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 THE COIfSECRATION V 
 
 OP 
 
 THE RIGHT REVEREND 
 
 JOHN TRAVERS LEWIS, LL. 
 
 
 FIRST LORD BISHOP 
 
 OF 
 
 THE DIOCESE OF ONTARIO. 
 
 KINGSTON: 
 PUBLISHED BY J. ROWLANDS. 
 
 1862. 
 
 
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The EDITH and LORNE PIERCE 
 COLLECTION o/CANADIANA 
 
 ilueens University at Kingston 
 
THE CONSECRATION 
 
 OP 
 
 THE EIGHT REVEREND 
 
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 JOHN TRAVERS LEWIS, LL.D., 
 
 FIRST LORD BISHOP 
 
 OP 
 
 THE DIOCESE OF ONTARIO. 
 
 KINGSTON: 
 PUBLISHED BY J. ROWLANDS. 
 
 1862. 
 

 
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 Before entering upon an account of the proceedings and 
 ceremonies attendant on the consecration of the first Bishop of 
 Ontario, it would be interesting to give a short sketch of the 
 earlier progress of the Church in this Province. 
 
 At the conquest of the country in the year 1759, and soon 
 after the success and victory obtained by the immortal "Wolfe 
 over the arms of the King of France in its defence, the country 
 and its population became a British Province, subject to a 
 Protestant Constitution and Government. 
 
 In the year 1769 tlie entire population of the Province of 
 Quebec, or Colony of Canada, was French Canadian ; but in 
 the lapse of following years, from 1759 to 1784— a period of 25 
 years— there was a sprinkling of Protestant settlers by emigra- 
 tion from Great Britain, to the number of about 10,000 or 
 12,000. During that time the Province was in t. state of 
 destitution, without Clergy or Churches, with the exception of 
 the cities of Quebec and Montreal. At the one a Military 
 Chaplain resided. And in the year 1780 the Kev. Mr! Delisle 
 was sent out by the Home Government to a Protestant congre- 
 gation in the latter city. 
 
 In the year 1784 the Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel in Foreign Parts appointed the Rev. John Doty Mis- 
 sionary at Sorel, in Lower Canada ; and in the year 1785 the 
 P.ev. John Stuart, the last Missionary to the Mohawk Nation, 
 waa Missionary from the Society to a small and slender congre- 
 gation which he gathered together, and who assembled for 
 
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public worship in an upper room in the French Fort Frontenac, 
 at Cataraqui, now the City of Kingston. 
 
 From the year 1785 to tho decease of tlie Rev. John Stuaht 
 in ISll—a period of 26 years— his ministerial services and 
 missionary labors planted and reared the Church in Upper Can- 
 ada. In the year 1803 tho Church numbered live Clergymen 
 under his care and supervision. With the aid and nnder the 
 blessing of God, his character and services raised tho Church 
 to a respectable standing, so that his memory may truly and 
 iustly be revered as tho Father of the Church in Upper Canada, 
 when in the year 1811 ho was summoned to give an account o 
 his stewardship and receive tho reward of a good and faithtul 
 
 servant. . . 
 
 The Rit'ht Rev. Jacob Mountain, consecrated Bishop in the 
 year 1793, was appointed to fill the See of Quebec, the second 
 Bishop in number and precedence in British North America 
 An over-ruling Providence directed the civil and ecclesiastical 
 authorities to the appointment of this dignitary of the Church, 
 who was every way qualified to meet the wants and to provide 
 for the spiritual destitution of an increasing population. 
 
 At the time when His Lordship entered upon the duties of 
 the Episcopal Office, there were under his supervision three 
 Clergymen in Upper Canada, and two in Lower Canada. On 
 arriving in the Diocese ho was accompanied by the Rev. Dr. 
 Mountain, his Official, subsequently Rector of Christ's Church, 
 Montreal ; and the Rev. Mr. Mountain, his Chaplam. 
 
 At the first visitation held by His Lordship in the City of 
 Montreal, in the year 1803, five Clergymen attended The 
 remaining two, from distance and sickness, could not obey the 
 citation on that occasion. His Episcopal supervision for the 
 period of thirty-two years was crowned with success, in the in- 
 crease of the number of Clergymen and the establishment of 
 congregations in this country. His Lordship died m the year 
 1826, revered and honored in his lifetime, and lamented at his 
 
 death. . .r 
 
 In the year 1862 the Church in Canada West compnses the 
 three Dioceses of Toronto, Huron, and Ontario, and numbers 
 two hundred and forty-six Clergymen ; in Canada East, com- 
 
prising the DIocobob of Quebec and Montreal, it numbers one 
 hundred and eighteen Clergymen— a wonderful increjise under 
 the blessing of Divine Providence since the year 1803, when in 
 the whole Province there were only seven Clergymen. 
 
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CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF ONTARIO. 
 
 At a Synod, specially convened for the pui'pose, consisting 
 of the Clergy and Lay Delegates of the proposed now Diocese, 
 assembled in Kingston, Canada West, on the 13th of Juno, 1861, 
 tlie choice having fallen upon the Rev. Dr. Lewis, Rector of 
 Brockville, the following "Declaration" was made by the Presi- 
 dent of the Synod : — 
 
 "The Lord Bishop of Toronto, President of the Synod of the Diocese of 
 Toronto, does hereby declare that the Rev. John Tbavkks Lewis, Doctor of 
 Laws, of Trinity College, Dublin, is recommended to Her Majesty the 
 Qaeen by this Synod as the Bishop Designate of the future Eastern 
 Diocese." 
 
 But owing to delays in the Colonial Office in preparing and 
 forwarding the Letters Patent, the Consecration did not take 
 place until the 25th of March, 1862. The Metropolitan, the 
 Lord Bishop of Montreal, summoned the Suffragan Bishops to 
 meet him on that day, being the Annunciation of the Virgin 
 Mary, in the City of Kingston, for the purpose of consecrating 
 the Rev. John T^avebs Lewis, LL.D. 
 
 The services of the Consecration commenced on the 25th of 
 March by Morning Prayer in St. George's Cathedral. 
 
 Tlio Rev. W. B. Lauder, LL.D., read that portion of the 
 service ending with the Apostles' Creed. 
 
 The Rev. T. H. M. Bartlett, M.A., Chaplain to the Forces, 
 read the first lesson— 2d chapter Ecclesiasticus. 
 
 The Rev. H. Mulkins, Chaplain to the Provincial Peniten- 
 tiary, read the second lesson— the 12th chapter of the Gospel 
 of St. John. 
 
 The Prayers after the Creed were read by the Rev. Canon 
 Banosopt, D.D., of Montreal. 
 
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 Morning Prayer being ended, the following Bishops assem- 
 bled at lOi o'clock, A.M. in the Vestry of the Cathedral, viz : 
 
 The Eight Keverend Fbanois Fulford, D.D., Lord Bishop 
 of Montreal, and Metropolitan of Canada. 
 
 Tlie Eight Eeverend Geokge J. Mountain, D.D., D.C.L., 
 Lord Bishop of Quebec. 
 
 The Honorable and Eight Ee^'erend John Steaohan, D.D., 
 LL.D., Lord Bishop of Toronto. 
 
 The Eight Eeverend Benjamin Ceonyn, D.D., Lord Bishop 
 
 of Huron. 
 The Eight Eeverend Samuel Allen MoOoskrt, D.D.y 
 
 D.O.L., Bishop of Michigan. 
 
 In the Sunday School Eoom of the Cathedral the following 
 Clergymen of the Diocese of Ontario assembled at the same 
 tirae :-The Venerable George Okill estuart, D.D., L.L.JJ., 
 Eector of the Parish, G, A. Anderson Shan^ofvme; J. G. 
 Armstrong, B. A, West Hawkesbury ; T. H.M. Bartlett,M.A., 
 Chaplain to the Forces, liingston ; Edward W Bcaven M. A , 
 Iroquois ; William Bleasdell, M.A., Trenton ; Ja«ies J. Bogert, 
 M A • E. Jukes Boswell, D.C.L., Morrisburg; E. C. Bower, 
 Bari'iefield; E. C. Boyer, HiUier; J. Carroll, Gananoque; 
 J Davidson, M.A., Newborough; F. W. Dobbs, Portsmouth; 
 li W. Davies, M.A. (Assistant), Cornwall ; C. P. Emery (As- 
 Bistant), Ottawa ; W. Fleming, M.A., Eoslin ; Rj^hard Garratt, 
 Osnabruck ; Eobert Harding, Adolphustown ; W. F. S Harper 
 (Eector), Bath; W. B. Lauder, LL.D (i^^^t«;)'/«J>7^5 
 J. S. Lauder, M.A., Ottawa; Eichard Lewis, M.A. (Eector), 
 Prescott; E. Loucks (Assistant), Ottawa; Ebenezer Morris, 
 Franktown ; Hannibal Mulkins, Chaplain to Provmcid Peni- 
 tentiary ; JolmlA. Mulock, St. Paul's, Kingston ; T. A. Parnell 
 Merrickville ; H. Patton, D.C.L. (Eector and ^^r^\J^^m), 
 Cornwall ; H. E. Plees, B.A, Carrying Place ; J. A Preston, 
 B A., Stirling; E. V„ Eogers, M.A. (Eural Dean), St. James , 
 Kingston ; John Eothwell, B.A., Amherst Island ; C. Euttan, 
 Sydenham; Henry Sharpe, Wolfe Island; A. Stewart, M.A. 
 (Assistant St. George's), Kingston; E, L. Stephenson M.A 
 (Rector), Perth ; Thos. Stanton, B. A., Marysburg ; F. E. Tane 
 
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 (Assistant), Brockville; Thos. Taylor, M. A., Eenfrew ; Q. W, 
 White, B.A., Camden. 
 
 THE DIOCESE OP MONTREAL. 
 
 .i!^ ^^<T* ^*'''^'' ^ompson, Chaplain to the Metropolitan ; 
 r T^S'^'''''' Bancroft, Trinity Church, Montreal ; the Rev. 
 Jacob Ellegood, St. Stephen's, Montreal ; the Rev. John Fiani- 
 gan, Lachine ; the Rev. James Pyke, Vaudreuil. 
 
 THE DI0CE8E OP TORONTO. 
 The Rev Henry Edward Denroche, M. A., Toronto ; the Rev. 
 Mr. Carruthers (Assistant St. John's), Toronto ; the Rev T T 
 Robarts, M.A. (Assistant), St. Catharines; the Rev. T. B. Read, 
 V.u.f Onllia. 
 
 THE DIOCESE OP HURON. 
 The Rev. W. Brookman, Dorchester. 
 
 THE DIOCESE OP NORTHERN NEW YORK. 
 Tlie Rev. Mr. Lewis, Rector of Cape Vincent. 
 
 Ar^w P^^^®'«^^" was arranged by Rev. H. Mulkins and 
 Mr. W. B. Simpson in the following order : 
 
 A Verger. 
 Lay Delegates. 
 TLq Clergy in their Surplices tod Hooda. 
 The Preacher. 
 The Venerable the Ai^chdeftcon. 
 The Bishop Elect and bis Chaplain. 
 The Suffragan Bishops. 
 Bishop of Michigan. 
 Metropolitan's Verger. 
 The Metropolitan. 
 His Chaplain and Chancellor. 
 
 Tlie procession having reached the West door of the Church 
 opened out, the Metropolitan and his Suffragans, preceded by 
 the Verger, passmg between the ranks, entered first, the Clergy 
 and Lay Delegates following. At l..e door the Metropolitan 
 was received by the Churchwardens, James Alexander Hen- 
 DERsoN and Robert Sellars, Esqs. While the procession pro- 
 
 Itr^li""^ "^'^"^^^ ^''^' *^'' '"'^^^ "poured forth a joyful 
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 Chancel ; the Metropol.tan and ^« Hon. »^ . ^^^ ^^,^ 
 the Lord Bishop of Toronto «" *;7™,; ^ Quebec, the 
 Table; the Eight ^^''^f'^^^'J^J, and the Eight 
 Eight Eeverend the ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ g.^h side. 
 Eeverend the Bishop of Michigan, on „• i,„_.Hect, in 
 
 On the outside of the Eails were ««jtf ^^/^' °1 L*™.a, 
 his surplice and hood ; ?- ^hapl^"^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ 
 
 LL.D.; and the Chaplain "^ *« *^';"P°„ ,^a the Preacher, 
 Thompson. The Archdeacon of Kington a ^^ ^^^^^^ 
 
 the Rev. Dr. Pa^ok, ^P^Pfl^wce^ Stbachah Beth^ke, 
 .ere seated the Metropo^^- Sister, StGeorge's, 
 ^^^^i^'tl^-^T^^^^y oecnpied seats in the centre 
 "'Atorcongregation,nuinberingfrointentotwelvehundred 
 
 persons, filled the Church. „ ^ g j^t 
 
 aiieMetropolitangaveout, aslntioit theHjm J^^^ 
 
 of the Living God," which having been sun„, 
 
 «'ThOO hast given a J5ANNKK TO Ju 
 
 ^-Trf^r-,Xrnl/X'p?«oCof Ontario. « U - -nt tor 
 
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 which many hearts in this our Israel have lon^ and earnestly yearned. 
 Years of expectation, years of delay, occasioned m a great decree by the 
 diflSculty of procuring a suflficient Endowment Fund, and, since the election, 
 months of vexatious and apparently needless delay in obtaining the Patent 
 from England, are at length happily ended, and the consecration of the 
 Bishop is the consummation of the work. To-day, one, who in the inferior 
 orders of Deacon and Presbyter has faithfully borne the Banner of the 
 Cross, thereby "})urchasing to himself a good degree", is now to be 
 advanced to the higher order of a Chief Standard Bearer in the Church 
 Militant, is this day to be consecrated to the high and holy oflSce of a 
 Bishop in the Church of God. Into his hands, as into those of a faithful 
 and true captain of the hosts of God's elect, is this day to be entrusted a 
 glorious banner, which, may God grant him grace ever faithfully to "display, 
 because and in defence of the truth." This glorious banner is the Banner 
 of the Cross, the banner of " Christ and his Church." Under this illustri- 
 ous banner we, my Christian brethren, were all enrolled when at our bap- 
 tism we were sealed with the sacred symbol of the cross, " in token that 
 thereafter we should not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, 
 and manfully to fight under His banner against sin, the world, and the 
 devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldiers and servants unto our life's 
 end." This glorious banner it is our purpose to unfurl, and we bespeak 
 your attention to some of the mottoes emblazoned on its ample folds. 
 
 Amid the usages of war, to which the figurative language of the text 
 seems to have reference, it is customary to emblazon the banners of the 
 contending forces with various watchwords and devices, intended to express 
 the justice of the cause in which they are unfurled, or designed to cheer and 
 encourage the warriors in the day of battle. In like manner there are 
 engraven upon tho banner of Christ's Church, various mottoes and emblems, 
 illustrative of the truth and holiness of our cause, and admirably calculated 
 to animate the soldier of the cross in his arduous conflicts with sin, the 
 world, and the devil. Chief among these mottoes, and gloriously conspicu- 
 ous above all the rest, we behold emblazoned in golden capitals these illus- 
 trious watchwords, those rallying cries of our spiritual warfare — Evangelical 
 Truth and Apostolic Order. Evangelical Truth first, as of most vital impor- 
 tance, and then Apostolic Order, for the conservation and diffusion of that 
 truth. Evangelical truth, embodying the whole counsel of God, and Apos- 
 tolic Order, denoting especially that Episcopal regimen, and that threefold 
 ministry of the Word which has descended to us from Apostolic times. 
 Behold, then, engraven upon the banner of the Church, first and before all 
 others, this shining motto. Evangelical Truth. 
 
 The Church, my brethren, is the faithful witness of the "truth as it is in 
 Jesus." la the standards of her faith — which (after the Bible, the grand 
 charter of salvation) are her Liturgy, with its creeds and various offices ; 
 her Articles and her Homilies — tho Church unfolds the grand cardinal 
 truths of inspiration, the great evangelical doctrines of the Gospel, with a 
 fidelity worthy of all praise, and with a copiousness commensurate with the 
 rank assigned to them in the Word of God. But to illustrate and confirm 
 the truth of this assertion, and to vindicate the right of the Church to 
 engrave upon her banner the glorious watchword of Evangelical Truth, we 
 "appeal to the law and to the testimony"; we appeal to those "Holy Scrip- 
 tures which are able to make men wise unto salvation through faith which 
 is in Christ Jesus." To this test we may, my brethren, the more confidently 
 appeal after reciting tho noble testimony which the Church in her 6th 
 Article has borne to "the sufliciency of the Holy Scriptures for salvation" : 
 " Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation, so that what- 
 soever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required 
 
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 ^ *i,.* it iiTiftiild be believed a« an article of the faith, or 
 
 volume of In.plr»tton «» "■» f "f jj.^^ " rf her »atti.riS form«larie> 
 
 ting him a rational, reasoning ^*''">\"" rafted with an immortal soul, 
 
 "mn being, "'honoiir «tofe »^^ I» »^^^^^^ of hi. 
 
 this monrnful period '"^'^"P^T? ."Tr^JuMsa In like manner the 
 nature fallen einful and .tan from God and go^^^^^ 
 
 sSu.ir 'uVi-r nK'^^^^^^^^ 
 
 i^fS;,'r»fh^fcr4XuriL;Se^":^^».io:.;ineofma^ 
 
 depravity. , . _,„i„nci,olY review of man's lapsed 
 
 SSf^n"iSrniTdi™"'^oe to communLt. .piritual TitaUty and 
 
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 tJ?'^L*?1^J»{ "^r^^- *J»«?«»:t^of r ""*^ *^® life of righteousness." 
 i.« lff« itr. ''f "P'S"?^ '^.*^Se the Scriptures uniformfy attribute to 
 «ie life-pvmg and sanctifying influences of the Holy Ghost: "It is the 
 Spirit that quickeneth"; "It is the Spirith that civeth life"- "It is the 
 Spmt that sanctifieth". With this testimony of InLSon agreeth al" he 
 teachingof the Church. Thus in her Book Jf Homflies she bfareth witness 
 
 In l^l'^^"" "°^^ ^1"°'^ *°i°° °*'?^'^ *^'°^' *hat dot»^ quicken the minds of 
 men stirring up good and godly notions in tlieir hearts which are agreeable 
 to the will and commandments of God, and such as otherwise of their own 
 crooked and perverse nature they should never have." Moreover, from our 
 very infancy the Church instructs us that it is "the Holy Ghost X 
 sanchjieth us and all the elect people of God." 
 
 .n5™T'°' *^® S,^"?*";^?" testify to the necessity of God's preventing and 
 co-operating grace to enable us to bring forth in our daily life those "fruit^ 
 
 God'^^^'Xrhlt'iltr ^^•'r^S?'?,? ."°*«*he gfory and paisSof 
 S„ .fK „"«**»** *^i<*<'*^ i" n?e . saith Christ, "and I in him, the same 
 bnngeth forth much fruit, for without me ye can do nothing." And agab 
 
 h^^^KV '"®"'°' ^'! ^r- I"" "ke manner also the Church teacS 
 that We have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God 
 
 ^! 1 ''^"n/^' f ""^ °-.?°^ \ ^^"«* P^'^'^iir^ff ««. that we may have a gS 
 will, and workmy with us when we have that good will " 
 
 Doctrines such as these must needs lead to the conviction that the actions 
 of creatures, thus fallen and inefficient of themselves for good, can possess 
 no merit that may claim reward from a righteous and siLbhorring God 
 Accordingly the Church, in happy concorS once more with the word of 
 God declares "that we are accounted righteous before God only for the 
 merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own 
 works and deservings. . Wherefore, that we arejustified by faith only iH 
 S!i ""^^f ?™f l^«*"°f ' /"d ^«ry f "" of comfort." if ere the axe is 
 a?r«l iS ilV' *?' '^^tof that tree of pride.the doctrine of human merii; 
 a tree, the seeds whereof, planted m our nature when Adam fell in Eden 
 have ever since found a too congenial soil in every human heart. But 
 while teaching in the language of Inspiration, the doctrine of justification 
 by faith, the Church most strenuously insists upon the necessity of good 
 works, as the genuine and only satisfactory eviaence of a true and lively 
 tlh '^fth without works IS dead." And the faith which justifieth is 
 that which worketh by love and keepeth the commandments of God." To 
 which agreeth the language of our 12th Article : " Albeit that good works 
 which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannft put away 
 our sins and endure the severity of God's judgments, yet are they pleasinj 
 and acceptable to God in Christ, and do 8prin| out necessarily of i true anf 
 lively faith, insomuch tlmt by them a tivdj faith may be as evidently 
 known as a tree discerned by the fruit." In short the cLrch teach eth as 
 emphatically as doth the Word of God, that as "Without faith it is imposs^! 
 ble to please God", so "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." 
 
 , %''?uT'x^?,-°''?r.*^ °"F advancement in holiness, the Word of God 
 testifieth that the Almighty has been graciously pleased to grant us various 
 u 1 OL?^eans of grace, such as access to Him by prayer, the reading of His 
 Holy Word attendance on the ministry of His Church. Baptism, Confirma- 
 hon, and the Lord's Supper. Chief among these various aids are the two 
 Hohr Sacraments "ordained of CLr himself, as means of grace, and 
 pledges to assure us thereof." The Bac.-ament of Baptism meett us at the 
 very thre shold of the Christian Church, for it is the gate of the fold, the 
 door of admission into the household of faith, the divine ordinance whereby 
 we are admitted into covenant relation with God, and are born out of a state 
 ot nature mto a state of grace and ealvation. For " the great necessity of 
 
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 rinc enumeraieu jtmuu^ ■-"« «v.-.^."..— , 
 
 love of God our Saviour", that "according to Hf, ™ff 7 ^e ^ ^ js 
 
 St. Paul testinetn, a pariasiug ui tii« » J, . . „ rpi,p,o„ +i,pn are two of 
 
 CrjVoTM y IfXVii; rheZoEing. of In.pir.Uon than in .11 
 
 n^"^; Tn .11 hS formulariM U.« Churoh preMhes Christ Je»u8 and Him 
 Sed.'"sh writSSglingdoctrinLonhor hann»,^a^^^^^^^ 
 
 Tdl her standard-b«arerjat the^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 nnsearchable riches of Ohr»t , *f ■ ™ ^^^"4 8^/ufe,, . (fhrisl, •• the 
 
 ^Sn^i^^thtrt.'it^^"*^^^^^^ 
 
 mi of *at bainerThichljod h.f given her " to be displayed because of 
 "'Bnt'Smbined with Evangelical Truth, we also behold embteoned in gol- 
 
 needful brevity of a single sermon a&ords but inadequate opportunity. We 
 can but allude^ ?n briefest terms to some of the heads of argument v^hich 
 may be urged in its justification. 
 
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 1. One areument may be derived from that law of order involving 
 gradations ofrank which pervades every part of the terrestrial and celestial 
 worlds, and which is visibly displayed in all the ways and works of Provi- 
 dence. Of the importance of this law of order tlie Poet had formed a just 
 conception in the well-known couplet — 
 
 " Order is Heaven's first law, and this confest, 
 Some are, and must be, greater than the rest." 
 
 This law of Order is displayed in the divine appointment of various 
 degrees or ranks of men on earth, and in the diversity of rank and station 
 Msigned to Angel and Archangel, to Cherubim and Seraphim, in the 
 Heavenly Hierarchy. It is manifest amid the radiant hosts that illumine, 
 with greater or lesser light, heaven's vaulted arch, where we behold "one 
 glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of 
 the stars" ; where, also, "one star differeth from another star in glory". 
 This law of order was introduced by God himself into the ministry of His 
 ancient Church, which also consisted of the three- fold orders of High 
 Priest, Priest, and Levite. Reasoning from these facts, we might by 
 analogy deduce a very strong argument in favor of divers orders in the 
 Christian ministry, since neither in heaven nor upon earth has God 
 sanctioned the democratic idea of equality. But waiving this indirect 
 method of proof, we turn to the more direct and positive testimony furnished 
 in rich abundance in the Word of God and in the history of the primitive 
 Church. To the proofs, however, that might be drawn from these rich 
 depositories of evidence, our limited time and space forbid more than a 
 hasty glance. 
 
 2. The Scriptural testimony may be deduced from the well-established 
 truths, that the Lord Jesus Christ founded a Church upon earth, the perpe- 
 tuity of which he designed should be coexistent with the duration of the 
 world ; that to his apostles, chosen and set apart by himself, he assigned 
 the important office of building up and enlarging under his own immediate 
 guidance and blessing the yet infant Church, and of setting in order all 
 things connected with its future government, economy and discipline ; that 
 the Apostles, in the prosecution of their great work, and by virtue of their 
 plenary commission, derived immediately from the Great Head of the 
 Church in these memorable words : "As my Father sent me, even so send 
 I you", ordained Deacons and Presbyters ; and that, finally, as the work 
 spread over the wide, extended field of the world, and thus became too vast 
 for their own Episcopal supervision, they associated others with themselves 
 in this the highest grade of the Christian ministry. Such were Matthias, 
 chosen under Divine direction to sujjply the place of the apostate Judas ; 
 St. Paul, called immediately by Christ himself; Barnabas, the associate of 
 St. Paul in many labors of love ; Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus ; Titus, 
 Bishop of Crete ; Epaphroditus, Bishop of Philippi ; Silvanus, and others; 
 as, for instance, the Angels or Bishops of the seven Churches of Proconsular 
 Asia. We recognize not merely the name but the office and duties of a 
 Bishop, in the directions given by St. Paul to Timothy and to Titus, how to 
 discharge effectively their Episcopal functions. Thus to Timothy St. Paul 
 writes : " Against an Elder receive not an accusation, but before two or 
 three witne8ses"-^vidently implying, in the office held by Timothy, the 
 power of governing Elders or Presbyters. Again : " Lay hands suddenly 
 on no man", i.e., to ordain him ; and " the things that thou hast heard of 
 me before many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall 
 be able to teach others also" — directions which plainly prove that on 
 Timothy had been conferred the power of transmitting the ministerial suc- 
 cession. In like manner St. Paul writes to Titus : " For this cause left I 
 
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 ciiiBi ittUB. uv yxu«. .^ — ^^..^ ministry, we find alio, as already 
 
 remarked, two other and subordinate orders, viz., those of Presbyter and 
 Deacon. The order of Presbyters is very frequently mentioned in Gospel 
 history. Such were those Presbyters or Elders whom St. Paul summoned 
 to meet him at Miletus ; such also were those whom Paul and Barnabas 
 "ordained in every city" where they had planted the Church of Christ. 
 The third order was that of Deacons. To this order belongs the glory of 
 having furnished the first name in "the noble army of martyrs' to the 
 Christian faith. Stephen, the illustrious proto-martyr, and Philip, the 
 successful preacher of Christ in the City of Samaria, were of the number of 
 those seven Deacons whose ordination is recorded in the 6th Chapter of the 
 Acts of the Apostles. Such is a brief glance at the testimony furnished by 
 Holy Scripture to the divine original of Bishops, Priests and Deacons m the 
 Church or Christ. 
 
 3. But further to confirm the view we take of the testimony of Holy 
 Scripture on this important subject, and to testify to plain matters of 
 fact and of history, we cite as competent witnesses some of those who were 
 cotemporaries of the Apostles and of those who immediately succeeded 
 them, though the lapse of time again constrains us to dip but lightly into this 
 rich treasury of confirmatory evidence. Ignatius was a disciple of the Apostle 
 St. John, and by the Apostles was constituted Bishop of Antioch A.D. 71, 
 i.e., about thirty years before the death of his illustrious teacher, St. John, 
 the last survivor of "the glorious company of the Apostles." His celebrated 
 Epistles make frequent mention of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. Writing 
 to the Christians at Smyrna he says : " I salute your very worthy Bishop, 
 and your venerable Presbytery and your Deacons". To the Philadelphians 
 he writes ; " Attend to the Bishop, and to the Presbytery, and to the Dea- 
 cons". Polycarp was another of those eminent Christian fathers who lived 
 in the Apostolic age. He also was a disciple of St. John, and, as Irenaeus 
 testifies, " was not only instructed by the Apostles, and acquainted with 
 many of those who saw our Lord, but was also by the Apostles made Bishop 
 of the Church of Smyrna", one of the seven Apocalyptic Churches. It was 
 this Polycarp who, being required by the Proconsul to swear by the fortune 
 of Cffisarand to reproach Christ, nobly replied: "Eighty and six years 
 have I served him, and he hath never wronged me, and how can I blaspheme 
 my King, who hath saved me" I With heroic constancy he suffered martyr- 
 dom rather than deny his Lord and Master. In an Epistle of his still 
 extant, hu speaks of himself and " the Presbyters that were with him", and 
 also of the Deacons, "as the ministry of God in Christ, and not of men". 
 Irenaeus, another eminent father of the Christian Church, was a disciple of 
 Polycarp, and flourished as Bishop of Lyons about A.D. 150. Listen to his 
 emphatic testimony in favor of Episcopacy : "We can reckon those Bishops 
 who have been constituted by the Apostles and their successors, all the way 
 to our times. * * * We have the succession of Bishops, to whom the 
 Apostolic Church in every place was committed". But, not to multiply 
 evidence of this kind, as we might readily do, we conclude the testimony of 
 primitive antiquity with a single extract from TertuUian, who died A.D. 
 220. Writing against certain heretics of those times he says : " Let them 
 
 S reduce the original of their Churches ; let them shew the order of their 
 lishops, that by their succession we may see whether their first Bishop had 
 any of the Apostles, or Apostolic men, * * * for his founder and pre- 
 decessor, for thus the Apostolical Churches do derive their succession, as the 
 Church of Smyrna from Polycarp, whom John the Apostle placed there ; the 
 Church of Rome from Clement, who was in like manner ordained by Peter; 
 
■-"■••' ■i' tsm» m m m''>ii"tmm»!mmtrnf 
 
 if hoiVtP i 1 , • "^ conclusive la the testimony of antiquity brieffv as 
 and of a Zffdr^iniif' '7'-*'" f^T^^^ ^''""'^ ^hur^ch g^oVerSnt 
 XiStian orT tilZ^^K*?' '^"T.'^ ^^^ *^"* '^« centuries and a half of the 
 
 SrolJgToTtln^^^^^ 
 
 befn/lot°exSTn 7»f/prv"'''V^ ^^ ^"^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ *ree orders 
 of thir^hrdi&ron, n« fw '*'? ?''"''"^' l^"P^«^ ^»*h the admission 
 
 onus of proof must indeed rest wfth those who dissent from our pS^^^ U 
 
 its oJidn^t'weZr ^"^ and. .A«r. Episcopacy first commenceS.TfihJd not 
 Its origin, as we believe, m the Apostolic age. It is however mv brethrpn 
 '^rZ.f''} or controversial spirit that we thus chaTleng; SS Te 
 simply unfurl and 'display our banner because of the truth^^ Te belieTe 
 the mmistry of Christ's Church to have been originall7con8tituted as we 
 
 ?o ICstl/'^e'hlr. ^;"«^-g' - «^o«ld prove^e^reL'rtf our Igra^d 
 for til trifh ^««' fted to proclaim it with all faithfulness, though zeal 
 for the truth may well be tempered with charity for all those "who ifve tte 
 ^litr ^*'"1-'" «i°9«"ty;', though as yet they may not bl able to see 
 
 ial spidt ?et7t nTr ''' ^".* .T**!^^ disclaiming^ boastful or con trover' 
 siai spirit, let it not be supposed that wo speak in an apoWetic tone as if 
 we feared the result of tL most searching inquiry. CTie contrarv to 
 adopt the language of an eloquent American prela^te, who we had hJned 
 
 Bbrink , says the Bishop of Western New York, "from no branch of ihl 
 argument in its behalf. Test this office by exped encyT * * test it hi 
 the analogy of other dispensations of God ; test it b/the genera nraLpo 
 of the Church of Christ ; test it by the earliest record^f L^uninsni^S hfs! 
 
 cheerfully may we abide the decision of candor, truth and fact" We 
 believe, and therefore we hesitate not to affirm, that the government of tho 
 Church was originally constituted after the Episcopal Sel and more 
 over we believe further, that it will so continue until the end of time f"; 
 
 rWtr?nr^-'''r*'°fr^ "• ^^""''^ °^ body corporate, possessed oflaws or 
 doctrines, imphes be necessity of a government or executive to admi^ster 
 those laws, so m like manner the perpetuity of the Church until the end of 
 time according to the Saviour's memorable promise, necessarily implies the 
 coextensive perpetuity or duration of that^xecutivo which ^isTcloselv 
 Thet ttr'^ t^e very existence of the Church, in its corporate capacil 
 These, then my Christian brethren, are some of the heads of ariument 
 wh ch may be urged in vind cation of our claim to emblazon on the f "anner 
 luotX^oI^'SrS""^*'^^ ^^"' ^-"^^'-^ ^-'^' that other glorirs 
 And now, brethren, reverting again to the great occasion of this day's 
 flolemn ceremonies we rejoice that another link is being added to t^he 
 lengthened chain of that Episcopate which binds us to the^Chuich of the 
 Reformation, to the Church of primitive antiquity, to the Churoli of the holv 
 
 Xdo7Xetut;'' Vh" ^l-ch of thelivin^gGod, the pUIar and tt 
 ground ot the truth. The arduous task of procuring the Ep scopal Endow- 
 ir-ent Fund having been at length happily completed, the ChurcTof the pr^- 
 
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 posed new Diocese, represented by its Clergy and Lay Delegates, assembled 
 in June last to elect its first Bishop ; and their choice having received the 
 sanction of Her Majesty the Queen, we are met together this day to behold 
 the final consummation of the work, in the consecration of a Brother be- 
 loved in the Lord, to the exalted rank and office of a spiritual Father in the 
 household of God. 
 
 The great event of this day is one pregnant with much joy and hope, as 
 furnishing renewed proof of the growth and prosperity of the Church in this 
 Province, and as afiording a happy omen, we trust, of still greater increase 
 and prosperity in the future. Yet in the hearts of many among us this joy 
 is not without its alloy of regret, for by this event the official relations so 
 long and so happily existing between the venerable and beloved Bishop ot 
 Toronto, and that portion of his charge now to constitute the Diocese of 
 Ontario, are this day finally severed. We, then, who have ever entertained 
 for that venerable man of God the most affectionate filial regard, cannot 
 be expected to contemplate unmoved the final severance of those ties which 
 for very many years had so happily united us. Nothing, indeed, but an 
 earnest conviction of the absolute necessity of the measure to the more 
 rapid development and prosperity of the Church, coupled with an affection- 
 ate consideration for his Lordship himself, who, feeling that " he could no 
 longer oversee his overgrown family with his wonted vigor",* had therefore 
 often and urgently pressed the division, could have induced our consent to a 
 separation from a Bishop so greatly respected, from a Father in God so 
 highly honored and so affectionately esteemed. While tho separation from 
 so many devoted Presbyters, and from so large a body of faithful laitv, can- 
 not but cause a deep sigh of regret in the bosom of his Lordship also, he 
 must yet be highly gratified at beholding the tree, which he has so long and 
 carefully nurtured, putting forth another vigorous offshoot, destined, we 
 fondly hope, to emulate the growth and prosperity of the parent stem. 
 Wonderful indeed has been the growth and increase of that parent tree 
 since his Lordship's first ministerial connection with it, fifty and nine years 
 ago. At that time the whole of Canada was included in the one single 
 Diocese of Quebec. In 1839 Canada West was formed into the separate See 
 of Toronto, of which his Lordship became tho first Bishop. Under his wise 
 and vigorous administration the Church increased so rapidly that the 
 Diocese has been divided and subdivided, forming now the three separate 
 Sees of Toronto, Huron and Ontario. Fifty and nine years ago, when he 
 commenced his ministry in that Parish of which the Preacher is now the 
 Incumbent, the Clergy of Western Canada numbered only four ; they num- 
 ber now 234 ! In view of this wonderful increase during his ministerial 
 lifetime, well may that venerable Prelate Qxclaini, " The Lord gave the 
 Word, and great has now become tho company of the preachers." Most 
 wonderful also within his lifetime has been the increase of our Reformed 
 Episcopate. When that now aged Prelate was six years old, there was not 
 a single Bishop of our Communion on the whole continent of America. 
 There are now, in North America alone, including the Bishops of our sister 
 Church, upwards of fifty chief standard-bearers in tho Church of God. 
 When the same venerable Prelate was nine years old, there was not a single 
 Protestant Bishop in any one of the vast Colonial possessions of tho British 
 Empire.! It is but three quarters of a century since the beacon light of 
 the Colonial Episcopate first dawned upon the rock-bound coasts of Nova 
 
 ♦ The Bishop's ropJy to Address from tho new Diocese. 
 
 t The Bishop of Toronto was horn April 12, 1778. Bishop Seabury, the first Protestant Bishop 
 In America, was consecrated in 1784, and the Bishop of Nov« Scotia, the flrst Colonial Bishop, in 
 
 1787. 
 
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 tant climos! and shono with «nooiilT .^'"'"\i''*^i^?^ i^""*'*"*'"' <*«•- 
 
 Indian Islands rejZ L^ urrefSont rai? 'u 5^'"?" l^^^^ .'^^^ ^est 
 British America with a fflorionJS«?n^^^^ °^ '''^*'* "P*"" 
 
 ten Beveral Sees o7 NewftnSd^ No^a S^nH ^ ''T' ""'"JP?"«'* «^ *h« 
 Montreal, Ontario, Toronto Hnron nVl ?» t"*' ^^"^ B^wfck, Quebec, 
 
 In.short. 'as it has'beeToft re^'d Xtru^ ^"*'«^ ^^'^'"'"^••' 
 
 Britain's wif?^ ATf^««uj J^ ^unmrnea witn truth, that the sun never sets on 
 
 whose more lengthened noriod of aovUn., ;« it • *'*"ortation trom one 
 Lord and Maste? alonLSVhi m :X%ota77o'^: B^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 pleasured i^HowTlfh'rgfad'mind and'^^r-^ ^"^ 
 
 d.gn ty znost honorable is %o omTtS^hTcKJeU^^oT^^^ /t?" 
 
 day to be advanced in the Church of On.! plr.,; u ''^^oy^^, thou art this 
 
 and responsibility of so we Sy a care '^i?^ *?! S^'Pr^^^^f importance 
 is sufficfont for these things ?''^ For vmJnif^ ^^"^ ^? ^""^ *° "«''' "^^o 
 sv^ciency is of God!" sf earnest fC. hT^i®?*' remember "Our 
 to4e mercy seat-there LSor; fc ^/ •'°°«*'^°t ''^ Jour approaches 
 hasmercifJly p^„JS! ''I wltVl v^eX^eTor^^^^^^ 
 (/race is sufficient for thee." Great will ho vm,r «LT f *t . ' '^"^ ^^ 
 to discharge the various and rpoSaLdu'^tls of your sacrofnffi ''^^JJ^ 
 oversee^ose wh^are themsolve? overseerortteespe^Ste ; 1° 
 
 * Address of Bishop of Toronto to his Synod, Juno, ISS^ " ' ~~^ 
 
 t Promise made by a Presbyter at hia Ordination. 
 
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 wprove, robuke and exhort ; " to bo an example of the believers, in yroxd, in 
 oonverHation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in truth, in purity" ; what wiftdom, 
 what diHoretion, what firmneHH, what goutloness, what pioty, what conotant 
 prayer for divino guidance, will bo needed ! What need of the continued 
 indwelling of God"s Holy Spirit in him whose office it will be in Confirma- 
 tion to invoke on behalf of others "the Holy Ghost the Comforter", and 
 "the manifold gifts of grace." What noed uf wiMdom from above to guide 
 aright the hand that commissions others to the sacred ministry, that "he 
 may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faithfully and wiEcly mako choice 
 of lit persons to servo in the saorod ministry of God's Church." Oh, how 
 needful, then, that a Bishop should bo "a man of pravor, of faith, of holi- 
 ness ; in all things showing himself a pattern of good works ; in doctrine 
 showing uncorruptnoss, gravity, sincerity, sound speech that cannot bo 
 condemned, that lie that is of tho contrary part may bo ashamed, having 
 no evil thing to say of him." It hath been excoUentljr said " That wonder- 
 ful is the power of the daily example of one who thus lives under the impres- 
 sion and influence of tho word he preaches, maintaining such a daily walk 
 with God. His sermons are only occasional ; his example is daily, hourly, 
 always. His sermons are only in the Church ; his example is wherever 
 he coos His sermons all men may not fully understand ; his example is a 
 universal language. The child, the man, the believer, and the unbeliever, 
 all will read and understand, and take impressions from it concerning tho 
 soul and eternity, concerning Christ and holiness."* Thus, then, "take heed 
 unto thyself and the doctrine ; continue in them, for in so doing thou shalt 
 both save thyself and them that hear thee." And now, woU-belovod in tho 
 Lord bear bravely the banner this day committed to thv charge. Lower it 
 not to the latitudinarian spirit of the ago, but ever unfurl and "display it, 
 because and in defence of the tnUh." Suflfor it not to bo defaced with party 
 
 less as a goou soiaier oi uuhuh vyiiriai , 
 "^kht Tho good fight of faith." Wield faithfully the weapons enumera- 
 ted by tho martyr Ridley: "Our weapons are faith, hope, charity, right- 
 eousness, truth, patience, prayer unto God ; and our sworde wherewith we 
 beatc and batter, and beare downo all falsehoode, le the Wordo of God. 
 With these weapons, under the banner of tho cross of Christ, we do fighte, 
 ever having our eye on our Grand Master, Duke and Captain, Christ." Look- 
 ine then, unto Jesus, go forth to thy holy work, "strong in tho Lord and in 
 the nower of his might", and may the work of tho Lord prosper with thee. 
 Under His blessing upon thy labors, may the Diocese of Ontario "flourish as 
 the garden of tho Lord." May its growth and prosperity bo such that, like 
 its parent See, it also may require to bo again and again divided during the 
 lifetime of its first Bishop, when may some beloved Presbyter of thine, out 
 of the fulness of an overflowing heart, bid farewell to thee in like affectior I 
 terms with those addressed by tho Preacher to thn^Kight Reverend Patber 
 whom his soul loveth. And, which is better, infinitely better still, v'.y: . 
 thou shalt at length be called to give an account of thjr stewardship, aiay 
 the Chief Shepherd and Bishop of Souls welcome thee with tho .joyful salu- 
 tation of "Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over 
 a few things, behold I inako thoo ruler over many things : enter thou into the 
 joy of thy Lord." 
 
 One word to my bv^Mi •>» of tho Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of 
 Ontario and I have doi- . '^rethreu beloved in the Lord, the great event of 
 this day most nearly wcat-C-ns us all, whether Clergy or Laity. A new 
 
 *Bisbop MellTaiao. 
 
nmonRtho Colonial Sees ofTho fir Wil g'^"'^."'^**ym«n. it tnkos it« poHition 
 
 man and with ono heart, rally roulul Ih. IHHhop^whurGod's ProvJ in^J T' 
 l.la.-cd over U8. Lot u« roJivo. in huml,l« ImndLc^oaQ^^^^^^ 
 Htrengthon tho hands of our Bishop and to J.rhiml^ ?• • ^^''*'''' *** 
 
 ability-) lo'tho v.riou7»pp„„U hXniL mnSi^ S IS '"t-"' "■" 
 
 quarorofthoDiocoHowill soon bo heard tho MSoniaTcrv "ColT/^ 
 aborers, and may ko put it into your hearts, brethren of ^fiT«^A, f^ ^ 
 
 betn'or "aSJgTot^t f^^r^^dT^^^^^^^^ *^« -'^ -- «od. 
 
 ^ Tlie Sermon being ended, the anthem by Mozart, « Glorious 
 18 thy name, Ahnighty Lord", was sung. 
 
 During the anthem the Bishop-elect, with his Chaplain, 
 letu-ed to the Vestry, and was vested with his Rochet. The 
 
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 Bishops of Quebec and Toronto, meeting him on his return at 
 the Vestry door, conducted him to the Chancel and presented 
 him. to the Metropolitan for consecration. The Bishops of 
 Quebec and Toronto, after the presentation, returned to their 
 respective places. 
 
 The Metropolitan then demanded the Queen's mandate for 
 the consecration, which was produced and read by his Chan- 
 cellor, S. Bethune, Esq. 
 
 The oath of the Queen's supremacy was administered to the 
 Bishop-elect, and also the oath of due obedience to the Metro- 
 politan, by the Chancellor. 
 
 The Litany was read by the Lord Bishop of Quebec. 
 
 The solemn questions in the Consecration* Service were put 
 to the Bishop-elect by tlie Metropolitan in a very impressive 
 manner, and were responded to humbly yet firmly. 
 
 The questions concluded, the Bishop-elect retired to be robed, 
 accompanied by his Chaplain. Li the meantime the anthem 
 from Handel's Messiah, "O thou that tellest good tidings to 
 Zion", was sung by the choir : after which the Bishop-elect 
 returned and knelt at the Kails, when the "Veni Creator 
 Spiritus" was said over him, the Metropolitan beginning, and 
 the Bishops, with others present, answering by verse. 
 
 Prayer was again offered. 
 
 And now had arrived the most solemn part of the service 
 All seemed to be awed when they beheld the Metropolitan 
 and the venerable Bishops present all centred around the 
 kneeling candidate. 
 
 Tlie Metropolitan, the Suffragan Bishops, and the Bishop of 
 
 Michigan, laid their hands upon the head of the Bishop-elect. 
 
 An intense silence pervaded the whole Church while His 
 
 Lordship the Metropolitan pronounced the following words : — 
 
 " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the 
 Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands, 
 in the name of the Father, and of the Sou, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 And; remember that thou stir up the grace of God which is given thee by 
 the imposition of our hands. For God hath not given us the Spirit of fear, 
 but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 
 
 Tlie sight of these Bishops engaged in this solemn act was 
 inexpressibly touching, and many a fervent prayer arose that 
 
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 Kvhl? ""'"" "*' "'" ^»'y Communion followed Tl,„ 
 Exhortahon was read by the Lord Bishop of S„ u! 
 remaimng part of the service, unl» the Pr JJlf r„ .• 
 
 was read by the Bishop of MichVgln ^rpl^™Tr "' 
 
 deliver tCZ' t.':^:^.^^^ rr'''. "^ 
 
 administered tl,e Holy Sacrament fiJio t^/r.^^' "'"" 
 and then to the laity/ Ibo "ffloria ^ e J^.^ ^^^ P'^^«"'' 
 the Choir. The Sacrifice of PmyeTand C f •''•'^ T^ ^^ 
 ^ecn offered, the Hetropolitarpr„S?r dl^oT^ 
 
 Aft.rTT^ ^ '"'^ ''°^'' ='«™P O"^ ONTARIO. 
 
 ™^S;otx;t:ti!:rtrt^^^^^ 
 
 of congratulation and welcome to ti,e T„ H ^° ''"''"g/'ldress 
 was read by the Rev. aMr™ -i "'""^ "' ^"*''"" 
 
 May it please Your Lordship,— 
 
 Bishops, Clergymen, an/laiS t^edavofTor^ '' ^ '"i'"^ 
 umtcdly to Offer yon their -Jicere ISSCr:::;: 
 
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 you of their esteem and confidence, and of their just apprecia- 
 tion of your judgment and ability faithfully to discharge the 
 duties of that great work and high office to which God has 
 called you. 
 
 Long and deeply as they have loved and venerated the aged 
 Prelate of Toronto, it is matter of congi-atulation that by the 
 spontaneous act of the Church, by the united choice of Clergy 
 and Laity, they have now in the full vigor of life a Bishop of 
 the Church in this Diocese. 
 
 God overrules the wrath of man to praise Him, and, there- 
 fore, those hostile agencies which have left the Church untram- 
 melled in this colony, by even the least semblance of State 
 influence, have left her also free to choose her own Bishops. 
 As of old, you are chosen by Apostles and Apostolic men ; and 
 the selection thus made is as much an act of Providence as 
 when God spoke from Heaven to Saul and called him " chosen 
 vessel." 
 
 Your consecration this day has afforded inexpressible grati- 
 fication, not to those present only, but to the whole Canadian 
 Church. God has conferred upon you the signal honor of 
 being the first Bishop ever consecrated in British America. 
 The United Church of England and Ireland, and the daughter 
 Churches of America and Canada, have all been represented 
 and united in your consecration. "Behold how good and 
 pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." 
 
 To-day the Church in Canada enters on a new era of her 
 existence. With an organization completed, in the constitution 
 of Synods, and the appointment of a Metropolitan with his soul 
 animated with zeal for God, witli a heart loyal to the mother 
 Church, with a hand fraternal to her American sister, and witli 
 good will to all, she may now go fortli with faith in her sublime 
 mission of " preaching the Gospel to every creature," cheered 
 by those words of Jesus, " Lo I am with you always, even unto 
 the end of the world." 
 
 Your Diocese comprehends the whole of Central Canada, a 
 territory of great extent, containing a population of three hun- 
 dred and seventy thousand, and a membership of eighty-one 
 thousand one hundred souls. Your Bishopric is one of the 
 
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 people, Jd havS'^^ln^t'^I ?T^r' -^ 1°?^ 
 great united Briti^ QmadiS pZt ^ "" ^"^^^ "^ ^ 
 
 It is, therefore mv lord „„ «„„ 
 sibiHty, which God hasX!! '"°'' '^''^' °° "g"" "-Pon- 
 
 » vast in their extent e^t]i;T^T .,"^"'<* *« fi-^^^" 
 harvest." IWs P Jdrndl^I^S " "« -^^'f «'«''«»7 to 
 overwhelming. ^ auotted work is immense, is 
 
 will sometimes ri« up' nnot'el'^'°f"'r<^'='^««» which 
 ™-<i8t of those affliction^fS?^^^ obstruct you; in the 
 in the face of those enl WW "° '"™'" ""^^g « «empt j 
 you be cheered h^ZZy.TT^''*^' ChHatian-uS.; 
 ^1 of afaithful aer^-lt ""/^^''''onate people, and the 
 «>"I face of Alm^Sj^T^^:: ' °"ltf ''^ «» P'e'ence 
 Pe"ng in your h^ds; ^d "y ffiTw ^^°" f'^oricpros- 
 
 «o^utt^-^tf,^^^:^-^ ^^animousccpe^. 
 praying that God wiU cmr^™!^ ^°. *"""° °^ "^on, and 
 blessings to His Church I^rhr",^'"''"^''*'' ^'^ «'"««''»» 
 laity of Ontario m-T^r^*; ?°'"^^!' ">» <^^^ »»d 
 their Bishop. ooMially receive and welcome you aa 
 
 On behalf of the Clergy and laity. 
 
 HANNIBAL MrLK?iir«i' *^P'«'"' «» «■« Force, 
 WILLIAM BMASDM.?' ^a'^ °' «" OomSS; 
 
 W.B.SIMI.SSO|;I'.S. 
 
 Kingston, 28th Mwch^A.!). 186a 
 
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 To this Addrees His Lordship made the following appropriate 
 
 To the CUrgy and Laity of the Diocese of Ontario : 
 Af Y Dear Bbetheen,— 
 
 Your affectionate and hearty greeting gives me the greatest 
 qomfort and encouragement, while the confidence you express 
 m my abiKty to preside over the Diocese makes me more than 
 ever determined, with God's assistance, to prove, by my devo- 
 tion to the interests of the Church, that your confidence is not 
 misplaced. You truly say that we commence our career 
 untrammelled by State influence;" we have no artificial 
 obstacles; so that if we fail to confirm and strengthen the 
 Church in this Diocese, the fault will be our own. We possess 
 the pnmitive and ApostoHc machineiy with which to build 
 up our members in their most holy faith. Be it ours, first, to 
 resize our inestimable privileges, and next, to prove that 
 realisation by working as men that need not be ashamed. 
 
 Your promise of co-operation and sympa% I receive with 
 gratitude, knowing, as I do, full well, that success in the admin- 
 istration of the Church will depend, in great measure, on a 
 cordial and harmonious intercourse between the three branches 
 of every Ecclesiastical Legislature, Bishop, Clergy and Laity 
 Ahove all, I pray that the great and influential motive of 
 working out our salvation in fear and trembling," and fitting 
 men for the society of the Church in Heaven, may influence 
 us all to devote time, talent, and best exertion, (even through 
 much tnbuhtion), in carrying out to a successful completion 
 the work which God has given us to do. 
 Kingston, March 25th, 1862. 
 
 ^! ^^'*^^^f "^^j"^'*^'' ^""^ ^*' ^^^^"^*y approached and pre- 
 sented the following Address, which was read by James A 
 Hendebson, Esq. :— ^ 
 
 ^0 the Bight Reverend the L(yrd Bishop of Ontario : 
 May rr Please Your Lordship,— 
 On behalf of the members of the United Church of England 
 
distinction is given to it^t t' ^Pr^P**"' ""^ «>»» «>i6 
 
 limits of your tSria, l4*:Lf«i:*"/"'«'' ^'«'- «"« 
 and oldest congregation of Z^nT'/T " "°°**™ «>« fi«t 
 Ireland, it beif ;^nZ dat ^5 f ''''^^"^ ^"S'™-! »<» 
 the Rev. Dr. Joi, sJZX&lHrctT' '" "\" "''"Se of 
 of Kingston, and wto, fr^^tt Z trn' ^«'''^«'^»« 
 
 s:x,Tnt;^o^:r'*"-^^ 
 
 liberality of tl.e cS„I 3*"'''''"°***' ""^"gh «.« 
 "Ontario," an endowmenTL t « ^'*'" *« «'"!«» of 
 of ti.e Diocese. """"""''" ^'^ been provided for the Bishop 
 
 termined out of the SeriDtnrTt" • ? ""t ''"' »»"'' "« are de- 
 to their charge, and Xl ff^-r?^ ,""« People committed 
 drive awaytu SroZuslf f *'i^"'=" *» banish and 
 God's word ™"" ■""* ^''""g* <Jootrines contrary to 
 
 In the administration of the affaire of th^ n- 
 leel assured that yonr LordslI »«!},, 1 "'"*'"'' «''""« ^e 
 tion of all the members of Si';;;: *', """'''" «°-°P«™- 
 t bat your Episcopate will b?n.a! t| tuhT !' "' ^ »"■'"«'» 
 ation and impartiality which so d «t;„ , • ^ ^^t 'P'"' »'' "o^er- 
 Dioccsan-a course which win pruSf*""*"'""^"™"' 
 and prosperity to tho Church and . T^' ^"^^'otion, 
 
 / 1 1 1 !-> 
 
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 for it6 view go sacred and exalted an object as the edification 
 «nd extension of the Church. 
 
 JAMES A; HENDERSON, 
 BOBERT SELLARS, 
 
 WM. SHANNON, 
 
 I. HOPE, 
 
 F. r!'lUCAS^*°'' ^*' ■^*"*'''* ^*°8'*°°' 
 
 henry wilmot, 
 bich'JSd'Sbson^^''^'^''^"- 
 
 BOBERr'clfitLt^^''^'^'^^^^^^^ 
 
 Churchwarden, Trinity Church, Wolfe LiUnd. 
 Kingston, March 25th, 1862. 
 
 The following reply was then made by His Lordship :— 
 
 ^<^^^^ers of t/i^lTnitedCkurck of £:nfflanda^>d Ireland 
 m Jitngston <md its vidmt/y ; 
 
 Hy Bear Brethben, 
 
 Receive the assurance of my sincere pleasure in hearing the 
 expression of your congratulations, and of the confidence you 
 repose m the Bishop you have elected. ^ 
 
 I feel satisfied that I shall not regret having made the good 
 and oyal city of Kingston the seat of the See of Ontario. The 
 great body of Churchmen affords material for labor and zeal 
 in «ie solemn underteking of bringing our Church privileges 
 to bear upon the mmds of all, so that God's name may be 
 glonfied, and His Church made a praise on earth. 
 
 Be assured that I deeply feel the responsibility, to which 
 you allude, of making a wise selection of men to minister in 
 holy ^ngs. We need men who, avoiding all novelties and 
 subtleties m religion, will be content to teach the doctrines of 
 the Church as they are plainly set forth in our Common Prayer 
 Book^and witness to their flocks how true and beautiful is the 
 accordance between that book and another from wMch aU 
 rebgious trutti is received-the Holy Bible, 
 
2d 
 
 the Church With Rfc^^e'^.'^f -dmiiii. Jtion^ 
 may ^omotimeB e,r and the ^^^ r":^° '^o'^ that the bJ; 
 
 SIX?- »a. h»t -hT;r:xK;st 
 
 Believe me to be ever your faithf. i . 
 
 your faithful and affectionate 
 
 Kingston, March 25th, 1862. 
 
 DIOCESAN. 
 
 Thus ended the proceerli-n,.- r ^ 
 -nab of the Ca^'irctf/'^f «'^»o«' "-^W in the 
 the different Conimitteea we>m 'co^, «™««emente made by 
 vaUed thronghont the day.^d ^? % ^"^^ »«Jer prj^ 
 solemn services. He Jtfeto^Utf S^-l^*" ^O'S^" h/the 
 "7 *!f"r *«<i SomeZ^^^^fZ'' the Clergy^ the 
 expressed the highest degree JI^^T^ ** ^astassemblaffe 
 of fte a^ngenfents, a^Hf "riot tS 1 *"' "»"P'«'»^' 
 «P'nt prevailing tl.r»„ghout theS '"'^ '"'' <'«^otional 
 Bishops from theAmericZan^hrS'r^'^S'- Severa 
 present, and had promised if ^^i:,^** ""*" ^"'''ted to be 
 the arrival of the QuTen's Lette^"'^ *" "*'«"<'• «« Xr 
 appnse them before the day „f cle^I^. ""^ T^^^ ««« ^ 
 short that all except the BiLor^iT- ^« time was so 
 
 »kmn occasion may be said to l^^t'^'*' ^J^o on tha 
 ™ Episcopal and American r^V f^ *' """^ the old Scot 
 attend. ^^U r,ry ^.^^ ^^fT'/!>-f^ ^t impossibly 
 •heir mability to be present wdt^^^'^f .'^t'^tte™ stating 
 they aU expressed the most tt^i ^!^ '" the proceedings 
 waris the Canadian Chnreh. ^ "'"' '^'^"'^ feelings £ 
 
 ^-gemri^d blSa?„:^^^^^^^ and 
 
 Ae Diocese of Ontario to the Prottt f f" ^''^^*^' trom 
 whom they had associ«ed wU^ SrX ^^'^' '"'' """^-^ 
 
 t 
 
LAY DELEGATES. 
 Hon. J. Shaw, 
 Hon. G. Crawford, 
 Hon. J. Hamilton, 
 W. B. Simpson, 
 T. Kirkpatrick, 
 G.P.Baker, 
 W. Ellis, 
 
 D. B. O. Ford, 
 T. A. Corbett, 
 
 E. J. Sisson, 
 S. Y. Chesley, 
 D. F. Jones. 
 
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 CLERICAL DELEGATES. 
 
 The Venerable the Archdeacon 
 
 of Kingston, 
 The Rev. Dr. Lauder, 
 The Kev. H, Mulkins, 
 ^e Rev. T. H. M. Bartlett, 
 ^e Rev. J. A. Mulock, 
 ^e Rev. W. Bleasdell, 
 The Rev. J. G. Armstrong, 
 The Rev. R. T. StephensSn, 
 Tlio Rev. C. Forest; 
 ^e Rev. T. R. Tane, 
 The Rev. Dr. Patton, 
 The Rev. J. S. Lauder. 
 
 ihlr^^tFTfyj"^'^ afterwards added the Wardens of 
 the Cathedral, J A. Henderson, Esq., and Robert SeZTZa 
 and all the members of the Synod in the Diocese of Sn?^'' 
 Ihis Committee appointed an Executive Committee of f^« 
 of Its members, to make the necessary preparation, nviel^^^^^ 
 ^n^S^^Solf^^^^ Itwascom;:ed 
 
 ^^eLS&e?—^ 
 
 ^e Rev. T. H. M. Bartlett, 
 The Rev. J. A. Mulock, 
 1. Kir]q)atrick, Esq. 
 W. B. Simpson, Esq. 
 J. A. Henderson, Esq. 
 K. Sellars, Esq. 
 
 Tlie Choral services, under the superintendence of Mr R S 
 Ambkose, were conducted by the Choir of thTrnfK^' i * 
 8uch a manner as to draw forfh tl,« Cathedral m 
 
 t\m Riai.^^« n^ *^® ^^^^ commendations of 
 
 the Bishops, Clergymen, and the congregation 
 
 The arrangements made by the Wardens for the carrying 
 
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 Mr G. M. W,«ms„,;yJ;;''%S'de»men of the Cathedral; 
 
 Wanien,areS,l,^S"r '^^ ""■ ^- ^^^^''f^e 
 yom ha.e been almoa ^1"^^"' ""='- ""-P-"""" '' 
 -od «JotaiU«,f.a,theT?lt Sr*"""'^'"^