirs is the most responsible and cons})icuous position, so on their jmrfc 
 must thei'e be the greatest courage and determination ; they above all, 
 with God's help, must be true and faithful watchmen on Zion's tower In 
 these days, when men are going about in the vain attem])t to establish 
 righteousness, they must be bold to teach that " there is no other name 
 given under heaven, whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus 
 Christ." 
 
 When Rationalism, Scepticism, and Unbelief, in every conceivable 
 form, are striving for the mastery, they must be bold in their annuncia- 
 tions of their implict faith in the Divine Revelation, and in the all-suffi- 
 ciency of the Holy Scriptures for spiritual enlightenment and peace, 
 for teaching the way of life and salvation. 
 
 In times when, everywhere, men are claiming the right to do that 
 which is right in their own eyes, they must dare " to teach and exhort with 
 
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 wholesome doctrine, and to withstand and convince the gaiusayers," and 
 thus vindicate the trust reposed in them. 
 
 In days when it is attempted to invest the scriptural and simple 
 services of the Church with a meretricious ornamentation, and to depart 
 from those [)rinci[)les for which our great Reformers contended, even unto 
 death ; they must dare lo stand forth with firmness ; in the exercise of 
 their lawful authority, for the simj)licity of faitli and worship. 
 
 Men imbued with such a spirit as this, are what the Cliurch stands in 
 urgent need of, at this period of her history. Under leaders such as these, 
 she need not fear the withholding of the Divine blessing, the lack of faith- 
 ful men to rally around her ; or the want of means to effect her enterprises. 
 Gathering around ihese centres of Christian efforts — as in the earlier 
 and jmrer days of Christianity- there shall be no need of the modern 
 novelty of ** Church Unions" and " Church Associations," but as a band 
 of brethren holding fast to the simplicity and pc .ver of the Gospel as 
 revealed in God's written word, they shall go forth — Bishops, Presbyters, 
 and Laity — to conquests such as yet tlie world has never seen ! 
 
 But I must close these observations. May God grant that from the 
 highest to the huml)lest, we may all be found faithful in our office and 
 vocation, and, sensible that when we have done all, we are unjjrotitable 
 servants, may we look to Christ and His merits alone for an entrance 
 into His Kingdom. Faithful is He that hath promised, who also will 
 do it. And what is it that He has graciously promised to His faithful 
 follower 1 "Be thou faithful unto death, and I wil give thee a crown 
 of life." 
 
 And now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy 
 Ghost let us ascribe, as is due, all honoui-, praise, glory, dominion, 
 and power, now and forever. Amen. 
 
 At the close of the sermon, the choir sang the hymn, 
 " Spirit of the living God." 
 
 THE CONSECKATION. 
 
 The Bishop elect, vested with his rochet, was then presented to the 
 Bishop of Quebec, as consecrator, the j)resenting Bishop saying " Right 
 Reverend Father in God, we ])resent unto you this godly and well 
 learned man to be ordained and consecrated Bishop." The certificate of 
 election, and authority for the consecration having been produced, was 
 read by the Registrar as follows : — 
 
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 Letter and Certificate of the Consecration of the Right 
 Reverend Arthuh Sweatman, M.A., as Bishop of Toronto. 
 
 In the Name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The 
 Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 To all the Faithful in Jesus Christ throughout the World, — 
 
 The Right Reverend Fathers in God, James William Williams, D.D., 
 l)y Divine perniiHsion Lord Bishop of QueV)ec, Pi-eaiding Bishop 
 and Conseciator ; Isaac Hellmuth, D. D., by Divine permission 
 Lord Bishop of Huron ; Frederick Dawson Fauquier, D.C.L., 
 by Divine permission Lord Bishop of Algoma ; Thomas Brock 
 Fuller, D.D., D.C.L., by Divine permission Lord Bishop of 
 Niagfti'a ; and William Bennett Bond, LL.D., by Divine per- 
 mission Lord Bishop of Moncrerd, 
 
 Greeting. 
 
 Whereas, by a certain Letter and Certificate of the Consecration of the 
 late Riglit Reverend Fatlier in God Alexander Neil Bethune, D.D., 
 D.C.L., as Bisliop of Niagara and coadjutor Bishop of, with right of suc- 
 cession to, tlie See or Bishojiric of Toi-onto on tlie vacancy thereof by the 
 death of the hite Right Reverend Father in God, John Strachan, D.D,, 
 D.C.L., then Bishop thereof, bearing date tlie first day of April, A.D., 
 1867 : After reciting the erection by letters ])atent from the Crown in 
 the year of our Lord, 18h9, of the former Province of Upper Canada 
 (now the Province of (*ntario) as a se])arate Diocese, See, or Bishopric, 
 by the name of the Diocese. See, or Bishojjric of Toronto, and the nomi- 
 nation and appointment of the said the late Right Reverend Father in 
 God, John Strachan, D.D., D.CL., as first Bishop thereof: And after 
 further reciting subsequent surrenders of portions of the Territory com- 
 prising the said original Diocese, See, or Bishopric of Toronto by the 
 said the late Right Reverend John Strachan, D.D., D C.L., first 
 Bishop thereof as aforesaid, for the purpose of enabling the erection, by 
 letters patent from the Crown as aforesaid, of the Diocese, See, or Bishopric 
 of Hiu'on in the year of our Lord 1857; and of the Diocese, See, or 
 Bishopric of Ontario in the year of our Lord 1862 ; the Diocese, See, or 
 Bishopric of Toronto was recited to consist, at the time of the consecra- 
 tion, of the said the late Right Reverend Alexander Neil Bethune, 
 D.D., D.C.L., as aforesaid, of all the Territory not surrendered as afore- 
 said : 
 
 And whereaf, by an Act passed by the Parliament of the then Pro- 
 vince of Canada, in the 19th and 20th years of the reign of Her Most 
 Gracious Majesty, entituled "An Act to enable the members of the United 
 Church of England and Ireland in Canada to meet in Synod," it was by the 
 second section of the now recited Act, enacted that " The Bishops, Clergy, 
 " and Laity, members of the United Church of England and Ireland in this 
 " Province may meet in General Assembly within this Province by sucii 
 
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 " representatives as shall be determined and declared by them in their 
 "several Dioceses, and in such General Assembly, frame a constitution 
 ** and regulation for the, general mana<^ement and <,'ood government of the 
 " said Church in this Province, i)rovided always that nothing in this Act 
 " contained shall authorize the imposition of any rate or tax upon any 
 *' person or persons whomsoever, whether l)el()nging to the said Church 
 " or not, or the infliction of any punishnuuit, line, or penalty upon any 
 '* p(nson, other than his suspension or removal fi'om any office in the 
 "said Church, or exclusion from the meetings or })roceedings of the 
 " Diocesan or General Sytiods ; and provided also nothing in the said 
 " constitution or regulations, or any of them, are contrary to any law or 
 " statute now or hereafter in force in this Province :" 
 
 Aiid ivhcreas, the said Bishops, Clergy, and Laity, under and by 
 virtue of the hist recited Act, duly met and organized such General 
 Assembly by the name of ' The Provincial .Synod of the United Church 
 of England and Ireland in Canada," and in such Provincial Synod, having 
 dvily framed a constitution and regidations for the general management 
 and good government of the said Church as aforesaid, duly passed, and 
 enacted, as part thereof, with divers other canons, che following canons 
 for the further subdivisions of existing Dioceses, that is to say : 
 
 Canon 9. — '' The House of Bishops shall have the power of sub" 
 " dividing existing Dioceses, or of forming a new Diocese out of portions 
 " of existing Dioceses which may be contiguous, with the concurrence or 
 " upon the application of the Synod or Synods of the Dioceses affected, 
 " and it shall be the duty of such Synod or Synods to consider, without 
 " delay, any proposal for the subdivision of a Diocese which may emanate 
 " from the House of Bishops ;" 
 
 And Canon 11. — (^Now partly recited, as efJ'ecting territory) as 
 follows : — Section 1. " The Provincial Synod may select a suitable Priest 
 *' to be a Missionary Bishop over a district not within any organized 
 " Diocese, or over a district which includes within the new territory, a 
 " part or paints of one or more existing Dioceses." Section 2. " In case 
 *' a Missionary Bishop shall be ap|)oiuted in the manner hereinbefore 
 " mentioned over a district which includes or consists of a part or parts 
 '' of one or more existing Dioceses, the Missionai}- Bishoj) shall exercise 
 " no jurisdiction over any such part or parts of such other Diocese or 
 " Dioceses, until the Synod or Synods of the Diocese or Dioceses affected 
 '* shall have consented to his so doinff, and it shall be the dut'' of such 
 " Synod or Synods to consider withotit delay any such proposal." Section 
 7. " Any Diocese of the Province may, if it desires so to do, separate 
 " and set ai)ai"t any portion of its territory as a district suitable lor the 
 " establishment of a Missionary Bisho])ric, and such territory so set apart 
 " may become a Missionary Diocese, and a Bishop be appointed thereto 
 " in accordance with the foregoing canon: " 
 
 And ivhereas, in pursuance of the provisions of the said eleventh 
 canon of the Provincial Synod in part above recited, the following per- 
 
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 tion of the territory of the Diocese of Toronto as existing at the time 
 of the consecration of the said the hite Kight Reverend Alexander 
 Neil Bethune, D.D., D.C.L., vas in the year of on r Lord, ISTiJ, and 
 at the iiistaHce of the Synod of tlie Diocese of Toronto, set ajmrt as a 
 Missionary Diocese mider the title of " The Missionary Diocese of 
 Alg(iaa," and a Missionury Bisliop duly elected and consecrated to exer- 
 cise Episcopal functions therein, that is to say : — The District <»f A Igonia, 
 East and West, the District of Muskoka, the Manitoulin IshuKJs, so 
 nuich of the District or Territory of Nipissing as belonged to the Diocese 
 of Toronto, and the District of Parry Sound :" 
 
 And whereas, in pursuance of the ])rovisions of the said ninth canon 
 of the Provincial Synod above recited, the following furthei- portion of 
 the J)iocese of Toronto, as existing at the time of the consecraation of the 
 said the late Right Reverend Alexander Neil Bethune, D.D., D.C.L., 
 was in the year of our Lord, 187"), and with the consent of the said 
 Synod of the Diocese of Toronto, set apart to form a new Diocese under 
 the title of " The Diocese of Niagara," and a Bishop hath been duly 
 elected and conseciated to exercise Episco]ial funotions therein, that is to 
 say : — The C-ounties of Haldiuiand, Welland, Lincoln, Wentworth, 
 Halton, and Wellington : 
 
 And 'whereas, the said the late Right Reverend Father in God 
 Alexander Neil Bethune, D.D., D.C.L., so conseciated as aforesaid 
 Bishop of Niagara a 'a; coadjutor Bishop with right of succession to the 
 See or Bishopric of Toronto, on the death of the said the Right Reverend 
 Father in God, John Strachan, D.D., D.C.L., on the 1st day of Novem- 
 ber, A.D., 1867, thereupon became by said right of succession, Bishop of 
 the said Diocese, See, or Bishopric of Toronto : 
 
 And lohereas, the said the late Right Reverend Father in (lod 
 Alexander Neil Bethune, D.D., D C.L., Lord Bishop of Toronto 
 departed this life on the 1st day of February, A.D., 1879 : 
 
 And whereas, inider and by virtue of the above recited Act of 
 Parliament, the Bishoj), Clergy, and Laity of the said Diocese of 
 Toronto, in the due order of their deliberations duly passed and enacted 
 with divers other canons, a certain Canon. Rule, and Regulation, for the 
 election of a Bishop, on a vacancy occurring in the See : 
 
 And whereas, in accordance with the said Canon, Rule, and Regula- 
 tion, f;iie Synod of the Diocese of Toronto, being duly summoned, met in 
 the City of Toronto on the l'7ch day of February, A.D., 1879, and con- 
 tinuing in session initil the Gth day of March, A.D., 1879, on said Gth 
 day of March, A.D. , 1879, duly elected the said The Venerable Arthur 
 Svveatman, M.A., Archdeacon of Brant in the Diocese of Huron, to be 
 Bislioj) of the said Diocese of Toronto in tlu; place of the late Right 
 Revel end Alexander Neil Bethune, D.D., D.C.L., deceased : 
 
 And tvhereas, the Diocese of Toronto at the time of the execution of 
 these presents, and of the consecration of the said the Venerable Arthur 
 
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 SwEATMAN, M.A., as Bishop thereof, consists of the following remaining 
 territory, in tiie said Prr^inco of Ontario, that is to say: — The (-ounties of 
 York, Ontario, Peel, Sinicoe, Durham, ^" )rthiiml)erland, Peterborough, 
 Victoria, and Hali burton : 
 
 And whereas, in pui-suance of a fui'ther canon of the said I'rovincial 
 Synod rel iting to the consecration of Bishops, due notice having been 
 given to the Most Reverend Father in Ood, John Medley, D.D., by 
 Divine permission Lord Bishop of Fredericton and Metro))olitan of 
 Canada, the said the Most Reverend Mfitropolitan apjjointed Thursday, 
 the first day of May, A.D., 1871), being the Festival of the Holy 
 Apostles Salat rhllip and Saint Jtuues, for the consecration of the snid 
 the Venerable Archdeacon Arthuk Sweatman, M.A., as such Bishop of 
 Toronto ; and being unable to attend in person, in consequence of indis- 
 position, hath duly authorizc^d and commissioned the Right Reverend 
 Father in God, John Tuavers Lewis, J^L.D,, by Divine jiermission Lord 
 Bishop of Ontario, in his absence, as senior Bishop of tiie Province, or in 
 his absence, the Bishop next in seniority, to proceed according to due 
 Canonical form and order, with the assistance of divers other Bishops, 
 to the Consecration of the said Bishop of Toronto : 
 
 Now Know Ye, that We, James Willam Williams,D.D., by Divine per- 
 mission Lord liishoj) of Quebec, Presiding Bishop and Consecrator, 
 Isaac Hkllmuth, D.D., by Divine permission Lord Bishop of 
 Huron, FiiEDKUicK Dawson Fauquier, D.C.L., by Divine permis- 
 sion Lord Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Algoma, Thomas 
 Brock Fuller, D.D,, D.C. Jj., by Divine permission Lord Bishop of 
 Niagai-a, and William J^ennett Bond, LL.D., by Divine ])ermi8- 
 sion Lord Bishop of Montreal, und-^r the protection of Almiglity 
 God, and for His Glory, on the first day of May l)eing tiie Festival 
 of the Holy Apostles Saint Philip and Saint J((,nies, in the year of 
 our Lord 1879, in presence of divei's of the clergy and a public con- 
 gregation, did rightly and canonically consecrate Our beloved in 
 Christ the said the Venerable Arthur Sweatman, ALA., of whose 
 sufficiency in good learning, soundness in the faith, and purity 
 of manner, we were fully ascertained, into the office of a " Bishop 
 OF the Church of God," according to the manner and form 
 prescribed and set forth in the Book of Common Prayer of the 
 United Church of England and Ireland, as the " Form of Ordain- 
 ing or Consecrating or an Archbishop or Bishop." The oath of 
 the Queen's suprer^iacy and against the power of all foreign 
 potentates, and the oath of due ol)edience +o the Metropolitan 
 Bishop of Canada, having at the same time been duly administered 
 to, and solemnly sworn by, the said the Venerable Arthur 
 Sweatman, M.A. 
 
 In testimony ivhereof vfQ have affixed to these presents our Episcopal sig- 
 natures and seals this first day of May, A.D., 1879. 
 
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 After the reading of these documents the following anthem from 
 Psalm cv. 1-3, wds sung : — 
 
 "0 give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name : tell the people what 
 things He hath (lone. let your songs bo of Him, and praise Him ; and let 
 your talking be of all His wondrous works. Rejoice in His holy Name ; let the 
 heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord." 
 
 The Litany, with the proper suffrages and ))rayers, as set forth in 
 the Consecration Service, was then said by the presiding Bishop. 
 
 The jn-esiding Bishop then adniiniHtored to the Bishop-elect the 
 solemn questions prescribed in the Service. These were answered in a 
 clear, distinct voice. Prayer was then offered up on behalf of the Bishop- 
 elect ; after which the following anthem was sung : — 
 
 Soh. — rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him, and He shall give thee thy 
 heart's desire ; commit thy way unto Him, and trust in Him, and fret not thyself 
 because of evil doers. 
 
 Choral — Cast thy burden upon the Lord, 
 And He shall sustain thee ; 
 He will never suffer the righteous to fall ; 
 He is at thy right hand. 
 
 Thy mercy. Lord, is great. 
 And far above the Heavens ; 
 Let none be made ashamed, 
 That wait upon Thee. 
 
 The Bishop-elect having assumed the rest of the Episcopal habit, 
 and kneeling down, the Veni Creator' Spiritus was said over him. the 
 Bishop of Quebec as Consecrator, beginning, and the Bishops, with the 
 congregation, repeating the alternate verges. 
 
 The Bishops present united with the presiding Bishop in the solemn 
 laying on of hands ; after which the Holy Bible was delivered to the 
 newly consecrated Bishop, with the prescribed exhortation. 
 
 The Communion Service was then proceeded with, in which the 
 Bishop of Toronto took part. The clergy present and a large number of 
 the laity united in the Glad Feast of Remembrance of the Risen One. 
 
 The service was concluded by the pronouncing of the benediction by 
 the presiding Bishop. 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 The following address, iiiimeroiisly sign(!d l)y both Clergy and Laity, 
 presented to the Right Rev. the Bishop of Toronto, wfis then read by 
 the Very Reverend Dean Grasett, D.D. : — 
 
 To the Right Reverend Father in God, Arthur by Divine permission, 
 Lord Bishop of Toronto : 
 
 May it please your Lordstiip, — 
 
 We the undersigned Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Toronto, 
 avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity, after your Lordshi])'s conse- 
 cration, of offering to you our sincere congratidations on entering on 
 your important duties, and of expressing to you our earnest liope, tiiat, 
 by the l^lessing of Almighty God, your ai)pointnient, as Chief Pastor of 
 this Diocese, may largely conduce to its spiritual welfare and promote 
 your own })ersonal hajipiness. We are detply sensible of the reverence 
 which is due to the sacred othce with which you have been invested, and 
 we also most gladly recognize, in the respect and afiVction with which 
 you have long been regarded by others in the high positions of triist and 
 influence which you have heretofore occupied, an as^surance that the like 
 respect and affection will attend you in your new sphere of duty. 
 
 We are not ignorant of the anxious responsibilities which are at 
 times, and not least in our own, inseparable from the Ej)iscopal office, or 
 of the difficulties and trials in which the faithful and impartial discharge 
 of its duties has not unfrequently involved its most distinguished occu- 
 pants; we would, therefore, beg to assure your Lordship of our most 
 cordial sym])athy and our loyal co-operation in your future endeavours 
 to advance the work of the Church amongst us. 
 
 While we ask your constant prayers on our behalf, we will ourselves 
 ever pray that Almighty God may be graciously pleased richly to bless 
 you both in soul and body, and to prosper the work of your hands upon 
 you, to His own glory, and to the welfare of His i)eople, committed to 
 your charge, 
 
 Toronto, May Ist, 1879, 
 
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 Tl.e Bishop made the following reply ■ — 
 To the Reverend the Clrgy and the\L(dty of the Diocese of Toronto. 
 
 Reverend and Dear Brethren and Brethren of the Laity, — 
 
 1 accept with great gratification the loyal and affectionate address 
 which you have been pleased to present to me. 
 
 This day of my consecration to the sacred office of a Bishop 
 in the Church of God, 1 feel to be one of deep solemnity ; and looking 
 forward, as I cannot but do, to the arduous dutiss, the difficulties, tr'als, 
 and responsibilities which lie before me in the dischai'ge of this office, 
 more especially in the important Diocese of Toronto, the assurance of 
 your sympathy and loyal co-opi-iiKion comes to me with the welcome of 
 a cheering promise and a stroiig encouragement, 
 
 B'or my part, my earnest prayer is, and shall be, that Almighty 
 God, who has thus called me by His Providence to l)e the Chief Pastor of 
 this Diocese, may also endue me with His heavenly grace to enable me 
 wisely to govern, and faithfully to feed His flock committed to my charge ; 
 and may gi-ant His prospering l)lessing to all my endeavours to extend 
 the kingdom of Christ, and advance the cause of His Church. 
 
 May that mutual confidence, respect, and affection ever subsist 
 between us, as co-workers in the holy service of our one Lord and Master, 
 that shall secure for our labours the strength that lies in oneness of pur- 
 j)ose and unity of action ; and should, at any time, the conscientious 
 dischiirge of .ny high trust involv^e me in re[)roach or difficulties, may I 
 be sustained by the sympathy, the consideration, and the approval of my 
 beloved clergy and faithful laity. 
 
 Thanking you, dear brethren, for your promised prayers on my 
 behalf, which I trust will be constant and unceasing, I assure you that 
 1 too shall constantly bear in my heart, before the Throne of Grace, both 
 you, my reverend brethren who labour in the cure of souls, and the 
 various congregations committed to your charge, praying Almighty God 
 that He will abundantly bless y(ui in your persons, your families, and 
 your labours, and by your means prosper His work in our Diocese, to 
 the glory of His great name, and the extension of His kingdom. 
 
 I am, dear brethren, 
 
 Your faithful friend and Bishop, 
 
 Arthur Toronto. 
 
 A Rece]»tion to the Bishop under the auspices of the ladies of 
 Toronto, was held on the snme evening, in the Convocation Hall of 
 Trinity College. It was attended by about one thousand Church people 
 and friends of the Bishop.