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TORONTO : HENRY ROWS ELL NEW YORK : DANA A CO., 381 BROADWAY. THJ THE CHURCH THE CHANNEL OF PERSONAL HOLINESS. A SERMON |ttac|ti( in St. lamts's C|urt^, faris, C. ON WHITSUNDAY, 1856 : AND AT PRINCETON, ON TRINITY SUNDAY. BY ADAM H' O W N I^ b: Y , INCUMBENT, PABIS, C.W. TORONTO: HBNRY ROWSELL; NEW YORK: DANA i CO., S61 BROADWAY, Si ut 01 is aj THE CHURCH Si|e C|anntl d ftrsonal f oliness. ■M4nm>* St. John XIV. 18.—" / will not have yon comfortless ; / will come to yon." My friends, this ought to be a very triumphant and joyous festival with us ; for it is the anniversary of that glorious day on which the promise of our text began to be fulfilled. We say began " to be fulfilled," because it is an abiding promise, given in all its richness to the Church of every age, so long as time shall last. When on the day of Pentfcost this promise that the blessed Jesus would ever dwell with His people, first became " yea and amen" to the Church, by the miraculous pouring forth of the Holy Ghost-the Comforter pro- ceeding from the Father and Himself, then did those "last days commence of which the Apostles say so much, and in which it is our high privilege to live. The provision which Christ made, before He ascended Lin to heaven, for causing the Holy Ghost continually to dwe^l in His faithful ehct people, and for the continuance, as it were, of His bodily presence in his visible Church, are God's last great gifts to His chosen^ There is, we speak it with reverence, nothing more for God to give, until He remove us to His own immediate presence, He has tmly emptied Himself of all but love, hence th.se are " the last days"--from Penticost to Judgment is one-the dispensation of Christ and His Spirit. My brethren, thi. is a most glorious foet regarded in ,t,elf ; b« when w .„n to the Church it is on the contrary, as appalling 1 For aas! ala the worldliness, the indifference, the divisions, the b.tternesB ot the ■nodern Church are, n>ethinks, e,,ually unfit to succeed the day "' I"'^"'*^""'; '" „.her in that of Judgment ! And yet, wo repeat, heaven has notog .ore to impart in order to our holiness, these are the ■ last days btay there is one thing more which love has in store, ,t rs to -'^ f" h th »„„el of chastisement, or to unchain the great adversary; that am.dst thrwailiags of our bereaved hearts, the conflicts of fierce ten>ptat.ons or fires of ;rsee;tion, apresent Saviour and a sanctifying Comforter,-the bles«l^ heritage of these "last dajs,"-mayboonee more understood and lived for. If, then, it be the fact that we are living in those same "last days" „hich commenced with the Apostolic age, and that ours is indeed Orod « last His best and greatest disponsation to man, that ot Christ and the My Spirit conjoined, it is evident that we, the Church of the present day, ought to be imbued with that same holiness which distinguished the prLitive disciples, and which will mark the faithful who shall be living on the earth when the last trumpet sounds; our dispensation is the same, X luld not our love and purity be the sa^. Alas ! that they are not so! Let me invite you then to unite with me in humd.at.on and prayer of heart, while 1 endeavour to show,— 1 Wherein we lire below our dispensation, and are inferior in vital godliness to those who, in earlier days, lived under the same ; and,- II. Enquire to what wo must attribute this difference. I We have no wish to depreciate the Church of our own times, it is indeed no pleasure to do so. We know that in the most primitive days offences were not wanting; there were false brethren, heresies lovers ot the world , yea. Apostles had to complain of a Diotrephes, a Demas, an Alexander; we look not for perfection here; there will be stains even upon the garments of the Heavenly Bride while she remains upon earth; the tares and the wheat cannot be entirely separated until the great harvest comes. But still, brethren, it were only a grievous deception of our own Bouls to deny that we are not what our fathers were, even to a comparatively l.te period, in love and zeal ; nor in fact what we expect our descendant*^ \ ft u V .h. Son of Man .ppearoU,. Mo»t »lmnge i. it that it .hould ,„ be when the fo-^^^^ P/ ,.^^,„ ,„j,„,i„„ „„ ,;„„ p„i„u of o« God. Ki^t then, how brief and cold a. our personal ^— 7-'>:':*„ with Apostoiie times, «ith early Christianity, ur wrth that of our forefathers. I Jr. nf Npw Testament disciples we read thus, r i:ir^r::t> ^Lr::^ s::::»> ..rt . ..in « re. . the Apostles that "Ml, in the temple, and m "'-'J 'r^; J Christ," \ «„,„11„,. "thcvcoa-ed not to tcaeb and prca:!h Jesus (.nrisi of eourse attending, the) eca ^^^ ^^.^j^j^,_ ^_^j Thus we see incessant worship was at least tnc cies Li noted that those were the days when " the ^"^'-ff^^^^^l ,,11- .1." /fnHii vorsh V produced daUi/ tojivcuo. daily such a, should be saved , '"^^ ^ ^^ g„ j Wednesday, A little further on, in our present dispeusa .on, ano and Fridays special days of public and pnvate devotion , daily mormng :: ^^eni^g ublic prlyer frequent, the "oly — ^ ^ ^ indeed oftener, with private devotion at the ttod s xth an mn ^^^ .. the day, and not '^^^yj^:;;^^^ '^ Xr. ^ p„yer and :S:rr;.:"v:; ::.. ... . the «. three, .. Zn tin«s in the day and night, or oven still more frequently. Can we wonder, brethren, that such men of prayer P™-d * '0 be . .Lity. found OhHst in His Ohureh,an^feHth^ Holy «^^ Comforter, ever dwelling in their hearts ? Yea, "^^^ r °; ^ ^^, jj, ferocious beasts and eruel t"'*"^' ''''■" "^'f "J'/ ^t.boL, and power over men who lean't upon J-^' ^ Un tt 1 s tr^^^^^^^^^^ beaven in their eye ! Nor do wo jarvd tha in he la J^ ^^^^^^^^ ^ Mast days" men who trod >»>; ;X„%e holy Farrar, the piou. Bishops Andrews, Wilsou, Ken, J^eneion , ^ J ^ e Nelson, the devout Fletcher, nhould have Htill blcBsedly proved how truly thene our " laBt dnys" are the glorious diMpensation of ChriHt and the Holy Spirit ! Brethren, that wo have as u people Bworved from these habits of constant devotion, I mourn to think is^but too evident to you all. 2. But that we are also fallen from primitive care of our suffering bre- thren is, alas ! equally clear. In the Divine record before quoted, I find it attain thus written, " Neither was there any amongst them that lacksd, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold th«m, and brought the prices of the things that were fold, and laid them down at the Apostles' feet ; and distribution was made to every man according m he had need." And these times of brotherly love and kindness, mark you, were the days when the promises pertaining to this our dispensation were gloriously fulfilled; for Christians were then "full of the Holy Ghost and of faith;" their "souls prospered" like that of Gains, their "hearts, like Lydia's, were opened to the Lord," and while willing to stay in order to serve the Church, their bounding hearts yet " longed to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." Because they loved their brother, Christ loved them and gave them largely of His Spirit. Mark also iu later times the single Church of Antioch supporting its thousands of Christian widows, orphans, and poor. Yea, coming nearer still to these degenerate days. Go and count the alms-houses, the charity- schools for holy secular education, and the other monuments of the brotherly love of your own ancestors in our father-land ; and then say whether our religion, judged not only by New Testament times, but by Catholic Christianity wherever it has baen in earnest, be worthy of the " latter days" of the dispensation of Christ and the Spirit ? Where is our self-denying care of the poor ? our efforts to treat them as brethren in Christ? Where are our alms-houses, hospitals, houses of refuge for repentant sinners ? Or, our Christian Schools for the daili/ instruction of our Children in their never-to-be-divided duties to God and man ? Who now gives largely to these things ? Where are the individuals who dedi- cate whole fortunes to them, as in the earlier days of our present dispen- sation ? Need we be surprised that men are looking for another and a higher dispensation j that Irvingites, Mormons, Spirit-Rappers, Families 'f i „f I „vc »ith the whole «pa«n of BUhy «ect, which arc ,prmpng rom th. . irwl™ of our corrupted Christianity, corrupted by the foul „apnant water, .^ ^^_^__,j .,, ^^^^ ,,„ „„,k.nB ::ir;:::::r"»":w;>au„f .iv„ti„.„ i. ,„. .... ..o^., looking for another Ohrist. , But finally our unworthy abuse of that Rhmous'^ latter da, .i„!r In u ^; "xt:^^^^ '; :: iudiffcrcncc '».''"; '^^'^t^^uin.avc u,eth„d, tho .upport and Hedeen,cr.^Onplo. ^^ j J ;,^ ^^^„,„,„,„,, „, ,,„ dictation of the Holy unosi, >v . Raising the --T :"''i:'Jz Si^tL."!:;:.^: „.:.vi. ^vatch -^-: *" c- f:: :: "rrut i':::. o-a. ^a the ,ame love to Chr>,t, the same rcve ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^.^^.^__ nnesthoodgoingioiuiiui. „„n;n ^pp the SJime love and zeal \ ■ -iV, tVipir lives in their hands ; again see tne miui. ofttimes with their lives ni,i,r^V, heeause she s the Bride .„ife,ted by the .caUh poured ,n..e^^^^^^^ ^„, of Christ; see it oi-ain in tic nuniberlcss ^ ',,„ cathedrals .eauty of the '---^ f ^'^:: ;:PZX^ we ,ory to he of Christendom are at th.s day om gi y degeneracy, the sons of the sires that raised then,, « b «^ t ou^- ow J ^^ .„ee we grudge aliUe ^^::^::^::Z;X Men. It is not them even in repair ! O brethren, ar ^^^^^^ ^^^ ...t our .eal and ^^'^^^^g^ ^ ^^^^^^^^ .ea, for ™ilroads, xny brethren, we keep oui money / ^^^^^ Jegraphs. land »P->»«f 7/ : r ^h^": the poor, and our worship ! Where are om t> hes to , ^^^ , ^_^^^^_^^_^^ freewill offerings to the temple, and Its beauty. ' j„ j^^^ ""'„,*-„, «.....-.i " <'~ •"■■• -- " '•■'•'' "* ceed to enquire,— ^'••„: 8 II. What is the cause of tlie degeneracy and the earthliiiess of the English and Irish Church and her daughters in these " last days/' seeing our dispensation is God's last and best, and that the doctrines taught and the discipline enjoined by our Church are eminently pure, scriptural, and primitive. Were you seeking to disc* ver tbe reason why there is so little of holiness in the Papal Churches, you would with sorrow of heart, at once, attribute it to their corruption of the pure, evangelical doctrines of the Gospel; and you would be right. But, ay just stated, this is not the case with the Anglican Church, her Prayer-Book is, to a wondrous degree, a simple transcript of Scriptural truth, as understood by pure Catholic antiquity. Yo'i will say, perhaps, that our spiritual degeneracy is owing to our world- liuess of mind, and consequent want of devotion. Again you are right ; but it is exactly the reaso)i why that worldliness and want of devotion, should be greater amongst uh than in the Primitive Church, seeing that our dispensation and privileges are the same, that we want to discover. And the best way to do this, will be by enquiring if there be any radical d'*^'erence between the faith oi" Primitive Christians and our own. They are then alike in spiritual doctrines, as we have seen ; but, alas ! there is » sad want in us of that simple con/idencc in the promises of Jesus ever TO DWELL IN HiS CllIJRCH AND SKND HiS SPIRIT THROUGH HER ORDI- NANCES, which so pre-eminently marked the faith of the early Church : and to this infidelity of heart as respects Christ and the Comforter being in His Church, we do mainly attribute the want of holiness amongst our- selves. The early Church, and indeed our fathers, believed all these promises in their fullness and simj^>licity; they looked for Christ and Urn blessed Spirit in every institution and ordinance connected with Hia Church. Hence they believed, — 1st. That Jesuts was peculiarly and personally, though invisibly, present, when His members were assembled for public worship according to His own promise, that "where two or three — He spoke to, and of. His members — were gathered together in His name. He would be in their midst, and that to bless them ;" and that consequently grace was more certainly and specially to be obtained on those occasions than at other times. And let it be noted, my brethren, that it w:.": through that strengthening 9 of their faith and that increase of their g)rce which resulted from sincere attendance upon those public assemblies of the Church, whereby the blessed Jesus is already "glorified in His saints, and openly admired in all them that believe," that they became possessed of the desire for, and the power tqj£xercise those earnest,, frequent, and oftentimes long con- tinued private devotions, to which we have before alluded, as distinguishing the members of Christ in former days. 2nd. They believed that to the Christian Priesthood,* who had been duly ordained by the Apostles or their successors. Jesus had given the same priestly powers that He Himself possessed ; according again to His own words, "J.sthe Father hath sent me, so send I you;" and to the ^»-t--ea^ commands which He had given them to " remit sins," to excommunicate, to bless, to baptize, &c. Indeed, they doubted not but that like as Christ after giving the Apostles their commission as His ambassadors, breathed on them, saying, " Receive ye the Holy Grhost," and that as St. Paul declares, the Holy Ghost had been imparted to St. Timothy, <' by the laying on of his hands," so also their clergy receive the Holy Ghost at their ordination, not then for personal sanctificatiou, but as our own Prayer Book says, "for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God." Therefore, they * I have used the words " priest" and " priestly," and cognate terms, advisedly. I have done so for the sake of distinctness ; and because I know of no name for the second order of the Chriptian ministry, so scriptural, so evangelical, so primitive, and so proper in the mouth of a faithful son of the Anglican Church. " So scrip- tural," — it was the name given by Jehovah Himself to those ecclesiastical officers, who were a portion of that dispensation which Avas, as Holy Scripture states, the type or shadow, of which the Heavenly or Christian Church is the substance. But yet more Wrongly, Christ positively declares that the Apostolic Ministry share His office, why then should they fear, or be ashamed to share the name of His office, and avow themselves "priests" with Him, whose highest human office is being the '■ Great High Priest of our profession." " Evangelical,"~no appellation more distinctly teaches that our office derives all its efficacy from its intimate connection with the Priesthood of Christ Himself, so also as its name implies, its very noblest function is offering not a bloody and pro- pitiatory sacrifice as the Papists do arrogantly, if not blasphemously pretend, but a memorial sacrifice, which conveys afresh the efficacy of the sufferings and death of the blessed Jesus to those kvho faithfully receive it. <' Primitive,"— being terms which can be traced to a very early period ; as may b« Been at once in the learned ecclesiastical autiquary, Bingham, Archdeacon 10 „aes.ioned not but tUt, if themselves were rightly prepared, their pardon X tft'h sealed in heaUn, whensoever their priests gave them absolution , :: ttl ke manner, that when blessing was duly prononnee by pr.e«Uy ul Lc. and mercy from the Great High Priest were d.stJled into the h-^lf of the faithful. In a word, they looked to their m.n.sters a. ^Iwards of the mysteries of God," and as having therefore po^r and authority to impart those mysteries to the sincere of heart. 3rd The Primitive Church believed sanctiflcation and the subsequent indwelling of the Holy Spirit to accompany Baptism, duly "dmm.stered and received ; that it is in fact, "a death unto sin, and a new b.rth unto righteousnebs." Theyalsonothingdoubted,butthatintheHoly Eucharist, aecordingtotho declaration of St, Paul, the "Cup of blessing" which f y"-'""*^; was " the communion of the blood of Christ," and that *^ B-"^;"';" * J^ Zlu was " the communion of the body of Christ." Hence, they behev./^ At Christ still dwelt really, though mystically, in His human presence *„ lis Body-the Church; and that in the Holy(>nnn«n^^ of; .ad were .iwaysconsiderad a, words llrt conveyed. h^^mg^^^^^ .^ ^^ the mysteries of God." ..p.op.r >a *e .„„«, of a f^Uh.Uoa of *e An,..„ C.arch. - .,e^^^^^^^ nation of every Presbyter or Min.ste °"^' '^^ ,^, ^^^,. „f fte c.n- .. the bishop, with the P"-'» P«-»^; »/,* ; ^;:t ;„■; *» omc. .nd work of a didate, and *« '■'t^/^';- .^^ ^J^uud unto thee by the ..position of our £'s" tnd rotntentS this, we are .tyled,.»« aii .brou,h the Prayer Book, and priestly fnnCions are therein assigned ns. A +1,0 in tnanv I reeret to say, obnoxious teroa For these reasons have -«*"'%" ".^j ohrisf. appo'Ud channel, of ,„•„,, and similar *■•'-'>«- f^ J JJ^in, „rtd, and an ignorant and lake- \ 11 He did enable His chosen, as He has said they must in order to eternal life, " to eat his flesh anddrink His blood." That is, early Christians and our forefathers rojoiced to think that the Father does impart the efficacy of His Divine Son's humanity to the bread, and wine when blessed by His appointed ambassadors, insomuch that, as our own Prayer Book does so scripturally and evangelically still teach, "The body and blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper ;" through these creature elements of bread and wine, thus elevated by the power of Uin) who spake a world from nought, to so glorious a mystery. 4th. They further believed in the peculiar powers of the Episcopate ; that its members are the Divinely appointed rulers of the Church, being alone authorized by Christ to perpetuate His ministry with all its sacred powers and functions. It was at their bishop's hands also, that they ever sought to obtain afresh the strengthening grace of the Holy Spirit in confirmation; and, in its highest measure, the more ordinary privileges of priestly blessing and grace. 5th. Finally, the primitive saints, and indeed our fathers, believed that self-denial fastings and alms deeds are ordinances of grace to those who faithfully use them ; yea, and so necessary that without their accompani- ment, prayer itself becomes a barren sacrifice. Hence, they did not satisfy themselves with an easy flesh-pleasing service ; nor yet were they content to " offer unto the Lord their God of that which cost them nothing." They felt that they needed deeply to humble themselves before God j and that also they were beset by those sinful lusts of the flesh which con-^ tinually require to be mortified and " kept under;" therefore, like their Divine Master and His Apostles, they were " in fastings often." So, in like manner, their alms deods were abundant. They would have esteemed it as bitter mockery to ivve offered their prayers to God, and yet to have withheld from His Church and poor what we should deem a very large portion of their worldly substance. Supplications for an inheri- tance amid the lavish splendours of the New Jerusalem offered in a neglected, barn-like Church ; or prayers in our owu closets for our " daily 12 bread " both earthly a-d heavenly, while our brethren are left by us, oT;r.tive.yu„heJded,iu earthly trouble aud ^P'-^-'.— »;;? the dishonourable peculiarities of the Church in th,» "enhghtencd age. And my brethren, it was when fastings and alms deeds were thus "the wings of prayer," that Christians found that pride, passion, lust, avarice Td all " Ls kind" of devils did "goforth." They alsoknew by b.css d experience that "God will be no man's debtor;" but that for every sef- deovin- offering they gave to Him and His poor, He returned th m in tZm a hundred fold; and already in Paradise have they a blessed foretaste of the infinite benefit they will derive, in the day of H.s coming, from having here "made friends of the mammon of unnghteousness Thl fastings, prayers, and alms are now found, like those ot CorneUus, to be no mean "memorials before God!" Ala« ; for the self-indulgenee and seif^eeking of modern Christianity '. Such, my brethren, «e find to have been the holy confidence wh^h apostolic and early Chri»«a„s, yea, and our fathers also, had ,n the^ a th^ fless of the promises which Jesus had made to H.s c eet that He and the Holy Spirit will continually dwell in His Church and ---f-t tb m .elves through her ordinances to the f-«"'- /" V^ " IC t brethren, knowing the covenant truth of our heavenly Father hatpin fulfilment of His own in-ou,isc, " It was done unto them according to their ,«i of the n^cmlc-s of ,l,e Chnrck in ,/.-« cla.s, he^no «> muck kol.er than in these later times ! You will perhaps think that we have unduly exalted the Church her pri!lo^ L hi ordinances; but not so : it is God, not we that has r;':!' treasure into eartnen vessels ;" and He has even condescended to give us His reason for doing so, even that " the honor may be all of M and not of man ;" since by using such mean and ^Ppa-tly mefficr- ^agen^ he shows how entirely the grace and power come direeUy from mZlf, and in no wise rest in any degree, inherently in the agents whom '■-^ 13 He thus stoops to employ. Yet I am quite prepared to be stigmatized by false or mistaken brethren, and by those who are without, as an ultra-high- churchman, a Puseyite or a Romanist, for thus declaring the whole truth of Christ. Well, be it so; if they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, need we marvel at any approbious epithets which they apply to his servants ? I only know, that as a people, we who dwell under this, the last, the final and most glorious dispensation of Christ and the Holy Ghost, are not holy, as were our Christian fore-fathers, who lived in these same "last days" with ourselves; if therefore I have in any measure suc- ceeded in convincing you of the reason of this, your want of holiness, I will rejoice, even though I should myself be the move exceedingly despised. But let us look whether the cause we have assigned, be sufficient to ac- count for these sad results. Some persons will perhaps think not; be- cause, this being eminently the dispensation of the Spirit, they will say surely spiritual worship, without the Ordinances of the Church must be sufficient. Such reasoncrs, however, forget that it is the dispensation of the man Christ Jesus, as well as of the Spirit. To the honor of Christ's humanity, therefore, as well as out of infinite compassion to us, the Father is pleased to convey salvation to us through the body of Jesus ;— a priest- hood,'sacraments, a church, all of which are really though mystically, con- nected with his human nature now dwelling in heavon. Our bodies and souls arc thus sanctified and saved by the Holy Ghost acting in umson with the body and soul of the Blessed Jesus. Thus at the same time, Jesus is honoured, and the obtaining of grace made inconceivably easier to ourselves, by our bodies and outward senses, becoming helps instead of hinderances, to faith and godly living. How difficult it is for us to fix our minds upon Christ and His mal % and to believe that for his sake we shall now obtain the grace or mercy wc are asking, we all know. But when a certain time and place is fixed, by Christ himself, for more speci- ally and certainly imparting the blessings we seek, and the particular in- dividual appointed, through whose ministrations they are ordinarily to be received,--if only we approach in sincerity, deploring our sins and simply believing the promises of Christ,-how infinitely easier does faith, and con- sequently salvation, become. And, because we do not thus simply come expecting Christ in his ordinances, and through his appointed Ambasaa- 14 dors, we remain unholy; while, because earlier Christians did so come and believe, they were holy ! It was the sight of the Brazen Serpent which concentrated the faith of the Israelites when bitten by the fiery ser- pents • so it is the visible ordinance founded on and sanctified by the posi- tive promise of our own Jehovah, which makes the faith of such feeble creatures as ourselves, who are yet in the body, comparativ.^ly easy,- through the ordinance we discern the Saviour. ! At all events, brethren, we know that primitive Christians not only be- lieved in Christ, but that they believed in Him in His Church, and sought Him there, and they were holyj-you believe in Christ, but you do not believe in Him in and through his Church, and you are comparatively unholy! Oh! then at last believe the promise of Christ; believe the teaching of your own Prayer-Book, and with the holy men of old, believ- ingly seek Christ in His Body, the Church. And then my beloved, ycu also, without doubt, shall be holy; and thus "walking with God," begin at length to comprehend, with the Christians of former days, the deep reality of a religion whose " God is love," whose glory is the " Lamb slain. ' Amen and Amen, even so Lord Jesus. N. B.-The.re are a few additions to the sermon as preached, and some unim- portant alterations. BIAOKBDBN'S OITY STBAM PE1I83, 63 YOSGB STIIEET, TOBONTO. ■\ BY THK HAMK AUTHOll. THE SACERDOTAL TITHE, the Divinely Appointed Method of supporting the Christian Ministry. A Treatise on rSELL k Co.. ToKo.TO •. DANA Sc Co., Nkw Yohk. K. ROW li..o;. . mi."- of 11"' rroUsloM Episcopal Chunk, U. S.) stood and neglected, Christian duty," &c., &e. (From the X.Y. Church Journal.) ■ , r .f wnvl-H like TAe Sacerdotal TithcwiW bulp on .-The vigovou. -■"":>'■;■ ° J™,"; .'^ , „, ,,Hv„r not t„ A. rl,,,,,-!, oi' Canada merely, i>ut to tn. \.iu.i. heartily thank hini.^' , ,, ,;, ;j„,, ^ Aliatuj X-Y-) [^Irom the Kcr. , -x ^ T f,l-P ihc occasion to express the great ,.wMic «;*--■« ^- r , ; ;; urn,t.« ..oc o. u. s»«,.^»'»< plGasnrc and profit I ha\o deiuea nu j .^ W/.. I have never seen the subject so well ^^^^^^^^J^^ ,, ^.,,,.. the Church any general spirit to reeognize such h.gh t, nth ^ft.X.SO, S K V K N Ju J3 T T E -B fc^ ON' THE Non-Religious Common School System OF "CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. n.s« Zr«... have hee.t already very cxtcndvdy circulat..^. ULACKUtRN'S CI' IT 8TEAM WESS, VOSQE 8TREET, TORONTO. ■...;*