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ADDRESS
(»F THE
Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia--
BY THE
i{igbt Hev. Fredenck Gourtqey, D.D., D.G.L.,
LORD BISHOP OP NOVA SCOTIA,
duly 1st, 1892. '
Published by request of the Synod.
ir-^LIKAX, N. S. :
HOLLOWAY imoS., PRINTERS, GU (iRANVILLK ST.,
1892.
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To the Members of the Dioeesan Synod of Nova Scotia :
Dear Brethren,—
It would be altogether iniposnible for me to begin my Address to
{rou without at once referring to the most momentous event which has
lappened since our last official meeting, which came near to sunder-
ing forever our relations to each other — the serious and all but fatal
illness by which I wan stricken down towards the end of November,
1890. Ixx)king back from the vantage ground of, as I believe, fully
recovered health and strength, into that valley of doubt and fear,
dark with what seemed likely to prove the shadow of death, I can
feelingly adopt the language of the Psalmist and say, " The sorrows
of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me : I
found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon th(^ name of the
Lord : O Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the
Lord, and righteous ; yea, our God is merciful. I was brought low
and He helped me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord
hath dealt bountifully with thee. For Thou hast delivered my soul
from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling." During
those long weeks of dangerous illness, strong pain, and resulting
feebleness, like that of a little child, the tender, anxious and loving
ministrations of my dear friend the Dean, made still stronger the
bond of affection and gratitude by which I was previously bound to
him, while his faithful fulfilment of the duties, and patient bearing
of the burdens, which I was constrained to lay upon him as my
Commissary during my long subsequent absence from the Diocese,
have laid me under greater obligations than ever to him — obligations
which I am glad to have the onportunity thus publicly to acknowledge.
While I thus refer to my indebtedness to the Dean, I am far from
unmindful of what I owe to you, and to all the people of these two
Provinces, for the sympathetic interest and ceaseless solicitude shown
by you in continual prayer that I might be spared from death, and
given back to the work to which you believe that God's Holy Spirit
guided you to call me. I think tliose prayers have been answered,
not only in the return of bodily and mental vigor, but in a deepened
sense of the combined privilege and responsibility of the trust com-
mitted to me, and a stronger desire to devote myself with entire
unreservedness to the discharge of the duties of so weighty an office
as that of a Bishop in the Church of God. I have tiiktii up again
the Pastoral Staff so long laid aside, relying upon the In Ip of God's
Holy Spirit, the supply of His heavenly grace, the " .sujjplications,
prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks," of the liiithi'ul, the
counsel of my appointed advisors, and the active co-operation of the
clergy and laity, to cheer my otherwise desponding heart, to lighten
my burdens, to share my anxieties, and to work zealously with me
for the prosperity of the Church of England in this Diocese, iiul the
gathering into her fold of many now without, that they may share
with us "in the fulness of the blessing of the G<*pel of Clu'ist."
I also gratefully record my thanks to the Bishops of Maine and
Newfoundland, and tlie Bishop-coadjutor of Fredericton lor much-
needed and valued Episcopal help in Confirming and Ordaining dur-
ing my absence — their kind and brotherly assistance helping in no
small degree to lessen the disadvantage of my long absence.
It Avill be ronienibered that in the preface of tlie Book of Common
Prayer, under the heading, " Coneernin^ the Hervice of the Church,"
there is tliis sentence — " And whereas heretofore there hath been
great diversity in saying and singing in churcliea within tliis reahn,
some following Salisburij Use, some Hereford Use, and some the Use of
Banyor, some of York, some of Lineoln; now from henceforth all the
whole Realm shall have but one Use." That which was then done
away seems likely to be, in some measure, restored, for certainly
great diversity in the use of the services of the Prayer B(X)k exists.
Whether the extent to which it prevails is good or not, I will not now
undertake to determine, but I call your attention to the fact that it
was experience of the effects of diversity which led our predecessors
to the conclusion that uniformity was the better way, and therefore
it would seem that to adopt or sanction diversity of practice would
be to retrograde,not to advance, to degenerate rather than to improve.
I am r.)t desirous of applying a liard and fast rule to all Parish
Churc'ies and Mission Stations, regardless of their different circum-
stances, but I draw the attention of the Clergy to Canon XII of the
Canons of the Provincial Synod, " for altering the order of the Public
Service in certain cases," and refjuest that they will act in accordance
with its provisions, and not on their own authorized responsibility.
I have noticed in some churches that the appointed service has been
altered, Avhen I have been present, and that in a way which, in my
judgment, was for the worse, indicating a desire for mere shortening,
regardless of what I would call Liturgical proj riety. I am thankful
of the increased frequency with wliich the Holy Communion is
celebrated in the present day, and could wish that in every Parish
Church it invariably formed part of the worship of every Sunday, hut
I see no reason why the Office should not be said in its entirety, nor
why the longer exhortation, beginning, " Dearly beloved in the Lord,
ye that mind to come to the Holy Communion of the Body and
Blood of our Saviour Christ," should be always omitted. I liave been
amongst you now for more than four years, and I have never once
heard it read. While I am upon this subject it may be well for me
to remind tlie clergy that it is their duty to read from time to time to
iheir people the whole of the exhortation when they give warning
lor the celebration of the Holy Communion, unless they have reason
to substitute for it the one provided in case they shall see the people
negligent to come, and that they are not to content themselves with
giving a verbal notice to the effect that the Holy Communion will
be celebrated the following Sunday. I rejoice over the increase in
the number of Communicants, but it is of the utmost importance
that they should carefully and adequately prepare themselves for the
reception of the Holy Sacrament, and these exhortations tell them
of the way in which that preparation can be made. I have also
noticed that " A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament, to be read
during their Session," is very seldom used. I need surely do no more
than remind you that to Parliament is entrusted the duty of making
the laws under wliich we live, and of repealing those which are found
to be unsuitable, or bad or obsolete ; and that this cannot be rightly
done, save by the aid of God's grace, which is given only to thoRe
who ask it in faithful and diligent prayer ; if this be omitted, we
shall have hut ourselves to tliank if the people groan under laws
•which are oppressive and imjust, and our Legislatures and Statesmen
degrade their office by self-seekiug, defile their dignity by covetous-
uess, abdicate government and rule for servility and pandering to the
will of the mob, until bribery and corruption render the bm'y politic
lit only for burial, and upon the lintel of the chamber of England's
greatness is inscribed, " Ichabod." The hearts of all of us have
een sickened and saddened by the charges which have been brought,
some of which have been proved, while others are yec to be invest-
igated, against some of the statesmen and office holders of both f
the political parties in this Canada ol ours, and shame has covered
our faces that such a conditioti of things should exist amongst us ;
but how are we ever to shake ourselves free from such a reproach,
how are noble patriotism, imsellish service of the people, disinterested
statecraft, integrity of character and purity of conduct, to become
the distinguishing features of our public men, unless our prayers in
this behalf are frecjuent, fervent, and such as shall prevail to procure
for us Irom God tliis inestimable blessing, of wise, and strong, and
upright, makers of our laws and councillors of our Sovereign. Before
I pass from the general subject of our public worship I will advert
for a moment to the function of preaching. Every sober-minded
Christian nuisi "eeply regret the sensationalism whicli has of late
invaded the pulpit, so that the congregations in some places are in
danger of attaining the character of the Athenians, ot which it is
said that " they spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or
hear some new thing." Nor is this all, but the wild excitement of a
gospel which consists wholly in appeals to the emotions, resulting
m tneir being rendered insensitive and dead from abnormal stimula-
tion, until the poor soul fancies that because it is now become
incapable of being wrought up to a high pitch of feeling, it is spirit-
ually dead and outcast from God's grace, is offset by the discussion,
which ought to be confined to the study of some deeper subject, the
argument upon which the congregation as a whole is quite unable to
appreciate, from lack of previous reading and knowledge, and which
cannot be much more than state<l in the short time which custom
allows the preacher ; or by the respectable essay upon some topic in
which th J interest of the hearers is of the slightest interest, and which
is entirely forgotten before the church door is reached. Not only is this
not the preaching by which the ancient heathen world was converted
to Christ, and therefore by which sinneis are to be convicted of sin and
brought to repentance, pardon and reconciliation to God through the
Erecious blood of his dear Son; but it is not the preaching by which
elievers are to be built up in their most holy faith, and tlie Church
to be taught the manifold wisdom of God. I press upon the clergy
the need they have of putting into practice the exhortation addressed
to them at their ordination — " As much as lieth in you, you will
^PP'y yourselves wholly to this one thing, and draw all your cares
and studies this way ; and that you will continually pray to Gotl the
Father, by the Mediation of our only Saviour, Jesus Christ, for the
heavenly assistance of the Holy Ghost, tliat, by daily reading and
weighing of the Scriptures, ye may wax riper and stronger in your
Ministry." And again, *' seeing that you cannot by any other means
compa.as the doing of so weighty a work, pertaining to the salvation
of man, but with doctrine and exhortation taken out of the Holy
Scriptures, and with a life agreeable to the same; consider how
studious ye ought to be in reading and learning the Scriptures, and
in framing the manners of yourselves, and of them that specially
pertain unto you, according to the rule of the same Scriptures,"
rreaching that is to be powerful for gootl must deal with those sub-
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jects in whicli men are deeply interested, and with which tliey are
perHonaliy concerned— the lost state of man by nature, the injury to
iini-<elf, the dishonour to Goti, the danger to which he exposes
limself by sin, the infinitely tender compasaioii and loveof Gml, the
Sorlect salvation which He bas provided in Christ Jesus, the help of
[is grace through the appointed means, the a-sir.tance and illumi-
nation of His Holy Spirit, the blessed hope of the second coming in
glory of our Great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, the unshakable truth
of His Holy Word, alike in its threats and promises ; and all these as
matters of our own personal experience, and pressed home upon the
conciences of our people, so that some shall cry out, " Sirs, what
must I do to be saved ? and others shall find the word sweet to their
taste, while with all the word of the Lord shall have free course and
be glorified. We are ever to keep in mind that we are to be, even as
the Apostle Paul was, " A sweet Savour of Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish ; to the one we are the savour of death,
unto death, and to the other the savour of life unto life." Well may
we, under the influence of so momentous a thought, exclaim with
him " And who is sufficient for these things !" Sure I am the more all
this sinks deeply into oureouls, so that we are filled with it, and out of
the abundance of our hearts, our mouths do speak, we shall have the
joyful experience of saying, as he does in another place, " Our
sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able Ministers of the
New Testament, not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kill-
eth but the spirit giveth life." To be ourselves spiritually quickened,
and daily renewed by HLs Holy Spirit, will be the secret source of
such power in our preaching as will constrain the hearers to receive
it, " not as the word of man, but as it is in truth, the word of God,
which efTectually worketh in them that believe."
I have seer notices occasionally in the newspapers of what is
called " a movement to provide pleasant Sunday alternoons for the
people. " Every sensible man, one would think, would approve and
whatever effort might be made by any to relieve the weekly day of
rest of any gloom or sadness, and especially to deliver the masses of
our population from the amusements of the beer saloon, with their
tendency to end in drunkenness and other sins, or from the idleness
which is so olten Satan's opportunity for leading men into mischief.
It may be a question with some whether the opening of museums
and picture galleries in the afternoons of the Lord's day (on which a
debate has recently taken place in theUpper House of the Convocation
of Canterbury, initiated by the Bishop of Rochester, who presented
a petition to that body in favor of such a course) would be for good
or evil ; and whetiier concerts of sacred music and lectures upon
scientific and other subjects of common interest and knowledge
would be beneficial or no. But what I am concerned about is the
keeping of our Churches and Chapels for the purpose for which they
were built, namely : the worship of God and the instruction of the
people in divine things, a holy place, which may sensibly impart its
special peculiarity of holiness to our common every day life, and lift
that to a higher level whicJi of itself has ever a tendency to sink to a
lower. Believe me, it is my profound conviction, you will not make
people recognize the sacredness of so-called secular things, by having
concerts and scientific or historical lectures in the House of God, but
will rather thereby secularise religion itself ; while the more strictly
•the Church building is kept for its special use and purpose only, will
its spirit infect our means of amusement and instruction.
EDUCATIONAL.
At the last meeting of tne Synod, I called attention to the crying
need for a Church School for girls, and you were good enough to
respond so practically to my appeal, that steps were taken at that
session to supply the want. It is my pleasing duty now to report
that tile needful arrangements were speedily made, a property at
Windsor purchased and put into fitting order, and on the 8th of
January, 1891, the school was opened with as many pupils as could
be accomnuKlated. The experience of Easter and Trinity terms
induced the Trustees and Directors to undertake tlie erection of a new
building during the summer holidays, the necessity for which was
evidenced by the fact that, whereas the old building could find room
for not more than twenty-four boarders, together with the teachers
and servants, the school year closed on the 21st June with sixty -five
boarders, besides nineteen day scholars. While the commencement
of this undertaking is due to the enthusiasm with which the project
was taken up by the Synod, its prompt adoption in New Brunswick
by the SyiK)d of Fredericton, and the prudent measures adopted by
the Truslees and Directors, the success which has so conspicuously
attended our eflbrts is largely due to two or three individuals.
IVIention ought lirst to be made of Mr. Foster, of Dorchester, who
with comliined zeal and boldness canvassed the church people of
New Brunswick, and succeeded in getting shares taken to a
considerable amount.
Next, we must consider ourselves to have been something more
than fortunate in securing Miss Machin as our first lady principle,
for she brought to us not only her excellence of character and
disposition, and her well-furnished and trained mind, but also her
experience, in a school of her own, of how rightly to lay out a good
and thorough course for a church-girl's education, what things to
avoid, what measures to adopt, in commencing such an Institution
as we were setting up ; and how, while gaining the good will and
co-operation of her assistants, and the love of her pupils, yet to rule,
with the firm hand of a disciplinarian, the complex household of
which she is the head. Probably we all know how powerful, whether
for good or evil, are school traditions. I believe Miss Machin is
striving to cieate at Windsor such traditions as will be a great help
to those who shall come after her, and a safeguard to future
generations of scholars. There is one more whose name must be
mentioned here to-day, with admiration and gratitude. Belief, not
only in the need for the school, but in its feasibility, provoked
him to be first enthusiastic in its behalf, and to then work
unceasingly for its accomplishment. No obstacle could make him
despond, no difficulty be too great for removal, no detail too trivial
for his attention. Lovingly did he supervise the alteration and
preparing of the old building, with a still deeper feeling and a more
watchful solicitude did he every day watch over the erection of the
new. It is reported that Mary, Queen of Scots, said that after her
death the name of her kingdom would be found written on her
heart: it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that when he dies the
name of Edgehill will be found engraved on the heart of Henry Youle
Hind. No more ready counsellor, no more steady friend, no more
untiring worker can tlie Church School have than he.
The authorities have not been unmindful of the need of setting
the fees at as low a figure as possible, consistent with their
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detcrminntion not to involve the Institution in delit to a larger extent
than the Hberalitj' of the Church people of the Maritime Provinces
will enable them to liquidate. And yet, even as it is, there are not
ft few who fmd tliat the expense is beyond their means, and sadly
sigli over the vanished i)rospect of sending their daughters to a
Church School, where thev would be preserved from the influences
to wliipli they are cx|)oset! in the schools which provide an education
nt a Ipwer rate than we. I could wish that all Church people in the
Maritime Provinces would become shareholdera, so as to put the
school upon such a solid financial basis as would enable us, while
keeping the fees for tlie general run of pupils at the present figure,
yet to take at a largely reduced rate, and in some few instances
gratviitously, the daughters of our poorer clergy, and thus afTord them
some compensation for the meagre way in which the Lord's
conimand is observed, "that they who preach the Gospel should live
of the Gospel." Possibly the members of this Synocf who are not
shareholders might take shares during the session, and thus set an
example toothers, '.vinch would be beneficial in the highest degree.
Hie Collegiate School is still under the charge of Rev. A. Miller,
who has had a largely increased number of pupils, and, I anv told,
looks forward to a full school after the summer liolidays.
King's College maintains the higher standard which it has set in
the qualifications required for matriculation, and in the terminal and
degree examinations, while its efficiency as a place of higher
education is preserved by having the same President and Professors
as formerly, and by the constant efforts of the Board of Governors to
inci'ease its studies and extend its usefulness.
But something is needed to attract students to its walls, and still
more to provide it with a sufficient income. No one can well
complain that the fees are too high, for, by getting a nomination, all
fees m the regular course of studies are remitted, and there is
nothing but the board bill and room rent to pay, while, if the student
is intending to enter the Saored Ministry', he can, to the number of
eight, provided he gains not let s than fifty per cent, of the marks
attainable in the matriculation examination, have a divinity scholar-
ship of one hundred and fifty dollars a year for the three years (nine
terms) of his residence in college. The governors believe that no
better education is given, no higher standard of attainment is
required no degree in arts of more real value can be obtained at any
college or university in Canada, than at King's College, Windsor, and
they would fain have this conviction made known in all the schools
throughout the Maritime Provinces, in which lads are looking
forward to the advantages of a college course.
But most important is the (luestion of income, for, while need is
continually arising for adding to the staff, and including new subjects
of study, as well as of paying the President and Professors a more
fitting sum than that which they now receive, even as it is tlve
expenditure exceeds the revenue. This moans that if the present
state of things is continued, and the church people, who are supposed
to be the friends of the college, behave in such an unfriendly wav to
•it in the future as they liave in the past, witholding pecuniar;/
assistance, and giving it nothing but the questionable benefit of ♦] ;ir
adverse criticism, sooner or later, the capital being eaten up, the
college must become bankrupt, and the university, established by
Koyal Charter, and with an honourable record of more than a century
of good work in completing the literary education and forming the
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■character of some of the men whose names are inscribed " on the
deathless pape " of Canada's historical roll of worthies, must become
a thing of the past, because of the supineness, the indifference, the
alienation and the neglect of the Church people of the latter part of
the nineteenth cent. I ry. It is high time that this should be said,
that the truth should thus publicly be spoken, whether men are
thereby (jffended or not, for only thus can such a change be brought
about in the affairs of the College, as will suffice to save it from fatal
disaster. It is either worth preserving, or it is not. If it is not, in
the name of the very cause for which it was originally created, let it
go, and go at once and for ever. But if it is, let it not be said that
for lack of courage on the part of any who desired changes in its
administration, whicli to them appeared as wise reforms, but which
they were too cowardly to undertake ; or from parsimony and
.jiggardlmess which held back the money which generosity and
intelligence would alike have contributed ; least of all, from such an
utter absence of principle as diverted to denominational colleges
money in abundance, while their own Church University was left to
starve to death; the cause of complete and united literary and
religious education was disgraced by the collapse and extinction of
King's College. Who will set a noble example of freehanded
generosity, by giving copiously for the supply of its needs ; or follow
that already set by McCawley and Warneford in the past, or
Hodgson, Cogswell and Mountain in the present ? who among us,
possessed of a liberal education themselves, men of wide reading and
extended information, of large experience and high intelligence, will
consecrate their time and talents to the work of practically helping
the Governors and Alumni to realise the high ideal which the founder
f- of King's College had in his mind, and which he set before the
* cliurch people of this land ? Earnestly do the Governors attend to
vy the discharge of their duties, anxiously do they look around for the
help of which they are so urgently in need : — God grant that they
may not look in vain !
In this connection I draw attention to the fact that the two years
which have passed since our last meeting have brought us no large
gifts of money for the promotion of the cause of the Church, by
assisting some of the many agencies which she has set on foot.
While I regard with sincere admiration the contributions, small in
amount but rich in blessing, of those who prsaeiiS but little of this
■world's goods, and believe that our chief reliance must be upon the
gifts of the many, yet those who have larger n^^ans must be reminded
of their duty to give according to their several ability, and that,
while our Lord specially remarked the two mites of the poor widow,
who cast in all she had, yet He noticed that " many that were rich
■cast in much unto the offerings of God."
It gives me no little satisfaction to be able to report to you that
two legacies have been received since our last meeting : one of $500
from the late A. M. Parker, for the endowment of the Parish of
Walton (Newport), the interest to go towards the stipend of the
Parish Priest ; and one of $400 from the late Dr. T. B. Aikins, for the .
Widows' and Orphans' Fund • while another of ^1000 for lectures in
^ natural science,, at King's College, Windsor, by the late Dr. Charles
• C!ogswell, is to be paid within a year of his death, provided that a
proper catalogue of the Library be made and published by that
f time— a work upon which an expert has been busy for some time
past, and towards the expense of which Dr. Cogswell also left a small
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sum. This is the beginning in a small way of a stream which, fed by
rills on all sides, will, I trust, become a wide and deep river, bearing
cheer and fertility wherever its waters come.
It is probably as disheartening to our merchants and manu-
facturers to read of the colossal fortunes which larger opportunities
and more active life enables their brethren in the tJnited States to
acquire, as it is to our church people to read every week of the large
donivtions of money and the splendid gifts which are so liberally
p( ed into the lap of the church in that country, and yet our
mc i chants and manufacturers are not so discouraged as to retire
from business, but continue to trade, in the hope of realizing at least
a competence. Let our church people take a leaf out of their book,
and enter into a pious rivalry, with the moderate means at their
disposal, to beautify the house of our God ; to make the place of His
feet glorious, and supply wha,t is lacking in the way of money to the
doing of the work of the Uhurch successfully : for, however great the
need of King's College may be for pecuniarj' help, such assistance is
demanded for the Church in general to a far greater extent. The
Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel writes me
under date of 20th May of this year ; " I am sorry to have to scad
an announcement of a reduction in the grant to Prince Edward
Island " (the sum taken oft' is ^50 — $250), 'but it has been necessary
to effect economies in the grants to the older colonies in view of the
opening ftelds in other parts of the world, for which the society is
responsible. I have also to write to you about a sum of ^^7,400, 2}(
consols, the balance of the 'American Colonial Bishops' Fund,' which
originated in 1717, and is applicable to the maintenance of Bishops
in any part of North America. The interest on this sum (;^203 per
annum), is paid to your Lordship, and will continue to be paid to
you so long as you are Bishop of Nova Scotia, but in view of the
growth of the church in North America, and of the unendowed
condition of some of the Dioceses already constituted, some of which
will, in the course of time, have to be subdivided, I am to notify to
your Lordship, and to request you to communicate to your Diocesan
Synod that this income of ;^203 p. a. cannot be guaranteed to future
Bishops of Nova Scotia.' "
We owe much to the venerable society for its ready and long
continued aid, but it is now high time that we were learning to do
without it, and to becon)e self-supporting ; nor can we complain or
murmur at any reduction it may feel it necessary , to make in the
help it still affords us, especially when we consider the more pressing
claims urged upon it from other and more needy quarters ; neither
need we, so long as my own life may last, or I continue to serve you
as your Bishop, seriously trouble ourselves over the probable
alienation to some more necessitous diocese of the ;^203 per annum,
at present granted to the occupant of this See. But, be it sooner or
later, the time must come when an additional $1000 a year must be
provided by the church folk for the Bishop of Nova Scotia ; and it is
well that a beginning should be made soon, to gather slowly but
surely the requisite sum, so that the threatened withdrawal may not
create an emergency which we are unable to meet.
I have to report that there are several parishes which need
immediate sub-division, and missions requiring at once the services
of a duly ordained clergyman, if many families are to have the
ordinances of the church, and their members to be preserved from
wandering off to swell the ranks of other religious botiies, and if the
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church is to shew herself a loving mother who can care for her
children in their years of weakness until they are become strong and
self-reliant, able to provide for their own spiritual needs, and doing
what they can to enlarge her borders. The Board of Home Missions
should have a greatly increased income, that the claims made upon its
funds may be met and responded to ; and the Church Endowment
Fund ought to have an added capital, enough to allow of keeping of
all three of the classes of the clergy full, according to its original
purpose. But besides these regular means of helping on the work of
the church, I give it as my opinion that the Bishop of this Diocese
ought to have such a sum placed at his disposal, as would allov. him
to put a clergyman at once in charge of a sub-divided -^arish, or at a
place where in his judgment a mission ought to be opened, and to
take care of him while he was working up the people to the position
of a self-sustaininsf parish. I know well enough that money is not
the only nor the chief thing that we need, but men of spiritual jind
intellectual power who can feed and provide for the Lord's family,
who will seeK after His sheep, who are in the midst of this naughty
world, that they may be saved through Christ forever; but, however
deeply read such men may be, to whatever heights of spiritual
knowledge they may have reached, however great may be their zeal
and self-denial, they must be fed and clothed and housed, and these
they cannot be without money. And therefore, it is that I plead
with you for the means to do this special work, as well as that which
is furthered by the Board of Home Missions and the Church Endow-
ment Fund.
I am very grateful to the members of the Church Women's
Missionary Association for the earnestness with which they have
continued their work, so that this .year they have been able to put
at my disposal ^1025, instead of, as in former years, I90G, as well as
to send sundry boxes to supply in some measure the necessities of
underpaid clergy. I am thankful to be able to announce that a
Branch of the Association has been set on foot at Amherst, so that
we would have two branches afl&liated with the Parent Association
in Halifax. But why should not the example of Truro and Amherst
be copied elsewhere, and branches be established in Yarmouth and
Windsor, in Lunenburg, Liverpool and Annapolis, in Sydney and
Charlottetown ? I hope that ere long I may be able to say to Truro
and Amherst, "your zeal hath provoked very many."
The general work of the Church makes us think of the clergy,
to whom I am glad to make my acknowledgments for the good and
efiBcient work which they so faithfully endeavour to accomplish.
During my recent journey along the Western Shore for tVie purpose
of administering Contirmation, I have been greatly struck with the
appearance and demeanor of the classes presented to me for that
Apostolic Eite, giving evidence of the pains and care taken by their
Pastors to rightly prepare them ; and their general solemnity and
earnestness testified to the teaching they had received, and their own
sincerity.
I feel sure that this proof of labor, afforded by the clergy of the
Eural Deaneries of Lunenburg and Shelburne will be manifest all
over the Diocese, and to the fact that the clergy have everywhere
tried to do their best during my absence is due, in large measure, the
little injury which has been sustained by my being away so long.
Our ranks have, however, been depleted, both by death and removal.
We mourn to-day the loss we have sustained by the death of Rev. J.
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J. Ritchie, Rector of Annapolis ; the Rev. Geo. B. Dodwell, Rector ^^
Wilmot ; and the Rev. PhiHp H. Brown, the Rector of St. Margaret's
Bay. The two former had resigned their Cures and were anticipating
honorable retirement, cheered by the remembrance of long year^
of service in the ranks of the Sacred Ministry, by the respect of their
friends and the love of their relatives, while Mr. Brown was in the
full tide of active work, in his over-large field, where he was ever
zealously occupied in endeavouring to teach the people committed
to his charge, and to bring strangers and wanderers into the fold of
the Church. Of all of them, we reverently say, Reqaiescant in pace,
Requiem ceternam, dona is, Domine ; et lux perpetua luceat eis.
The Church at large has suffered great and serious loss in the death
of the Bishop of Quebec. Hardly had I realized that I was here once
more, when a telegram informed me that he was dead, and my
presence was requested at his funeral. Scarcely could I believe, even
when taking part in that solemn duty, and beholding the great
gathering of all classes assembled to do honour to his memory, that
he was indeed gone. Wise and sagacious, strong and tender, resolute
and patient, firm and kind, learned and compassionate, he was at
once a ruler in the Church, a leader of the clergy and people, an able
administrator, and a prudent councillor, whose removal will be widely
felt, and whose place will be hard to fill. I ask for his bereaved diocese
your brotherly mterest and fervent prayers, and for his wife and son
your respectful and affectionate sympathy.
When death and removal make gaps in our ranks, we look around
for those who are to step in to the vacant places. Whence are they
to come ? Some from other dioceses, whom we are glad to receive, but
whose coming leaves other places vacant, one or two still from
England, but the remainder we must provide from amongst ourselves.
It is often said that the Ministry as a profession must be content with
inferior men, because of the demand made by and the higher
pecuniary payment procurable in the other professions and in trade.
But is it so ? Have Christian parents amongst us so little appreciation
of the blessings of the Gospel that they would not rather give their
goodliest young men to the work of dispensing those blessings
than to any other occupation ; or, do not our sons themselves learn
to desire rather i,o be put in trust with the Gospel, to serve and save
souls, than to distinguish themselves in the Law, the Navy, the Army,
or the Senate, or to amass a fortune in commerce, and to lay up
treasure upon earth ? It may be that in place of notoriety they shall
spend their days in obscurity, that instead of honorable mention
their names shall be comparatively unknown, that for ease they shall
have toil, and for riches they shall endure poverty : but the great day
will make them known, Christ himself will speak their names, the
rest that remaineth shall requite their labor, and Eternity itself shall
recompense them with imperishable riches ; while in the meantime
sinners shall bless them for God's pardon, mournera for Christ's con-
solation, the perplexed for the Spirit's guidance, the tempted for the
grace to resist, the poor for the unsearchable riches of Christ, the
troubled soul for peace, the despairing for the hope that maketh not
ashamed, and all men for the example of one who " points to heaven
and leads the way." Let this consideration be well weighed by
parents and sons, and faithfully prayed over, and, when the demand
IS made, " Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ? " there will
not be wanting those who, their lips having been touched by the live
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coal from off the altai* of divine love, will respond, " Here am I, tiend
me."
We have to mourn the loss of two laymen who were prominent
in their active work for the church. Mr. Charles B. Bullock, Di<x;«j«>au
Registrar, always ready to advise and help, and whose otticial |x;«iti<>u
brought him in contact with all the clergy of the Diocese, while hi*i
knowledge of our aftViirs made him of great use, and his genial man-
ner made intercourse with him to be of the pleasantest. His aUiumi
sudden removal gives a pang to us all. while they who knew him be»t
mourn his loss the most. And Mr. R. T. Clinch, though a reuidc-nt
in the neighbouring Diocese of Fredericton, was at the time of liiu
death a member of the Board of Governors of King's College, where
his large experience, business capacity, knowledge of the world, and
great clieeriness and hopefulness in disposition made him a welw>me
coadjutor to his fellow Governors in the arduous and anxious trut^
committed to their care.
And here I would bring before you a reminder that, when I>r.
Sullivan was appointed Bishop of Algoma, the various dioceses of the
Province of Canada, engaged to contribute to his stipend. Nova
Scotia agreeing to pay $300 a year from the Domestic and Foreign
Mission Funds, which by resolution of Synod was made a first charge
on all contributions for Domestic Missions. The amount ha« been,
as the Bishop of Algoma writes me, always promptly and honorably
paid, but the period for which the undertaking wsis entered into is
now expired, and he asks that we will renew it. As it wa* nmde
when the whole contributions of Nova Scotia to Foreign and
Domestic Missions did not exceed 5800 to $1000 a year, while laat
year they were more than $2700, 1 think we may well accede to the
request, and do this with the more hearty alacrity, because his
reasonable expectations of help, adequate to the needs of his great
work, have not been met in other quarters.
THE CHURCH HOSPITAL,
which two years ago was in prospect, is now a reality. It has en-
countered sundry difficulties, but has thus far surmounted them, and
I hope it will prove a success. Of the need for it then; can be no
question. Its committee are most desirous that nothing shall be
wanting to the comfort of the sick, and their proper and skilled
nursing by trained and competent sisters, for a supply of whom we
are indebted to S. Margaret's House, Boston, the Mother of whicli
Sisterhood has been most kind in supplying our necessities. I trust,
however, that we may look forward to women of our own Provinces
coming forward to give themselves for training for this work.
While our intention is to make the Hospital self-supiMjrting, yet
there are sundry expenses which must be met by the contributioiw
of the public, and the liouse and grounds require the gift of suflicient
capital for their purchase.
I call attention to the fact that, while it is distinctively a (Jhvhch
Hospital, in that the committee entrusted with the management of
its affairs, are Church men, and the nursing is done by Sisters of
the Church of England, yet that the only conditions for admission
are that the applicant is sick and willing to pay the price fixed for
the accommodation required, and that there is room ; while evary
inmate is as free to send for and receive the ministration of their
own spiritual guide, as they are to be attended by their own physician
or surgeon. On this ground we think that we have some reason for
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appealing to the general public for aasistance, and for expecting a
generous response. The Commiltee will be ready at all times to
answer inquiries respecting the Hospital, and the Sisters will welcome
any visitors at appropriate tim»^"i.
I lay before you a copy ot the report of the Conference, of the
Church in Canada, held in Winnipeg on the 1 5th and i6th of August,
1890, and invite your careful attention to, and discussion of the plan
therein proposed for adoption. I will not say anything in this address
eithe • in favor of, or adverse to that plan, lest I should be thought to
prejudice in any way the discussion of it. But it is permissible for
me to inform you that it ha« not been received with favor by all the
Dioceses to which it has been submitted, and that apparently the end
in view has 1. jt yet been reached.
During the two years since our last meeting, there have been
ordained :
DEACONS.
1890— Lawlor, Edward
Belliss, W. Benson
1891— Richards, David
Gale, Albert
1892— While, Charles De Wolfe
PRIESTS.
1890 — Forbes, James Murdo
Pittman, Henry Herbert
Lutz, Charles S. G.
Withycombe, John Medley
1891— Beers Herbert
Skey, Lawrence H.
Belliss, W. Benson
1892— Parry, Edward D. P.
1890-1—327 males
1891-2—149 "
CONFIRMED.
488 females Total 815
245 " 394
which, added to those reported at the last Synod (viz. 1233 for 1888,
and 1820 for 1889), will give an average for the first four years of my
Episcopate of 1066 per annum — a very good testimony to the dili-
gent work of the clergy throughout the Diocese.
CONSEOHATED
10 Churches, 3 Churchyards, 1 Holy Table, 1 Chancel, 1 addition to Church.
I find that the Bishop of London, in addressing a circular to the
Diocesan Branches of the Church of England Temperance Society,
expressed the opinion that it does not exercise the power and influ-
ence corresponding to its character. This remark, it seems to me,
is true of the Church of England in this Diocese, if not in the whole
of Canada. And some of the words of the Bishop of London are
worthy of our careful consideration as appropriate to ourselves. He
says : " No society can have much weight if many of its members
be half-hearted in their support of it and of its means. And there
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can be no doubt that there are members of our Society who cherish
a languid opinion in its favor, think its work commendable, and yet
feel little enthusiasm in its cause themselves, and are inclined U^damp
it in others. It is not wise to admit tha«e who do not subucribe to a
share in the government by giving them the right to elect reprewjn-
tatives. It is well to keep befoje their minds that there is Homelhing
more which it is in their power to do for the good of their ''"Uow
creatures. And, however excellent some of them may be, leir
comparatively languid interest in the work makes them drag on its
success. Union and vigour are the conditions of succegs in such
work as ours. " Substitute " the Church in this Diocese " for " the
C. E. T. S.," and these become timely counsels which we shall do
well to lay to heart.
" Union and vigour " — how shall we engender them? Union —
not by ignoring the differences which exist among us, nor by
making little of them, or acting as if we thought them to be of no
conseqiience ; but by recognizing that the cause of the Church, the
cause which we are all seeking to promote, is greater than the cause
of any party, and the faith which we are maintaining and propa-
gating is more important than the phraseology in which it is
expressed.
When the State is in danger of dismemberment, the otherwise
opposing parties unite for the preservation of its integrity, and when
the army is in presence of the enemy, the rivalries of the various
branches of the service are swallowed up in the unity of action,
which all recognize as necessary to victory. The Church is always
in danger of disintegration, for there are always those within who
are ready, not only to secede themselves, but to induce others to join
them in their defection. The Church is always in the presence of
the enemy, and must constantly wage warfare with them. Let us
copy the examples of our patriots and soldiers, and band ourselves
in a union in which alone there is strength, for the unity of the
Faith, and for the triumphant victory of the Church. And let us
take warning by the history of the last days of the Jewish Common-
wealth, the members of which, under the fatal guidance of the
leaders of faction and party, wrangled and squabbled with each
other while the enemy was thundering at the gates, and, torn by
internal dissension, and neglectful of the precautions needed for
efTective defence, the system which boasted its establishment by
Heaven, and the nation which claimed that they were, in an especial
manner, the children of God, were together put an end to, counuered
by the Romans, butchered, enslaved and destroyed : scattered over
the face of the earth ; " sifted like corn is sifted in a sieve," sothat,
ever since, the utmost that the^ have been able to do is to gather in
small communities to carry on the worship of the synagogue —
without temple, or altar or sacrificing priest — a beacon and a warning
to all.
" There is much need, for not as yet
Are we in shelter or repose.
The Holy House is still beset
VVitii leaguer of stern foes.
Wild thoughts within, bad men without,
All evil spirits round about, 4
Are banded in unblest device.
To spoil Love's earthly paradise.
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Then draw we nearer day by day,
Each to his brethren, all to God ;
Let the world take lis as she may,
We must not change our road."
And " vif ar " too, we surely need, for not by listless, apathetic
acriuiescence in the righteousness of our cause, and a self-satisfied .
conclusion that we are more primitive in our faith, and more apos-
tolic in our grace, than our Christian brethren on the right hand and
on the left, shall we, any of us, approve ourselved to the groat Head
of the Church and win His commendation and reward. I call you
to vigour all along the line, to vigour in your thinking upon the
great and Holy cause committed to our trust, and of what the
success of that cause means in the re-union of Christendom and
Evangelization of the world, to vigour in your realization of the
spiritual blessings which God has bestowed upon us " the unsearch-
able riches of Christ," with which He has endowed us ; to vigour in
your prosecution of the work and the extension of the borders of
the church in the land : to vigour in your giving, that the needs of
the heralds of the Cross may be supplied : to vigour in your prayers,
that such a fresh outpouring of God's Holy Spirit may be vouchsafed
as shall fill us with a buoyant enthusiasm, and all conquering faith
in the final success of that system which we all alike believe com-
bines, as no other does, Evangelical truth and Apostolic order ; and
to push it forward to a glorious consummation.
To the Members or the Dioeesan Synod of Nova Scotia :
Dear Brethren, —
It would be altogether impossible for me to begin my Address to
you without at once referring to the most momentous event which has
happened since our last official meeting, which came near to sunder-
ing forever our relations to each other — the serious and all but fatal
illness by which I wa.s stricken down towards the end of November,
1890. Looking back from the vantage ground of, us I believe, fully
recovered health and strength, into that valley of doubt and fear,
dark with what seemed likely to prove the shadow of death, I can
feelingly adopt the language of the Psalmist and say, " The sorrows
ot death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me : I
found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon tha name of the
Lord : O Lokd, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the
LoKi), and rigliteoue ; yea, our God is merciful. I was brought low
and He helped me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord
hath dealt bountifully with thee. For Thou hast delivered my soul
from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling." During
those long weeks of dangerous illness, strong pain, and resulting
fepbleness, like that of a little child, the tender, anxious and loving
ministrations of my dear friend the Dean, made still stronger the
bond of affection and gratitude by which I was previously bound to
him, while his faithful fulfilment of the duties, and patient bearing
of the burdens, which I was constrained to lay upon him as my
Clommissary during my long subsequent absence from the Diocese,
have laid me under greater obligations than ever to him — obligations
which I am glad to have the opportunity thus publicly to acknowledge.
While I thus refer to my indebtedness to the Dean, I am far from
unmindful of what I owe to you, and to all the people of these two
Provinces, for the sympathetic interest and ceaseless solicitude shown
by you in continual prayer that I might be spared from death, and
given back to the work to which you believe that God's Holy Spirit
guided you to call mc. I tliink those prayers have been answered,
not only in the return of bodily and mental vigor, but in a deepened
sense of the combined privilege and responsibility of the trust com-
mitted to me, and a stronger desire to devote myself with entire
unreservedness to the discharge of the duties of so weighty an office
as that of a Bishop in the Church of God. I have tiik^n up again
the Pastoral Slalf so long laid aside, relying upon the In Ip of God's
Holy Spirit, the supp.'y of His heavenly grace, the " sui)plication8,
prayers, intercessions, and giving of thaiikh," of the I'aithful, the
counsel of my appointed advisors, and the active co-operation of the
clergy and laity, to cheer my otherwise desponding heart, to lighten
my ourdens, to share my anxieties, and to work zealously witli me
for the prosperity of the Church of England in this Diocese, uul the
gathering into her fold of many now without, that they may share
with us " in the fulness of the blessing of the G<J^pc•l of Christ."
I also gratefully record my thanks to the Bishops of Maine and
Newfoundland, and tlie Bishop-coadjutor of Fredericton lor much-
needed and valued Episcopal help in Confirming and Ordaining dur-
ing my absence — their kind and brotherly assistance helping in no.
small degree to lessen the disadvantage of my long absence.