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 A SERMON,. 
 
 lEACHED BY THE RT. ReV, THE LORD BISHOP OP FREDERICTON, 
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 02r TUESDAY, AUGUST IZth, 1878, 
 
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 "OTHER LITTLE SHIPS." 
 
 S. Mark iv. 36. 
 "And there were also with Him other little ships." 
 
 For brevity, simplicity, and fulness, and perfect suitableness 
 to the various needs of anxious and troubled souls, I recollect 
 no history in the Holy Gospels more remarkable than the 
 narrative with which this text is connected. It seems to strike 
 home, like that great Collect of the Church which appeals to 
 our Heavenly Father's pity, as " knowing us to be set in the 
 midst of so many and great dangers that we cannot always 
 stand upright," and beseeches Him to " grant us such strength 
 and protection as may support us in all dangers, and cany us 
 through all temptations," even as . the disciples in the ship, 
 when our Lord lay sleeping, and in the other little ships that 
 waited on Him, by one word from His mouth were delivered 
 from the raging storm, and brought safe into the haven where 
 they would be. 
 
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 Our Lord is here described as crossing the lake of Galilee 
 with the Apostles in a small fishing-vessel. A strong current 
 always flows through the lake, and it is open to sudden violent 
 tempests, like that which caught our own Eurydice, rushing 
 down from the gorges which divide the hills on either side. 
 Caught in one of these storms, unusually violent, the little 
 vessel 5° covered with the short broken seas. The disciples, 
 though fishermen, are alarmed ; and to their amazement they 
 behold their Master in the stern asleep on a pillow. Possibly 
 one was the spokesman for the rest, and we can hardly doubt 
 that it was St. Peter, always more forward to chide, and more 
 impulsive; and the earliest traditions record that this lifelike 
 story was written under his dictation. With loud, earnest, 
 passionate cries they ask, "Master, carest Thou not that we 
 perish ? " As if He wl o had so long and so tenderly loved 
 them, could now forget them in their extremest danger ! As if 
 He who cared for all could cease caring for that little flock 
 whom He had chosen, or even for those little ships which sur- 
 rounded Him, full of souls as precious to Him as the Apostles 
 themselves ! 
 
 The gentle rebuke follows, " Wliy are ye so fearful ? " How 
 is it that ye have no faith in My care and lovp, ? Then comes 
 the all-powerful word which struck them with great fear, " He 
 rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Be still," be bridled, 
 " and there was a great calm." 
 
 One's whole nature instinctively recoils from the notion, 
 that we must limit this narrative to the literal place of its 
 occurrence. The whole mind of the Church has seen in it 
 a wonderful mirror of the dangers to which the individual 
 Christian and the whole body of the Church are ever exposed. 
 As we ride on the waves of this troublesome world, our 
 
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baptismal service prudently wn. ners in the ears of each child , 
 " You are set in the midst of many and great dangers." We 
 cannot avoid them, do what we will. They rise around us like 
 the wild waves, from our very childhood. They surround us 
 in the fever of our youth; they press upon us in our busy 
 manhood ; they linger round the couch of old age. The heed- 
 ]'.6S boy yields to them ; the vigorous man is beset by them ; 
 old age sometimes gives up the struggle as hopeless. The ship 
 is filled with them. They come suddenly and unexpectedly, 
 as witi'. a gust, and blow from various quarters, and beat upon 
 our bark. But our greatest difficulty arises from our own wart 
 of faith in our great Master's care and love. Our own vessel 
 p.eems to us the only vessel in changer; the dangers which 
 encircle it higher and more fearful than any others ; our own 
 sufferings harder to bear than those of any others. Loss of 
 fortune it may I 3, loss of health, loss of sight, loss of h'jaring, 
 loss of children, loss of husband, wife, or friend — some of those 
 bitternesses with which no stranger can intermingle. And 
 where is the grtat Master? where is the consoling promise, 
 that " He that guardeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep " ? 
 Is He not out of sight ? Does He not suffer the tempest to 
 rage, and the v,^aves to pour in one after another into our vessel, 
 so that d'^er calleth unto deep to overwhelm us ? We cry, but 
 there is uo answer to o ir prayers. The Master sleeps. But 
 why does He sleep amidst the raging of the storm ? Is not 
 that calm sleep an image of His Divine power, a token 
 that He sends the storm, o,nd when His time comes He can 
 still it? 
 
 The physical sleep of the Lord's body is not a symbol of 
 His indifference. It is a lesson to us not to imagine that He 
 is careless of our danger, because for the moment He takes 
 
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 no notice of it. How small and contracted is the view which 
 poor sufferers have of their temptations and their trials, of 
 the motive which prompts their Master to permit them, of the 
 wise and tender love which every moment cares for them whilst 
 they suffer, and because they suffer! And if He seems to 
 sleep, it is to make them more vigilant, that they may cry aloud 
 for succour, and may learn, as fresh troubles arise in the Church, 
 or in their own life, not to be " so fearful," and to have more 
 faith in Him. 
 
 And is our own vessel the only ship for which He cares ? 
 Are there not with Him also "other little ships " ? Are there not 
 many souls of whom the world takes no account, unnamed in 
 history, uncounted in the chronicles of fame — poor, suffering, 
 tempted souls, for whom few human beings care, who live in 
 toil, and want, and penury, and suffer unknown agonies of 
 dreary doubt, and fear of what may happen, and their little 
 boat is always tossing, no sooner niounted on the crest of a 
 wave than it sweeps wildly down into the trough of the sea, 
 and every one is too busy about his own dangers to attend to 
 the solitary craft ? But does the Master forget that in the 
 " little ships " there are lives and souls as precious as those 
 of the Apostles themselves ? Cares He not for those little 
 ships ? Will not they also hear the consoling word, " "Why 
 are ye so fearful ? " Will they not share in the rebuke of the 
 tempest, and in the "great calm" ? 
 
 Surely this is a lesson to all classes of minds, and all ranks 
 of society. It is not for the poor to think, Christ careth not 
 for me. It is not for the rich to imagine, I am one of the great 
 pillars of the Church, or of the State — one of the few who 
 deserve consideration. It is not for the laity to say, it is well 
 for you, the Bishoi)S and clergy, to possess the saintly character ; 
 
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 we do not dream of ascending to such heights. The saintly 
 character belongs to the Christian man and woman everywhere, 
 not to the clergy as a class. For when they receive the Holy 
 Ghost at their ordination, it is in fulfilment of their Master's 
 promise, to sanctify the word they preach, to make valid the 
 sacraments they minister, to render their whole office valuable 
 to the flock, and effectual for the purposes fo,.' which it was 
 designed, not to stamp them as the greatest saints before the 
 world. It is to strengthen them and comfort them by the belief 
 that this is not a sham of man's devising, but a real truth of 
 God's ordaining, which, rightly interpreted, and modestly and 
 reasonably set forth, is the strength and comfort both of the 
 shepherd and of the flock : of the shepherd when he knows 
 that not only high and glorious intellects, profoundly learned 
 masters in Israel, are the Redeemer's care, but the "little 
 ships " also, plain ordinary men, whose hope lies not in bril- 
 liancy, but in rugged perseverance; in that simplicity and 
 godly sincerity which an Apostle gloried in, and which they 
 may share with that great Apostle. 
 
 And so it is our comfort, brethren beloved in the Lord, when 
 we come to England for a little season, we gaze on the 
 magnificent shrines which ancient piety reared, and which 
 your reverence and liberality have restored, but only restored 
 (remember), for your hands built not these walls, your genius did 
 not originate this mighty plan, your souls were not first inspired 
 with these lofty thoughts: but when our joyful eyes behold it, we 
 thank God and you for the sight, and see everything to admire in 
 it, and nothing to find fault with. We know that in our colonial 
 Sees we are but *• little ships." Yet, whatsoever we are, we are in 
 the great Master's fleet. It was His voice that called us to em- 
 bark ; it is His hand that beckons us to the shore ; it is His arm 
 
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 on which we lean in the midst of the tempest ; it is His compass 
 by which we steer ; it is His great salvation which we hope to 
 share with you. You worship (it is true) in a church of more 
 than common stateliness and beauty, and you have a history on 
 which the mind loves to dwell. You can look back to the 
 days when these ancient towers were built by Norman hands, 
 when daring and successful builders pierced their mighty walls, 
 when the great designer of the ohoir first opened out the vista, 
 and the still mightier Grandisou completed the o'er-arching nave 
 and aisles, and when the whole structure assumed somewhat 
 of its present form and comeliness. Beneath the shadow of 
 these walls generations of illustrious dead repose, the echoes 
 of the Civil War have here died away, the trump of God has 
 sounded to awake a sleeping Church, and through all changes 
 of the State or of the Church the glorious walls remain, as 
 if built for Eternity, and scarce to be destroyed by time ; and 
 in a thousand churches England recalls the struggles and the 
 glories of the past. We have no history but that which we 
 make ourselves. But we will never despair. Sons of the 
 Church, we will build with the sword of the Spirit in one hand, 
 and the trowel in the other, bent upon reproducing in such ways 
 as God shall lead us, and as the varying conditions of our life 
 permit, England's Church, and England's faith, and England's 
 loyalty, and above all the truth of God's most Holy Word 
 committed to our charge. We are a body Catholic because 
 not merely Roman, separated, but not by our own desire, ever 
 praying to be reunited on primitive and Apostolical foundations, 
 in true, substantial, visible union witli the several parts of our 
 Church in many lands, but holding to "one Lord, one baptism, 
 one God and Father of us all," and "contending earnestly for the 
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 together in conference, all in communion with each otlier, 
 surely it is not too much to say that while there has been free 
 and friendly discussion, there has been substantial unity. No 
 article of the faith has been denied, no venerable creed has been 
 surrendered, no word of the living God has been thrust aside. 
 Every Bishop has desired to build upon the old primitive 
 foundations of the Catholic and undivided Church. Surely 
 this Conference, if it did no more, would be a sufficient answer 
 to those who unworthily represent us as one of many discordant 
 sects, as a body rent by endless divisions, without foundation, 
 without coherence, without orders, without sacraments, without 
 unity in itself. Whereas by our marvellous increase throughout 
 the world, and our union in all the verities of the Christian 
 faith, we are '* compacted by that which every joint supplieth, 
 according to the effectual working in the measure of every part," 
 and, we are (we trust) "growing unto a holy temple in the 
 Lord." 
 
 " Oroioinff." Not till one hundred and fifty years after the 
 Eeformation did England begin to realise the blessing of growth. 
 The ""plantations " (so called) were feeble struggling commu- 
 nities, without a native episcopacy, divided in religious belief, 
 and unconscious of their destiny. Now we behold a Church, 
 vast in extent, considerable in numbers, with sixty Bishops, 
 some of them Missionary Bishops, with more than four thousand 
 clergy, with multitudes of highly educated men who have 
 pressed into her fold, converts from all sides, a church thoroughly 
 organised and synodically compacted. Rent from us by a political 
 revolution, in all the great foundations of the faith, in all man's 
 highest interests and hopes, in love for England's Church, the 
 Episcopal Church of the United States is entirely one with our 
 own in Great Britain and her colonies. 
 
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 " Orowing.*' Oflce<^ nfdia Christianity made its appearance 
 as an alien, feebly halting on rorBidden ground. Yet such haffe) 
 been Grod's blessing that ten thousand native converts came to 
 welcome the arrival qf our Sovereign's s^n, and now under the 
 care of 3i8hop8' lately cocsecrated eighteen thousand natives- 
 have requested to be •enrolled, in the Church Jay Holy Baptism.* 
 
 " Ghrowing." About a century since, ona Bishop was author- 
 ised as a State ofl&cial to have nominal rule over the whole of the 
 provinces of Canada, Newfoundland, Bermuda, and the l^hamas. 
 60 little notion had the statesmen of that day o|, the spi^itiial , 
 needs of Churchmen and the duties of a Bishop. Kow we laxva 
 two Church Provinces, arifa fourteen Bishops in those vast and 
 populous regions, presiding over their seyeral Synods, who have^ 
 each as n^ch work to do as any man can reasonably desire. 
 The same remarkable growth lias^ been shown in 'Australia and 
 in Southern Africa. * 
 
 , And what need to speak of New Zealand, when the memory 
 of two loved and honoured names is fresh in your heartS|, and « 
 placed before your iy«s ? Surely the love we bear them should 
 stilus, as their best memorial, to greater ehergy and s^lf- 
 sacrific*, and nobler gifts. And as we have wept together for 
 the father, l(jt our prayers now ascend together for the son. 
 Oh, that the iiie of suffering through which he has passed may 
 be to him the iire of strength, of patience, and of love. J^ the 
 love of the convert, in the steadfastness of the native pastor, in 
 tiift deepening convictions of the island race, that he, the old 
 Bishop's son, is their true and lasting friend, may he find his 
 rich reward. So may he land in safety where the meek 
 Patteson fell, and the fronds of the palm branch, once the 
 tokens of a wild and savage justice, become the peaceful heralds 
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 blest wounds there shall stream forth foun^ as of salvation, and 
 the fair and the dark races shall kneel before one altar, and 
 become as one in the love of that Redeemer who has bought 
 them with His precious blood. 
 
 "Orovnng!* In the island of Madagascar, one whom I remem- 
 ber as a boy, the worthy son of a most worthy father, prebendary 
 with myself of this cathedral, was lately confirming seventy- 
 four native converts, and ordaining a native pastor, on the 
 same Whitsun-day that I was ordaining the sen of the old 
 Pitcairn Missionary to the children of the mutineers in the 
 Bounty, and likewise was ordaining a Danish teacher to minister 
 to a body of emigrants from Copenhagen. Truly the Gospel 
 of Christ supplies a gracious Nemesis. The mqpiory of old 
 deeds of hate is repaid by new deeds of love. Mutiny is 
 changed to bounty; and ravages of fire and sword are repaid 
 by sending to the descendants of the Danes the tokens of a 
 fresh and lasting peace. For when in that emigrant room in 
 the wilderness, adorned with boughs, and fresh flowera gathered 
 from the forest, I confirmed the children of the Danes, the 
 first names announced to me were Canute, Eric, and Olaf. We 
 sang the old Danish hymns; we offered our Litany in the 
 Danish, and responded in the English tongue ; and the little 
 band, now members of our own Church of England, knelt 
 around one Altar, over which the cross of the Danish flag 
 formed its simple but appropriate ornament. "For He has 
 made us one by the blood of His cross." The history of 
 Missions is indeed a mingled record of toil and joumejdngs, 
 peril and constant service, of disappointments, of contentions, 
 of shortcomings and fallings away, of many payers and many 
 tears : but sum them all up, gather them from every age au^ 
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 blood of our Lord Jesus, the Prophet who teaches us, the Priest 
 who offers for us, the King who dwells in us, the Intercessor 
 and the Saviour of us alL 
 
 But, turning back for a moment to human agency, we may- 
 say, without any exaggeration, that much of the growth and 
 extension of our Church is, under God, owing to the two 
 handmaids of the Church, whose anniversary we celebrate 
 to-day ; and to whose strength and increase it is the duty of 
 every Churchman, of every class, to contribute according to 
 his ability. Make their cause, my brethren, your own. Throw 
 yourselves heartily into this work, as if you believed in it and 
 loved it. We want from you the same kind of work which 
 you very reasonably require of us; strong, hearty, continued 
 work, not the work of dilettanti Bishops and halting Christians, 
 but the work of men; of those who know that there is a 
 dignity in labour, and that honest labour goes on till sundown, 
 and does not cease when the sun is high. Let every Bishop 
 speak for himself. I come here to-day to bear my testimony, 
 that my Diocese owes a debt, which we can never repay, to 
 those two venerable Institutions; and that our greatest obli- 
 gation is that of having called foitii our own exertions, and 
 enabled us to make some sacrifices for our religion. Certainly 
 I hold it to be an Articulus staniis vel cadentis ecdesia;, that 
 we not only believe, but that we do the will of God. And 
 where is the Apostle who, travelling in a foreign land, found, 
 as I have found, two noble and liberal Institutions ready to 
 liis hand; helping to support his Missionaries, and to build 
 his churches, and never failing him in time of need? Then 
 are we Apostles, when we toil in rowing: when we toil all 
 the night, even if we have caught nothing, hoping to find when 
 the blest morning comes. 
 
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 And if my voice could be heard, and were of any worth 
 without these walls, it would be raised on behalf of our never 
 undertaking Colonial work which we were not prepared to 
 live and die for. If the greatness of England is not an insular 
 but a maritime greatness ; if her, fleets go forth, not only to 
 protect her harbours, but to extend her commerce ; if her power 
 is felt in the little flag of the fisher-boat, as weU as in the 
 mightiest of her ironclads ; if her sons carry with them to all 
 lands the proud trophy of her laws and of her freedom, much 
 more may Christian Bishops glory in continuing to " sow beside 
 all waters," and in holding the land where they have sown 
 and laboured as their own. 
 
 Permit me, in conclusion, to remind you all of your own 
 duty to the Church, which is your mother, and to those Insti- 
 tutions which are the handmaids of the Church. That you 
 are known at all as Christians, beyond the shores of England, 
 is, in great part, the work of these two Institutions. Your 
 eternal glory will not be that you restored cathedrals, or that 
 you made treaties, or that you abounded in riches, or that 
 you conquered nations, but that you conquered sin. The living 
 stones of the Kedeemer's temple will be your coronet; the 
 gathering in your own half heathen masses, the seeking out 
 the lost, the strengthening the weak, the raising the fallen in 
 this and in every land. Look you at this glorious church, 
 and fancy that your work is done. These dead stones, instinct 
 with life, tell in your ears what living stones should be. The 
 harmonies that daily wake within these walls are but the pre- 
 lude to the nobler anthem of souls won to the love of Christ 
 by your own efforts. Not to the clergy only, but to the 
 Church rt large, is committed this divine, this difficult, 
 this unceasing care. Never for one moment is the cry 
 
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 unheard amidst the storm, Christian, " carest thou not that 
 we perish ? " 
 
 Unholy soul, what hast thou done for Christ? Selfish, in- 
 dolent, careless, self-satisfied soul, what hast thou done for 
 Christ? Bitter, vindictive, harsh-judging soul, biting and 
 devouring thy brethren, what art thou doing for Christ ? And 
 as the last word I may perhaps be ever permitted to speak 
 within these dear and holy walls, I say to you all, Work more 
 for Christ. 
 
 Work on, work humbly, and the truth will dawn upon you. 
 Work on, and peace will return to you. Work on, and sorrow 
 and sighing will not burden you. Work on, and the tempter 
 will flee from you. Work on, for this is life's business, this 
 is death's happiness, this is eternity's reward : " I have finished 
 the work which Thou gavest me to do. " Amen. 
 
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