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'<• 1 PRINTED AT THt KINGSTON: ^.CANADIAN CHURCHMAN" OFFICE, CORNER OF BAGOl AND PRINCESS STREETS. i /A m ADDBESS ^e...oiOoi.c<.r..^^'^^^\^ ::^X Jp,,t, and suit for the welfare of Jl'%*;''";*' "J.,™ expected that I should, poviding for the future. ^^^^^]^Zl^,.t of the con- at our last meeting, have laid te&tc you ^^^^ ^._^^ aiaonofthoDioeeee, .'^^^^ '^htd "^^ .ado myself suffi- (owing to -y f fXhothok Dioeese to warrant n,y address- ciently acciuamted with t^ «» ^^^ <„,i position. In- ing the Synod regarding »;' P«''Xou.h Committees, who are aeed, under ^'^I'^y/^l^^J'^^-^^^^ .epor^ there is less expceted to lay before us full '^«'' °^^ , ' j^^ in Synodi- need of my touebing on the topi« ^ wb-h they re ^ J ^.^^ cal addresses, beeause we ;^' ^^^^ *:,: i position in a tho- „ise on these reports will bring out our J ^^^^ ^ ^^ rough and intelligible manner I '' ^;^^°;^h ;„„fiaenee, to lay enabled, from ^^f "' of' St^" -1*^ *» *^^ ^r" .before you, briefly, a ^"""""^ ° ,,„ant me in bringing for- cese, as two years of anx ous °™'f^"^ „f o„t„io, ig dergy- ward. Sinee the formation of the Dioee^ o u , ^^ „en havebeen added to ^l^^::'^^:::^;^L,. is dul to Clergy 73 at P--»^- ""^ It would hav^ been possible for the great head of the Ohuicn. -iv " „e te have added largely to this ^-'^^^^ll^\ZL-\^t I 1 1 +^ +V.O Appont maintenance oi aaaiuoudi lawu _ " Vf„ me bX policvto inerease our Missionaries only m seemed to me Deixer punv.^ -n+Vipr than run the risk the ratio of our ability to ^P"'' *^'"' 'treffecTs of a reaetion rfencouutering afterwards alHhe dish ^te^m ^^cts _^^^^ .^^^.^^_ ,^d a diminution in the numb r of the Cr„y ^^^^^^ bly have been foreed to leave the ».'»°;'^- " yi„„ j^e means ih -^om greatly «s.«ieres^^^^^^^^^^^ P-^^^^^^ ^^,^ ofauirmentmgourstaffofUergy.nas^ ofeourse, the labor of ..g.„i.tion l-f^'^y:^^:^^Jl^tfZ liberality mamly stimulating the Laity of the Churen to ^^^ .ovolveson the C^rgJ^aud^^^^^^^^^ employed m iho luaponoiDic a«^j - ^ Pi ' ■*»^ J*':u^ 'jw^m^mmmm ;i ber3 of Deputations, still a great deal depends on a wise and tirm jnanagenient and disbursement of the funds committed to the care of the Mission Board, and it is encouraging to be able to saj that, througiioutmy intercourse with the members of the Church, I have found a unanimous approval of the machinery we have set at work, both on account of its simplicity and the impartiality with which the whole Diocese is vepresented, and the several Mission fields aided by the Board. 1 do not purpose anticipating the rci)ort which the venerable Chairman will present to the Synod, but I would merely say that, as a Diocese, we should " thank God and take courage" from considering that, although we labored under the disadvantage of employing an untried and therefore a suspec- ted organization during two years of extieme depression from bad harvests and foreign war, yet nearly $11,000 have teen entrusted to the management of our Board of Missions. Here I must observe that the Board has lately, at my suggestion, establislied a Perma- nent Investment Fund, to provide for the partial maintenance of those Missionaries, eleven in number, who arc now aided by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, when that aid is with- drawn. I am not without hopes that the venerable Society may be induced to continue their grant for a longer period than that stipulated, which expires in another year, and my active exertions shall not be wanthig in laying before them our pressing claims, but,' nevertheless, it is incumbent on us to provide for the certain ulti- mate withdrawal of the grant. No part of the Mission Fund hitherto collected, except the last Whitsunday collection has been as yet appropriated to the Investment Fund, yet, I anticipate that by the end of the year there will be at least $3,000 secured for in- vestment. This will form the nucleus of a Sustentation Fund, the foundation of which can no longer be delayed, and which, when amounting to £5000, will I believe be supplemented by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to the extent of £1000. It will be necessary to bring the wants of the Diocese as regards a Sustentation Fund systematically before the meujbers of the Church, and this may be conveniently done by the various depu- tations next winter who can in their respective districts bring the subject before our people and solicit special donations to the Fund ; it will be my duty to address the Diocese on this subject at the proper time, and to attend myself as many of the missionary meet- ings as I conveniently can, to plead for this good cause; and it 1 1:1 i I ■ « i„ this lu„a in iulbnn .l,e,u l.a "cl. !■„ 1 Uocs not d.riv. r.„. p.„.i.,o» u. "-,."'XNn: , Boa "society for,., e Vn- pagut,onotthoe.o.pel,o.tl>cl. ^^^^ Pakcnha".. i„„St.Ueorgo'» (K.nSBton),B,ockvUe^i P .^_^^ ^^.^,^ ^,^^ .„. The Cnmrch building of the l^iocc.c i v r .!,„ rlero-v There are ninety-seven Chuith comets TT t of thieh four have been lately enlarged i« consequenee fiocs one hundred and fifteen^ ,,.„ "^■■"^ ^1t^:l'lT^ -ui:!Za felt at theresult. ;;:;,:r.::^:u::r:;-Uin. too ^^^^:^-x ,pU.itua, condition of our bre*«n>.c.,»^^^^^ ordinanee, yet ^c .uu.t remember *»y^« ' ,,„,, i,„„„ fear7t°o see ne^eeted. The season of Conarmation is the most : ,n i be Spiritual life of the young Churchman, and.t.soie of the most We sed opportunities for tbe performance of the du- e of tlie Ministerial omee. It .as, "-f"-./'* ^ f^t feelin-s that I observed the very large congregations that ^itnesb odteadministratiou of this rite, aud the ^^"^-^ '"^^f^ evident sincerity of purpose of the candidates. D-'S "J ^j/, confirmed 3,125 persons, a majority of whom were adults and many of tb m converts to the Church. It is my custom to cle- S the Holy Communion on every occasion of confirmation, eat ;; of cLsc, to tbe consciences of *he canditos .M, they will then partake of their first commumon. The resuH, so t'as man can judge, was most satisfactory, •---'^ "f; J," persons of those confirmed, besides a very large number of p rso s confirmed iu former years, then, for the first time, received the r:r;rSupper. When we find at least 3,000 new eomi— tbus adderto the Church, we should give tbanks to A mighty God for these benefits, and make our Immble prayers to Il.m that i; llirough t;,o zonlous l,-,boi-.5 of tl,c rior-v „ «,iii . "> ,|;;'ure yoa„, bo sa,l.,.o.l i„;„ S/S,; '" '"'"'' """'•'^' ™J .orci:':f:;r;;;:ir'i:,/;:r;»'f "?"'■"' •"" "-"-«-•"■ JuccI ,!,„ .Scc,e,„,.y of «., C u ;■ ' •'"'? "' ^'"l""'"^". '"" opirWon of t,,„ Law oflicers of 1, Cr w 7 '" '"^'"" <■- "'O convoyed by tl.o 10.10^^'! 11 ,7'"'"' °^ J""^'^'^"" »«» Oo„»ti.u.c tbe Jiisbop „f J onto ?! p"^ '"'"'' '««-' ^''"■"■ »ukeof.\owca,stl„:_«WeS.7/?™™'l ^ I"'.' Graco the (Wn to oons,i,u,e his Wd It 'jj' 7 '=°"'P"'™' to the fiivc l,i„. ,„.o-c„,i„c„ce nuZZoJ '"^f-'""- '""' "'"'-"''^ '» . - '0 "-oercivoj„ri.,diotr:btr,o",r •"■'"'»' <=«^ and the .nanner i„ whieh Tulu ^^"^["Po'-t'm ,„ay e.wr- '«" which „,„s, be .ttio h Liir;r '"'-"'"" =^^ -'■ general a^on.bly of the I'mWn" ? ' "■■»'' """^ ^"''i'y. in a "eeordingly conn^nieated th] I T"' T }''" "- G"eo "l, to the Iii.h„p of Jlontr , an- ""f "'» «o'er„or Gene- I-.*hip, in coneertwith Hlh "f, •*'" '' '''" "«= »■- '"« Chureh, to de.er,.,i„e for ti 1 w" r"r"'f ^^ "^ t^'^^dian «Pply tb,. f..h .„d amended Te; fpl f "or f ^ „"""," ^^^'^^ '» •istrument to remain in foree «■ h , i ""^ """o" the existing it "ssumes to invest the J etroUl "'.° """>"'«%« that so far at i^ of no eifect." It ;., the S ," « T"'''" J""'^'"'''"". '' tl.ey will instruet their ropes„t!^r ^'T-^ to consider whether it is known to vou th a bv ' „ " ^ " ""' '"''•''''='• ^il"'ough t-s Patent as iiued ^i ^^rSoT' '"'r """ '"'" "'» ^-'- t.on of the Metropolitan w«e eir", ' 7"''?'"^ '-""^ J""'''""- Kegulations, and Canons t at Z P ^ , ° '"''•'"=' '° *« I'"le-', t^»o to tin,,e, n.ako in r^p^ htL't-^f.^f-^'y -y, fro,u' opply for shorter and simpler I e»r ,/, ^"^ '"' "^Pedient to "■elates to the proposed s"le„frt""'- ''^^^ ""'"^ ^"estion ci.urohsocietfos !,;!:* ltd :>":;r:: tT' -""''"^the was received and read a first t I I^q f """ ™''"'"' '■■'"ds "mended in a Select Con',; t ' , ''I,""'''"- '''''"' ^"'' "« andlhavebeenfre^nonr 11 ','7 '"'"^ ""^ ^-ghUurc, r have refrained '-, 7.""""' whether it meets my ..^n-or-l ii.ramca „uiu replying till r i,.,i ..„i.. ... , ~^ -i'P.oVi.1. S till I had submitted a copy of the Bill to thU Synod, »nd ascertmncJ th. Uthbcra l '^''"°''- , „,W<.n refrain fron> noticing an event v.liich I cannot, my brethren, retrain pvofounaiy agita- ta lately occurred in Kn.-lan.l and ^^^^l^„, a„,i,i„„ or tod all thonsMful Chnrehn,er I m an ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^,^^^^^ ^^ the Judicial Conumttee o the I rr.y ^ ,isl>u>ent. In my tue Scripture, and ti,eeernty'«"r^ p^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ .^ opinion, no more calamitous "™' ^ churchmen havo luld alleviate the '■^^^^^^'^^^'^^.'^vroU^ ^ "-"1;" been roused in defence of ho I' "';■ ^^^^^.J^Ue facts are briefly crisis. When divested ol »"»'=;7;^„^^^;;„' euted for teach- these. Tv,o beneficed clergymen ha .b^^^^^^^^^^ ^_^^^^„,„^^ ;„g doctrines inconsistent «^ th 1 ayer boo^^ ^^^ ^ ,^,_^^^ by the Court of Arches. 1 hey t e„ app ^^.^ ^^^ i^ the realm, -^ '•'\!:fte„„cs; re not proved, but that Court declaring, not that the eUar „^ ,, ^ hj a they could not condemn as penal the exprcs j i ^^^ «nd™n«i i'l <'.e *^ "-^ ■'"''^T ,: 'T that " (/« a«r(.-<,» (/.«< ,„;K o/God," and, moreover, afarn^g a „„.„, „_^ '"" «'7' ..^' N^I ««:::: aeUno^ledgmg tho oftU Church. N°''^'>^\-3^itti that there lies no appeal lloyal Supremacy, that '»> »"""" 8 ^ g^^;^,. iZ Her Majesty's highest C-f » J;,"^„tsio„ is final and de- '-^'°^''rrTe:T::tXt:hat dteilion amounts. Let cisive. But let us see lo " .v^ momentary tri- neither the taunts of Ca^i»»l ^^'^^^Tl^"^! J^ » ;„ u„,ph of TJniversalists, prevent «» J~ = *^ ^j^^'^^o remedy ^hieh the Church is placed, ™'- «" '^'"; "^^^j J comprehend tho the present .rong. In or er *a - » J^'jJ^,/^ ,„„, i„ danger '"P™'^'"^ ft™ *"'=f;"\^'" j^ England are in the mind that a vast majon y "^^-^ v^^ b^ ; himsdf, ^ho delivered gift of Lay Patrons; and Lord Westbury , ^^^^^ L judgment, as Chancellor, preseMs^„e-ly ^^^^^^^^ livings. Accordingly, a c.ergyu,an 7\';"' V„„„h he may living may demand and obtain mduetron by aW although J candidly inform the Bishop "J ^/^^^r^Vtot be does tlievo lieve the Bible to bo the Word of God, an^ tot ^e do^ the ultimate paruua yi wH^. t,. !«l m u to thojud^'mont, the assertion of the hope that the wicked will eventually bo saved is allowable in the mouth of a cleixyninu of the Church of Hiigland, and if so, he may surely be allowed to ^^ivo his reasons for the hope, or iu other words, ho may teaeh his peopK that sin may bo obliterated in a future state, and thus lerid the educated members of his flock into infidelity and the uneduca- ted into Popery. Again, he may lawfully deny that the Bible is the Word of God, and content himself by saying that it amtaiim the Word of God. Accordingly, he may give his reasons for this distinction, and teach that the book we call the Holy Scriptures con- tains the Word of God as the (juartz contains the gold, which is u favorite illustration of such men. Can anything bo more cal- culated to destroy the hopes wo have for eternity than that the law of the Empire shall force the Church to tolerate the admission of men into her pulpits to teach her children thus-— there is the Uible — a book composed of sixty-six separate documents written in different ages of the world, partly in Hebrew and partly in Greek ; the Church has ever been in the habit of styling tliat aggregate of volumes the Word of God, but it has been a miBtake ; it contains the Word of God, indeed, but it is not the Word of God ; there- fore, let every man search for the Word of God in it, and let hira decide for himself which text is gold and which is quartz. It re- quires but little foresight to see that this legalized distinction be- tween bci)ig and containing the Word of God cuts away all common ground of appeal to Scripture, and breaks into fragments the Christian faith— fragments that can never be united till the natural reaction sets in, and the Popish necessity for an infjiVible inter- preter is admitted in its worst aspect. These things, wc may feel assured, have stirred the minds of churchmen to their very depths, and one of the most painful reflections arising from them is a feeling that never, since the Reformation, has the practical working of the Royal supremacy been presented in so oflensivc a shape. And is there no remedy ? None as yet seems to have suggested itself except protestation. It is true that the lower house of Con- vocation have decided that there are grounds for proceeding to Synodical condemnation of the work containing the erroneous teaching; it is also true that the two Archbishops who sat in the Judicial Committee as spiritual assessors have dissented from the judgment, and in weighty Pastoral letters have explained the grotinds of their dissent; it is also a just cause for congratula- _.,l_IMM'^'; "" , ' „f th„ United Cbuveb of thought and action l^''"" ^^ | \t^\,,«00 elergynren volua- Kngland and Ireland. '■''"7'''' " ' „„i protests against tce^osign adeclaratio„«nohe In^butstron^^^^P^ .^^ opinions which are »»*»"^'''^'y''"'^;"lCd we eannot overrate Ir. which rank and emolumen «™ -l-P ^^ "ankfulncss that tUc importance of the ae. I « a gr„« ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^,^ ^,^^_ notmo,cthane,gb or ten cU g m ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^.^^_ j^^. _^ vincohavc failed to enaol.e "» ,v,„ vlicf in what is termed means fastens on them -']" ^'f^^^^^^^fZls-cry jot and plenary, verbal or mechanical '"'P"'"'™ °' ^„ 6„„er of God. Lie ^nhc authorised vers.^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AVc arc well aware that the text oi v ^3; . „iatrans- eiscd; that there arc such '""e »» 7;™; ^ albwancc ha, Mionsandperhaps^o^^^^^^^^^^^ been made for »" *»»''' / „f g^j, who spake as they were residue was wnttn by Holy men ^^^^ ^ ^^ .^. book of nature, is being still i-xplorea, ' . „„ beinf; been going on for many centuries, and new h some proofs of the authen- ticity of the Bible unknown to the ancients, as if God had in his own book a reserved fund of light that every age might have an equal ground of faith, and the inspiration of unheeded texts might at length be found to consist in their being evidences of Christianity, MK»f* '- i* wca i>ai m n iu every age »'"<:f *<^. "f" «ou,e one or more of the sroui .„„„. Chriethns to lose s^^-t » «.. ^^ , ^^^^ ^^ ^^^„ articte of the faith. lt^'«" 'tl !'» ire what was the re.nedy, to the Aets of the ApostK »« ^ « '^^ ,,„ (,,„„,, Kveu ^hlle the first Apo«ul^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^„, ^^.^^^ ^ „,„„„ then, "eertainmen' '»»6"f»!.^r: ;,, „ow are teaehing that the limits of salvation, just as ecu ^^et the erisis salvation may be awarded «>">»« '^^ ^^ ,„ „„„3ia,, „f this mat- nhc Apostles and elders eame ogetl er '' ^^^^ ^^ _^^^^^ le." Here the Church has ?" '"Xl J the question to affirm „ercsy in the Church But .s tt no be g m q ^^^^^^^ ^^_^^ ^^_^ that the precedent ''^'^"f^J'Xl^^^K, h="« '-' •'«^"''"°" Uistoric narrative was written for urlearmn ^^^^^^^__^ ^^^ i„ asserting that the account of the ^J«^ ^^ eonvincus given by inspiration, even thou^r we had not^ ^ ^^^ .^ tut the fa.* that it forms Pf » f^^^i^-'^J ^5, Epistle to the happens that St. Paul f '''.7' ff,?^'^hrCo«neil, though scenv «alatia»s thatthe even^wb.h ed .0 t^^^^^^^ were brou^^ ingly produced by a sense 01 ^ ^ „f ^0 world, obont by Him who --^^^l^^M "I went up by itoefa- for says He, referring '^'^J^^ ^^^^^ ;„ an emergency like ,;„,," Here then we have an Apos"e a«^' ;. ^^^^^^ ""Trc;:::r"'xti:w!:!::otdLtthatthebistory rrc::en~mmonedby.eveU.or^^^^^^^^^^^^ ration, while it is worth remarking tha tt,^ Divi J ^^^^^^ .onneilwouUhavebe..™^^^^^^^^ mark in an Apostolic tpistlc. in p v ^^ .^ j^^.^ ,as ever regarded *"? P-; ^^ fw,'/, ^1 doctrine was to be command as to how she should act wn „^tional or gene- encountered. O^-'-PCXrut^^ba:;- reaffirmed, and ral Councils have met. Ibe 01a i ^ obedience of ■-" n° 'Tl 'I-mX^^:^^^' articles and confes- the truth. This is the b^""^yj , ^rawn up to meet sions of faith. The 39 articles of the Cl^»'f' "^ ^ ^^^ ^ their the emergency of 'be Reform^^.. and^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ,^. authors to be final or mcapable of add tion^ " ;„„ ''^-^^-r'-TZ'::^:::rc^X^^ the work I k.> m ■I' :i'1 12 tiD.e in ooDvocat.™, upon their humble desire, shall have lieen,. under our broad seal to deliberate of and do all sueh things 2 .m.11 eoneern ,he titled continuance of, he doctrine, o/the Clmr-h of En,lund." The irrevoeable judgment of the Court 'f Apnea can only bo neutralised by the addition of a new article or art^L >vh,eh, Ml forever render it practically impossible for anyon to «bta,n Ord,nat.on .„ the Church, who shall deny that the Bib c t the word of Go or assert his belief in the ultimate pardon o he wicked who shall be condemned in the day of iud-^ent Ther! are great difficulties, it is true, in the way'of sjehl r m'dy td no the least ,s the growing unwillingness that the convooln of a smgfe Provmce should legislate fo. the whole Anglican commu nion throughout the world, but thero seems no reason why X Cliurch should not become more and more consolidated, until a national councl of the English Church, with repres ta ..ves from e.-ery Ecclesiastical Province in the Empire' hojld meet un er the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbu'ry, and reaffirm the Catholic doctrines now endangered. Not many yea", go, the reason ofDiocesan Synods in workingorder, andVpr^ v.nc,al Synod, under a Canadian Metropolitan seemed more d" tant and nnattamable than a national council of the Andic I indeed » it ,°'^" '"-^^ """' "■■'* "»? «»" kasten^ifTtT .ndeed, as I behove .t w,I! prove to be, the surest means of co„ |ond.„cstly and successfully for the faith onee delLra 4k