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PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE CLERGY. f \ ■ \' ■ ■ ■ \ v" ■ ( > ■■-. ■ -r " PRINTED BY G. T. . - 1 i ■ QUEBEC : CARY, AT THE ' MERCURY" OlTICE. \ V • 1 1 * ' 1863. A • ■ / \':.,- * , ,v. 1 • . ^jSisiJiili', i*A-A^*\i/l^U^*^\f'»^f^^i . Lm A «4 ■ \ '* 5 ^;u ^'A^Atliv^^ ,-^^*'*!^Si ^ ^.-... T .W-™-. Revekend & DEAR Brethren, The present conjuncture of ecclesiastical affaizd is stamped under diffbrent aspects, by a character of no common importance. I do not refer here to those auguries which are to be framed from the signs of the times, as compared, in all reverential caution, with the delineations of prophecy, and which lead us to look for mighty changes developing themselves in the world, linked closely with the fortunes of the Church of God. y;pon these, as they make a strong impression upon m^ own mind, I have been led to touch on different evasions like the present and to urge the considera- tion of them^ as incijtements to special watchfulness and zeal.. Nor shall I permit myself to enlarge upon , that other obvious but interesting topic which presents itself in the marvellous— for surely th^prd is not too strong— the. marvellous extension of^lLown episco- pate with all its concomitant increase « means and facilities for fulfflling the high vocation of the Angli- can Church, in doing her part towards the evangeliza- tion of the woria. Nor yet, especially having to address the assembled Synod this very day, .shall 1 expatiate npon the new powers extended to the Church, which if prudently used and kept in strict subordination to the spirit of the Gospel and the object of the ministry in saving souls through Christ, are calculated to afford valuable helps in the work of the Church. But I feel called upon to say a few / passing words upon a subject of a far different charac- ter, and one coupled with thoughts of pain and humiliation. "What, then, have we lived to see, as a chill cast upon our exultation in contemplating the glories of j)ur own: Zion, as a check upon our tongues iwrhen we would say one to another, " "Walk about Zion and go round about her : tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks: consider her palaces, that ye may tell it to the generation folloM^ng?" . Have we not lived to see within the bosW of the Church at home and among those who draw from that bosom ' the whole sustenance of their worldly position as well as of their ministerial office, men who are using their gifts and attaininents to undernline her dogmatical system, for the support of which they stand most solemnly pledged, and to subvert the very foundations of the Faith itself? In the ^uperabundanipo of our complaisance and under the plausible colour t^f a toleration and tjharity which are but the spurious imi- tation of those holy emanations of the Gospel, wo are too often found ready, ^in^ these days, to stretch what is called the comprehensiveness of thd Church o^ England so as absolutely to nullify all the guards which she has faithfully, placed upon the soundness of ministerial teaching, and to reduce to a mere mockery the carefully prepared securities which she exacts for fidelity of adherence to her standards, on the part of those whom she engages in her service : — A dangerous easiness, not only as it regards the main- tenance of that truth which »we have received from heaven and embodied in our national formularies, but as it tends manifestly to impair the general sense ■ f 1 /•* "u- I: ,^ ■ t 1 . /•^ of morul obligaliun respecting iho>cor'resj)okUence, iu the transactions of men, b'et>vieen^' %ieir engagements and ih^h' performance. • It is impossible that a perni- cious spirit of Jesuitry should fail t9 bo engendeFed, wherever accumulating precedents are received; or suflfered to pass, for any strained accomodation to tho accidents of private sentiment, In the understanding of formal and solemn declarations relating to tho execution of a public trust. But this is not the whole nor tho half of the mischief. For what if amolig the- teachers of our holy religion, the sworn champions of the truth of God, the men- whoso hearts, liands and lives ought, to be devoted to ' tho work of bringing their fellow-sinners to know tho Saviour,~the appointed shepherds who are to gather and to guide tlio wandering sheep, — the appointed heralds who arc to proclaim salvation by Christ and . renovation by the work of the spirit of Gracdj as good tidings of great joy to a fallen wortd — what if among the men invested with this character, entrusted with this commission, charged with these responsibilities, — what if an^g men who ought to be distinguished as " MasterJpiferael " and " scribes instructed unto the kingdom w heSVen," there are those found who are busy in su^esting, more than suggesting, busy in recommending to the ininds of their brethren in tho world, the rejection, piece by piece, of all which con- stitutes the value of the Bible, — disparaging the belief of its inspiration, — denying its recorded miracles, — •«. violently wrenching its magnificent and heart cheering: t)rophecies, to give them, — clear and pointed and con- vincing and precious as they are,~a meaning accord- .»••■» \ ':" ''<. > ' \^ [ ant with what ia desired by those hardy iiiterpretora i What if they are found repudiating or so diluting as ta produce utter insipidity and worthlessness, the grand and vital doctriiyes of tlie atonement and the work of the spirit in theiie^rt? To what pass have we come when men holding prefermeht in the'Chur^ of Eng- land and appointed to dispense the bread of life to -her children, discharge thij8|.the duties of that steward- ship of which they have tp render the account to God ? WeU and truly ipay woffpply tome ctise, the warning language of the Apostle, designed,^it is needless to say, for the guidance, in any similar circumstances, of th^ Ministry in all the ages which were to succeed, " O Timothy, l?j6ep thatr which is committed. to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppo- sitions of science, falsely sa^alled^wUck some profess- ing have erred concerniny tHe Faith.''^ Theory follows theory, in the philosophical researches of men, — the new upsetting tfie old and the advances of discovery contradicting the received and favorite systems even within the same age of the world : — yet if these tlieo- Ties are not readily reconcileable with the Bible, it is the bible -which must give way: it must either be - distinctly, disowned or doomed by thosp who cannot » exactly afford to disown it, to a false and fatal accom- modation of its sense: — ^the power, the penetrating force, thecongruity to human wants and hopes, the love which reaches the depths of the human heart, prompting' the fervent acknowledgement that never hook spake Uke this book, — the majestic claims, the irrefragable pile of evidences which attach to"T;he Bible, All are mere cofcwebs to be brushed aside by ■-. ■. \ ■ ■ f > *■■* f ^* J tho linnd of soiile sciolist who cannot make it square witl^ his own inferences in ^exploring the' works of creation : / • , ; . " Forth steps the spruce philosopher and tells Of hdmogcrieal and cliscydant springs "' And principles': ofjcausea how they work ''^^ By necessary laws their sure eflfecta ; Of action land re-action : he lias found Tfre source of the disease that natj»r6^eels." . JiVhat the poet here saj^^Bfter' describing certain calamitous disturbances^f the elements and diNKers in the physical system of nature, as proceeding di- rectly from thfi hand of God in judicial vis|tatioti, — that hand whicli the wise of this world refuse to dis- cern,* may readily be ^made applicable * to^ that hooh in which the God of nature has revealed himself ;• and I cannot forbear from citing another passage to be found in tl^e next following division of thd^ same aamirable poem,t which is Aiuch to our present pur- .yP«se :^ ^ ^* *" Some drill and bore ' • The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a registe? by which we learn That He who made it and reveil^d its date To Moses, »was mistaken in its age.'*>' The notion of what is called by the disciples of a certain school, the immutability of nature,:]: is not without affinity j although it does not take eyacilj • Cow|(eVg Task, B. ii, entitled, the Timo-pieco; t Book iii, The Garden. * A . • t See Quarterly Review, No. ccxx, for Octoher 1861. . ^ t: ' . "^ i (" t ■ V ■' %\ " .v'*' c f^ ■ ■ . .v> .v-^, '^7 8 tue same direction and hsb not exactly the same \ object, to the language ascribed by St. Peter to \ tlifi scoffers of the last days whose appearance , he foretells and who are represented as asking 7 " Where is the promise of his coming ?-r-.for, since the fathers ffell asleep, all things continue as they were • jfrom the heginning of tJie creation^ And therefore, according to their most inconclusive reasoning, they mu#t so continue,"withaut interruption, still. But it is not my intention to enter here into the argument itself referring to these questions, nor to eipose the fallacies witli which tliese attacks upon the received estimate of the Bible are replete. That task has been discharged bj other hands, more pre- , pared than my own. There are three publications, ■ in particular, which I believe I may be warranted in commending to the attention of those among my bre-^ thi*en into whose hands they may not have chanced to fall — only one of which, however, can I say that I have yet read, — the work, namely, of the Rev. J. W. Burgon^ upon the subject. The other two are. the " Aids to FaitV by tiie new Bishop of Gloucester, which I have barely had an opportunity of inspecting, and the col- lection edited by the Bishop of Oxford, of " Replies to the Essays and Revi&ws.^^* It is very painful to bring torward this subject and it might have been left out of sight, if we could be sure that the mischief has not reached or were not likely to reach our Canadian shores. But we live in - an age of universal publicity and there is, raoreaver -;f h Published by J. H. & J.Parker, 377 Strand, ^ - 'A /; au interest in tlie carnal mind of man to side with those who would shake the authority of the Bible and who at once Satter the pridfe of nature ahd let her loose from wholesome restraints. Young,/ inexperienced, half-informed persons find that there is a great noise about certain productions of a very clever set of men, holding stations, more or less, of emiience in the' Church, who call into question what liave been re- ceived as fundamental and essential vetities in Eeli- gion-^"How is iA^ ? the novices begin to ask, « How is this" j Hpw do weknow that we havb not been led all wrong in what out fatliers have deflivered down, and thatjinthis wonderful nineteenth (tentury, it does not remaiObr us to be set right ? Many minds be- come unsettled in this way, perhaps hopeful and well- disposed minds : not a few, it is to l/e feared, resign themselves to sceptioial views or sink into darkey att4^ more decided shades of unbelief. And morey proba- bly, are pronipted to acquaint themselves with the " Essays and Heviews" than are led on, in the search of truth, to possess themselves of ^uch refutations as I have'ihdicated. I must not, however, be understood to recommend any needless agitation, any over-busy and ill-judged obtrusion of thesevquestions — any notice of them cal- culated to suggest doubts or t<^ breed contentious dis- cussions, in quarters where it may be presumed that all is quiet upon the subject. What I would anxious- ly seek to enforce is thiA We should, in all the earnest- ness of faithful teaching/" in season, out of season," cultivate, comraunicatey impress upon the minds of our people, root fast An their habitual and cherished H. i # ,./ 10 .:. sentiments, such views and feelings in tKeir i^ligion, so intelligent and, at the same time, so simple an ap- preciation of their faith, so true a sense of the wants of their own souls before God, so devout and home- felt a personal appreciation of the blessings of the Gospel of grace, that they might be prepared, if it were ^ possible, one and all, to say— not in any spirit of me- retricious excitement or vain-glorious self-sufficiency, but in the genuine humility of a sober conviction,— I know, " I know whom I have believed, and am per- suaded that he is able to keep that which I have com- mitted to hini against that day." They then stand entrenched : thd message of salvation has reached their hearts and is passed to the deliberate and im- moveable acceptance of their understandings : they know that it is something real. They verify the words of the Psalmist, " when Thy word goeth forth, it giveth light and understanding to the simple." They exemplify the description conveyed in the thanks- giving of the Saviour, " I thank thee, O Father, Lord , of Heaven and Earth, because thou hast .hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes." " Their life is hid with Christ in God." And nonei shall rob them of their hope. O let peasants at the plough, let babes who draw in, • more and more, " the sincere milk of the word, that ' they may grow thereby" rise up, and, as instruments in the hand of God, " confound" by the effects seen upon their hearts and lives, *' the wisdom of the wise" and shew to " the scribe" and the " disputer of this world" that " the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men." «. A: 'f ». It is useful, however, upon occasion, to challenge for the Bible, the candid investigation of penetrating ' and amply fumi^ed minds ; and, « beginning at Mosea and all the prophets, to expound to them in all the scriptures, the things concerning * the seed of the woman' who was to bruise the serpents' head." It is useful to^nsist upon the overpowering effect of all those combined and harmom>ing indications of the continuous and gradually expanding plan of one eter- V nal mind, which are discoverable in a combined view of th^ historical incidents, the ritualinstitntions, (both typically considered,) the miracles pregnant with meaning, the prophetic touches picturii^g distinctly .and often in minute details, the Messiah Vho was to come, the unlaboured, the unobtruded, the often un- suspected correspondence between the early resem- blance and the actual fulfilment which followed :— So. that if, with a little unhappily applied ingenuity, the sceptic can manage to explain away a word here or a passage there, the force of the wJiole would seem to be absolutely irresistible and without any way left open for escape. And here I quit the subject. As I am the oldest clergyman in the Diocese, it has naturally been an event of rare occurrence, expept in the memorable year of the ship fever imported from Ireland, ithat I have been called upon to notice the deathofanyofourclericalbrethren.Twoofthatnumber have very recently been taken from among us, who had long laboured in the Diocese of Quebec and had passed the whole timeoftteir ministry within that field. The Keverend Zuoiua DodHtOe was a mail to whom the church owes a great deal. Within the -V- <;» / sphere of liis labouijs, lie exercised a veryxbeneficial influence both in '6is pastoral capacity and as a valuable friend and counsellor in common life. He ejected the erection of two new churches of respect- able appearance wil^in his cure : and he assisted by different acts of kindness and encouragemeht, young aspirants to the Ministry or still younger persons who • wanted help in obtaining a classical education. And he may be called, in one sense, the founder of Bishop's College^ to which also he would have lieen a large benefactor in his testamentary dispositions, had not the worldly means which he left behind him for ^■■ this object, been greatly abridged by the damage done to his investments in the United States of America from the disastrous effects of civil war. His intentions, I need not say, have the same claiija ifJ)on our grati- tude as if he had been permitted to execute them in full. ^ {'*"""»*»t»*:i«. . The Eev. Dr. i?l«Zik^aa. wiU.bdgreatly missed in his late charge, whete his public ministrations were highly popular and his private worth was acknowledged by ~~^ all who knew him. His ready gifts were upon differ- ent public occasions of the Diocese, made available * for the benefit of the Church. Both these clergymen were sincere Christian men and both were attached andj dutiful sons of the Church. Of the closing scene of Mr. Doolittle's life, which took place in a remote part 6f the United States, I have not learnt any particu- lars : i^ the case of Dr. Falloon, I am thankful to have be6n informed that he died in full possession of his facul- ties, clear in the faith of the Gospel, calm, patient ; and resifimed. 13 While we reider our passing tribute to tliose^whd have been called to their account, let us improve the occasion by bringing home to our breasts, the question of our own pr^aration for the same summons. The call upon our own Sevotedness, my brethren, in the exercise of die hol^ ministry is, in these days, -—and when, in fact, can^it be otherwise ?— a powerful and loudly soundifig call. We have the charge of souls. We labour for effects which are to be seen in ^ another world, which are to endure through eternity. . That is our vocation. That, in simple phrase, is what we are for. It is in promoting that object that our lives are to be spent. And, in the first place, wo must take heed that, by. God's grace, we are, aa Timothy was charged to be, examples to the believers. We must continually remember under what vowrf we lie in this behalf, according to the beautiful and solemn language of the Ordinal, which should be kept ever fresh in our memories. We must carry in mind what circumspection is imperative fipon us, in our manners, tempers, habits, pjirsuits, en- gagements and general deportment. If we would "allure to brighter worlds," it must be seen that we " lead the way " ourselves. And in conjunc- tion with their care in these points, all the Cler- gy in the imxpediate charge of flocks, must follow out the sacred obligations which lie upon them to be assiduous in the several branches of pastoral duty, of which pastoral visiting is eminently one. To " warn " mto, like the Apostle, "from house to house," is what they must consider as a standing and perpetually recurring portion of their task, t. ^., according to the * M .r r »<•• 14 ,\ m \ { 4f-^^ [■ i utmost of their k)pportunities and in the exercido of that discretion which knows how to win the way by^ .Ian adaptation to the usages and prepossessions of dif- ferent circles in society, and to the varying facilities 6|i access afforded to the object. A h(me-gomg clergyman,-^thia is a saying which I have heard among the laity,--iiQftfees a Church going people. -It is impos- sible to estimate too strongly the advantage gained in .Ministerial efficacy by a familiarity with the homes and hearths of the congregation and a manifestation . df mterest in their concerns,— above all, of course, the concern of their salvation. It is impossible to calculate too discouragingly the ill consequences of deficiepcy in this point or the loss which the Church sustains in the amount of good-will and active help on the part of her members, when they have to complain,— as rest\ assured that they never fail to do if they have grounds' font,— that their immediate and prbper pastor is a stranger to their homes. The operations, the ^endea- vors, the associations of the Church, all suffer mWe m ^ less, if things are anywhere so seen, and sometimes languish and dfe away, from this very cause. Let it never be forgotten, therefore, never lost from view, that the Clergy have pledged themselves, « the Lord being their helper," to « use both public and private .monitions and exhortations as well to the sick as to the whole, within their cures, as need shall require and occasion shaU be given.'* They should mark" this duty out for themselves ; they should take it into their digestedplans of work, assign to it its place in the distribution of their time, and should do it, as far as po^ible, moa.odica.l,,-„„t suffering it to e«.p. ^ .N / . ,. I.' / sercido of le way by onsofdif- facilities yuse-gomg .rd among lisiiripos- gained in lie homes lifestation :>urse, the calculate ieficiepcy istains In I the part , — as rest \ 3 grounds astor is a e^'endea- [• more or >metimes ». Let it •m view, the Lord 1 private Ick as to I require lid mark * ce it into ice in the as far as > escape' 15 . from them because they are so situated that tkey cannot do alll in this way, or perhaps anything ap- proaching to all that they could wish, and therefore abandoning fhe endeavor to do anything. And here I would sugg^t, as far from unimportant, the cultiva- tion of a habit to which the Clergy of the Anglican communion generally, are possibly open to the re- mark of havirigpaid Jess attention than it deserves. I mean the hs^bit of early rising. A, justly celebrated dissenting writer, whose learned labours are highly ap- preciated withjin the Church itself and who combined^ "vvith these an immense amount of othfi* labour in the conduct of education and in the pastpral charge, has left upon record rather a remarkable testimony, res- pecting thishabdt of early rising, as most sensibly adding to the means orour profitableness in the stewardship which we have received of the Lord: Eeferringtoa writer who exj»lains the. word chambering in Rom. Xin, 13, tome^n lying long in bed, he says : " I will " not defend that sense of the word, but I will here " record the ob^rvation which I have found of great " use to myself i^nd to which I may say that the pro- « duction of this ^ork" " {his FamUy Bepo&itory) and " most of my othiir writings, is owing, viz: that the dif- " ference between rising at five and seven o'clodi in ", the morning," (\VhichJa8t it would seem that he con- " sidered as quite W late hour)^* for the space of forty " yeara, supposing a man to go to bed at the'same " hour at night, i^ nearly equivalent to the addition " of ten years to a il^an's life, of which (supposing the " two hours in question to be so 9pent) eight houia V -1 'N. * .1 17 r Bvotion.;"* pie, it ma/ hich I jnst lis life pre- upon beii wn of^Kor- tlio^ate of Igent en- rs of'wiiom ames, fami- sharacters." ast and prc- ■ systematic ' d there are t difficulty, t among the )f the agita- in England, an effect of great nnm- livings. i irho, in all the ng some great - tioued out the El moderate al- ence, Soanders i whit greater the Ministry ? gher thaa any a Step. in. the Dwe, a Collec- gtons, a small XTOffTpOV T^i wish, I am sure, to allay rather than to exasperate any feelings of jealousy or irritation which may be en- gendered by this movement ; but I think it very ne- cessary that, if among any of the flocks of this Dio- cese, the occasion (as it is but too likely to happen) should Jje turned to account by the opponents of the Church, to stamp upon her the stigma of a persecut- ing spirit, and to exalt in comparison, the characte- ristics of Dissent, our Clergy should be prepared to expose in all kindness and calmness of Spirit, and fair persuasiveness of appeal to the candor of dissen- themselves, — the utter fallacy and injustice at- tachr&g4o such a representation of the case. It re- quires no gr^atMiount of historical knowledge to be able to shew thaTT^eioverthrow of the Church-esta- blishment, the proscription^^ the prayer-book, the harsh, vexatious and Violent oppr^&i^^^xercised upon the Church-Clergy as well as the cruelp6rsecution of the poor Quakers — all by that very Puritan party^t^ Christian heroism of whose Ministers it is new in- tended so zealously to commemorate, far outweptin its rigour and its fierceness, any proceedings of the Chur ' The violations of histpricaltnith in observances of this nature, are sufficiently feraarkable and appei- in -it very gross form, in the annjial celebrations wirtiin ' the neighboring republic, in hril, 1861, -^. 19 . lovei-s of peace, of order, and of *truth,— a union, if at all rightly conceived and contemplated, very widely different from the isickly, deceptive and dangerous notion of unitv, which inalcps it consist in a mere good understanding to which the Church, in her primitive form, on the. one side, and the endless and still ^lulti- plying forms of schism on the other, are all to be par- ties in common, without any common government or organization. It must be our desire to commend our own system in the eyes of others, and to conciliate theirgood-will ; and, without any officious interference or arrogant assumption, we must be thankful when we can win over to coalesce with us, (as we have dono ' in multiplied instances within this Diocese,)* those who have differed from our views, or who in point of • • religious profession, arc found loose and unattached. And in the event, if it should so please -God, of our having the prospect of any extensive comprehension of different bodies in one,— a consummation npon which I have often fondly dwelt,— we should be pre- pared, I apprehend, to make such concessions as would ^ not compromise our principles. But I venture to • It is often found Lalf amusinp, half provoking by residents in the colonies, to observe the extreme ignorance which provaild ' in the minds of some journalists and others in England, upon "Tnftttcjss^olonial which they undertake to? handle, *Htl^fiotunfi;e> quently, fKiCTWHnte^contrast which subsists between the imprcg- eion which they givooWrjmdJiliofocts oftthe case. An excellent specimen of this kind may boSfecn--iji.4he subjoined extract (which is also no bad specimen ol a |sort~of~«ftshianablg but ' exceedingly vicious style) from the publicjiition of a learnea^jrefca- sor who denounces the provision for the wants of membcrsoF the Church ot England in the Colonial dependencies of the empire as "overlaying the Roligion of the Colonies with a feeble Atf- " glicanism, the creation of historical incidents in this country " [England] and incapable of permanently forming lh& spiritual >JifO of a new nation." "* •4 K ^ -0- r\ fc'fflF ..■>" ,-fi i if A y € 20 '^: ; ,'f ^ ..* # 1 - pronoomee it a great mistake to suppose that wo gain men truly over by sinjcipg as far as possible the dis- tinctive features of our system and accepting the place which tlia^ which is called the religious work would assign to us, as a sect among sects. "We see i|_ number of instances and in a great vaHety c^^{Qh-|||, culars, a marked disposition to as8imilat|)lh|&|lve8^ gradually to our usages, on the part of bdrf^Uffer- I ently constituted from ourselves and ihoulded origin- ally to very di^erent habits in all i^tatters of exterior ob8ervance,~more than this, cherishing originally the most adverse prejudices upon the very points in which they now advance towards this conformity. I 'need only' glatnce at the use of the organ, the prac- tice of '^(Bling in public prayer, the decorations of theSawituary^ the introduction of chjtoting in the performance of Psalmody and the prediliection for some prepared liturgical perfonnanco in divine wor- ship. * In fact tliere are prejudices still lingering, .not always in' a very equivocal or gentle shape, ih the minds, hero and t^ere, of our own people, with reference to some praptiiees which those other bodies * There can hardly be a Aior tore thaiviib which is foatfd qaoted at iM close of the.ja^ ')- Church CArontc/e (London) 'tteinj exbmple btt,}A» n« 2, of %WWolonial ej)und4i ■'•v> is na^< lonial ing of on6of the'isstablisb^d PresbytMUn Churches in Glasgow' Dr. Lee's litargy wastisM find the services were in a great degree conducted ,after the maniier of the Epiibopal Church— igcveral portions of Scripture being cbantcd. The congregation stood while ringing and knelt /during prayer; though many of those present, either from prejudice or force of habit, continued to fol- Joi»r the usual practice of the Presbyterian Churches. In the tidurso of hie sermon, Dr. Lee maintained that the present way of gBU(H>piitg was not in accordance with the spirit of the ago and ^m kept up from a desire not to (Change established customs. ^ ^ ^ «. are fast leftriiing to aclmiro and to adopt. It should be oar endeavour, therefore, I might say our poh'cy, if tlie Wbrd were not liable to be mistaken in a manner which would- greatly belie my own Sentiments, — to exhibit our system in the eyes of all men, under its must advantageous and recommendatory aspect, and carefully to preserve tliat reverential effect and that adherence to rule and order which, in any case^t is our duty to follow out, as being prescribed to us by the authority of tUeL^urch. A|* aittain. It is for this reason that I ha^e been profept- . " ed, upon different occasions of our meeting, to dwell upon these topics, and vereor ne nimiusm hoc genere videarT I will forbear, therefore, from saying all/ which had ni»w been in my mind upon subjects ©f, this v», nature, and will barely glance at the call whici lies, npon the Clergy to urgfe upon th^ir congregatiom the duty of joining audibly in the responsive parts of the service; to recommend the practice of baptism durfng^ < public worship— (it is a reproach that there shoullbo conspicuous places in the Diocese, whfere cireumsfan- ces have hindered the introduction even yet, of Aip . practice)— to prevent the unseemly and indevcmt disuseof the Churching of women: to bear in mii^f the prayers^ peculiar to the solemn season of t% Ember-weeks; to which I may add tlie prayer for tIsK Provincial Parliament during its Session, qnd thatfor ^ • ft' A I / -m 7^ U ^n' ■^ A' 'W ■/^T ■ -■■ f. .■■■■■ ■ .T 2^ ■ the Synod at tJie times indicated by autliority-for if . joint prayer has a meaning, and if we ought intimate- >- ly to boheve that it has power to prevail, the omission . of rt for any presciabed object, is not an act of oblivi- ousness altogether of light consequence. In like manner I must glance only at tlie duty of conveying to ' themmdsofourpeoplean intelligent and practical appreciation of^the purpose of the Church fn ordain- ing periodical seasons of humiliation, knd in appoint- ing her commemorative festivals, upon ligher or upon minor occasions, with reference to which it has hot perhaps been forgotten by some of my brethren who now.hear me, that,-admitting the difficulty which, in many places, would be found to attach to the obser- vance of alltU holidays of the Church and the inex- pediency of attempting, in those instances, to eiforce - it,--I;ventured once to enjoin, in order topreseil^e the i>n«c«>Z^, the celebration of divine service, in ail the cures of the Diocese, on Ash- Wednesday, Ascension. rf«y and the festival of All Saints. (I took it for granted that Christmas and Good Friday were al- ready everywhere observed.) " Forbearing, however, to enlarge upon the reasons for all thia, or to specify other instances of the like kind there is one point of which I am impelled to take particular notice, and itis that of the duty oikneeling m public devotion. 1 do not.mean, of course, that we are to represent to oiir people the attitude of kneehng, m the alstract, as essential to the actof prayer But we may well agk them, if their practice be faulty in the article no^ in question,' first to shew a single instance in the New Testament where any reference ' '* • » 23 is made to posture in the mention of public prayer, without presenting to us the picture of a kneeling company of worshippers— and,- next, to say plainly whether it is or is not their duty, to conform to the ex- plicit rules of their own Church. Suchjmd such devd- tions are directed in the prayer-book to be said "a?/ hneeling" or '{all devouUy kneeling:' H wo look off from the p^^yer-book to the people, wo see, in too many of our ^ongregations, some standing, some ■leaning or loungii^g over the pew, some actually sit- ting; and among tlioso who Jcneel, some facing this . way, some facing ^/iV— which last mentioned irregu- larity, I would particiilarly beg the Clergy to correct, for it may be presumed of those who do kneel at all, I that they are accessible to pastoral influence.— And ' the eflfee^bt the irregularity, among other objections, is thiSf that at Confirmations, where I not unfrequently . see the whole body of worshippers turn the wrong viay in kneeling, i.e. with their hacks to the Minister, the actual administration of the Apostolic rite, admit- ted on all hands to be a touching and edifying specta- cle, is not witnessed by the.very parents and friends of the recipients. Perhaps I may not bo chargeable with any impro- priety if, before dismissing this particular topic, Ipro- ceed to quote from myself. The few observations re- lative to it which here follow, are taken from a pamphlet which I printed some years ago. " I will here illustrate my meaning by a familiar example in point. The laxity of observance which has crept over our own Church, has produced \U painful exhibition to be wit- nessed in our army and navy, of bodies nf mm sitting -4 ■'•4: y /. ■,« in public prayer.— That may now be said to have, grown up into the ritfe of the army a^d navy where the Church of En- gland is professed * — at least I never saw any other practice in either.-^ake an army of people belonging to th$ Romish or Greek Church :— You ma^ see ten or twenty thousand men during their public religious performances, all down, in humble reverence upon their knees.— An intelligent Protes- tant will not be shaken in his principles by this spectacle as contrasted with what he will see ih the corresponding case within the Church of England.— He will understand verj., well that the prostrate awe of superstition may exer^||i^" power over men which spiritual religion adopted nomittal|^ by the mass, but actually influencifig only the true Israel of God, may fail to shew.— But U* he is a truly intelligent Pro- testant, he will deplore the introduction of that external irre- verence in this and other similar points, which takes away the aids to inward reverence provided by our own Church afld suggests the idea at once, with all the heightening effect of contrast, to unsettled minds, no less than to the adherents of a superstitious system, that Protestants do not care about their Religion and are ashamed to bow the knee to thei? God.— Our own people are chilled and impeded in their devo- tional exercises,— kept back in the moulding of the religious man,— the careless among them are confirmed in their *car&. lessness ; those who aro alienated from us, as votaries, them- selves, of an erroneous faith, are hardened in their alienation : those who may be described as standers by and spectators in Religion, receive unfavorable impressions, of which they expe- rience and communicate abroad the bad effects :— and some perhaps are led ta apostatize from their faith. It is therefore (since the train of natural causes and effects is as- • To this there are aomo few honorable exceptions. /._ » 5^^^*lll^^' ;«. z._. ■-' 25 Buredly not left to be inoperative among the influences which form Religion within the heart,) the merest mistake in the world and the most complete misapprehension of the manner in which human beings are constituted and are acted upon in Religion, to suppose th«t a care for extemab can be safely neglected, or that it is a dereliction of the preaching of Christ and him crucifiedj to maintain the value of outward ordinan- ces and to cultivate a dutiful conformity to every prescribed observ ance. Nothing is more jinfounded, nothing can be more shallow than such a charge. St. Paul tells us that he determined not to know anything among the believers save Jesus-Christ, and him crucified.— What did he mean by this ? He meant, of course, that the great cardinal doctrine of salvation by the death of Christ, should never, in any part of christian teaching, be lost from sight J should inseparably be interwoven with every endeavour for the spiritual good of the flock, should constitute the grand, the absorbing object of christian ministrations. But did he mean to be so literally taken as that he would not teach anything, for example, about the operations of the Divine Spirit, or the resurrection from the dead, or other points of christian belief save the one here in question ? Or did ho mean that he would never.- charge upon the believers the remembrance of t^eir baptism and of the obligations then contracted as well as of the pri- vileges then conveyed ? Or did he mean that he would never descend ,to familiar instruction respecting the details of duty in common life ?— Or did he mean that he would not enjoin it upon the disciples to pay respectful re^rd to the directions of those who are " over them in the Lord_??— Or did he mean that it was impossible for him to afford a thought for the decency and order to be observed in public wor- ship ; for ^he establishment of rules which are to distinguish the sexes in the House of God ; for the reverence to be asso- D ■ . • \ , .. . .' r* J v ■/'■,' v.; r .:, 1 / ' "^ '^f-j/*'r*"** 'T '^^f^E**-^ -^ ''f-^»'^y ■^ js-i. V .H^, H ./ /■ ■/ ,. - ■/ / . /■■/ - /■■■. :■;■;■■■■■■■- --^;.:..30: ,' Daring any temporary administration of tlio Go« vemment by other hands, the words the Administra- tar of tU Government of this Pr&oijMie : are to be substituted for the words the Governor-General