IMAGE EVALUATION
TEST TARGET (MT-3)

1.0

i.l

1.25

IIIIIM

140

2.2

U ill 1.6

"c?^

■^2

Photographic

Sciences
Corporation

23 WEST MAIN STREET

WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580

(716)872-4503

.<^.

Lfi

c?.-

CIHM/ICMH

Microfiche

Series.

CIHM/ICMH
Collection de
microfiches.

Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions

Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques

1980

Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques

The Institute has attempted to obtain the best
original copy available for filming. Features of this
copy which may be bibliographically unique,
which may alter any of the images in the
reproduction, or which may significr tly change
the usual method of filming, are checked below.

L'Institut a microfilmd le meilleur exemplaire
qu'il lui a 6t6 possible de se procurer. Les details
de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-dtre uniques du
point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier
une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exiger une
modification dans la m^thode normale de filmage
sont indiqu^s ci-dessous.

Coloured covers/
Couverture de couleur

I I Covers damaged/

Couverture endommagee

□ Covers restored and/or laminated/
Couverture restaur^e et/ou pellicut§e

□ Cover title missing/
Le titre de couverture manque

I I Coloured maps/

□

Cartes gdographiques en couleur

Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/
Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire)

□ Coloured plates and/or illustrations/
Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur

Bound with other material/
Relid avec d'autres /sruments

Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion
along interior margin/

La reliure serr^e peut causer de I'ombre ou de la
distortion le long de la marge intdrieure

Blank leaves added during restoration may
appear within the text. Whenever possible, these
have been omitted from filming/
II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajoutdes
lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte,
mais, lorsque cela dtait possible, ces pages n'ont
pas 6t6 film^es.

D
D
D

D
D
D
D
D

Coloured pages/
Pages de couleur

Pages damaged/
Pages endommag^es

Pages restored and/or laminated/
Pages restaurdes et/ou pellicul^es

Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/
Pages d6color6es, tachetdes ou piqudes

Pages detached/
Pages d^tachees

Showthrough/
Transparence

Quality of print varies/
Quality indgale de I'impression

Includes supplementary material/
Comprend du materiel supplementaire

Only edition available/
Seule Edition disponible

Pages wholly or partially obscured by etrata
slips, tissues, etc., have been refilmed to
ensure the best possible image/
Les pages totalement ou partiellement
obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une pelure,
etc., ont 6t<b film^es d nouveau de fa^on d
obtenir la meilleure imaga possible.

Additional comments:/
Commentaires suppl^mentaires;

This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/

Co document est film^ au taux de reduction indiqu^ ci-dessous.

10X 14X 18X 22X

26X

30X

12X

16X

20X

24X

28X

32X

The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanks
to the generosity of:

Library of the Public
Archives of Canada

L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grSce d la
g6n6rosit6 de:

La bibliothdque des Archives
publiques du Canada

The images appearing here are the best quality
possible considering the condition and legibility
of the original copy and in keeping with the
filming contract specifications.

Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed
beginning with the front cover and ending on
the last page with a printed or illustrated impres-
sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All
other original copies are filmed beginning on the
first page with a printed or illustrated impres-
sion, and ending on the last page with a printed
or illustrated impression.

Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites avec le
plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et
de la nettetd de l'exemplaire filmd, et en
conformitd avec les conditions du contrat de
filmage.

Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en
papier est imprim6e sont film6s en commengant
par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la
dernidre page qui comporte une empreinte
d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second
plat, salon !e cas. Tous les autres exemplaires
originaux sont filmds en commengant par la
premiere page qui comporte une empreinte
d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par
la dernidre page qui comporte une telle
empreinte.

The last recorded frame on each microfiche
shall contain the symbol —^ (meaning "CON-
TINUED "{, or the symbol V (meaning "END"),
whichever applies.

Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la
dernidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le
cas: le symbole — ^- signifie "A SUIVRE", le
symbole V signifie "FIN".

Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at
different reduction ratios. Those too large to be
entirely included in one exposure are filmed
beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to
right and top to bottom, as many frames as
required. The following diagrams illustrate the
method:

Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre
filmds d des taux de reduction diffdrents.
Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre
reproduit an un seul clichd, il est filmd & partir
de Tangle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite,
et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre
d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants
illustrent la m6thode.

32X

■"

P« Most Mmmi jo^ii MtiH 9. i-

Jl'irst Bishop of Jpedepicton and Jjjletropolitan of Canada.

PBH«

THE LATE THE MOST REVEREND JOHN MEDLEY, D. D.,
LORD BISHOP OF FREUERICTON AND METROPOLITAN OF CANADA.

(7^

The Life and Work

OF THE

|ost |cicifiul |oIin j|c(llcs, 1 1.

J;'irst bishop of J;'rcdericton and Jiflctropolitan of Canada.

WILLIAM QUINTARD KETCHUM, D. D.

litcUif (,f Siiiiil Andrews, aV. B.,

ANf)

Honorary C'dion of l/ie Cathedral, FredericlOH.

SAINT .TOnN, N. B.

J. <!« A. Mc.Mn,LAN, Pkixtkus, Publishers, Etc.
1S93.

Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada In the year 1893,

By J. A A. McMillan,

In the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa.

TO
MRS. MEDLKY,

WHOSE PRIVILEOK IT WA.s TO HAVE

SO LARGE A SHARK IN HO LARGE A LIKE,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

The writer has ventured upon this work at the siijrgp.stion of
many whose opinions and wislies are greatly valued. The brief
history of the Church in earlier years will, it is helieved, be of
interest. By very many throughout the Anglican Communion
the name of John Medley, the tirst Bishop of Frederieton, is well
known, and helil in high regard. His life and work are worthy
of enduring record.

The writer had the opportunity, in his early years, of persoiuil
knowledge of much to which he has referred in those pages. He
wais n Divinity Student at the time of the Bishop's arrival in the
Diocese, and was the first Deacon he ordaine.l. Fo,- fourteen
years, with rare exceptions, he was associated almost daily with
the Bishop. As Secretary of the Diocesan Church Society, for
more than forty years, he was present with him at all the meet-
ings of that Society. In later years, in charge of a Parish at
some distance from Frederieton, the writer was favoured with
frequent visits.

In further justification of this undertaking, the following extract
of a letter is subjoined. It was written shortly before that attack
of illness from the effects of which the Bishop did not recover :
" I cannot let your letter pass without a few words of thanks and
of hearty return of most affectionate regard. Your home has
always been to me a resting place in all the troubles and cares
which of necessity fall on the head of the Bishop of the Diocese,
and I know not when I have been more entirely able to shake off
those cares than when under your hospitable roof, and in those
happy services we have enjoyed together. ... I feel fully

(11)

I'kp:face.

assured of your firm aft'ection I need not ask your

prayers and those of all your household. They are mine, I know,
before I a.sk them."

The writer desires to express his great obligations for much as-
sistance in his work, and for the use of documents by which he has
been ei.abled to exhibit the life and character of the Bishop, as far
as possible, in his own words.

He is especially indebted to the Rev. W. 0. Raymond, M. A.,
Rector of 8t. Clary's, St John, for the use of old S. P. G. reports,
and other works which supplied important information, as well as
for valuable assistance in othor ways.

Thr Rectory,

St. Andrews, N. B., Canada,
Mai/ 2oth, 1893,

CONTENTS.

Preface, ^-

CHAPTER I. •
Native and French Population — Arrival of the Loyalists, 17

CHAPTER 11.
New Brunswick set apart from Nova Scotia— An Archdeaconry, 22

CHAPTER III.
Archdeacon Coster— Origin of the Diocesan CJiurch Society, 28

CHAPTER IV.
Deatli of Archdeacon Coster— His Character— His Brothers, 35

CHAPTER V.

Earnest Desire for a Bishop -The Colonial Bishopric Fund — Diocese of
Frederi(*on Endowed, 00

CHAPTER VI.
Rev. John Medley, D. D., Consecrated the First Bishop of Fredericton —
His Boyhood — Scholar and Student — Presentation on leaving Eng-
land, and Farewell Addresses- Early Years of his Ministry 43

CHAPTER VII.
The Bishop's arrival at Fredericton — Change from Former Life — Feel-
ingsof Distrust ManifeMcd- Laying the Foundation Stone of the
Cathedral, : ^„

CHAPTER VIII.

St. Anne's Chapel -Laying Foundation Stone — Consecration of Chapel

— Bishop's Sermon, --

•^ ' to

(13)

14 CoXTKNTS.

CHAPTER IX.
First Visitation of tlie Diocese — Notes of Visitation Tour in 1S46, 80

CHAPTER X.

Keport to S. P. G. — Extracts from Primary Cliarge— Visit to England
in 1848— Visitation of Clergy in ISoO — Address of the Clergy, and
Bishf)p'8 Reply — Appointment of Kural Deans, <»9

CHAPTER XL

The Work of the Diocesan Clmrch Hociely— Notes from Annals of the

Diocese — Consecration of the Cathedral, 112

CHAPTER XH.
The Bishop's Teaching and Example— Marked Characteristics — Illns-
trations— Essay on "Good Taste" — Confirmation Tour in 1S57 —
Extracts from Annals of the Diocese 125

CHAPTER XIII.

Diocesan and Provincial Synods — Bisliop chosen Metropolitan — Ex-
tracts from Addresses to the Provincial .Synod — Presentation of
Crozier — Address and Reply, 142

CHAPTER XIV.

Extracts from the Bishop's Triennial Charges to Clergy, 1871-1877 —
Calamitous Fire in St. John — Bishop's Sermon, 153

CHAPTER XV.

Intercourse with the Church in the United States— Extracts from

Sermons — Notes from the Annals i,si

CHAPTER XVI.

Sermons preached in England— Lambeth Conference— I':piscopal Ring

— Address and Reply — Notes from the Annals, 196

CHAPTER XVI L

Nomination, Election and Consecration of the Bishop Coadjutor, 224

C'OXTENTS. 15

CHAPTER XVIII.
Parish of St. Paul and the Mission Chape) - Fortieth Year of tiie
Bishop's Episcopate -Attendance at tlie Third Lambeth Confer-
^"^^' 227

CHAPTEK XIX.
Illness and Death of Kev. Canon Medley -Tiio Bishop and the late
Rev. George M. Arni.strong 239

CHAPTER XX.

Sermon on Mission of the Comforter- Extracts from recent Charges to
the Clergy — Last Charge,. 24,5

CHAPTER XXI.

Failing Strength -Instances of Kindness to those in Affliction -Last
Attendance at the Synod — Last Sermon 278

CHAPTER XXII.
Private Letters- Last Extract from the Annals -Pastoral Letter -
Notes by Mi-s. Medley -Illness and Death, 287

CHAPTER XXIIL

Extracts from Letters to Mrs. Medley -Notices in the Press - Resolu-
tions— Letters from Rev. Canon Brigstocke, D. D., and from Rev.
Canon Neales, M. A. — Extracts from Memorial Sermons, 299

CHAPTER XXIV.

Letters from tlie Presiding Bishop of the American Church,* Bishop of
Maine, Bishop of Albany, Causten Browne, Esq. (Boston, Mass.),
the Bishop of Niagara, Colonel Maunseii, Colonel Ewing (Taunton,
Eng.), Rev. F. Alexander, Lady Tiliey, (i. E. Fenety, Mrs. Robi„.son-
Owen (Belfield, South Wales) — Conclusion 310

CHAPTER 1.

X.ATIVE AM. KiiKNCI, roiTLATION— A IlRr VAL OK TIIK

Loyalists.

Till': Most Ukverrxd John Medlkv, D. D.

of Now Kiii'liUKl. Their i»()siti()ii was nect'ssarilv ii trviiin-
one. They could not oiKhire siibjoetion to the recently
cstahlislied rei>nl)lican _i;overnmeiit, and they were objects of
aversion to the majority now in the ascendancy. The down-
fall of the monarchy seemed to imi>ly the downfall of the
Church.^ Excciitinir in the City of Xew York, and in a few
other hivoured jdaces, the ministrations of the Church of
England ceased. In some jdaces they were forbidden by
the civil authoi-ity. Among the Loyalist minority were many
of considerable means and culture, who, })rovious to the war,
had occui)ied prominent positions in their several localities.
It must have l)een a trying wrench to leave their homes,
in many instances so dear, for new, untried regions. This,
those loyal to their Church and King felt must be done, at
all hazards. In their niigi-ation we are somewhat reminded
of what poets told, ages ago, of early settlements on the
coasts of the Mediterranean. There was, however, one
great difference. In the latter case, everything was attrac-
tive to the exiles in the way of climate and many other
advantages. The Loyalists left comfortal)le homes, and a
more favourable climate, for that of New Urunswick, with
its long, stern winters, its native Indians, its unbroken
forests. Aid, indeed, was generously and promptly aiforded
by the British Government. Means of transjtort were pro-

^ How little did those hardy, devoted men know of the future of the Church
which they considered was "finished" in the United States I Tliere it is now
passed from "darkness to dawn." Merging- in fuller light, the American
Churcli is to-day the most imjjortant hranch of tlie Anglic an Conununion outside
the British Isles. There is no Diocese in the Dominion of Canada to compare
with that of Connecticut, from whence a large portion of tiie Loyalists came.
It luis its churches, schools, hospitals, and churcli liomes, with over one
hundred and fifty clergy. A church recently destroyed by fire in the Parish
of Stamford, whence one of the earliest missionaries in New Brunswick came,
has lately been rebuilt at a cost of about !?2(J0,0()0. Surrounding the ciiurch
are grand buildings for schools, a ciuireh home, and hospital.

ArUIVAL of the LoYALlfiTS.

1!)

vidijd for those who wished to seek now homos. On tlio
18th M.iv, 1783, tho tir.st hand ot cx'Uos, ni}mhonn<;' throe
thousand soids, laink'tl near the mouth of the River St.
John, whore is now tho tlourishinii' oomniorfial oity of that
name. The father of the present writer was one of those
exikis. lie was at tlie age of thirteen. In after years he
wouhl tell of that landing on the shore, of the hrusJiwood
extending to the water's edge, and of the eneanipment on
the banks of the liarhour. In the same year vessels con-
tinued to arrive throughout the summer, and a eonsiderable
party of disbanded soldiers were added to the eolonists.

At the time we speak of Xow Ih'unswiek formed a part
of the l*rovincc of Nova Scotia. Careful and niimite ar-
rangements were made by the government for the comfort
of the new settlors. Farming utensils, seed, and other
neeossaries were liberally provided. To each family tracts
of land were granted from three hundred to six hundred
acres. Over and above two thousand acres in every town-
ship were allotted toward the support of a clergyman, and
one thousand acres for the maintenance of a Church sjhool.
A small minoritv of the refugees were non-conformists.
Several clergymen of the Church of England accompanied
the new settlors. At that time there does not appear to
have been a minister of any other communion. Soon after,
by the kind and bounteous aid of the Society for the I*ropa-
gation of the Crospel, Loyalist clergymen from the new
Republic arrived. To that Society many of the most im-
portant missions in the colonies, now independent, owed
their maintenance. The seed, thus cast upon the waters^
was plainly seen after many days. It can be traced out
to-da}'. It was now felt that grants from the Society
should be transferred to those in greatest need and to loyal
subjects of the Crown. By this means men well trained
and well fitted for most trying work were provided with

Tin; Most I{kvi:hi:ni> John Mkih.kv, I). I).

piirtial mcims ot .support. Among the miinbiT woih' uriuhi-
ates t'roiii King'rf College — now Colunibiji — Xt!\v York.
They had receivcMl ordination in Kngland. Tlu' names ol
many of these <levoted men are rememi^ered with reverence
and deoj) regard. Opportunity has not been often found
to minister to congregations like those whieh met together
in those trying times. The very line tlu-y had taken, their
loyalty so fully proved, the trials they were called to undergo^
their cheerful endurance, marked them as men of no ordi-
nary cliai'acter.

It is hard to imagine 'nvater dltlicidties than those which
heset the work of the clergy at the period of that early
settlement. Though in most instances i-oads were wanting,
and there were only paths through tlu- primeval forest, the
most distant residents were not neu;lected. Kre loniif, as the
country prospered, additional missionaries were provided for
by the Society in Kngland. (Miurches were built and schools
established. In many respects there was much wanting^
Avhich churchmen of our modern days look for and provide.
But, best of all, sound teaching in the principles of the
Church was uniforndy afforded. The young, both in the
schools and in their homes, were well trained in the teach-
ing of the catechism and jtrayer book. Whenever public
services were performed there was u large attendance of
devout worshijipers.

The following interesting account has been kindly furn-
ished by the Ifonorable Mr. dustice llanington, respecting
one of the few pre-Loyalist settlers who was a churchman :

The fii-st English settler at Shediuc was Win. Haaington, Esq.,
of London, England, who came there early in 1775 in company
with a friend, a Mr. Roberts, who only remained a short time, and
then returned to Europe. Mr. Hanington had purchased from the
representatives of Governor Williams a tract of about five thousand
acres of land, thinking it lay near Halifax, but on his arrival found

Arhivai, i»i' Tin; Luvamsts.

it WH8 at " Clu'diak." Tliero woro f Ikmi no other settlors Imt n few

families of French Acadians al)()Ut that harl)our. The feeling

against their then recent con<iuer<)rs was strong, and, in oonse-

<iuence, Mr. Hanington was subject to many privations incident to

the earlv settlement of the countrv. Afr. Hanington for some vears,

so far as English neighbours went, was alone, but (|uite early in the

present century, having attordod every encouragement to good

neighbours, several families were added to the neighbourhood ; and

as soon as two or three could be gathered together he began and

maintained, till the advent of a clergyman to the parish, morning

prayers and evening services each Sunday. This good work, as the

families increased, was very successful, and has borne gocKl fruit in

creating and fostering a strong Church feeling in the village. As

<>arly as. 1810 works of the S. P. C. K. were kept and circulated as

part of the Church work at Shediac, and these books may yet be

found d<»ing missionary work for the Church. The rector of Sack-

ville, the late Rev. Mr. Milncr, occasiijually visited Shediac, which

was then within his charge, and administered the sacraments and

ordinances as often as he could. In about the year 1824, chietly

through the liberality of the S. P. G., and of Mr. Hanington, the

present church was erected in the parish, and the Rev. Mr. Arnold

took charge there until about 1831, when he was succeeded by the

Rev. Mr. Black, after whose removal to Sackville in 18;U) the late

Dr. Jarvis was inducted and remained rector there until his death

in 1881. Shediac was visited by tl.a Lord Bishop of Nova

Scotia about 1823, it Ix ing a part of his Diocese. He came theio

in one of H. M. warships, and also then visited Prince Edward

Island. The parish was again visited and confirmations held by

the Bishop of Nova Scotia down to about 1843, and since the year

1845 it has been under the pastoral charge of our late Lord Bishop

Medley, whose constant visitations have done so much to maintain

a good Church feeling there.

CHAPTER II.

New Bri'Xswick Skt Apart from Xova iScoriA

Arciidkaconry.

— An

S^^EANWIIILK, the Province of Xcw Brunswick
jA jI ^^'^^ ^*"'^ «'il>iirt t'roni tliat ol' Xovu tScotia. A .sepu-
rntu Icgislaliuv was assi<!;iic(l, and a u;ovcrnor
a[)point('(l as a rcprcHontativu of the Crown.' As with tlie
cleriry, nianv of the hiity were men of culture, and well
fitted for the otKce of lei^islatoi's. Of such men were the
officials of the tirst separately estahlished i-ule in New
lirunswick composed. They were, without exception,
memhers of the Church of Knii;land. ]Ien(!e it came ahout
that, in addition to ori^'inal <i;rants from the C-rown, con-
siderahle [)ortions of land were assi<j;'ned for the maintenance
of the Church. I'rovision was made for grammar schools
in the several counties, under the control of the rector and
local Church authorities, liy the interest and exertion of
Sir Howard Douij^las, the lieutenant ij^overnor at tlie time
referred to, King's College was estahlished at Fredericton.
A handsome huilding was erected: it was endowed with
six thousand acres of land and ahout i;2,000 a vear from
the provincial revenues. The management was vested in
a council of memhers of the Church of England, with
power to confer degrees.

'Tlie Roviil insU-iu'tions to Governor Carloton of Aiimwt IStli, 1784,
miiuiti'ly (U'scril>e tlie steps to be taken in the organization of tlie new Prov-
ince. Section 70 reads thus: " Yoii shall take especial care that God Almighty
" be devoutly and duly served throughout your government, the Book of
"Common Prayer as by law established read each Sunday and holy day, and
" the blessed sacrament administered according to the rites of the Church of
" England."

(22)

An Auciidkaconuy.

TIk' yciir 1787 t'oniu'd u iiiarki-d era in tlic liistorv ol' tlio
Colonial Clinrcli. Tlio Kov. C'liarli-H In<:lis, D. I)., was con-
si'crated liisliop oi' Xova Sootia, tliat Dioci'so tlicn incliidini?
what is now the Dioi't'se of Fri'dcricton. His son, the
Kiuht Uovorond .lohn Ini^lis, was roiisofrutod I'»isho|» in
\H'Ii'). In tlu' lollowini; vear lie visitod Xcw nriinswicU and
fontirnicd ono thousand suvon hundrt'd and twenty piTsons.
Many ot" those were advanced in years, who, in their youth-
ful days, juid left their early homes. On that occasion the
Bishop oonsecrati'd no less than nineteen churt-hes. In
the year 1S;}2 tlu' IVishop visited the north and eastern
shores. He travelled i'i_i;ht hundred miles and confirmed
in seven ditt'erent places. A third visitation in IS;).') occu-
pied two months, when eiu'lit hundred i)ersons were con-
tirmed.' " Kvery toil," the Bishop writes, "was liu,'htened
liy a well encourai^ed hope that, throui^li the hlessiny; of
God, this portion ot the y'os[>el vineyard is in a state of [)ro-
ifress and improveujent. . . . The missionarii's are
labouring; faithfully throu<;'h many ditKcultics, uiuler which
they are sujiported by a conHdini:; trust in Him, whose they
are and whom they serve. They are exemplary in their life
and conversation. ... In all my communications with
them, which have Iteen constant and intimate, I have found
them respectful and allectionate, and it has been a deliudit-
ful task to share their labours and their pi-ayers,"

Xew Brunswick, in the year 182-j, was set apart as au
Archdeaconry, under the llev. (loorge Best, who was also
the iirst president of Ivinu;'s College. "lie was a man," it
is said, " full oi' gentleness aiul genuine unattbcted piety."
Owing to failing hcidth he I'eturned soon after to Kngland,
and in the year 1829, he was succeeded by Archdeacon
Coster. It was a u'reat misfortune to the Church that Arch-
deacon Coster, from physical inability, was unable to perform

^ Annals of the Colonini Church, by E. Hawkins.

^.w^.r,^,^..^^

TiiK Must Khvkukm) .Ioiix Mkulkv, I). I>.

all lilt' unliioiis <liit'u'8 |K'rtainiiiy; to Iiis char^t'. IIo was u
^t^radiiatc of Camlii'idtfc, an accoiniilirtlu'd scholar and well
read tiiooloi^inn, conrtcoiis and pontic in his niaimcrs, with
that calin dii^iiitv appcrtainiii!;; to his holv otHci' and hiirh
l>osilioii. iJodily iidiniiitics, in sonic dcijiH-c, hindered the
t'ttc'ct whii'li his sermons ami addresses, iVoni their siiiL»;ular
ortioacv, wonld otherwise have pnxlueod. Although natur-
ally reserved, those who knew him most intimatelv, were
-ilrawn to him hy his sympathy and kindness of heart.

A irreat (*han_u;e had now come ahoiit alike with rei^ard to
the body politic and the Chni'ch. The first mend)ers ol' the
Icii'islatnrc had «;rown old — many had passed away. Fn
tew instances did their descendants inhei'it their decided
prin«'iples. The young men ot" the country, with many also
who had come from elsewhere, claimed the right to i»romi-
nent political positions. They sought for a change, by which
tlie whole government of the country was to he left more
fully to the popular voice. At length this movement was
r(uccessful. '^riie day of exclusive privileges was at an end.
Ilenci'forth legislation was no more in favour of the
<Miurch. It soon became in some instances hostile. That
<'omiection which existed, or was supposed to exist, with
the body politic as a part of the Kstablished (liurch oi
England, ceased. In the colonies with established govern-
ments all communions of Christians were declared to be
on a like footing.

Before long the position of the (Miurch of Kugland in the
J'rovince, with reference to the college, grammar, and j»arish
schools, was entirely elumged. Tersonal intluem-e was now
all that was left to the Church in the education of the
young, so far as that education was provided from the
provincial revenue.

A few years had wrought still greater changes in the posi-
tion of the Church itself The tide of emiu-ration from

An Alien deacon uy.

tho (»M coiiiitry now set in. Thcrchy tin* |)()|inlati(Hi of
tho country lu'^aii rnp'Klly to inci't'iiHc. The Uoniati Catliolif
el«'nu'jit liccanu' |iroiiiin(Mit, and the ranks of others not in
foniiunnion witli tlu- Cluucli of Kiiuland were also slri-nntli-
cirmI 1>v tin- arrival of tin* iininis^rants.

fn the small towns, wliicli oponrd u|> as tin- country
advanced, tlicrc were various IxKlics of non-conformists.
In many instances tlicy rivalled, or exceeded, tiie Cliurcli in
the numlter of their adherents and of their sacred ltnildiny:s.
They had leai'iied one u'reat secret of siwcess — self'-reliant'e.
From the i»aucity of the Church's missions, espet-ially in the
country places, and in new and distant settlements, there
arose esti'ani^ement on the part of those whose forefathers
were churchmen. Nothiny; like ncijlect to hrinii* Jihont
xuch a feeling". Those who. from ne<::lect and lack of sym-
pathy for themselves or their children, are alienated from
the (^hurch hecomc, in time, tlie most opposed to her teach-
\u}>;, and the most ditticult to win hack. lU-and-hye it will
he foinid that schism, with all its incalculahle evils and its
friijhtful hindrances to the extension of the Ivcdeemer's
kin<;-dom, will be laid to the <'hari;(! of many too ready to
oondemn others. Moreovt'r. it is to he remend»eivd that all
alonii' there was a hody ot men stron<jjly opposed to the
('hurch of iMigland, thoutih at the time eomjuiratively few
in nund>er, who came over with the Lovalists from the
United States. Theii' feeliuirs seem to have been deeply
infused and intensiiied in their descendants. Amouii' the
ministers of the dissenting!; bodies were men of zeal and
u:reat activity — just the kind of men tlie Church stood in
want of, had they only beci in her commuinon Too much
and too long the numbers of the Church depended upon
exclusive privileiics, and ui)on aid from Kngland.

At the time when the Church in Xew Hrunswick needed
united streuuth and earnest zeal her mendters became

20 The Most Ukveuexd John Mi:i»i.ky, 1). D.

divided ainonic tlieniselves. The Loyalist elerijy, with
thoso added in earlier yearn to their nuinher, heloiiijed, for
the most part, to the IFiijch C'lnnvh school. A different
teachiii;;' was set on foot in oix; of the most imjiortaiit places
in the J'rovince. The City of 8t. John had rapidly advanced
in wealtli and influence. Ttwas the one commercial centre.
The rector of this pai'ish — a man of marke<l ahility and
personal attraction — was the leader of the Kvan_<;elical
section. lie <<:ained the stronii; attachment of many of the
most inHncntial j>eople in the country. Then came on, in
many instances, l)itter controversy and estiangement — sad
hinorant'cs to the work of the ('hurch — distrust reicarding
lier teaching', and vast advantage to tht)se op[)Osed to her
ways.

Nor, a[)art from all this, was the Church, at this time,
alive to her real position; nor were the puhlic services
hearty or attractive. By many it seemed as if" vital piety"
were rightly claimed under ministrations outside the com-
munion of the (Miurch, or hy those who, within her pale,
failed to conform in many ways to her teaching. It would
be a grievous wrong to disallow the earnestness of many a
hard-worked missionary and many a devoted layman who
were a blessing to the Church at the time to which we now
allude. They bore forth good seed. Afterwards, " others
entered into their labours." Still the Church buildings and
the (/hurch services were alike ot a dull and dreary sort.
New churches were built, but more alter the plan of the
meeting-house. Tn the public services there were no re-
sponses, — that all-important part of divine worshij) fell to
the lot of the clerk. This was so as late as the year 1843
in the [tarish chuivh at Fredericton. The writer can well
remember attending the services there as a student at the
college. There were present the representative of the
(^ueen, government olhcials, the officers and soldiers of a

An a urn deaconky.

reu-imcnt, witli a larjre coiii,rrcpitioii, iiicliKliiio; the first
l.t'oplo of the cai)ital city; and ho — tlie writer — was only
one of three who knelt,' and ho scarcely ventured to raise
his voiee with that of the a^-ed clerk in the responses.

It is most interesting to notice the heginning of a great
change — it may well he ealled a great revival — even in so
insignificant a i)ortion of the world. At the time those
puhlications were l)eing issued from Oxford, which wrought
such mighty results, the Archdeacon of Xew lirunswick
was engaged in a course of lectures to the divinity students
on the peculiar position of the (Muireh and her i)ositive dog-
matic teaching. This was fiir froju a poi)nlar coursi" ; the
tide was all the other way; soon it was to he on the turn.
Ahove the sound of the moving waters the voice of the
Church — the voi(;e of her great head — was heard, calling
on all the members of lEis body to contend for the faith
once for all delivered. By the mighty power of the Spirit
of truth that "sound has gone out into all lauds, and the
Avords to the ends of the world."

' Tliis refers to men only.

Arciidkacox Costkh-

C'HAITEK III.
-OuKilX ol" THK DiOCKS.W CiM IK'II

Society.

amount could not be rolie<l ui»on for <i lengtlu'iu'd term of
years. Other and more [»ressinii: elaims from almost i'll
parts ot the world must he reufarded. Xever can the
Ohur(th in this I^rovince tail in dee|> y'ratitude for all that
long-continued aid, which has not wholly ceased at this
present time Xor shoidd we forget to notice tlie vast benefit
derived from generous gifts from the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge. There is scarcely a Church in the
Provinci' which has not been assisted by a generous grant.
Who can tell the benefits afforded by the publi«'ations of
that Societv, in so manv cases freelv iji'anted for Sunday
school and ^lari.^h libraries?

The time now had come when the (V>lonial Church must

be called on for self-su[»port. On this [toint there had been

aad neglect. Other Christian bodies, without endowment

or external aid. were making their way in every direction,

(28)

()ui(iiN OF TiiK Diocesan Church Socikty.

21 >

in iiianv instances leaving tlio (Mnircli bdiind in nnawak-
onc'd zeal. Mcanwliilc i^raiits of land, tbrnicrly made by
the "•overnnient, had increased in valne in thi> wav of en-
downient. All this was deejtlv pondered over hy Arch-
deacon Coster. Ft t'orincd the snhject ot" correspondenco
with the iiishoj* of the Diocese, and with the Society in
England. The Archdeacon felt that it was hi-yond his
power to alter the course of tilings very much in his own
day. lie would do his utmost for those who were to come
after. At a general meeting of the clei'gy at Fredcricton,
on the 8th Septeiid)er, lS-")tl, and following days, undei- the
presidency of the Archdeacon, n-solutions were ado[)ted for
the establishment of a Church Society, and a draft of its
constitution and objects agreed to. It may here be men-
tioned that the constitution and objects of the Society
remain with little change at the present day. "Such was
the ///".*' systematic atteni]>t made in a Hi'itish colony lor the
more full and eiiicient support of its own Church. A main
design of it was to unite the laity in hearty co-operation
Avith the clergy under the superintendiMice of the Hishop.'"*
At this time (A. J). 1H:}(!) there were in the Archdeaconry
of Xew Brunswick eighty parishes, twenty-eight clergymen,
and forty-three churches or chapels. More than two-thirds
of the whole number of parishes were without a ivsident
clergyman. As a most interesting note in the history of the
Church in Xew IJrnuswick, we subjoin the following extract
from the address of the Archdeacon at the tirst meeting of
the Dioc-esan Church Society, which was henceforth to be-
come " The Diocese in Action "" :

The iinportiUK'c of the occasion on which \vc have met can hardly
be over-rated. Wo are about to enter upon business wliich must
very materially aflect the fortunes of our Church. I pray Co(l that

' Aniuils of the Colonial Cliunli, by Ernest Hawkins.

TiiH Most Ivi:vi;ki:.\i> .Imiin .Mi;i>i,i;v. I). 1).

fl iii

it limy iiMect them in a way wliit-h will make tliis day an ojwch
in its history, tVoni which we may date the eonnnencement of a
ha|)])y and {.dorions improvement.

We an; loiining what, I trust, will prove a ^nvat and ])owerful
cond)ination ainonj^ onrselver;. But cond)inations may pros'e bene-
ficial, ineil'ective, or mischievous, according to the manner in which
they are conducted, and the objects to which they are directed. It
is the wish of us all that this combination should produce uothinj;
but good. We must therefore all do our best to give it the right
direction and place it under proper management : and I am per-
suaded that you will listen with patience to a few observations from
one who has given much consideration to the subject, and feels
himself deeply responsii)le for the part he has taken in the formation
of this Society.

I nc(^d not say how cordially I approve of the plan which has
been adopted — how anxious 1 am that the design should be
successful. I lirndy believe, that some such cond>iuation among
the mend)ers of the Church can no longer be dispensed with. And
were there nuich more risk than there is of an undesirable result, I
should still be inclined to make the experiment. Still I would
proceed with the greatest caution and recommend caution to you.

The i)ublished constitution of the Church Society will now be
submitted to you for ratification and conliriDation, with any amend-
ments that may be deemed necessary. It will be borne in mind that
a soci< ty like this in idl rcsj)ects has not, so far as I am aware, existed
hitherto in our Church, cither in England or in the Colonies, under
the sanction of ecclesiastical authority. It behoves us, therefore,
to be cautious in our j)roceedings ; and we need not be surprised if
some apprehension should be felt, lest, in our zeal "to be doing," we
should attempt things which may be inconsistent witli the rules
and customs of our venerable establishment. It is not enough to
say that we know of no such design being entertained in any quarter.
I am persuaded you will agree with me that we should try to make
it impossible even to suspect us of such a design. Without this, we
cannot exi)ect that the Bishop will give to our undertaking his
sanction and support.

OuKiiN or Tin; 1)iocesan Cm im-ii SdciF/rv.

•n

1^ »?

"Notliiiiir willidut ihc l)islio|)" lia.s ever been the rule ami
motto of the Chunh Catholic • and we must take etipoeial care that
there l>e no deviation from it in this instance. Tluis far we are
honoured with his Lordship's sanction and approbation, the con-
tinuance of which we must he heedful to deserve.

No ji'ood chnrchnian, I am sure, w<iuld wish that this .Society
would he an irresponsible body; or would choose to l)elon<,' to it,
if it should assume that character. Our institution must harmonize
with the established societies of the Church, not only in havini; the
same objects, but also in being subject to the same control, it we
would have it become a bond of union among churchmen, and not
an instrument of confusion and disorder.

You see how they manage just such matters in the I'nited States —
how carefully they cherisli and maintain the principle I am now
reconiniending to you, and how they have prosj)ered in the observ-
ance of it.

What we want in the Province is clearly this — S(unething that
will powerfully stir uj) the people of every class, to take that interest
in the maintenance and prosperity of the Church which heretofore
has not, by every one's ackncnvledgeuHiit, been manifested, as it
nuLSt be now and hereafter, if we would have it even remain what
it is. and induce them to co-operate zealously with the clergy in
promoting the objects for which it was instituted and ordained.
For this purpose the plan of our Society has been made as popular
as possible. Hut none of those who have assisted in the framing
and })rop()sing of it, are men "given to change." None of them
would consent to lay a rough and violent hand upon any part of
the timedionourcd fabric, Innvever desirous they may be to improve
it, wherever improvement is practicable and re([uisite.

To engage the laity in the W(n'k is what they ardently (U'sire;
and they trust their brethren will be willing to enter into their counsel
and co-operate with them, with temp(>rate earnestness, and with a
dis})osition to subnut to those checks of which the experience of ages
has demonstrated the need and the use. They wish to act with
vigour, and the popular character of the Society sufficiently provides
for that. But they also desire, that every disposition to weakness

nii

TiiK Most Tvkvkukni* .I<>iin Mki>i,i:y, D. D.

slioiild he puwc'i'tully rcstmiiu'd ; and with this view, they reeoni-
nu'iid that tlie Bishop shouM always have power to stop its proceed-
ings, when it appears to l)e venturing upon (hingerous ground. . .

What amount of means of (h)ing good is likely to he jtlaeed at
tlie dis])osaI of this Society, is yet unknown. Be it, however, large
or small, we have to provide for its heing earefully and judieiously
managed and expended. (Jf eoui"se it is only the actual expense of
missionary visits that the Society can think of paying at the outlet.
But everyone, I should thiid<, will he of the opinion, that we should
endeavour to j)rovide for as many such visits as the funds appro-
priated to that ohject will permit. It is desirable that a plan should
be laid down, to he submitted to the Bishoj), upon which such visits
shall be conducted.

But here, as you all must .see, a difficulty of no small magnitude
presents itself. The extent of country requiring to be visited is
frightfully great ; and where are the men to whom the work can be
committed ■■' The number of clergymen already employed is not
much more than adecpiate to the duties, in which they are actually
engaged, and from which they cannot be released without the con-
sent both of the Bishoj) and of their i)arishii)nei*s. And from
whence such an increase of the present number, as will enable the
Society to do nuich for the neglected districts, is to be looked for,
who (!an tell ? Some means, however, must be devi.sed ; and we
must not despair, by, God's help, of accomplishing this most desir-
able end. . . . . . . . .

^[y Reverend Brethren — You who assisted in the formation of
this plan — you, 1 feel assured, have not seen cause to change your
mind with regard to it. 1 would to God that some of our body,
who were absent from that meeting, had manifested an eipially
favourable disposition. I had flattered myself that, for once, all the
churchmen of the Province might have been united — that in this
cause there was absolutelv nothinsr to which anv churchman could
seriously object. Though I know not the grounds of the opposition,
I understand tliat o})position has been made, and with such eliect
that, for the present, we must act without the concurrence of our
brethren in that part of the Province which is able to afford us the

OuitilN OF Tin: DlOCKSAN Ciirucji 8oriETY.

y ivconi-
procot'd-
11(1. . .
placed ut
rer, larjre
diciously
xpciiso of
hv outlet,
ve .should
lis appro-
an should
uoh visits

iiagnitude
visited is
rk can he
ed is not
e actually
t the con-
\m\ from
liable the
Doked for,
and we
)st desir-

•niation of
mge your
our body,
n eciually

■e, all the
lat in this
Kill could

pposition ,
nich effect
lU'o of our
jrd us the

most powerful aid. The reasons by which they have been induced
to withhold their concurrence to such a dcsit^u will, 1 trust, be coiii-
niunicated ; and if, by any allowable alteration of our scheme, we
should lind (turselves able to obviate their objections, no doubt we
shall be sufficiently inclined to do so. Should they, however, prove
Buch as to forbid the hope of an accommodation — what then shall
we do? Shall we lie discouraged and deterred from the prosecution
of our design? (iod forbid I unless we be lirst couvinci'd tiiat
our desiirn is not what we all thoujjrht it — that this Societv is not
calculated, if well supported, to render those services to religion
and to the Church, to who.se altar we are consecrated and devoted,
which we fondly ex|)ected — which I still contid(>ntly expect from
it. I am ipiitc willing, however; nay, I desire, that the opposition
it may anywhere have encountered should have the etiect of mak-
ing us extremely cautious in every step we take, so that the result
of our endeavour at this meeting may, by God's help, be to win
over to our cause many who have hitherto been deterred from adopt-
ing it, by convincing them that at least we are thoroughly desirous
to do what is right and good.

My Brethren of the Laity — Permit me to address a few words
also to you. The cause, ray friends, is surely yours, fully as much
as it is ours. You are all as iiiiicli interested in its success as are
your clergy, and the success we hope and pray for can only 1)0
obtained through your ictive and zealous concurrence. Ami think
you that if, on any account, this design should fail, you will not
share with your clergy the shame — tiie intolerable shame — with
which the defeat will covei' them, after the plan has been thus pub-
lished to the world, and you have been thus earnestly called upon
for aid, for God's sake and charity's and your religion's? I feel it
strongly, my brethren, and I tell you plainly, that il' such a design
as this cannot find among you such support as it recjuires and
deserves, our Provincial Church will be a laughing stock to those
who love her not, and an object of compassion to all who do — none
will or can respect her. Then indeed sluiU I begin to despair of a
final triumph (»ver the ditiiculties of the times, and regret that
Proviilence had not cast my lot among another people. My station

• )4

TiiK Most Ivkn kkknh John Mkdley, D. I).

i [

ill tlii.s (.'liiircli will hcconie a iiiatUT of luiiniliation to me, .since on
account of it my jMU'tion of the sliaine will l)e the greater.

But think not that I wronj; those who are here present by siip-
jiosiiig for a moment that, ho far as in them lies, such disgrace will
be permitted to befall us. The commencement which has been made
promises a very diflerent result, and I, shall not (piickly cease to
rely upon the promise being amply realized. Before this sun goes
down, I trust there will have been among us such a display of zeal
and unanimity in this great business, as will eHectually remove all
apprehension from every mind of a failure being even possible.

It \v:is under tliCHe eircniiistjiiu'es that the Diocesan
Cliiircli Society oi-iiiiinited. Murli that thront!:li iu'i::loet
the Church luid lost, it has been tiio means of recovering,
and tlie tSociotv has beeonio the niain-stav of tiie niissionarv
"work in the Diocese. For over fifty years the Society lias
gone on gaining confidence and support. The foresight
and sound Jndgniont of its originators have left little to
change in its constitution and rules. For a wliile, unfortu-
nately, a strong section of the Church, especially in the city
of St. John, held aloof. Still, year by year, the interest in
the movement gained ground. Leading churchmen, in
many instances, y-ave "•enerous yearly ofterinij;s, and lari^e
bequests at their death. The Society now, from its cou-
Hiderable en(h)wnients and yearly income, can, in some
degree, supply what is wanting by reason of the withdrawal
of a part of the S. F. G. grant to the Diocese. It has called
out, from the several parishes, more regular and sul)stantial
riupport for the clergy and a deeper interest in the extension
of the ministrations of the Church in neirlec-ted districts.

since on

t by sup-

"■I

rnice will

een made

r cense to

sun goes

ay of zeiil

eniovc all

■:'^f

isil)le.

Dioc-csiiu

1 lu'gleet

covering.

lissionary

jcioty has

tbresiglit

"t little to

;, untbrtu-

n tlie city

iiterest \n

'Inueu, in

and largo

11 its cou-

, in some

,itli(lra\val

lias called

substantial

extension

istricts.

CHAPTER IV.
Dkath or AucHnivvrox Costku — Ills ('iiaka<tkh

JiuoTIIKUS.

— Ihs

>"•**> 1 1 1<] death of Archdeacon C/Oster occurred in PVhru-
ary, IH;')!). In ii Frcdcricton local impcr it is said :
"Ills death has aroused the sympathies of every
creed an<l of every class in the eonjinunity. . . . lie
was kind and courteous in his manner, lil»ei'al to a proverb
in his works of charity, a clergyman of superior tah'uts and
unqiu'stioned jiiety."

The late Archdeacon was a native of Berkshire, Kngland.
lie was horn in 171 •4. JIo took his degree of B. A. at
Cambridge in IHlt!. In tiie year 181J) he was ordained by
the IJisliop of lioudon. His first jtarochial charge was in
Bermuda, where he tilled a post of great importance. In
1825 he was a))p()inted Arclnk-acoii of Xewfoundland ; on
the death of Archdeacon Best, he was, in 1880, a[)pointed
to till his place as Archdeacon of Xew Brunswick.

The followinii' is an extract from a letter bv one of the
late Archdeacon's daughters, Mrs. Kdward B. Chandler:

My father was a gentleman of the old school. At Cambridge he
took a high degree in classics and mathematics. As a church-
man he was far in advance of the time. He was the first to intro-
duce anything like strict adherence to the rules of the prayer l)ook
with reference to more frequent celebration of the holy conuuunion,
the offertory, holy days, and services in the week, and many other
things now so common in the Church in America.

I can only tell what I know of my father in his social and home
life. This he made happy by his many charming gifts of mind
and mannei*s, added to his holy and self-denying life. lie was n

Tjik Most ]{i;vi:hi;m) John Mkdi.kv, 1). I).

' » '

terrible suflrrcr iVoiu nsthiim. Still he would not give up any
eervii'o or duty, it' it were po><nil)le for him to leave his bed. No one
ever liwird a word of coinplaiut or .saw him otherwise than patient,

gentle and cheerful His father liad been possessed of

independent means. Siibse(|uently the family met with gr(!at
losses. This obliged strict economy, in order to give more than " the
tenth of all," which my father said was the very least to be oHi-red
tothe"(iiver ofall."

Any in need of advice or sympathy found ready admittance at
the reetory. The poor made daily visits. There was always a
welcome for the clergy. Although his heart was in his Master's
work, his social qualities wn-e charming. Ills retinenient and keen
sense of humour, with his gentle kindness, n)ade him a most delight-
ful companion to his family and friends. . . . When he was
well enough he would join in the music, of whicii lie was so fond,
and he trained his whole family in Church nmsic, and fittt'd one of
his daughters to play the organ in the Church. In his garden he
took great ])leasure, and was interested in every tree and Hower.
But the hours happiest to the wliole family were in the evening
readings, with which nothing but unexpected duty interfered. . .
His reading was perfect. The best plays of Shakespeare he knew
by heart. No one enjoyed more the fun and wit of J)ickens and
Thackeray, or felt more deeply their beauty and pathos. . . .
If ever a family had cause to give thanks to (lod for a father, we
can do .so for his holy life and l)les.<c(l death.

The following note, Avritteii by the IVisIk)}*, is taken from
the Annuls of the Diocese:

January 8th, 1859. The venerable Archdeacon Coster departed
this life after a short illness of barely one week. He presented the
candidates for ordination on tlie 19th December at the Cathedral,
and received the Lord's supper on the fi'stival of St. John. After
that, he never took part in any public services.

He was an accurate scholar and took especial pains in the exami-
nation of schools. His sermons were distinguished for conciseness
and purity of style with considerable force of expression. In private

■I

DkaTII o|- AhcIIDKAChN CnSTIlH.

life his courtcsv ot" iiiaiincr, and kiiidliiu'ss \n tlic poor, were most
notict'HhU', and wIkmicv*'!- hi,- tVciHifnt inlirmitios pcrniittod, he was
most punctual in the discharge ot* ids puhlic duties. ... In
many ways his loss will he much felt.

He was one of the chief founders and ztah)us promoters of tho
Diocesan Cliurch Society, and always suhscriltcd lil»erally to its
funds.

For iiiiiiiy years two hrotliers of tlic late Arch(h'iicon
filU'd important posts in tlic l)ioccsc. iJcv. KrcMlcrii-k
CostiT was a tnaii of iiiai'kcd aUility, :i sound and well
read theologian, and iui accomplished musician. lie wa;* a
keen controversialist, and was ready to adopt clian<;es ami
improvements which at the time were not I'avourahly re-
garded hy niuny. He took the foremost part, with Iiir*
brother, in the organization of the Diocesan (Muirch Society,
and was for many y«'ai-s its very efHcicnt si'ci'ctai-y. For
hit* services in this and in many other ways the Chui'i-h
in Xew Hrunswick owes a <lel)t of gratitn<le to tlie Kev.
Frederick Coster.

There was another brother, Kev. X. Alh-n Coster. For
manv vears he was stationed in an important distii.t in
Newfonndland, where he endured many hardsirn>s in his
Master's service. Kev. Allen Coster was successively rector
of two im[iortant parishes in this I)ioccse. In common with
liirt brother he held what were thought at tlie time advanc-eJ
views with regard to the position and teaching of the
<'hurch. Thereby lie met often with great opposition. As
a preacher he was singularly impressive. Before his death
he had lived down the opjtosition of previous years and had
gained the res|»ect an<l esteem of his people.

m-^

(ilAPTKR V.

Eaknkst Dksiiie for a Bishop — The ('oloniai, IJishophic
V\s\> — DiocKSE OF Kkkdkricton Kndowkd.

\'II)KX'rL^', art wo Imve seen, the Cliiircli in New
Hrnnswick was heiiii^ aroused to a sense of lier posi-
tion and ol)lii!;ations. Still there was a ji^reat want
— tlic want of a Mishop, the need of Ki>isco|ial supervision
antl control. This jiad lonj;- heen keenly felt hv prominent
ehurchnien. We tind the followini^ oditoi-ial note in the St.
John (hiirivr, March :20th, 1824:

By London papci-s, we observe with Mitisfnction that two Hi»iioj)8
have heen appointed to Sees in the West Indies. We would have
been happy to learn that a like nieasare lia<l heen pui-sued with
reterenee to New Hnni.swick, which for nearly twenty ycaif- lias not
been visitc<l by a IJisliop.

Wc pre.^innc not to say where the nojj;leet orijjinates, but we shall
be happy to hear that \\\ application has been made to the proper
authorities for a separation of th(T Ecclesiastical establishment of
this Province from Nova Scotia, and we pray that a Hisliop may
be .sent to us.

From a letter in a snl)se(|iient nnnjher ot the same paper
we snhjoin the following; extracts:

It had lonji' been a matter of astonishment that the
interests of the ("hurch in this (pno'ter could have been so long
ne<xlocte(l before the appointment of the present Bishop of Nova
Scotia (Bishop Stanser) took place. We then confidently expected
to reaj) the benefit of his ministrations. From the effect of a seri-
ous illness, this worthy prelate, soon after his eon.-<ccration, was
obliged to return to England, where he will most probably end his
days. ........

The tedious and expensive journey to Quebec, which candidates
for the ministry are compelled to undertake to receive Holy Orders,
18 one of the many inconveniences which might be mentioned.
(3S)

KaKNKST DkSIUE FoU a I lis 110 p.

.{{»

■^IIOPUIC

ill New

,',

ler poHi-

iit want

iTvisioii

)iiiiiu;iit

1 the St.

■^

) Bishops

uld have

mvA with

rs has not

t we Hhall

lie proper

shiiieiit of

sh«)p may

nv papor

t ihat the
•n so long
) of Nova
expected
L of a seri-
ation, was
ly end his

candidates
)ly Ordei-s>
i)ned.

With refereiu'o to tlic abovr roiniiimiicatioii, the t'llitor ot
till' Coiii'in I'l'iiiarks :

With our correspondent, we sincerely rejjret the cause that keeps
the Bishop from his charge, and we also deeply lament its effects ;
hut it is not alone iM'cause an intlividnal occasiuiially siitii-rs the
inconvenience of travellinj: to (^iiehec for ordination, it is also
hecaiise every mendu'r of the ('limcli (clerical as well as laity) is
atll'ctcd hy the ahsence of their spiritual head. It must he a
melancholy retlcction to every one reared in the Church, and feel-
ing for her interest, to think that from such a cause as the ahove,
the sacred rite of coiitinnation should he virtually abolished in this
Province. This pure Apostolic institution, wliicli elsowhere is the
imlisponsahly necessary step for a<lmissioii to holy coininiinion, is
dispensed with, not from choice, it is true, hut from sad necessity.
It is therefore a matter of congratulation to all true sons of the
("hurcli that there is a prospect of their hopes hcing realized. If a
JJishop is to h(! appointed for New Brunswick, with such powc
Nova Scotia during the ahsence of its liishop, he ought to r. -i. •
ill this Province. We say this, having understood that it was vtty
prohahle the liishop of New Brunswick, if one should he appointed.

won

Id reside in Nova Scotia. If such he the case

a more pri»p(!r

time than the present cannot he for the Clergy, the Vestries, and all
the niemhers of the Church of Kiiglaiid in the Province, to unite
with one accord in petitioning His >[ust Gracious Majesty to ap-
point a

accori
resident Bishop to this his loyal colony of New Brunswick.

'Tlie rosi^iiatidii of l!isli()|i .Stansi-r ii few inimtlH laliT, ami lliu coiisocrii-
tioii of Hisliop .John Iiiglis, caused the niovi'meiit in favor of a division in
tlie Diocese to remain in abeyance.

It would ajipi'ar from tlu- fori'ijoing fxtracts that Hisliop Charles Inglis
failed to visit New IJriiiiswiek (hiring the last eleven years of his eitiscopate,
jirohahly on account of age and inlirmities.

In his first charge to his clergy (delivered at Halifax, August, 1829; at
Bermuda, May, ISoO; and at Fredericton, August, IS.SO), Bishop Jcdin Inglis
says many of the remote portions of his Diocese had never been visited by a
Bishop. " More than sixty eluirches, scattered over an immense space, were
unconsecrated, and nearly 7,U<)0 persons were waiting for confirmation."

Tjie Most Keverend Joikn Medeey, D. D.

It is of tlu' (loejicst iiitcresr, to mark the orit^in of that
nioveiiu'iit wliicli effected so (loei)]y the whole Colonial
Clmrch — tiie estahlislmieiit of the (^olonlal Bisho[»rie Fund.
Surely it was a nohle scheme, callinu; f<»r large irifts and
ifcnerons otlerings. We can see in it the answer to those
pniyers and heartfelt longin<?s, to which we liave referre(h

The S. r. (i. report, 1H40, says:

In a printed letter, addressed by the Bishop of London to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, his Lord«hip proposed the following
plan :

1. That a fund should be formed by voluntary contributions for
the endowment of Bishoprics in the Colonies and distant depen-
dencies of the British Crown.

2. That the fund should be held in trust, and administered by the
Archhisboj) and Bishops of the English Church.

8. That, as a general principle, grants should be made for the
endowment of liishoprics, to meet a certain proportion of the whole
amount required for such endowment, raised in the colonies them-
selves.

4. That the money set apart from the fund for the endowment of
a Bishopric, should be laid out at the earliest oi>portunity, in the
purchase of land within the colony.

"). That contributions may be made specifically for the endowment
of particular Bishoprics.

I !
I 1

( !

Tliis proposition was received with the liveliest satisfaction, both
by the Society for the Propagation of the Gos[)el, and by the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The sums of t'o.OOO and of
ct!10,0()0 were voted by these institutions respectively, for the purpose
of laying the foundation of the proposed fund, and the Christian
public will rejoice to hear that the immediate establishment of
Episcopal Sees in New Brunswick and New Zealand may be con-
fidently ex|)eeted.

Diocese of Fkederkton Endowed.

of that
Colonial
c Fund,
ifts and
to those
I'oferrcd.

m to the
following

Litious foi"
nt dopon-

red by the

lo for the
the whole
lies them-

)wnient of
ity, in the

idow ment

ion, l)oth
ic Society
)0 and of
> purpose
Christian
iniont of
V be con-

Tho foUowiiiii' statement is tbund in the rei»()rt of the S.
r, G. for the year Ls41 :

The most striking' feature in the occurrences of the past year, as
they respect the pro<,Mvss of Christianity abroad, is the fornialion of
a fund for the endu-wment of additional lJish<)j)rics in the colonies.

At a ineetini; of the Archbishops and liishojis the plan
above given was cDrdially airreed upon. Wi' tind >t'W
Brunswick named as the third on the list ot the new Dioceses
proposed. Anioni; the oflicers of the Association, the name
ofW. H (Jladstone is given as one of the treasurers. The
following minute was adopted at the meeting concerning the
establishment of new Colonial Hioceses:

For the attainment of these most desired objects, a sum of money
will be required, hirge as to its actual amount, but small when com-
pared with the means which this country possesses, l)y the bounty
of Divine Providence, for advancing the glory of (4od and the
welfare of mankind. Cnder a deep feeling of the sacrechiess and
importance of this great work, and in the hof)e that Almighty God
would graciously dispose the hearts of his servants to a correspond-
ing measure of liberality, we earnestly commend it to the good will,
the assistance and the prayers of all the members of the Church.

In a letter to the S. P. (i. from the Hishoji of Nova Scotia
(1842), published in the report for 1S4;>, he writes :

. . . My anxiety for the accomplishment of the benevolent
intention of erecting a new Sei^ in New Brunswick increases with
my growing consciousness that more labour is required than any
individual can perform. It is also increased by a conviction that
the circumstances of the times are peculiarly calculated to insure,
by the Divine blessing, the full benefit of such creation. , . .
The greatest encouragement is offered for perscveranci> in all those
exertions which mav be necessary for the accomplishment of so
important and happy a work.

I f ! I

The Most Rkvkrexd John Medley, T). I).

Sir William Colobrooko, tlie Governor at tliat time,
ofiicially reported that "a ditiieulty is experienced in obtain-
ing clergymen for several j>arislies, in which the (yhnrch
congregations have, in consequence,* been dispersed."

From the S. I*. (}. report for 1848, above alluded to, we
quote the following extract, taken from the minutes passed
at a subsequent meeting of the Archbishops and Bishops:

The important colony of New Brunswick, e({ual in extent to one-
half of p]ngland, and rapidly increasing in population, has been
too long without a resident Cliief Pastor. The time, however,
seems at length to have arrived for the supj^ly of this deKciency, so
long felt and acknowledged. As a proof of the interest excited in
New Brunswick, it may he stated that the Governor, Sir William
Colebrooke, has otticially expressed his oinnion in favour of such a
measure. The Chief Justice,' the Solicitor General,^ and other
leading persons in the colony, are exerting themselves to raise a
fund towards the endowment.

The sum at that time raised in Xew Brunswick amounted
to i:2,ir)0 — more was ex[iected. The minute continues:

Having taken these matters into our serious consideration, and
looking at the great importance and urgency of the case, we have
determined to approjjriate a large portion of the fund at our dis-
posal, namely, the sum of .ij20,000, toward the endowment of a
Bishopric in New Brunswick.

We must not conclude this statement of our j)roceedings and
plans without ex})ressing our thankfulness to Almighty God for the
success He has been graciously pleased thus far to vouchsafe to this
first systematic endeav<»ur to impart the full blessings of the Church
to the coloiues of this great Empire, and beseeching Him to dispose
the hearts of His people to carry on to its full completion a work
undertaken for the furtherance of His glory in the extension of the
kingdom of His ever Blessed Son.

' Honunible Ward Chipittan. ^ Honorable George Frederick Street.

t time,

ol)tain-

Church
>

I to, we
^ piifssed

it to one-
has been "
however,
■iency, so
xcited in
• Williiim
of such a
Mu\ other
:o raise a

inomited

IHK'S:

ation, and
\v(> have
our did-

nent of a

lings and
)d for the
vfi" to this
10 Church
to dispose
111 a work
^ion of the

■k Street.

CHAPTER VI.
Kev. John Mhi»li:v, I). L)., Consk(r.\tei> thk First Bishop

OF FREnKRICTOX — iTlS BoVHOOU — SCHOLAR AND StIDEXT
— rRESEXTATlON ON LEAVIXcJ EnoLAND, AND FaREWBLL

Addresses — Early Years of hls Ministry.

'II F iiKittor ('onccniiiiii' the eiHlowineiit was now satis-
taet(»ril_v arranifed. Xo time was lost l>_v tlie pfoper
authorities in the nomination to what was hence-
forth to be knowti as the See of Frederieton. The ajipoint-
ment of \\iv Kev. John Medlev was contirmed l)V the
«rown, and letters jiatent to that etteet were issued.

Bishop Medlev was tlie son of Mr. George Me<lley, of
(wrosvenoi" I'hiee, London, and was horn December l!>th,
1804. Mrs. Medlev writes as folhnvs with reference to iiis
earlv vears :

A life of tlie Bishop would lie iiicoiiiplete without some mention
of his mother, whose careful training he always spoke of with atfec-
tion and gratitude.

His father died whilst he was very young, and on her devolved
the bringing up of their only child. She was a woman of great
decision of character, high j)rinciplos, benevolent, devout, and a firm
disciplinarian. She devoted him to the ministry from his birth, and
all her training tended that way. "John," she would say, "you
cannot do, or have everything you want like other boys ; you are to
be a clergyman I " This was always kept before his mind, and influ-
enced his whole life. His earliest re<'olIection was of " preaching
the Revelation," from an upturned chair, with his pinafore turned
back to front as a surplice.

• His daily lessons were from the Bible, and to this he attribute*!
his great knowledge of its contents. He knew the Psalter faultlessly,
and in later life, in any temporary indis|)osition, never needed a book
given to him when the daily portions were read. He knew the
Ptvle of the different writers in both the Old Testament and the New

(43)

»J '

5lp '

TiiK NfosT TJkvkreni) Jonx Mkdi.ky, T). 1>.

80 well, that he could at once tell where a text was taken from,
and turn to it with ease. In his mother's Bible (1769) are these
entries: "John, born December 19, 1804." " John began to learn
the Psalms K\>r\\ .'5, 180H." Tlien follows a list of eight Psalms,
and the dates when they were learnt, ending with "John can say
the 119th Psalm, aged six years." At four years he could say the
1st and the 23rd Psalms, but the effort of memory needed to learn
the 176 verses of the longest Psalm in the Psalter, at the early age
of six years, is indeed remarkable.

On one occasion he unfortunately fell asleep in Church during
the sermon, and slipping from the little bracket, where he was
perched in the high pew, struck his forehead against the sharp corner
of his mother's footstool, and naturally whimpered a little. His
mother took no notice, but on their return home, he was well
whipped for disturbing the service, and never remembered trans-
gressing in like miinner again. He was sent early to school, as she
felt he needed the companionship of other boys. The Bishop had
many amusing stories to relate of school-boy life at Bristol, Bewdley
and Chobham.

The following extracts from his mother's Journal will show how
constantly she kept his preparation for the ministry before his
mind and her own, and how untiringly she prayed for a blessing
on each act of his life :

1810 — April 27. John began Latin (aged six years) with Mr.

Biddulph, a private tutor.
1812 — July 12. Jolui first went to Rev. J. Sawyer's school.

1813 — Brown, a soldier of the East Middlesex ^Militia, came to
teach John his exercises.

1814 — March 10. John began Greek (aged ten).

1815 — July 28. Dear John went to school in Bristol.

1816 — John began Hebrew (aged twelve).

1818 — Our beloved John confirmed (aged fourteen) at Chertsey,
by the Bishop of Lincoln, June 28. "Confirm him, O Lord, in
Thy ways, for Thy Name's sake.

1822 — Received a letter from aear John with his decision about
going to Oxford.

llis Boyhood — Scholar ani> Stident.

en from,
arc these
I to learn
t Psalms,
\ can say
(I say the
[ to learn
early age

:h during
3 he was
up corner
ttle. His
! was well
red trans-
5ol, as she
ishop had
, Bewdley

ishow how
K'tore his
blessing

with Mr.

ool.
came to

November 14 — My beloved Jolin went to Oxford to enter at Wad-
ham College. " O God, give him grace to devote all that he is
and has to Tliy service."

1823 — ..pril ](». My dear John left for Oxford, his first term
(aged nineteen). "O Lord, be Thou with him to bless him, and
make him a blessing to others."

1)S2.") — Decendx-r 1!>. My beloved John is of age this day — ■
iwcnty-one years. " Help him, O Loril, to devote his life to Thy
honour and glory."

December 25 — Received a pre.'^ent this day from my dear John of
ClOO. " (Jrant, O Lord, that what he layeth out it nuiy l)e paid
him again, and Tiiy blessing added to it."

After his contirmation, and when about Iburteen veal's of age, he
began work as a Sunday School Tcaclicr, a thoughtful, reserved,
and earnest-minded boy. He also began about this time to write
serm(»ns, and sul)mitted his Jtrd to his mother with the following
note :

"J/// Very Dear Mother:

"I have .sent this attempt to you, hoping you would not wholly
despise this fii-st es.say towards making a little sermon.' But may
the Lord grant that at .some time hence T may be able to compose
what may really be styled senitoiis. Give my kindest love to dear
aunt, and accept the same yourself

" I renuiin,
" Your dutiful and atlectionate son,

"J. Mi;i>li:y.

" P. S. — I have considered myself in a church preaching to very
rustic auditors."

Chertsey,
Lord, in

ion about

' Thiss is(l(nibtles.s tlie ycrnion ot' whioli the Bisliop's son, Rev. Joliii Medley,
writes: " 1 liave a serniDii liy my lather, written wlien he was a boy Iburteen
years old. The text is fsaiali xxviii., M: " Heliold I lay in Zion," etc.; ami
tills note is added at tlic end: " Wriiten on tlie 20lii .Sei)temlier, 181s."

In persuading those lie is addressing to eonie to the Lord, lie makes a
(juotation (I do not know from whom): "If you wait till you are better,
vou will never come at all."

The Most Revekknd John Medley, D. I).

The tie between mother and son seemed to r»trenfjthen as voai-s
passed on. and her prayei-s were unceasingly offered in his behalf.
In 1828, when he received Holy Orders, the following written jjrayer
is found pinned in her book of devotions :

! I:

A PKAYER FOR JOHN MEDLEY AS A MINISTER.

O Almighty God, who ha.st (I trust) given him the will, grant
him al.so the power to perform the .same; accomplisli the work Thou
hast begun in him, endow him with a double portion of Thy .S|)irit,
and clothe him with power from on high. Increase his love for
souls. Impress his mind deeply and constantly with a sense of the
solemn account he must one day render to Thee of his stewardship.
Enable him faithfully to exercise the gifts bestowed upon him.
Lift up his hands whenever they hang down, and strengthen his
feeble knees. Heli> him to be in Thy hands as clay in the hand of
the potter, willing to be fashioned, ruled and employed by Thy
godly wisdom, in the manner and in the service Thou thiukest
proper. May he ever feel he is nothing in himself; nuvy his eyes
be ever directed to Thee, in whom the fatherless find mercy. Thru
art a faithful God, remember and fulfil that pntmise to him, " I
will put my fear into their heart, that thou shall not depart from
Me." Enable him at all times to de[)end on Thee, believing Thou
never failest those who trust in Thee. Hear me, Heavenly Father,
for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

At Wiidliam Oollei^-is O.vtbrd, the Uisliop uTjuluatcd with
honors in 1S2(!.' He was ordained deacon in 1828, and in
the year foliowin^^ advanced to the priestiiood. For three
years he was curate of Southleii2;h, Devonshire. From 1831
to 1838 ho was ineumbent of St. John's, Tniro. From tliat
time, to his nomination to the Bishopric, he was vicar ot
St. Thomas, Fxeter, and j)rel)endary of Fxeter Cathedral,
As a parish priest, he is said to have l)een most etHcicnt,

' In the hall of Wadliam College, Oxford, tliero is a life size oil painting of
the Blsliop in his robes.

Early Vkars of His Ministhy.

a as yeai-s
his behalf,
•ten prayer

'HR.

will, grant
work Thon
Thy Spirit,
his love for
sense of the
stewartlshii>.
, upon him.
rcn^fthen his
I the luuul of
,vcd by Thy
hou thinkest
may his eyes
iiercy. Th(ni
|e to him, " I
U'part from
ieving Thou
,onlv Father,

nutcd with
.82^, and in
Fi)r three
From 1831
From that
was viojvr of
r Ciithedral.
Of^t oiHciciit,

e oil iiainting of

zealous and nntiriny-. Tn a lotter roeontly i)nblisliod bv one
of his succossors. the jiresent vicar of St. Thomas, it is said:

In material things al.so the lace Bishop has left his mark broad
and tlecp upon his old charge. Not only was the chancel of St.
Thomas adorned and beautified by his taste and liberality, but St.
Andrews, Exwick, was erei-tcd througli his zeal and munificence,
aixl tlie pretty chapel at Oldridge, enlarged and almost entirely
rcbuih.

Spciikiiii:' <»f ibc early years of the ISishoji's iniiiistry,
ji cK'ruyman in this Diocese writes:

From the University, the transition was wide to the retired fishing
vilhige of IJeer, just on the border of the Devonshire coast. But
the young curate l)rougiit that sturdy indiviiluality and genial face,
which New Brunswick knows so well, to bear upon the descendants
of smugglers and wreckers; and " I'arsou Medley" is still talked
about by sonic of the vilhigc graiidsires, as they watch the match-
less prospect across Scaton Bay.

In Devonsliire, he found the very characteristics which suited
him, the simplicity, humour, force, and a certain almost Caledonian
clannishncss of country folk, helped by a local accent, which, once
heard, is ever loved, and never forgotten. So, after a .sojourn in
Cornwall, it is no wonder that he returned to take the rectory of
St. Thomas, in Exetej", the ever-taithful city, where he laboured
until his call across the Atlantic, there to .spend the strength
and maturity of his life.

To tiiose who only know the new wurhl, it is hard to describe the
beauties of an old world city like Exeter ; the Cathedral, solid
and almost lowly in its unassuming strength and beauty ; the old
wood-carved houses in the High street; the Guild Hall, where
Charles I. was welcomed by the burgesses in the course of his daring
western march in 1644 to intercept E.ssex ; the market day, when
the quiet street« are filled with the country farmers, and re-echo
with the cheerful Devonshire tones until the evening, when by
each devious and hilly road, return the belated visitor, after a jovial

Tin; NfosT I{i:vi;hi;m» .Iniix Mkfm.ky, I). I).

iliniicr at the " onliimry," the day not having hevw cMitinly passud
in total alwtint'nce, hut wlio.si- .safely is well ensured by the steady
progress of the " ohl luaro," ambling along the well-known road,
the reins hanging loose on her neck, and th(! driver usually fast
asleep.

What a change to New Hrunswick, as it was in llS4'") I This,
only those can measure who know our Province as it then was.
For one coming from the old-fashioned life of Devonshire, and the
cultivated society of Coleridges and Bullers, there was a wide chasm
to pass in order to understand the state of affairs of those days.

Till' li('\'. Ilciirv r>ii(l(l MoiTJs. of l>air(lsvilK', X'ictoriu,
Comity, X. 1>.. writes as follows:

My grandfather, Hev. Ilichard Hudd, was rector of Rnan Lani-
shorne, in Cornwall, in tlie same rural deanery with Truro (that of
Powder), and was intimate with iiishop Medley when he was at
Truro. I enclose some rcmiuiscences of him .sent by my uncle, Kev.
Theodore liudd. Vicar of E. Derehanj, Norfolk.

My mother scuds the foilowiim' note:

Rev. S. T. Trist, Vicar of Vcryan Trist, was, at that time, llural
Dean, and he persuaded Mr. Medley to write a paper on Episcopacy.
This was read at the meeting of the Chapter, and was so excellent
that it was printed by re(iuest, and Mr. Trist playfully said : "If
you ever are made a liishop, remember it was my doing."

KominisceiKH's by Kev. Tlicodoi'c lliuhl :

When I was at school at Truro, I had a class in Mr. Medley's
Sunday School. One Sunday there was a total eclipse of the .iun,
probably 1<S.3') — in the afternoon. Mr. Medley got appliances to
explain the subject to the elder boys in his garden, and in the even-
ing preached on the words : " Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and
thou moon in the valley of Ajalon."

The living of Crediton fell vacant. The parishioners had the
appointment ; ^[r. Medley was a candidate and went uj) to preach
a sermon. lie stood at the head of the list. The supjiorters of
Mv, Hill, next on the list, would not give way to the supporters of

Ivvin.v Vkak.s 01' TFis ^fiNisTUV.

4!»

ri'ly piissod

the ("teady

iDWii road,

isuuUy fast

Uo! This,
, tlion was.
ire, ami the
widi! chasm
ic days.

', \'ii"toria

Kuan Lani-
•uro (that of
11 he was at
• um-le, llev.

tliiH', llural
J':i)iscopacy.
so excellent
vsaid: "If

Ir. Metlley's
of the sun,
)pliances to
ill the even-
(iiheon.and

lors had the
up to preach
iupporter.s of
>;upporter.s of

Mr. Medley, and so the living passed to nundier three on the lisst^
and Mr. Medley returned to St. John's Cinipel of Ease at Truro,,
much to the gratification of his congregation, where he renuiined
till he removed to St, Thomas, Exeter.

While at St. Joluis, Truro, Mr. ]\redley held a class of Sunday
School Teachers in his drawing room every Sunday njorning at
nine o'clock, explaining the Collect for the day, and giving us aii
extemporaneous prayer.

The monument erected the other side of the street to the memory
of the Brothers Lardner, explorers of North Africa, fell <lown, hut
the work of Mr. Me<llcy fell not, for it grew and multiplied, and
still lives in many hearts of the West.

One day I wa.s returning home from college, accompanied by a
sweet young lady on a visit t(#lis ; on our reaching the station at
Exeter, whom should we see emerging frons the same train but Dr-
Medley, just consecrated to the lii.ihopric of Fredericlon, holding
a tolerably heavy oak box — the communion [)late for his new
Diocese, or Cathedral ; so he put it down at our feet saying ::
" There, you stand by that till I come again."

Tho lJirfhoi» was twice married — tirst to Cliristiaiuiy,
datiifhtor of John Bacon, Esip, dim. (a son of tho eniinont
sculptor), wiioso ofK<::y, " wrouijht by tlie hand of her
father,"' adonis the chancel of St. Thomas ; and, secondly.,
to .Mai-i;-aret, a yoniiu^er daiiirhter of the late Mrs. Hudson^
of Crossmead, in thi' ])arish of St. Thomas, I^^xeter. \\y his;
first inarria^'e his lordship had five sons and two daniihtei's,
of whom thert! still surxive — the Uev. .lohn Bacon Medlev^
M. A., Oxoii, till lati'ly i\'ctor of Orchardleiii^h with Lullino'-
ton, Somerset; Captain Spencer ATedley, R. X.; and the
Kev. Edward S. Medley, !>. A., vicar of lloiiton, (iroat
Varmonth. Another of his lordshi[)'s sons who entered
Holy Orders, hnt dietl some three years au'o, was the Rev.
Canon Charles S. Medley, M. A., well known in Xew
Brunswick for manv vear.s us the esteemed rector of Sussex
and Stndholm, and secretary of the J)iocesan Synod.

TiiK Most IJkvkukm) John Mkdlky, D. D.

His t'litiirc liiy-li attiiiiimi'iits show tlio IVisli()|t iiuist liavo
<'()iitiinu'(l u diliuviit slii(K'iit. lie came into note as an ac-
<'(»iMiilislie(l scholar at a marked period — when the greatest
minds of the present eentnry were l)eu;inninii; to employ their
powers in a movement which was to exercise such u vast
inllni lice in the I'litiire work of tin; An_!j::lican Communion.
Witii these great men, Di". Medley was in many ways a eo-
Avorker. Ife was tlie intimate friend of Jolm Kehle.

In the preliice to the translation of the iromilics of St.
Chrysostom, it is said : '• For tlu' translation, thi' editors are
indehtcd to the I\ev. John Medley, M. A., of Wadham Col-
lege, Viear of St. Thomas, in the city of Exeter, and also to
Kev. II. K. (\)rnish, late fcllot^ of Kxeter College. The
indices arc almost entirely the result of Mr. Misdley's valu-
able assistance."

On the 4th day of May, 1845, Rev. John Medley, the first
Bisliop <»f Fredericton, was consecrated at the Chapel of
Laml)eth Palace, London.

A i»ul)lie meeting was held at Exeter on the 13th May, to
present the liishop with a testimonial on tlie eve of his de-
parture for his Diocese. The meeting was largely attended.
A local paper of that day states : " We have seldom seen a
more respectable or influential assemblage on any public
•occasion. Among those present were all the clergy of the
city and its neighbourhood, jind a number of country gentle-
men. On the platform were displayed the valuable gifts
presented for the use of the C/athedral."

The Lord Bishop of Exeter was in the chair. Among
the addresses was one from the Right Kev. Bishop Coleridge,
who spoke as follows :

My Lord Bishop, — It is a subject to me of peculiar gratification
that I have been selected to present to your Lordship, in the pres-
ence of our revered Diocesan, and of this numerous assembly of
your friends — and in their names — a parting token of esteem and

1).

PllKSKNTATION AND FaKKWKI-L AiH»UKSSKS.

must Inivo
. as iiii ivc-

lijiloy tlu'ir

\K'h a vast

-)inmuniou.

ways a od-

iiiliort of St.
; editors are
ailhaiu Cul-
, iiiul also to
lle_o-o. The
edii'v's valu-

\lcy, the fivst^
It' "(niai)el of

18th May, to
!ve of his de-
rely attended.
,eldom seen a
u any iniblie
clergy of the
)untry gentlc-
I valuable gUH

liiur. Among
loy Coleridge,

liar gratification
lip, iu the prea-
1,U9 assembly of
Ln of esteem and

-■i*;
'•'M

regard. Olhor intMlcs mij,'li( have lu-i'ii clioson for the oxpivssioii of
our fi'i'liiiirs, l)iit there la iioiir, I am assured, iiiori' in iinisuii with
your own tiuiu that, ■so wholly <i<ta(*hed from all private considera-
tiona, which has heoii adoptcil. Called, as you have ha|)pily lieon,
to preside over a distant portion of the Lord's vineyard, it will he
a primary tilijtcl (if yoiir solicitiid*', not only under the Divine
bles:sin", tti iWd the llnck committed to vonr charm' with the whole-
gome doctrine of the ( Jospel, and duly to admiiuster the discipline
of the Enj,dish Chnrcli, hut to exhihit also, before the eyes of your
people — to their hearts and to their uuderstandiujj:s — the scriptural
ritual of that Church, iu all the fullness and impressiveiiess of a
faithful outwai'd ohservanee. For this end, you have judijcod
rightly, my l^ord, in propo?iing to erect, with as little delay as pos-
sible, after your arrival in your Diocese, an ade<|uate and becondng
edifice for the public worship of God — worthy, I mi<j;ht hesitate S(j
to speak, even of the costliest achievemciuts of architectural science,
yet W(»rthy, iu some sense — iu all humility, he it spoken — of that
Beinjr, who, thouiih He; dwelleth not in temples made with hands,
ever deserveth the best from us. liuilt, as you are desirous it shoulil
be, after an ancient model, of singular beauty, and cathedral aj)-
propriatencss ; and (»f dimensions sutfii'ient, not only for the ordinary
services of tlie ("luirch, but for administering the more solemn rites
of contirmation and ordination, and for accommodating those larger
assemblages, which, as in the cathedral of this Diocese, will, we trust,
be aniuudly brought together in yours, with the same gratifying
results, at the pressing call of Christian charity. Your friends, my
L(U'd, entirely concur with your lordship, in the desirableness and
importance of this undertaking; they deem it a privilege to be per-
mitted to contribute towards it — they contidently anticipate, that
the colony of New Brunswick will heartily respond to your wishes;
and whilst they deeply regret on their own personal account, your
approaching separation from them — a separation, however, which,
from the shortness of the distance, and the facility of comnnuncation,
precludes not the hope of your revisiting, from time to tinu', your
native land — they have deputed me to assure your lordship that you
will carry away with you from your native shores, their most fervent
wishes and i)rayers for the success of your spiritual labours; and to

i I

Tin; >f<tST liKVKRKMi JdllN Mi;i)I,KY, 1 >. 1").

express the hope, tliat the pccuiiiary ('oiitril)uliun wliitii tliey now
«)flt'r for your acccptiinco, will he an eiicoiiraj^fment to you to go
forth the more eheert'iilly, on your hif,'h anil holy niisnion, and prove
a nueleus, around whieii the future coutriluitions of the colony will
ahundantly ]i,f»f!ier, and he receive(l hy you as a mark, however in-
adei|Uate, of the veiy j^reat and atfeetiouate respe(;t in whieii you
are held among us, and of the " ' ' interi'st, with whieii, tlntugh
absent in the llesh, yet present ..le spirit, we shall wateh your
movements, "joying," in the worus of the apostle of the gentiles —
"and heholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in
Christ." I will not tresjiass, my lord, further on your feclin;rs;
hut as one who has trodden, with whatever step, tlu^ same field
of labour bt^fore you, and has largely tasted, through (lod's un-
merited mercy, of the consolations, which, amid ditiiculties, priva-
tions, and (hmgers, are ever springing up to gladden the path of
ministerial duty, I may claim the especial privileg« — with a full
heart, and in much hope — to commend you and yours, to the
Father of mercies, and God of all consolation, in and through
Christ Jesus our liord. — ^[The Right I{ev. Prelate then placed a,
cheque for I'l.oOO in the hand *' the Lord IJishop of Exeter and
resumed his seat.]

The Lord Bishop of JCxete . arose, and addressed the Lord

Bishop of Fredcricton nearly as follows : Li spite of the apprehen-
sion that I may weaken the etlect of that most touching address
which you have just heard, I cannot permit myself to be made the
channel of conveying to you this interesting testiuKJuial, without
expressing my own special sentiments on this occasion. In you I
have had one of the most valuable and exemplary of my clergy.
To me, therefore, and to my Diocese — to this city especially — this
day, though it is a day of thankfulness, is not one of unmixed
gratification. We regret that you are about to leave us ; but we are
thankful that you are called to a larger and nobler Held of labour;
and we humbly hope that the (Jod who has called you to it, will
give you strength and grace to work for Him there, as you have
worked for Him here. And let me express one sentiment — the
only thing, as it appears to me, wanting, in what has been said so
well by my right rev. brother on my left — let me express one senti-

i!) ^ f I

Ili:n,v 111- Till.; Lmku I>isiii»i'.

they now
^'(»u to go
i\ii(l prove
olony will
owcvor iu-
,vl>icli you
uh. thou^'h
lati'li yoiii*
<ri;litil»'S —
ur t'uitli in
11- tVelinjrs;

t«iimc tielcl
I (Ind's un-
Itii's, privii-

tlu- patli of

with a full
M\v, to the
Liul through
on placed a
f I'^xeter aiul

«(l the Lord
■ tipprehcn-
iiii<j; address
1)(! made the
ial. witliout
11. In you I
f my elergy.
cialiy — this
of unmixed
< ; hut we are
d of labour ;
on to it, will
as you have
timent — the
been said so
ess one senti-

mcnl, which he, probably, was restrained by ids mm. sty fntm
uttering. We cainiot adci|uately rejoice to see — tliat, wliiUi
colonics are K'd forth to the distant p().ssessi()n.s of this country —
whih' missionaries l;i» there to instruct them — they are no longer to
go, williout bi'ing blessed with tin; siiperint<'ndencc of that high
otiicerof the chnreli, whom ("lirist Himself has appointed, to be over
Jier ill His name. . . . May it be long, my lord, before we may
haveoecasion to thank you for the services which you have rendered.
Mav it please ( Jod to give you such health and strength, as will
permit you to spend, and to be spent, in the field to which He call.s
yon ; and though we look forward with joy and hope, to the gratiti-
<;ation of occasionally meeting yon, nuiy we always sec you as about
to letiun again, to the Church over which you have been called to
jn-esidc. — [His Lordship handed the clu'tpie to the liishop of
l-'redericton.]

On nil (»c<-asi<)ii of siicli (U'ep interest, it scciiis fitting to
?*iil)j()in the re|(l\- <tftlic liisiioii in full:

The liord Hislioi) of Fredericton rose and said, — My Lord Bi.shop
■of Exeter, Hisliop Coleridge, and dear and valueil friends — so many
of whom I meet on this occasion, with very mingled feelings —
i'eelin;r!* indeed of a very painful character — for one cannot sepa-
rate 'le's self, with whatever hope oiu; goes forth, from friends s(»
loved d valued as mine have been to me, withont pain — though
I trust tliat feelings of faith and hope do triumph and will triumph
over those feelings, which would swallow up the rest — I hope I
may say, without any want of humility, that I feel that God has
called me to this post. The circumstances und(!r which it was
ottered to me — the circumstances which preceded it — with all that
followed and accompanied it — have been of such a character as to
leave no doubt upon my own mind that it is God's calling ; and
how untrue and unfaithful a servant of the Church should 1 have
been, if, having this conviction, I had not obeyed the call. Bishop
Coleridge, and you, my Lord Bislwjp, were (piite right, when you
.said that a present made in this particular form was much more
congenial to my feelings than it would have been in any other.
It would, indeed, have been most painful to my feelings — most

III

Tin: Must Ueverkni) Johx ^Tedlky, D. D.

uiiniixcdly laiiif'nl — if any other form had been adopted — if any of
those pereonal testimonials, which are now so common and so cheai),
liad been presented to a Bishop of the Enjrlish Church, going out to
perform a spiritual duty, in an important Diocese. I should have
felt that our own tone had been lowered by it — that we had gone back
from the spirit of the Gos^ ol to the sj)irit of the world — that we had
exchanged good gold for wretched dross — and had sacrificed high
and soleinn considerations in order to gratify a momentary feeling
of vanity. Jn accepting this valuable tribute, I do it as .the servant
of the Church — as your trustee, for the fulfilm. nt of a high and
holy trust. I accept it as a proof that you believe the doctrines of
the Church — that you love the principles of the Church — that you
are prepared to live and die in the service of the Church — and that
whatever difference of opinion there nuiy be, upon some points, be-
tween different individuals among you — you are in the main agreed
— a body of sincere, and faitliful, and conscientious churchmen,
Uj)on no other condition could I consent to accei)t your gift ; but I
do accept it, because I believe I have interpreted rightly, the feel-
ings with which it is presented, and it will be, I assure you, a n)atter
of great gratification to me, if I find that it is received in the colony
of New lirunswick with that cordial welcome, which I have reason
to believe awaits it. As a proof that I have ground for this hoj)e,
I may mention one fact; a gentleman connected with my own
family, who is a missionary in New Brunswick, had sent home to
Ids friends in England to solicit contributions towards the restora-
ion of his own Church, which was falling into decay ; but no sooner
did he hear that a Cathedral was to be erected at Fri'dericton, than
he wrote to me to re(piest that no such collection should be made,
but that his fricnls should contribute in lieu of it to the Cathedral
fund. I am happy to be able to j;ay, on i)ehalf of tlie gentleman
who manifested this strong interest in our work, tiiat those valued
friends of his, who had intended to contribute towards his Church,
gave their coiitril)ution still, but they did not on that account,
withhold their aid from our own Cathedral. The occasion on
which we are met, is doubly pleasant to us all, inasmuch as it evinces

a growing pow«

er of expansion in our beloved Church — it sh

snows

that the time has come, when God will lengthen her cords and

IvKl'I.Y <»K Till-; LollI) HlSUOl'.

-if any of
so cheui),

iiifi out to

ould luive
tr()ncV)ack

v.it wc luul

itu-('(l higU

ary feeling

the servant

a high and

doctrines of

— that you
.— and that

3 points, be-

inain agreed
ehurchmen.

r gift ; but I

itly, the feel-

^ou, a matter

jin the colony
liave reason

for this hope,

kith my own
sent home to
the restora-
|)ut no sooner
U-ricton, than
,nUl be made,
the Cathedral
lie gentleman
hose valued
^ liis Church,
that account,
occasion on
h as it evinces
•oh— it shows
ler cords and

Htrcngtiien her stakes — and it shows that, whatever divisi ins may
arise among us — and no man can lament them more than I do —
there is, in the Church herself, that growing jiower, wiiich proves
her to be sound at heart, and wiiich could not he manifested if tliere
were not soundness of heart. We all know that coldness, in a per-
son who is a'oout to die, l)egins at the extremities, and where we
find that the extremities an' warm, we ho])e that the heart, and all
the vital organs, continue to perform tiieir functions. So also, wheu
we find the Church sending forth her missionaries to the distant
colonies of the empire, and her clergy and her hisliops supporting
tliem, we may feel assured that God is giving His blessing, and that,
somehow or other, all will )me right at last. I am sure that in
going forth to a distant colony, that unless we tlo go forth in the
s]»irit of hope, we nuiy as well not go at all. With what advantage
should I go lorth, as tlu" missionary of the Church, to a distant land
if I were in despair of the Church at home? What use would it l)e
for me to atteinpt to carry out the liturgy of the Church among the
colonists of New Brunswick — to express an afiectionate zeal for
tlieir welfare — to multiply cinirclies and clergymen among them —
and to exhibit to tiiem there the Church in all its fullness, if I felt
all the time that the Church at home was going to decay, liut I
have no such feeling. I am confident that the more we exert our-
selves to give to those who are at a distance, the Church in all its
fullness, and in all its effioieucy, lh.> m mv suroly shall we find it
return, in blessings upon ourselves. I will now take the liberty of
stating to you, what is the actual position of the Diocese of New
Brunswick; and in doing so, I shall pass no censure on any. 1
must, however, remind those who hear me, that the state of thinirs
there is totallv di.ssimilar from anything that we find in Knirjaud
The government, from whatever cause — for I know not, and will
not stay to incpiire — are acting, in tJie colonies, rather upon the
numerical princij)Ic— giving assistance to various denominations
of Christians, but scarcely recognising the Church as an established
church, and only allowing her to taki' her own position, as she may
be able by her own exertions to attain it. Whether this is rir^ht (U-
wrong, 1 will not stop t.) discuss. It is sufiicieiit that the fact is so,
and we should lie very foolish indeed, if we diil not consider it in all

ftl

III I*

TllK MotiT JiEVEKKNI) ffollN MeDLEY, D. D.

its bearintrH and eH'ect.s, Ix'fore considoriiiff what we ou"rht to do for
the colonies, with a view to the relief of their s|)iritual destitution.
Its disadvantaji''s of course are obvious, and I need not, therefore,
<lwell upon thcin, hut let us look for a moment at the other side ;
jind let us consider in what way a liishop of the Colonial Church is
affected by auch a state of things. It leads him then, not to look to
Ids connection with the staic, so nuich as to the spiritual power and
authority given him by the Lord Jesus. It leads him to lt)ok far
above men, or the sanies of princes, for support ; it strengthens the tie
that binds him to his flock ; and it makes him feel that, in proportion
41S he can unite the richest and the poorest of that flock in one brother-
hood with himself, in that proportion will his Church flourish, and,
let princes smile or frown, he will still be enabled to carry out the
'Gosjiel of Christ, in all its fullness and Aposiolic i)urity, and to
make Jerusalem a praise anil a glory in the earth. No person will
understand, that, in the remarks which I have made, I intend to
•cast censure, either on the state or on individuals; but we cannot
•shut our eyes to the plain fact, and we cannot help seeing — when
110 distinction whatever is made between truth and error — and
■when it is openly professed that the state cannot have a conscience —
that the Church must rely more and more on its own resources —
and we must tell the i)eople of England that they must come for-
ward yet more /.eahnisly to sup])ort that Church which depends, in a
great measure, on their exertions. There are in the colony of New
Brunswick eighty -seven parishes ; when this division took place I am
not able to inform you, but the nund)er is (juite clear. For these
■eighty-seven parishes there are thirty clergymen, and forty-seven
churches. A single clergyman has often the charge of two or three
I'hurches, separated by great distances fron\ each other — and it
occasionally happens that one clergyman has charge of a district
of one hundred and twenty miles in extent. Many parishes are
left without the ordinances of religion, n-.inistered in such a
Avay, as we, of the Church of England, believe to be the right
-way, and to be most conducive to the purity and spread of the
Gospel. I only mention this that you may see what is necessary
to be done, anc, I trust, if God's blessing shall attend me, I may
.jet live to see \he day when the same result shall follow which

ill i ili

l{i:iM,V nl' TIIK iiORI* UlSllol'.

■U

) ilo for
itution.
lerefore,
er side ;
hurch is
) look to
)\ver and
look fai-
ns the tie
ropovtion
? brother-
ri^h, and,
•y out the
y, and to
lerson will
intend to
we cannot
11 g — when
iTor — and
iifioience —
k'jiources — •
conic for-
■pends, in u
luy of New
place I am
For these
forty-seven
,() or three
V — and it
If a district
|>!irishes arc
in such a
the right
•cad of the
IS necessary
me, I may
lllow which

gladdened the heart of my right rev. friend, Bif»hop Coleridge, in his
own Diocese of Barhadoes — when the clergy of New Jinuiswiek
shall be doubled — tre])led they ought to be at once, to secure even
an ap|»roach to ertieient pastoral superintendence in that important
si)here of labour. Bishop Coleridge, allow me t<i thank yi>ii, in the
name of the Diocese of New Brunswick, as well as in my own, for
that most touching and atiectionate appeal which yon have made on
our behalf and lor tlie warnniess and kindness wiiich yon have
shown towards me, on tMs, and on n)any other occasions. That kind-
ness will not be i\ .gotten by me, and I shall always rejoice to
recollect the time, when I met you in this place, with one, whom
but lately 1 was accustomed to look up to, as my spiritual father in
Christ, and from your hand receive this valuable testimony of
affection and res])eet. One word more as to the wants of the Colony
of New Brunswick — and first we want Men — we want men who
will go forth to minister as the servants of the living God — we
don't want the refuse of England for the Diocese of New Brunswick
— we don't want men to be sent out there because they can't l)e
employed at home — we want the best blood of ]']ngland, in order to
show what JOngland can do. Tlierefore — if you send out clergy-
men from this country to gladden my heart — send out men who
have a due appreciation of tlie work in which they are to engage —
men with missionary hearts, and missionary spirits — men who are
anxious for their own eternal salvation, and are therefore desirous
to communicate the blessing of salvation to others — send not
men to me whom the Jii>hop of K.xeter would refuse — let no lather
place their children in the Church, in the belief 'hat anything will
do for a distant land. Such men as these we do not want ; but we
want holy men of God — men of earnestness and pious zeal — of
reffectiou, of consideration, of judgment — better men if possible
than you iiave need of at home. At the same time, allow me to
observe, if you do send men out to New Brunswick, let them be
earnestly attached to the comnuinion to which they belong — men
anxious to carry out all the injunctions of the Church, and ready to
yield due obedience to her rulers — let them be men possessed, in
every respect, of the spirit of the gosp<'l Then shall I hail their
approach with joy — shall receive them with brotherly affection,

TiiK ^fosT Keveuexd John ^Fedley, T>. T).

and my only delight shall be to minister to them by every means in
my power. We mnst have men. It is iniposi^ible that a population,
comprehending at jjresent 150,000 souls, and constantly increasing
by emigration, can be rightly ministered to without a great increase
of labourers — I had hoped to have taken <> persons from England
with me — alas! only one, at present a ompanies me — I had
hoped that there was more of the missionary spirit — 1 will only
appeal to you, and through you to those who shall hear my words,
though they do not listen to my voice, to recollect how great is the
reward laid up for such as possess the missionary spirit and the
pastor's heart, and who think it a joy and an honour to embark in
their master's cause. I will only remind you that though absent
in the body we may still be present in the spirit ; that in that
Cathedral which we shall build, the same strains will be sung as we
have been wont to listen to here, with so much delight — that those
who worship there will use the same liturgy — will have the same
("iiurch to embrace them — the same Spirit to animate them, and
the same God to love, to bless, and to reward them. I have now to
thank you, my lord, for all that kindness which you have shown
nie during my stay in your lordship's Diocese; for, at your hands,
I have never received anything but kindness, which I know I have
too little merited. I thank also, all those wlio, with the utmost zeal
and aft'ection, and Christian feeling, have contributed on this occasion.
I have received many testimonies, on this occasion, of a very pleas-
ing character ; children have contributed to this blessed work, and
have thought it an honour and a comfort to be permitted to do so.
I am surrounded by many memorials, which will come before me often
hereafter ; and whenever the Holy Sacrament shall be administered
in tli(.' Cathedral Church of Fredericton, I shall bear before me, and
have engraven in my heart, the names of those who, with so much
Christian zeal, have contributed towards the erection and decoration
of the building. I shall feel that, though far distant, nothing really
separates us, and that, as I am one with you, in that true Cbristian
affection, which, 1 hope, nothing in this world can shake, so I trust I
shall be one with you hereafter, in another and a better world. In
taking leave of those kind friends who are with me here to-day, I
cannot but recollect that hunum life is short, and uncertain, and

Killed in a Carriage Accident.

that, chequered as my life has been, with sickness and with sorrow, I
may he taking leave of you for the last time. But whether it be so
or not — whether I ever re-visit the shores of England or not — I
shall never forget this day — I shall remember it with thankfulness
to God — and shall pray to Him for a blessing on your lordship's
labours — for a blessing on the laity and clergy here present — and
I shall never cease to hope that your prayers may accompany me
on my voyage to a distant land, and that when I arrive there, I
may still have the happiness of knowing, that I continue to enjoy
the prayers of those of whom I now take leave, with so much
affection and respect, blessing you in the name of the Lord.

Before proceeding to sjteiik of Bishop Medley's iirrivul in
Xew Brunswick, a few words may he added to wliat lias
already been related regarding the circninstances under
wliieli lie was ai)jtointed first liishop of the new Diocese.'

The years immediately preceding the Bishop's a|»point-
ment to the 8ee of Frederieton were marked by unusual
<lomestie sorrow and trial.

In 1839, his second son, Thomas Fisher, died. In 1841,
his young and beautiful wife faded away from his side in
consum[ttion, leaving six children, one an infant of a year old.

In 1843, his eldest daughter, Fmma, who had taken
charge of the house and family, was suddeidy snatched

iwav l)v scar

let fe

3ver: a most severe blow to him, as she

had shown (piite a womanly power of managing the house-
iiold and a devoted care of her father. His mother then
broke up her own iiouse and went to the Vicarage to take
charge of the family, but in the autumn of the following
year (September, 1844) she was kilU'd in a carriage acci-
•lent by his side. She had not been in an open ean-iage
for some year*?, but wishing to see a church in the i'arish,
at the luunlet of Oldridge, which she had assisted her son to
restore, she determined to take the drive of about six miles.

For the particulars here given, the v. liter is again indebted to Mrs. Medley.

•Tr-

y\'

I I

TiiH Most Kkverknd John Medlky, D. 1).

In rcturninii", the liorses ran siway down a steep, newly-
stoned hill, and near the l)ottoin the donble seated earria^e
broke in two, and all were thrown ont. The Bishop was
badly cut, brnised and stiunied ; his mother was instantly
killed. When conseiousness retnrned, he asked I'or her, the
doetor answered " she is in no pain," and he did not in<piire
fnrther. His left arm was so seriously injured that the
doetor deeided it must come oft', but the Uishop was so
opposed to this, that other means were tried, and in time
circulation was restoivd and it became useful, thoun'h it
always remained weak.

Shortly afterwards the letter of the vVrehbishoji of Canter-
bury, offerimj; him the Bishopric, arrived, and in all }»roba-
bility this was the first real intimation he received respect-
ing his appointment to the See of Fredericton.

The position was entirely unsouii'ht : indeed it is said the
l^ishoji never knew the names of those who first recom-
mended him to the Archbishop as a suitable nnm for the
post he was destined to fill with so much ability.

None can do otherwise than admire the brave, nninly
way in which he entered u})()n the duties of what was well
known to be an arduous and <lifHcult position, [n addition
to the responsibilities of his office, there was thrown ujion
his slioulders the care of a larsje motherless familv of vouni>;
children, lie was still suffering physically from the eftects
of the terrible accident, destined to leave a permanent nuirk
on his form and features, and above all, there was the sad
bereavenuuit sustained in the traii;ic death of a mother so
greatly revered and so tenderly loved. Yet in the tiice of
what would have cruslied one with less faith and courage
the Bishop bravely came out to Xew Brunswick, loyally
identifviuij^ himself with his Diocese from the verv first, and
formiui; the mental resolve vears afterwards reaffirmed in
the }iresence of a vast asseml)ly in the mother laud, '" the

Till-: Ah('Iii;isih)I' of ('ANTFiunruY's Lkttkh.

(51

munly
s well
(litiou
n\K)U
young
ottects
murk
le sad
lier su
:ice of
lurase
llovally
X, and
luoil in
'' the

I.onl do so to me, and more also it' aiiglit but «leatli i)art
tliee and me."

The Arelil»islio[i"s k-tter just referred to Is as follows :

Addincton Hkai), Choydon,

(Moher ^\st, 1844.

Revkkfnp Sh!, — It has been detorniinod to se]>arate the Pro-
vince of Now liruii.-wick from tlie IJishoprie of Nova Scotia, of
which it now forms part, and to erect it into an independent
Bis-lioprio.

It is most desirable that this important station shoidd be fdled
by a clergyman well qnalified by learning and ability, by temper
and jndgment, by piety and soundness of doctrine, to discharge its
arduous duties.

I have been informed by competent judges th;it you possess these
((ualifications in no ordinary degree, and their report has been
fully confirmed by the answer of the Bishop of Exeter to my
in<iuirics. I therefore request your permission to mention your
name to Lord Stanley as Bishop,

The office is not to be coveted on account of its emoluments.
The income will be about nine hundred a year, or perhaps a little
more; but the style of living in the country is not expensive. That
which will recommend it to yo\i will be the consideration of the
benefit which the Church and the cause of religion in general will
derive from the superintciidence of a zealous and judicious Bishop,
which in the present state of the colony is much needed. There
are indeed few situations in which a good man could be more useful.

If you have any doubts, you will, of course, take time for deliber-
ation. I have only to request that, in case you should decline the
proposal, you will consider this communication as confidential.
I remain, Reverend Sir,

Your humble and obedient servant,

Hev. John Medley. W. Cantuar.

After due deliberation, a favourable reply was returned
to the Archbishop's letter, and "Mr. I'rebeiulary AFedley"
at the same time informed his own Diocesan, the famous

rill'] Most Kkvkuknd .Iohx Mkhlky, I). I).

I I

"Henry of Kxcter," of his decision, from whom the follow-
ing gnititying letter was received in rejily :

BiHHOi'STONK, 2C)tli November, 1844.
My Dear Sir, — I receive your coinnuniicution with very mixed
feelings. Personally, Jind as liishop of this Diocese, I deeply
lament the loss which both myself and the Diocese are about to
sustain. As a Bishop of the wiiole Church, I rejoice in the pros-
pect of so important a post as the See of New Brunswick being
filled by such a man.

It will give me much pleasure to receive you here, if you can
.spare to me time for a visit before you leave England. If not here,
I hope I shall .see you in Exeter. Wherever you may be, accept
my warmest a.ssurances of my broihcrlij feelings towards you.

Yours, my dear sir,

Very faithfully,
liev. Prebendanj Medley. II. Exktek.

As has heen ah'eadv stated, the Tiev. John Medlev was
consecrated at Land)eth, May 4th, of the tbllowinij: year.
The Hisho[»s takiiii;- jiart in the consecration, in a<ldition to
the Archbishop of Caiiterhury, were the P)ishops of London,
Lincoln, Jiochester, Hereford and Lichtield.

(ii.uTKu VI r.
TiiK Bishop's Arrivai- at Fhi:i)i:kicto\ — (•hanck fiio.m

FoK.MKR LlTK — FeELIX(!.S OK DISTRUST MaMFKSTED —

Layinci of the Foundation Stone of the Cathedrai,.

^ WlIK pR'seiit writer hii.s ;i vivid rccollcctioii of the lovely
vO U <'veiiiii<i' — tiie evc of St. Harnabiis — when the arri-
val of the jjishoj) took place at Frederieton. The
steamltoat wharf was crowded 1»\' a lar^e iiuinber of church-
meii ill joyous expectation. The (iovenior, Sii- William
Colehrooke, was tlie firt>t to <!;reet the Bishop as he landed
from the steamer, lie was accompanied hy his chaplain;
five of his chihh'cn, with their _ti:overness, and servants.
*'I take the opportunity," the Bishop writes to the S. \\ (}.,
"to inform yon of my arrival here, and it will ii^ratity you
to learn, as it has me to witness, the cordial manner in
which I have heen met by the mend)ers of the Churcli, and
also by others estranged from her communion. On St.
Barnabas' Day I took possession of the C-athedral Chureii,
and my patent^ was read by my chaplain. After I had
preached I assisted at tlie holy communion. There were
one hundred and lifty communicants, among them some
coloured people, who had walked six miles to be jtresent."
From what has already l)een written, the peculiar diffi-
culties ready to meet the Bishop in his work may I'eadily
be anticipated. The change from Exeter Cathedral and
intercourse with such as Iveble and his associates, and the
society of men of deep learning, in whose work the Bishop

'This document has since been declared nugatory in Colonies vested with
local authority. All difficulty, however, in this instance has been set at rest
by readily adopted enactments on the part of the Provincial Legislature in
all necessary points.

(.J3)

I III

Tin; Must 1{i:vi:ui:ni> .I.iiin Mi:i>li;y, I). D.

wjis fitted to take a iiroiiiiiuMit part, to wliat met liiiii at
t'Vt'iT liaiid ill the new Diocesi', imist have l)eeii u;i'eat in-
deed. At tlie time of the Bishop's arrival there was not
one Church in the Dioeese which, at the present (hiy, w()iU<l
l)e considered as properly arranu:i'd. Already we have
Kpoken ot" the dniness and lack of responses in the ser-
vices on the part of the people. TIk I'arish (Minrch at
Fr(;derieton — the pro-Cathedral — had hitely heen enlar^-ed.
It was well kt'pt, and in i^ood repair. It had its ii:allei'ies
and s((iiare }»ews. Theri' was no cluun-el. '^riie altar stood
in a narrow space between tlu' readini; desk and the [>ulpit.
In most instances, throutj,-hont the Diocese, the holy com-
munion was celebrated ([uarterly. As we mentioned hefore,
the ii;ood uVrchdeacon ('oster was (loini> all he could in the
way of im[irovements; l»nt there was a hitter and strong'
feel i n i; au'a in st what were termed lunorafams. Amonii' these
were classed, at tln' time referi'ed to, more fre(pient celebra-
tions, the ottertory, the prayer for the Church-militant, and
the disuse of the black ii;own. Church music was little
understood or attended to. In some instances objections
were made to chanting the (lanticles. The so-called h^'mns
in use consisted of a very slim selection from the "metrical
version of the Psalms, by Tate k. IJrady." All this must
have been deeply telt by the Bisho[), with his love for earnest,
reverent services, and fretpient communion ; with his excel-
lent taste in C'hurch music and architecture, and his earnest
wish and longing to have everything of the best and the
most fitting in the house of (Jod.

At the present day, we can scarcely understaml the sharp
line of separation existing, say, forty years ago, between
that section of the Church with whicli the Bishop was in
syni[tathy, and that represented l)y the Evangelical school.
The blessed change, whicli has since come over every candid,
thoughtful miiul, was, at the time we speak of, wholly

Fi:Ki,iN(ifi OF DisTRisT Maxifkstki>.

waiitinu;. Tt scoiiumI to ho snpposod that roul vital relit^ioii
coiihl not exist ill comiectioii with Iliijfh (Miiirch views. The
}>riiioi[iles which riile<l tlie Bishop's iiiiiid were soon well
known. There was no atteniitt to (lis<ruise them. By the
Evan^elieal party ho was rei^anied with distrust, which
■was telt the more, as accounts came of terrihle secessions to
the Church of Koine, on the part of the most prominent of
those concerned in the Oxtord movement. All this was
dilii^ently set torth in the puhlic jtress, and in much ]»uhlic
teachiiiii:. It had its w«'ight in many ]»arishes, and with
many minds. For a while they watched ratlu'r than yielded
to the Bishop's teaching. lie found it hard, in many in-
stances, to hrinii' ahout the most desirahle and harndess
changes in the mode of conducting divine service. Such
changes were often earnestly desired by the clergy, hut
opposed hy the congregations. Any }>roposed alteraticjn was
called the " entering wedge," " the step hy step system."

As an illustration of this feeling, one incident may he
mentioned. The Bishoji had laid the foundation stone of
liis Cathedral. On his first visit to England, warm friends
liad given him generous aid. At the time of his return, one
of the clearest-headed statesmen was (Jovernor of the
Province. Afterwards he was Governor General of Canada.
lie was a personal friend of the Bishop, a man of deep
learning, devoutly attentive to his religious duties, and well
ac(|Uaiiited with all the controversies and movements which,
at tlie time, were exciting such interest in the Church.
AVhen he was told of the IJishop's return, and tlie success
of his mission in behalf of the Cathedral, with a characteristic
shrug of his shoulders, he said : Timco Danaos et dona ferentes !
Tf thus it was in the case of a sound and ai»parently un[>re-
judieed mind, can we wonder at the feeling exhibited, and
often strongly exjjressed, by those less capable of forming a
correct judgmout ? We shall see, by-and-bye, how all this,
K

Tin; .\I(»sT Kkvkhi;m> .Ioiin Mkdi.kv, |). I>.

^1 i

! i

t i

wliicli, with " tlu> cart' of all tlii' cliin'clu's,'' iimst have Iuhmi
liai'<l to hear, was pat'u'iitly I'lidiirt'd; how opposition was
livfd down hy a constant, niiswci-vinu; st-ttinu' lorth of tln^
tnitli, conihincd with kind consideration lor those ol'ditU'fent
opinions, and the ([uict inlluouco of a litb of self-denial and
])eneticence.

In the atitnnm after his ari'ival in the Diocese, the Uisho)*
made preparations for the erection of the Cathedi'id. He
writes in his first letter to the S. 1*. (J., In-fori' relerred to:

I met on the Monday Inllowing (/. e. his installatiitM) a body of
tlic iidiabitants, laid hcjfoio tluMn niy plans for a Catliedral, and
they responded hy proniisinj^ C4,")0() in five years. ( 'olonel Shore
has kindly ollered two and a half acres of land, and a lady the stone.
There appeal's iniieh anxiety on this nuitter, and never have I
witnessed greater earnestness and zeal, or a disposition more kind
towards myself. There is a willingness to defer, in pointa of sitiia-
ti(ai, entirely to lue.

())»)»osition, hased npon the feelino-s of distrnst before
alhided to, had yet to Ix; encountered.

Tlu' following: account of the laying of the foundation stone
of the Cathedral is taki-n from an Enii'lish imblii-ation : ^

In ancient times the cathedrals of old England, which are still
the glory and ornaments of that country, and are now more visited
and admired than ever, were built by the Bishops of the respective
Sees, assisted by the multitude of the faithful, who rejoiced to pour
their otl'erings into the treasury of (Jod. In faith the work was
begun; the builders died and left their work unfinished, but others
took it up, and by God's help brought it to an end. But the
Colonies of England, though everywhere dispersed, kiu^w no such
glory; and for a long season the gathering in of the " unrighleoiiH
luammon " seemed to be the sole en'' ' ' ition. At length
the note of preparation is heard, au' i one colony God's

servants "think upon the st< «"' ai\ ud "itpitieththem

' The Church in tilt .unies, ^ . G., sfcond edition.

' Misliop
•Ml. IFc
0(1 to:

lic'tbro

I i

;

THE CATHEDRA 1., I-REDERRTON, N. B.

liAVINd OF Tin; F(ilNltATIi»>" StoNI').

to see her iu the du.st." New Brunswick is one of the first colonies
in which the foinuhition stone has heen actually laid : an event the
more remarkable, when we reflect, that no such work has been
begun since th.c Morinan (.'oii([iie.st, that is for the last seven hun-
dred years; a work in which the goodness of God is manifestly
made known towards u.-<.

As many persons are interested in the success of this undertaking,
the following account may not be unacceptable:

On Wednesday, the loth of October, 1845, pursuant to a notice
signed by the Lord Bishop, a procession was formed at the I'rovince
Hall, a short time bcf )re three o'clock iu the afternoon, and the
whole body proceeded to the ground in the following order:

The Jiand of the SOrd Regiment of Foot.

The Otficei"s of the Regiment.

His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor in Military Uniform.

The Mend)ers of the Legislative Council.

His Honor the Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls.

Mr. Justice Carter, Mr. .Justice Parker.

Meud)ers of the House of Assoud)ly and Members of the Bar.

The Lortl Bishop, bearing his Pastoral Staff.

The Archdeacon, the Bishop's Chaplain,

And nineteen other Clergy in their Robes.

Inhabitants of Fredericton and other parts <»f the Province.

A large uuiltitude accompanied the procession on either side, and
when it reached the ground every place was occupied, the number
of spectators being pri>bai)ly between two and three thou.suid.

The Bishop, presenting His lOxccUency with a silver trowel (the
gift of ^Ir. Spahnn, of Fredericton), re(pieste<l him to lay the foun-
dation stone of the new Cathedral, and, previous to the ceremony,
oflered up the following prayer:

"O Lord, mighty and glorious, who filhst all things with Thy
presence, and canst not be contained within the bounds of heaven
and earth, nuich less within these narrow walls, yet do.st vouchsafe
to accept the poor endeavours of Thy hund)le .servants allotting
special place for Thy worship ; we humbly beseecli Thee to accept

(;8

The Most Reverend John Medley, 1), 1).

this (lay's service of sejMirating this place from worldly uses, and
marking it out to be hereafter wholly dedicated to Thy glorious
inline. Accept, O Lord, the offering of this spot at the hands of
those who have faithfully given it unto Thee. Prosper the work,
and those who build in it. Make it Thy holy dwelling place for
evermore. Let it bo hereafter consecrated and made wholly Thine
by the ministry of Thine appointed pastor. Here may prayers, sup-
I)lication8, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men :
here may Thy sacred word he read, preached, heard, and blessed.
And be present with us, O Lord, at this time, and with all who
shall hereafter minister or worship in this place ; and consecrate us
unto an holy temple unto Thyself, dwelling in our hearts by faith,
and thorodglily cleansing us from all worldly and carnal affections,
that we may be devoutly j^iveu to serve Thee in all good works.
Thus may we ever continue in the mystical body of Thy blessed
ISoa our Lord ; and united in the bonds of a true faith, a lively
hope, and a never-failing charity, may we, after this short life
ended, enter with joy Thy everlasting kingdom, and be i)uilt up as
])illars in the temple of our God, to go no more out for evermore.
Amen."

The prayer ended, the stone was raised, and His Excellency pro-
ceeded to deposit the bottle containing a few coins, with an inscrip-
tion written on parchment, in a cavity of the large block of granite
selected for the foundation stone. The following is a copy of the
inscription :

In Honorem Dei Opt : ^^ax :

Patris, Filii, et Spiritus Sancti,

Ecclesiie luijus Cathedralis

Fimdamenta jecit

GuLiELMUS G. M. Colebrooke, Eques Hanovensis,

Provincije Nova-Brunsvicensis, pro hac vice Legatus,

lies divinas |)eragente Joanne Medley,

Episcopo Frederico-politano.

Anno Episcopatus Primo.
Idibus Octob : MDCCCXLV.

Laying ok the Foundation Stone.

anite
the

The stone havin,:^ been lowered with the accnstornefl tbrnialities,
His pjxcellency proceeded to aiklre.ss those present as follows:

*' Mil Lord Bishop, Reverend Gentlemen, and Gentlemen :

"Called hy your indtilifence, and at the special reipiesjt of you,
my lord, our respected and esteemed Diocesan, to take a prominent
part in the laying of the foundation stone of this Cathedral about to
be erected, I cannot but regard it as an occasion for solemn thank-
fulness that I should thus be associated.

"To any o'le wlio has beheld the noble structures, wliich liy the
piety of our ancestors have been raised to the honour of God in our
]\[other Country, I can appeal for an acknowledgment of those
feelings which tiieir contemplation awakens. I have ever considered
that the elevation of our (Jothic spires — contrasted as they are in
this respect with the temples of heathen anti<iuity — arc calculated
to inspire those lofty and sul)lime emotions which are the peculiar
attrii)utes of our Christian faith.

"To our worthy Bishop, gentlemen, we are indebted for the ])ain3
he has taken in obtaining for us a tine model for the edifice we are
about to raise, and which, I may be permitted devoutly to antici-
pate, will long endure after we have passed away, though not, as I
hope, to be obliterated from the pious rememl)rances of tliose wiio
may succeed us and witness its completion.

"There is something at once solemn, impressive, and consoling in
the reflection, amidst tlu^ perishing elements around us, and the
cares and vicissitudes of our brief existence, that we are contriI)u-
ting to rear a solid and imposing structure, to i)e dedicated to the
worship of that l>eing Wiio has ever e.xistetl, and will ever exist,
and ' Whose service is perfect freedom ; ' and as English men we
must feel grateful, that it ha^5 |)leased Him to put it into the hearts of
our fellow-countrymen at home to assist our slender resources in
such an undertaking.

"Till this hour, and for tjiore than forty years, we may consider
that we have been wanderei*s in the wilderness, though not, as I trust,
without the Ark being with us in our wanderings, which is hence-
forth to find a habitation and a resting place.

" It is pleasing also to reilect that — as in the erection of the first

TiiK Most Uevmuknd John Medley, 1). J).

teinplo, and in the more memorable fouiidatioii of the (yhristiaii
Church — tlie period chosen for our solemn dedication is one of
universal peace. Our country, in the full career of her hi<,di and
honourable destiny, respe;'ted among the nations of the world for
her piety and for her charity, as she has been in the day of trial,
with tiie blessing of Tlod, in lier martial achievements.

" It has been said that the sun never rises nor sets ui)on English-
men ; and wherever it shines upon them, whether in the temperate
or the torrid zone, by sea or by land, may tiiey never forget the
band that has hitherto conducted them through perils ; or, that they
arc engaged in the service of Him who has promised to those who
faithfidly serve Him, to be with and sustain tluMu always, and to
build His temple in their hearts.

" It has I)een my lot to visit many regions where Englishmen
have lived and died, far remote from the sepulchres of their country ;
and from the sense of desolation to whieli the impression has often
given rise, it is to me an especial consolation to witness in the latter
]tart of my life, the growing expansion in the east and in the west
of our ancient iuid venej'able Church, destined, as I believe, by the
Providence wiiich watches over us, and sanctifies our labours, to
sustain her part in the spread of the gospel, the herald of ' peace on
earth, and good will towards men.'

"The occasion may not inappropriately suggest to our minds the
words of the Prophet :

" ' Behold, 1 lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner-stone, a sure foundation.

"•Judgment also will 1 lay to the line, and righteousness to the
plummet.'" — Ina. .fxiiii. 16, 17.

The Lord Bishop then spoke to the following eflect :

"*SVr Wilft'am Colehrookt , and Gentlemen :

" It aftords me the highest gratification to hear froai your Excel-
lency sentiments to which every Christian heart must respond, and
to Hnd my.xelf, on this eventful day, surrounded by the judges and
law Tcers of the Province, by members of the Legislative Council
and House of Assembly, and by men high in station in the Province,.

Ill il

L\VIN<i OF TIllC For.NDATION Stom;.

aiul <li8tingui(>lu'(l i(,r their tiilents, who liavc, with a unanimity
\V(, -thyof the occasion, come forwani to support this great nnder-
taking. The building a Cathedral in this I'rovince may in s(;me
sense he calle.l a national work : tor whatever rellects the genius,
the piety, and the glory of England, adds lustre to the nation from
which the original idea is deriveil. It is in many other respects
important; not only as a national tyjH' of the unity of the ('hurch,
but as a consecration to CJtxl on the part of man of all these gifts
which God has b;'en pleased to vouchsafe to him. For when do we
glorify God so much as when we consider nothing to be properly
our own, when we look upon all as His, lent to us for our use, but
to be given back to llim, the great and glorious Givei-, and em-
ployed in His piH'uliar worship and service. Thus whatever our
gifts be, whether they be gold and silvir, whether they be wood or
stone, whether they be skill in carving, force and ehxjuence in
utterance, sweetness in nuisic, taste in (lecuratit)n, all are well used
and employed in the material expression of our inward thaidis and
]>raise, of oui- love and devotion to His glorious Name.

"A Cathedral Church is also the common home of all ; for as it
is the mother of all the churches in the Diocese, so every one has a
right to resort to it without payment, witiiout that t'xclusive pro-
perty in seats, alike forbidden in scripture, and unsanctioned by the
custom of the purest ages of the Church. And I joyfully anticij)ate
the day, whether I live to see it or no, wluMi the full iin|)i)rtance of
this great principle \yill be felt, that all men are sinfid creatures,
desirous to abase themselves in (rod's sight, and that, therefore,
none should be excluded for want of money, and that there should
be no distinction, but between those who serve the people and those
who are served by them. And possibly many who do not yet enjoy
the full blessing and privileges of our Church may yet feel inclined
occasiomdly to ent(>r a building so founded and built up.

"I am well aware that to the foundation of a Cathedral in this
Province some persons may object that the money might be better
expended than in what api)ears to them to be a lavish and wasteful
I'xpenditiue, and needless dis]»lay of ornament on the house of God.
J for line, fearlessly appeal to the laity of this country, and plainly

t|!!!

TiiK Most Rkvkuem) John Medley, D. I).

ask tliciii, wlicflicr the foundation of a Catliodral is not acconipaiiiod
by a siniultaneuiis inovcincnt on the part of the ( luirch, to extend
and improve licr niinsion.s, and to diHiise the ghid tidinj^s of ilie
gospel to tlie remotest corners of the Provinee, and wliether there
be not an anxiety on tlie part of the founders of the Cathedral to
])romote the welfare of the poorest Church, and of the most unedu-
cated and needy settlers?

" liut let us join issue with such objectors on the footing of
scripture; let us ask them, whether they recollect that on a single
building, ninety feet long by thirty wide, every |)art of which was
i)uilt by express direction from the Almighty, vouchsafed in writing,
no loss a sum than three or four millions of our money was expended ?

" And if under any (lisj)cnsation whatever, Almighty (iod would
never have sanctioned anytiiing morally wrong, why should we
object to what has the direct sanction of the Old Testament, and is
no where forbidden in the New? And when this so much praised
plainness is carried out into the houses of the objectors themselves,
when, in proportion to their increased means, men cease to orna-
ment and 1111 with splendid furniture their own 'ceiled houses,' it
will be time to let Cod's house lie waste, and to strip it of the
ornaments which a grateful heart may bestow upon it. Such parts,
however, of every such building are ))rol)ai)ly better bestowed as
gifts than taken from the general fund appropriatcil for the fabric.

'• Having disposed, as it seems to me, of this objection, it remains
that I endeavour to impress upon this large assembly the duty of
united and zealous co-operation. This Cathedral Church will best be
built by our adopting the excellent Cornish motto, ' One and <tU ;' by
<nir reflecting that if we have little, 'we shouM do our diligence to
give of that little;' but if we have ample means, an abundant con-
tribution will alone ensure its acceptance from the Almighty.

" Would to God, indeed, that every one who hears me this day
could have worshij)])ed within the walls of one of our glorious
cathedrals in Old England I Then I am sure I should not need to
urge on you this duty, l)ut your own zeal would outrun my desires,
llecollect that, though built in Fredericton, it belongs to the Pro-
vince ; the design was conceived, and the tirst contriI)utions were

^— !

Lavino of the Foundation Stone.

raised in tlio Mother ("oiintrv, niul it would, indeed, he a ilisgraee to
New IJrunswick if the ertorts of En<,di.-iluiien were not seconded here.
But 1 believe they will be seconded. The iittendance here of so
nmny from all parts of the Province, the zeal of all classes and con-
dition of men, tiie kind and J,^'uerous feelings already exhibited,
put it beyond a doubt, that if we be only true to ou. selves and to
God, and do not suHtM' ourselves to be disheartened by the cry of
the desponding, the work will be done ; and we, by God's grace,
shall live, some of us, to see the topmost stone erected, and it will be
a joy to some of the children whom I sec around me to say, when
they reach old age, ^^y parents helped to rear the stones of that
Catheflral Church, and my children's children will rise up and call
the builders blessed.

"I have now oidy once more to return you all my sincere thanks
for your kindness in attending, for your active support, and likewise
to the officers and band of the o'lvd Kegiment, wiio have so cheerfully
rendered their assistance on this solenni occasion."

"Let us conclude, as we began, with prayer.^'

When his lordship had concluded his addre?
use the following i)rayer :

he proceeded to

"O God, who hast built Thy Church on the foundation of the
Apostles and Prophets, -Jesiis Christ Himself being the Chief Corner
Stone; we give Thee humble thanks that Thou hast called us to the
clear knowledge and light of Thy gospel, in Thy most blcs.sed Son,
by the Holy Spirit.

"We bless Thee th;it Thou hast at tlii^ time given us the oppor-
tunity to lay the foundation of this house of God. May it be raised
in due sea.son to be a most Holy Temple unto Thee — 'where our
prayere may ascend up before Thee as incense, and the lifting up of
our hands as the evening sacrifice.'

"Finally, we give Thee most high praise and hearty thanks for
all Thy servants dej)arted this lite in Thy faith and fear. Patri-
archs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, and all others, whom Thou hast
delivered from the miseries of this wretched world, from the body
of death and all temj)tation, and who have committed their souls

i I

TiiK .\[(),sT lvi:vi:in;Ni) .loiix Mkih.i-y, D. D.

into Thy holy hiiinls, as into suro consolation ami rot : wliose
t'xatnj)lcs t(!a(h us to follow.

"(irant, we beseech Thee, that wo, with them, may fully receive
Thy piomisos, and he made perfect altogether, and heiny set on Thy
rij^ht hand in the place where there is neither weepinjr, sorrow, nor
heaviness, may hear those most sweet and comfortahlc words —
' ( 'ome to Me, ye hlessed of My Father, possess the Uinj^nlom pre-
pared for you from the beginning of the world.' "

The lOOtli Psalm wa.s then sung by the assembled nmltitude, the
band taking the instrumental part, after which the Lord Jiishop
gave the l)lessing, and the procession niovecl back to the Province
Hall and dispersed.

Tlu' projioscd Ciitjicdi'iil was t<> Ik- the lirst built in tliu
Colonies. Xoiie as yet had been erected Ity tiie C'lnir<'h in
tlic I'liittMl States. Xotliiui:; t'otild, uiider nil the (Mreiiin-
staiiees, have carried such a i>rq)e<'t into etlect at that time,
save the l>ish()[)"s mienualled zeal and detei-niination. The
required expeiidittire was laru:e. The sum sid»scril)ed by the
j»eo[)le ill Fredericton was only a very small proportion. It
(lid not tjrow to he a poimlar movement. The feelings
aroused by the addresses and ajipeals of the Bishoji were
not lasting-, e.\ce[»tini^ with the few, A leadini!; non-con-
formist, looking at the prog-fess of the work when rising
slowly from the foundation, was heard to say : " So we went
towards Rome."

CIIAPTEK Vm.

Ht. Anxk's Chapel — Layino Koinkatkin Stonk
CKATION uF Chapel — Brsiiop's Shuamx.

•Conse-

nt' X the meaiiwliile the Bishop built the heiiiitit'iil Chnrcli
^ then known as St, Anna's Cha])!'!, in the iiiqicr part ol

FlH'd

iTicton.

()n the ■](H\\ May, 1S4(I, the t'uiindation stone \\a- laid l»y
tlie lion. .loliii S. Saunders, who hatl jU'eseiited the hind t'oi"
the site. Thei-e was a lai'ii'e asseinhly present, inehidini^ His
Excellency Sir William ('oleln-ooke and the principal inhabi-
tants of the city.

Mr. Sa Midei's addi'essed the iiu'etin^' in tlif tbllowini!;
words :

Much as I t'eei gratified by your lordship's kindness in reciuost-
ing me to assist in laying the Ibuudation stouc of your lordship's
Chapel of St. Aune, I can assure you it aliurds me a far deeper feel-
ing of salisfaction to have had it in tny power to remove the difh-
culty you exj)erienced in obtaining a lot, by presenting you with the
ground on which it is to be erected, and to have aided in the accom-
plishment of so desirahle an object.

The extension of Church accommodation thus alfordcd will he
an invaluable benifit to the increasing [jopulation of this part of the
city, and as we are assured that the sittings are to bo free, it must,
to every pious mind, be a cause of devout thankfulness to the
Almighty, to know ti at the poor of our connnunity will n( longer
be excluded from the right of attt'ndiiig the services of the Church
ami of partaking of all its holy ordinances.

The name of St. Anne, by which the jilace was designated when
the present site of Fredericton was an Indian encampment, and the
earliest settlers first erected their rude huts, and prepared to clear
their way into the dense forests which surrounded them, cannot fail
to give rise to recollections of deep interest at a time when we are

(75)

li ;

. !

7<i

TiiK Most Kkvehkni) John Mi:ih,i:v, D. h.

called to nid our rovorcd liisliop in Inyinj; the ioiiiidutioii »,♦' a
second Cliiinh in this city

While assisting in this solemn ceremony, I trust I may he excused
for reverting to a sid)joet so near to our hearts — the t'ulHlment of
that saere<l pledge made to his lordship on our part — to rear to
the Almighty — to His honour and glory that hallo\ve<l cditiee,
the ('atlu'dnil ot" this Diocese, an ohject from which none other
can divert our hopes and wishes

Wc fervently trust your lordship will be long spared to us, to
rejoice in all the blessed results to flow from your labours. . . .
And when the rich and poor are mingled in one common dust, even
a fuller reward will, wi; trust, await the Ajxistolic labours of him
who has so Miunilicently contributed t<j these sacreil obji'cts, and that
there will Ix; then found many a stray member who has been
gathered into the fold, to rise to the glories of the life eternal.

In tlir iu'\vs|iiipi'i' ()]■ the davit is said that his l()nlshii>
nuide a most inipressivi' fc'idy, and conchuUMl i>\ thankiuL;'
those present for their coiiiitcnaiicu to his iindertakiii!;'.

This CMiurch, tlioug'li of eoini)arativcdy small dimeusioiis,
is of stone, with a ii'ahle for tliree hells, and is jterfect in its
Avay. The cost of tlii^ erection came, it was said, laruvly
from the Uishop's ', *vate means. It was afterwards made
over to the j»aro(dnal anthorities as the I'arish (^Imreh, thus
loavinsi' the Cathedral solely under tin- Uishop's conrrol.
Here, till the eomi>letion of his Cathedral, the IJishop had
<laily service, fre(|uent eeh-hrations, improved Church music,
and earnest hearty services,

St, Anne's C-hapel was eonseerati'd on the iHth March,
1847. On this oeeasion the I>islio[i preached from Zeehariah
xi, 7: "And I will feed the tioek of slau^'hter, O poor of
the tlock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I
called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; ami I \'cd the
flock,"

In the course of a most im[»ressive sermon the Bishop
evidently alludes to some prevalent objections. " If," he

i I 1

ii!

II !

('0N8K(HATI(>N OF St. AnXK's ('|IAI'I:I,

I t

H;iys, " tluTo 1)1' IK) lu't'c'ssarv coiini'iitioii Itt'twot'ii oxtonuil
Ix'iiutv and spiiitnal ivliirioii, is tliore nwy closi-r fomioction
l)et\vc('ii spifitiiiil i'i'liu,i()M aiitl cxtcnial (K'tonnily ? .
Till' i)(»iiit tof coMsiiK'nitioii is, wlu'tluT tin" i;i\iiiii- to lioly
tliiiiLCs and to lioly places the lionoiif that hcOoiiics to them, is
not more likely to pronioti' a relii^ions frame of mind than
tlu' withholdiiiii' sndi lionour. 'I'hat thei'e is danifer in ex-
ternal forms thert- is no donht ; there is daii<j^er in cvory net
of a Christian's life; dani^er in alms, lest wo ijfive them
ostentationsly : dan«j:er in worship, lest we pray j)hai-isai('ally ;
or lest we slumher over the prayers, and <^o to sleep over the
sermon. h\ all we say, or do, or think, there is (lan<;er ; for
our adversary, the devil, ever seeks to turn our food into
]>ois()n. Holiness is not ensured hy the ohservaneo of exter-
nal I'ites, hut is it ensured hy their ni'iflect ? Are tiiey who
despise the Church ot' (Jod, and lay out all their suh-
stunce in the deeorations ot their own houses, of neeessity
the most holy? We all admit tliat we are in imminent
daui^er of suhstitutinti,' outwai'd ads for inward piety, an<l of
neu'lectinif the interior holine.-s of our souls. Ihit this may
he done evervwhere, and no more helonn's to u chureli
adorned and comely, than to one which is less woi-thy ot
the name. The evil lies not in the huildinu', hut in the
lieart of man.

"The ohjection is sometimes repeated in other words.
(40(1, it is said, looks to the heart, at the heart only. Cannot
(Jod he worshipped in a i)lain, simple editice, with four plain
Avails, seeing; 'the Most IIiii;h dwi'lleth not in temples made
with hands?' To wliich we reply, ' Undouhtedly He may.'
The Apostles worshi])ped in an upi)er room, heeause tliey
were poor and had no other i)laeo ot worshii). Ht. Paul
knelt down on the sea-shore and prayed. . . . Crod
ciu\ he worshipped, and aeeeptahly worshi[)ped, without a
lionse of prayer, if we have none to offer; in a plain house

■|''f1

..M

Tin; Must Kiivkiikm) .Iuiin Mkiilkw I). I).

if wo i!aiiiii»t providr a Ix'ttcr; Itnt lot mm lie woU a(*f«uro«l
that (»()(1 is Mot tlu' iiioro H|iiritiially \V(>rslil|»|»c(l, wlion our
inoaunoss rot'use.s to otK-i- lliiii llic best we liavi', flioiiLrli tlio
verv In'Ht is mnvortliv of His Maicstv. For, wlu'ii tlio Most
Tri<jjli (lircctod iiion to )»uil(l Ilini an lioiiso, IIo i;avo difoo-
tiotis to linild it in so t-ostlv a maimer that tlio most ii'ori^ooiis
of our otlitlcos is porfoct simjdicitv in comitarison,

"'Tlio statl" imj)lios authority, <liri'('ti(»n,su|»i»ort,aiid com-
fort. This conit'ort wo find in tlio sacrod words in the Hook of*
Common Prayor, a hook so scriptural that it is full of sorip-
turo, and huilt upon it; so Catholic that nothiiii; thcroin is
found contrary to tlu! dooroos of tlu' ApostoKn' — nay, tlio
Universal ('liuroli — mon's private fancies only heiiiii," ox-
oludod; so comprehensivi' that every man fiixls his wants
ro[)resontod or his petitions anticipated; so \aried that we
may reap pleasure from it every time wo wish ; so full and
froipient in its oftioes of prayer that, let a man he as devout
as he will, he will tin<l his devotion cannot soar to a lii_u,'her
|titch, if it he sobtu', rational, and Christian; and withal, so
elevated that it leads us ahovo the narrow views and petty
prejudices of party into the calm and holy atmos[»hei'e of
heaven. . . . While others turn aside to drink of other
waters on the rii!,ht hand and on the left, I desire no hiijher
lionour, hlessintj or happiness foi- myself or my children
than to drink of the well of Kni>lisli undetiled, and to ui)hol(l
in very poor measure 'the staff' of IJeauty and the staff of
Bands,' as sot forth in the Hook of Common Trayer.

" Of the buildinu' in which we are now assembled for the
first time, it liocomes me to say no more than this — that it
is a very simple, huml)lo, and unworthy effort to ij;'lority
God, and to give access to His worship to all who choose
to avail themselves of His ordinances, especially the poor.
And as in the building of it, it is my duty not to look for
human praise, so it is e(iually incumbent on me to give no

Consecration of St. Anxk's Ciiatfl.

lu'i'(l to the rasli uikI i^roiiiidlcrtH roiisiuvs of liiosc who say
'Our \\[iH arc our own, wo arc they tliat ouifht to spoak,
who is Lord over iih?' To tlic erection of this biiiMint;'
Hcaroelv aiiv one haw been asketl to eonti'ihuti'. ^'our com-
trihutions ol" a laru'cr kiiwl nw reserved lor a hi<riier cdillcr,
in the erection of which a <ji;rcat nund)ei' of the iidiabitants
of this place havi' pU'duvd themselves to supitort }\\v. Fioni
you, jiarticularly, 1 claim this siipitort, as your JJishop: as
your friend : as one who has no interest at heart hut vours;
as one who, whatcvei' may he his personal liiiliny-s and
defects, desires to henetit you, your city, and the people of
this Province. ........

In this [»lace may many a sluii^i^ish soul he ([uickened,
many a wanderer recalled, many a consistent CMiristian he
edified, many a mourner wi}»e away his tears. Here may
' tlie Son of Jviii-liteonsness arise witii healin*;- in llis winifs,'
and i^race and love and peace he multii)licdl"

CHAPTER IX.

First Visitation of the Diocese — \otes of Visfpation

ToiR IN 184<i.

LTIIOrUlT, us is plainly seen, the Bishop's niiiul
was earnestly set upo:. the erection of the Cathedral,
there was no nei^lect of other arduons duties per-
taininii; to Ills oitiee. Xot loni; after his arrival in the
])iocese he had visited every parish and mi. sion. There
Avere no railways in those days. The means of reaching
his destinations i)y steamers were very limit-jd. Trying,
l)eyond measure, must have heen nuiny of his frequent and
extensive Journeys,

T!ie following notes, taken from the "Annals of the
Diocese," are of interest as giving an account of the Bishop's
iirst oiiicial work :

184"). Oil Monday, July 2Hth, the Bishop conrf^crated the church
of St. Thomas, in Stanley, the .service being compiled from writings
of Bishop Andrews, Bishoo Wilson and Bishop Patrick. The hoi)
communion was administered. A burial ground was also conse-
crated, not far from the churcli, on the hill. ,

August 4th. The Bishop left Frederictou, accompanied by his
Chaplain (the Rev. R. King), on his primary visitation. He con-
firmed at St. Andrews, twenty -one ; at Campobello, nine ; at (jlrand
Manan, twenty-eight ; at St. Stephen, six; at St. David, two; at
St. George, twenty-five; at Portland, St. John, seventy-eight; at
Trinity, St. John, sixty-eight ; total, two hundred and thirty-eight.

At Grand Manan, the Bi!<hop held his first ordination, when the
Rev. James Xealcs, missionary on the Island, and the Rev. Thomas
iMcGhee, were admitted to the holy order of the priesthood, after
due examination.

His LoHr»f;iiii''s First Oiticial \'is[t.

At St. Andrews, on his return, the Bishop consecrated a piece of
ground for a new burial ground.

J^'oni St. Jolin the Bishop proceede<l to Norton, where he con-
firmed forty-two; at Hampton, thirty-six; at Upham, tifty-four ; at
Sussex Vale, thirty-four ; at Studholm, nineteen ; total, one hundred
and eighty-tive.

The Bishop also visited the churches of Upper and Lower Loch
Lomond, accompanied by the Ilev. W. Gray, and preached in them ;
and also visited the village of Quaco, where he was desirous to estab-
lish a new mission. He preached there and baptized five children.

At LTpham, the Bishop contirmed tifty-four and made provisional
arrangements for a settled missionary.

The liishop proceeded from Studholm to Springfield, where he
confirmed fifty, and made arrangements for a weekly offertory ;
at Kingston, sixty-four; total, one hundred and fourteen.

On the 28th August, he returned to Fredericton and made
arrangements for the excavation of the ground granted for the
site of the Cathedral.

On Monday, September 1st, the Bishop proceeded to Woodstock.
He was met at Eel Kiver by the Kev. Lee Street, who accomj)anied
him the next day to Tobique.

On Wednesday, the 6th, the Bishop consecrated the church at
Tobiijue, by the name of the Holy Trinity, administered the holy
communion, and confirmed three persons.

He then proceeded to Grand Falls, and on Thursday, held divine
service in the large room of the principal inn, there bi'ing no
church. He contirmed seven and baptized three. Several persons
ha(i come sixty-five miles to be present. After .service the iiishop
selected a spot for a church, to which the people undertook to sub-
scribe £100, since increased to tKiS. Tlie Roman ('atholic land-
lord offered foaiid refused to take any remuneration for the Bishop's
entertainment.

On Thursday night the Bishop arrived at Tobicpie. On PViday
he confirmed at Iliver de Chute church, nineteen, and returned
to Woodstock, having held divine service at an inn on the road,
where no clergyman had held service for three years.

Till-; Most Reveuenu John Medley, D. D.

On Saturday the Bishop (.•oiifirnicd at Richmond, fifteen ; on
Sunday, at Woodstock, twenty-three ; at Jacksontown, ten ; and
endeavored to remove the objections of some of the people to the
offertory.

At Prince William chui'ch, the Bishop confirmed seven, and
consecrated a burial ground at Dumfries.

On Thursday he returned to Fredericton, having held service in
a school-room at Long's.

During the Bishoi)'s visitation he licensed three lay readers,
Mr. George Street, Mr. Thomas Turner, and Mr. Charles Bliss.
He also held a meeting of the Church Society and inhabitants at St.
John, when arrangements were made for a union with the Society,
and some new regulations were agreed to.

The Bishop likewise, at the ro(|uest of some of the inhabitants
of Lubeck and Eastport (in the State of Maine), held divine service
at both these places, when he was staying at Campol)ello. He also
licensed Mr. Bartholomew to a lay readership for the Island of
Campobello.

1845. St. Matthew's Day, September 21st, the Bishop held his
.second ordination in Fredericton Cathedral, when the Rev. E. J.
Roberts was ordained priest, and the Rev. W. Ketchura, deacon.
Mr. Roberts then accepted tie mission of Kingsclear, and Mr.
Ketchum was appointed curate of Fredericton.

Michaelmas Day, a confirmation in the Cathedral, when one
hundred and si.x were confirmed, eighteen of whom were from
Kingsclear. The holy communion was administered. Total
confirmed, seven hundred and twenty-seven.

On Tuesday, October 2yth, the Bishop confirmed twelve persons
at the church at Oak Point; on Wednesday, ten persons at West-
field ; and baj)tize(l at the former place two children by immersion.

On Thursday he consecrated the church at Long Reach, in the
Parish of Kingston (the seats being made tree).

' n Sunday, Novend)er 2nd, he consecrated the church of the
Ascension in Norton, the seat.s being all free; and on Wednesday,
St. Paul's chapel, Portland, was consecrated. On Friday,
November 7th, forty-five persons we:.'t confirmed at Oagetown.

XOTE^ OF A VlSFTATfON Toll!.

[the
llay,
llay,

October ITnli, by the divine blessing, the f jundiition stone of the
Cathedral was laid.

On the 16th July, 1846, the Bishop consecrated the chapel of
St. John Baptist, at Chanicook, 8t. Andrews, the seats being all
free.

Returning to Fredericton — at Carleton,8t. John, he received into
the Church a convert from the Church of Rome. (The form of
reconciliation is given in full in the Annals.)

Summary for 1846 — Travelled two thousand eight hundred and
fifty-nine, miles ; ordained five deacons and two priests ; ('<)nfinn('d
five hundred and four; consecrated two churches.

A similar sumnuirv is niveii at the close of each sueoeed-
'u\<X year. Al'tcr tliu. for 1849, the IJisliop adds these words:
"■Travelled two thousand three hmulred and ten miles;
preached and addressed the i>eo[>lo about sixty times, besides
the ordinary sei-inons of the year. All praise be to (nxl ! "
We iind this as('ri[ition ap|>ende(l at the close of each year.

From tl V IJishop's report to the Society for the Pro})a-
ijation of the (i!osi>el are takt'n the followini!' notes of the
visitation tour of 1(S4(! :

On June i'jtli, I left Fredericton at an early hour, and reached
St. Andrews (about seventy-five miles) in the evening. I remained
in the neighbourhooil for a few weeks (being kindly received by
Dr. Alley) in order to visit the neighbouring j)arislies and missions.
Whilst there I consecrated the little chapel at Chamcook, three
miles from the town, which has been built by the exertions of the
missionary, the snl)scriptions of the iidial)itants and others, and
the liberal aid of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, wiio reside on the spot,
and take a lively interest in all that concerns the Church iii that
neighbourhood. The building is of stone, and t)ie seats are all
free. The holy communion was admirustered, as is my invariable
ci lom on such occasions. The chapel is beautifidly situated on a
piece of ground beneath a high wooded hill, overlooking one of
the numerous creeks with which that part of the country abounds.
The people were very orderly and attentive. Service is performed

! i

TiiK .NFosT Ukverknd John .\rEi»i,KY, D. D.

once every fiirulay, in the morning, and at a more distant station
in the afternoon.

July l^tl), I left St. Andrews for St. Stephen in the steamboat
which plies up the River St. Croix, and the next day I preached,
administered the holy coninninion to (I think) between fifty and
sixty persons, and confirmed one, a confirmation having been held
there the preceding year. In the afternoon I ])reached again at
St. James, seven milet distant, and visited a sick person.

The next Sunday, the 2Gth, I preached at St. David's church in
the morning, and late in the afternoon at St. Patrick's, which is
fifteen miles distant, part of the way through an unusually bad
road. Cicnerally speaking, the roads in the Province are better
than the English country cross- roads, and some of them arc ccjual
to any turnpike roads in England.

Both St. Pavid's and St. Patrick's churches are beautifully
situated on hills, the former overlooking a wooded island, sur-
rounded by the Rivers St. Croix and Didueguash ; the latter on a
high wooded knoll, with a most picturesque prospect. The people
at St, Patrick were very desirous of having a missionary to them-
selves, and they require it as n)uch as any persons in the Province.
Their settlement is nearly twenty miles from any town, and is large
and increasing. They were not prepared to do much for the support
of a clergyman, so that I was compelled to depart without accom-
})lishing the object of my visitation to them. As, however, they
attended the church in great nund)ers, some having come twelve
miles, I hope that matters may be arranged.

The whole of this mission, including six churches, and being
more than thirty miles in length, is at nresent under the care
of one missionary, Dr. S.Thomson. Since his return from England,
himself and his curate, the Rev. il. Tippet, undertake to serve five
(•hurches every Sunday, each taking three full services. St. Patrick's
has only been served once a month. The Dissenters in tliis mission
are very numerous, and nwing to its contiguity to the United States
borders, and the multitude of confiicting sects, the difficulty of
keeping steady congregations is very great. Added to which, in
the remote country districts, it is difiicult to sustain a good Sunday

XOTKS OF A \'lSITAT10N Tulll.

8I>

School, and tlu> orclinnrv religious tcai'liinj^ in the Province i:*
lamentably deficient. There is al.so a great want of good l)ook;.;.

Wliil!?t I was staying at St. Andrews, I attended a treat annually
given to the Sunday School children connected with the Church, of
■whom about one hundred were present. It was conducted much after
the English manner (except that none of the parents were present),
and seemed to give the greatest satisfaction. During my visit tn this
place, 1 had the gratification of receiving a letter from a genllemau
in England, reminding me that about thirty years ago, I had taught
him anil others in a Sunday School, and acknowledging the obliga-
tion he felt for such instruction. I need hardly say that I had
entirely forgotten the circumstance. F only mention it, to show
liow ready we should all be to do the smallest act of love to our
fellow-Christians, and how certain we may be that " the seed cast
upon the waters," shall not be surt'ered to lie wholly waste.

On Monday, July "iTth, I left St. Patrick for Pennfield, a parish
in charge of the Kev. Samuel Thomson, an old missionary of tho
Society, and co'ifirmeil twenty-five persons, one of them an old man
of seventy, who had once befi)re presented himself for confirmation,
but had been prevented from receiving it by an accident. I pro-
ceeded on my journey that night, and the next day confirmed
fifteen young persons at Mus(|uasli, an old mission revived. I al>o
•administered the holy c(.minunion.

When I first arrived in liie Province I found tiie church in this
parish de-serted, and no missionary visits paid there. The settlement
is large and fiourishing. I am happy to say that good has arisen
from the revival of the mission. The Kev. Thomas Hobertson,
ordained by me, having l)een educated in Windsor College, Nova
Scotia, was very kindly received by the people. A])preciating his
activity and diligence, they speedily commenced and completed a
parsonage house: and two additional churches, one withii, three
■miles of St. John, and one in .".n opposite direction, several miles
distant, at a settlement called Dipper Harbour, have been com-
menced, and the former is nearly ready fir consecration. The people
have also liberally subscribed toward his maintenance. He receives
only £25 a year from the Society, the rest is maile uj) by the

f'' !

1^;

i ' ■

■In!

The Must Kevkuend Juhn Medley, J). 1).

people and the Cluirch Society of the Province. Thus a district of
twenty-two miles in length is brought within the teaching and
privileges of the Church of England.

FVoni Mus(iuash I j)rocecded to St. John, where I was met by
f'everal of the clergy, who accompanied me the next day to Carle-
ton, the mission of the Kev. F. Coster, where I held an evening
confirmation for the convenience of the poorer classes, baptized
after the .second lesson two adults, confirmed fi)rty-six persons, and
received into our communion a convert from the Cluurh of Rome,
who was recommended to me as a sincere and intelligent j)erson.
I can safely .^ay that no efforts were made to pro-selytize, and that a
considerable sacrifice on her part was made in joining our branch
of the Church Catholic. She appeared fully to understand the
l)oints on which we agree with the Church of Home, as well a»
those on which we ditfer, and as far as ] could discover, showed no
unchristian bitterness of feeling.

The next day 1 returned to Fredericton, and again, on August
4th, I set out on my visitation of the north and eastern part of the
IVovince. Having travelled thirty-eight miles, chiefly through
the wootls, I reached Boiestown, where 1 was met by the Kev. S.
Bacon and the Rev. J. Hudson, the travelling missionary of a large
district, in length ninety miles. There being no church in the
l)Uice, I held an evening service in the school-house, and preached.

The next day we set out at seven for Ludlow, fourteen miles,
where I consecrated a burial ground ; and, as the heat of the day
was very great, was obliged to ride in my robes in a common
wagon to the place where c(tnfirination was to t)e held. This was
nothing more than an open barn, where, however, a congregation had
assembled, and l)efore a rough table thirteen persons, several of them
of mature age, knelt down with great apj)arent devotion to receive
the solemn blessing of the Church of Cod. 1 addresscil them
afterwards at some length, and took occasion to point out to them the
advantages of a more settled and orderly place of worship. Their
poverty has hitherto been their hindrance to the execution of ray
wish. They presented me with an address signed by, I think, one
hundred and thirteen persons, couched in earnest, aHlctionate

9>
I

XuTKs (»F A Visitation Tui u.

language, expressive of their sense of tlie value of Church ordi-
nances. At present, however, Mr. Hudson is only able to devote
to them one Sunday in a month. No place, I confess, struck vw as
more lonely than this, or more needing the care of (»ne who woild
rather leave the ninety and nine than lose one stray sheep in the
wilderness.

From this place, we journeyed on thirty miles to IJlackvillc, and
reached it at half-past five, and soou had a full congrotration in a very
neat little church, I there confirmed twcuty-niuc young persons ;
addressed them on the usual topics; replied to an address presented
to me, and consecrated (he hurial ground. After service, we
repaired to the inn, where I had some conversation with the mem-
bers of the flock. We then proceeded fifteen miles further, and
needed no cradle to rock us to sleep.

Next morning, at eleven, we had service in an unfinished church,
furnished with a spacious chancel, and an open roof, liy tiie exer-
tions of Mr. Hudson, and the liberality of his friends and neigh-
bours. The church was (juite full, though the morning was stormy,
a large party having come to meet me from Miramichi. I preached
to them from Acts ii. 42. I did not hold a coniinnation, as Mr.
Hudson wished that his church should first be completed.

In the afternoon, in company with some esteemed members of
Mr. Bacon's flock, wo reached Miramichi. Having received, on
Saturday, a visit from the C'hurch corporation, on Sunday I
confirmed eighty-one persons in St. Paul's church, and addressed
them from the pulpit, on various topics connected with their growth
in grace. The congregation was very full and attentive. In the
evening I preached again to an overflowing congregation (among
whom were many dissenters) on the ti'xt : " If any man speak, let
him speak as the oracles of Ciod."

The next day Mr. Bacon accompanied me to Jiathurst, forty-
seven mile*. The day following I confirmed thirty-two persons, and
addressed them especially on the practical duties of a holy life.
After church, a gentleman of the Scotch Kirk, luimed Ferguson,
very politely offered me the use of his carriage, and accompanied
me in it all around the beautiful harbour of Bathurst, pointing out

\ ]

TiiK Most Kkn kukm* -Iohn Mi:im,i;v, D. I>.

the most agreeable views. He also showed me his farm, whicli is
one ol' the hest in this part of the country. On the same day 1
received an addns.s i'rom the vestry, whieii was couched in kind
and respectful terms. .

The next day we drove in company with the newly appointed
missionary, Mr. Dishrow, to New liandon, an interesting- scfttlement
of North-country Irish, many of tliem strongly attached to the
Church. The little huilding was crowded to excess, though it was

I tl

the harvest season. I confirmed sixteen, and admiuistcrcti the
Lord's supper to fifty, including ourselves. T was much struck
with the simplicity and earnestness of these people; and their
devotion at the communion was remarkable. They expressed an
earnest v ish to see nu' soon again.

The Mcxt day, Thursday, we set out for Dalhousie, the most
northerly part of my tour, distant fifty-four miles. Thither wo
were conveyed by the kindness of Mr. J. Cunard and otlier gentle-
men (as indeed, all the way from Hoiestowu), free of expense.
The road led through s(!veral Hue settlements (many of them
French), along the bank of the Hay of Chaleur, a magnificent sheet
of water, one hundred and twenty miles long, by from twenty to
thirty miles wide, with the mountainous coast of ( Jaspc and Bona-
venturc in Lower Canada on the other side. The weather was fine,
and the whole ride; most exhilarating ; the road, moreover, one of
th(! best in the Province. Duliiousie, from its distance, had nut
been visited by any Bishop, except on one previous occasion by the
Bishop of (Quebec, anil had scarcely ever been visited by a cler^'y-
man of our t-hurch. There were formerly many members of our
communion there, most of whom, however, have left us, and have
joined the Presbyterians, who are the prevailing body. The few
remaining Churchmen received me conlially, and we were hospit-
ably entertained at ine house of ^^r. Barbaric, one of the mendjers
liir the County. Th(> next day I went to see Campbellton, a
flourishing village, near to which is a church glebe; and went on
eight miles further to view the enchanting scenery with which this
neighbourhood abounds. The Kestigouche, which flows into the
interior one lumdred and fifty miles, is, at its mouth, three ndles

XoTKS OF A VlSlTATlUX TolU.

wide, and for twenty miles has a width of from three to five miles,
with hills of from one thousand to one thousand two hundred feet,
wooded to the very top, risint; from its hanks. The farniers here
are of industrious and active hahits, many of them IIii,di!anders.

In the evening, after travelling forty-eight miles, wo had a
service in tiie court house, there heing no church, and I conlirmed
six persons anil administered the Lord's supper to ten, one; of
whom had had no opportuinty of receiving it from a clergyman of
our Church for seventeen years. Nothing hut necessity would, of
course, induce me to perform this most holy rite in such places ;
but we nuist hope that he who ro(iuireth " mercy, and not sacrifice,'*
will accept what was the only available means lor comforting and
.sustaining the hearts oi' his destitute an<l scattered tlock. The next
day, before I left them, they jtlaced in my hands a guarantee
for t!")0 a year, for two years certain, towards the support of a
clergyman, in case I could send them one, which I luily intended
to do immediately; but unfortunately on my return home, the
illness of the esteemed .and Iaborit)US missionary at Porthuxl, the
Rev. W. Harrison, demanded the assistance of the young clergy-
man on whose .service I had reckoned.

Our brethren in Englaml can hardly understand the desolation
of spirit that must be felt by those who have been induced, by a
desire of bettering their worldly circumstances, to plunge into the
wilderness an<l hud tlicmsclv(s reduced to the sad alternative of
forsaking the eomnninion of their fathers for a less perfect laith,
or of seeing their children grow up unbapfized, uiicared for, and
even unburied by a pastor of their own Church. How rapidly,
under such circumstances, do good impressions fade away, and the
heart becomes thoroughly worldly and thoroughly callous I For
good books there are few or none, except such as the .settler had
brought out with him. There is no association of the frequent
sunnnons to a common house of j)rayer; the unwearied oftices of
mercy; the soothing, trainiuilizing, yet awakening, .services of the
Church. Monev I ^ct monev I — is the onlv sound that vibrates in
his ears all the year round ; and for my part I know not whether
the polluting worship of idols is much worse than this cold, seltish,

ltd

Tin; Most I\Kvkiu:ni) .Ioiin Mkim.ky, 1). D.

dcudciiiiig Hllicisni, wliicli IVcozes up the luaiM aj^aiiist all the; holier
and inore vivicl iiuprewsioiiH. As to anytliing like a knowledge of
the truths of the Creed, that of course is out of the question. It is
well if the settler escapes the gross proHigncy, and still baser cun-
ning and fraud, which are ever found where "the strong nuin armed
kecpcth his palace and his goods are in peace." It is ol)>crval)le,
also, that where some good impressions remain, tlu mind, irritated
by a sense of neglect, easily resign.s it.self to the objections which
arc commonly nuide by different parties against our Church. It
is felt not to be a reality ; it lose.-? all power over the minds of nicii ;
it lives only in written documents, and persons who are themselves
conscious of not living up to their knowledge of duty, attempt to
justify themselves in their neglect by retaliating on the ('hurch, and
by broadly asserting that her services arc inconsistent or delusive.
Thus, when the missionary goes into the wilderness expecting to
find himself received with open arms, and the Church welcomed as
their mother and their guide, he fiiuls a rapid under-current of sus-
picion, jealousy and division — a feeling that the people arc to be
placed under some hateful, undefinable restraint which they have
never known, and would be glad to shake off. Simplicity, unhap-
pily, is not the characteristic of our North American mind ; every
man's wits arc keen and trenchant, ami this increases the difficulties
of the spiritual labourer; not to speak of that awful eifect of our
interminable divisions, the lurking doubt that steals through numy
a mind, that as all cannot be equally true, all may be equally false.
One circumstance has often struck me in passing through the
country, as a mournful evidence of its spiritual destitution. One
finds separate and lonely graves .scattered about on farms, or by
the roadside, without any mark of Christian, or even common
sepulture. Tfie comnuinion of saints is not found even in our last
resting j)lacc ; nor is there any visible sign that " the spirit of a
man goeth upward, and the spirit of a beast goeth downward to the
earth." .Men and beasts are mingled together; our brethren are
conunittcd to the earth without any token of Christian fellowship
or a future resurrection. O that God would give our English
churchmen grace, instead of " biting and devouring one another,"

XoTJiSf Ui A Vl.Sl'l'ATluN T«JLU.

to figlit against the coniinon foe of all ; to remi'inber how vast a
fiohl is open to their exertions, and that there is still room to oceiipy
it; that He would ;,'ivc us graee to hunihle ourselves before Iliin
with weeping and mourning over wealth unseasonably wasted and
talents thrown away ; that He may yet have merey upon U8, mul
save us!

But I I t..st return to my sphere of duty. From Dalhousie we
returned to Balhurst, where I i)re«ehed once on the Sunday, and
in eonjunetion with Mr. IJacon administered the Imly communion.
Mr. Bacon achlressed the congregation in the evening.

The next morning we left liathurst at an early hour, and reached
Chatham at two, where I spent tive hours in endeavouring to com-
l)ose .>iome ditil'rences between some nuMnber.s of the tlock. The
next day we set out for Bale des Vents, ii remote country settlement
on the coast, where I confirmed twenty-three persons, who were
very devout in their behaviour. This is on the whole, I think, one
(if the most church-like edifices in the country ; the Bishop of Nova
Scotia having already mentioned it with approbation, it is not neces-
sary for me to say more than that, though plain in its exterior, and
of wood, the internal arrangements are good, and the effect reverent
and devotional; and this seemed to me the natural result on the
minds of the people. 1 observed also that means were taken to
prevent the entrance of dogs, which are most commonly brought
with their masters, and which are a profane and intolerable nuisance
in our country churches.

Having ri'turned once more to Chatham, we set out for Kiehi-
l)ucto, thirty six miles. On my way thither I was nut l)y Mr.
Desbrisay, who kindly took me into his carriage and drove me the
rest of the way. A few miles from this place we were met by His
Honor, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the High Sheriff,
the Kev.iMr. J)e Wolfe, the clcrgynjan, and siveral other gentlemen,
who escorted us into Kichibucto. Most comfortable apartments
were provided for us at the truly English inn, without any expense
to ourselves. Soon after my arrival, I attended a Wednesday
evening service, and preached. Th<; next day I confirmed nine
young people, and addressed them and the whole congregation at

ill

IWn^

IMAGE EVALUATION
TEST TARGET (MT-3)

<; %°

1.0

I.I

«" IIIIIM

|50

•a IM

iLO III 2.0

2.2

1.8

1.25

1.4 1.6

■* 6"

►

'^A

Photographic

Sciences
Corporation

23 WEST MAIN STREET

WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580

(716) 872-4503

:%^ ^s

Till-; Must Ukvkkend John Medley, D. I).

«oiue leiigtli. An aged and afflicted female came to timnk me with
tears in lier eyes. In the evening we met several members of the
Church at the Speaker's house.

The next day we drove before breakfast to the hospitable abode
of Messrs. Chilton and Holderness, whose kindness and respectful
attention I shall not easily forget. The yards of the vessels at their
wharf were hung with flags as we rowed to the shore. Mr. Holder-
ness accompanied me to Welford with Mr. Desbrisay, Mr. Bacon
and Mr. I)e Wolfe. Wo were warndy and hospitably received by
Mr. Ford, one of the principal residents ; and at the little church we
found an attentive congregation, and I contirmed thirteen persons.
They were earnest to have a resident clergy n)an, being twenty-three
miles from Ilichibucto, and having service only every alternate
Sunday. They promised to contribute liberally to his mainten-
ance, and I undertook to bring their case before the Church Society.

The next day, Mr. Bacon having returned to take his duty, Mr.
Chilton kindly drove me part of the way to Shediac, and 1 was met
on the road by Dr. Jarvis, the Society's missionary at Shediac.
With liim I spent the two following days. On Sunday I confirmed
thirty-two at Shediac church, and eight at Cocaigne in the after-
noon, returning after service. I was gratified, the next day, with
the inspection of the school in connection with the Madras Board
on Dr. Bell's system. The orderly behaviour of the children, and
their knowledge both of scripture and the prayer book, reflecte"'
the highest credit on their teachers, and was very encouraging. I
scarcely put a question which they could not answer.

On Monday I proceeded, in company with Mr. Black, the So-
ciety's missionary at Dorchester and Sackville, to his residence at
the latter place, and having arranged the times of confirmation on
my return, I went on with the Rev. Mr. Townshenu, of Amherst,
Nova Scotia, to Westinorland, a very important parish, of which
Mr. Townshend had the charge until I nuide it a separate mission,
as the Society has been informed. I found a very crowded congre-
gation at the church, administered the rite of confirmation to nine
(the smallness of the nun)ber being accounted for by the fact of
there being no regular missionary in charge since Mr. Arnold'.s

iJ'

Notes of a Visitation Toik.

depnrture), and Imptizod three adult?. A very .sensible and well
written addre.«.« having been ])re.sented to me, we adjourned to the
hou.se of Mr. Buckerfield an Englissh gentleman, who, wit!i several
others in the parish, is very anxious for the welfare of the Church.
We then proceeded to view the glebe ai.d glebe-house lately erected,
though not yet complete, and had much conversation with Mr,
Ettcr, a liberal benefactor to the Church in that neighbourhood.
All seeaied most anxious to do their utrao.st towards the redemption
of the glebe and towards securing the .services of a resident pastor.
In this ])arish are two churches, one at Baie Verte, twelve miles
distant from that at Westmorland, with a considerable population.
The whole Parish of Botsford is contiguous, being without church
or clergyman, so that the Church people are sadly destitute of the
means of grace. A missionary here is indispensai)le, and two would
find ample employment.

Having visited Bay Verte and arranged with the j)eople some
matters relative to the finishing of their church, I returned to Mr.
Black's at Sackville. The next day I confirmed nine in the
morning, and fifteen in the afternoon at Dorchester, addressing the
congregations at both places, and replying to addresses presented to
me. In the afternoon we had a very full and attentive congrega-
tion, with delightful congregational singing, led by the clergyman,
who acted as organist. I dined and slept at the hospitable mansion
of the Hon. E. B, Chandler.

The next day, Dr. Jarvis and the Rev. W. Seovil, who had come
to meet me from Norton (upwards of seventy miles), accompanied
me to the Bend of Petitcodiac, a place of great resort for persons
connected with the lumber trade. The only place in the village
suitable for public worship was a chapel open to ('hristiaus of all
denominations, whither we went ; and I administered confirmation
to three persons of mature age, and preached afterwards. After
service we talked over the practicability of building a church. A
site was ofteretl, and it was reported that, if a clergyman could be
procured, the church would soon follow. Finally the sum of
£o1 was subscribed towards a clergyman's maintenance. This
place, which is likely to be the centre of mercantile resort, is in

The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

: i

Dr. Jarvis' mission, though it is fifteen miles from his residence.
A missionary stationed liere would he of great use, and with two
assistants, Dr. Jarvis writes me word, "there would he work for us
all " in the six parishes, of which his mission is composed. Having
left the Bend, and having a Sunday to spare, I determined on a
missionary expedition into the new county of Alhert, in which there
never has been any clergyman of our Church resident. It is a
large and flourishing district, possessing large tracts of what is
called intervale land, or as we should say in England, low meadow
land. These tracts, when in the neighbourhood of water, yield
almost inexhaustible crops. We set off on Saturday morning, and
made our way through twenty-five miles of chiefly bad road to
Hillsborough, whore we put up. Our inquiries were not very en-
couraging, for we could meet with no Church people ; and on
asking where we could hold service, we were told that there were
two meetings, and "we might suit ourselves with either of them."
Having arranged for a service at Hillsborough the next day, we
arrived about three o'clock in the afternoon at Hopewell, where we
found that the person to whom we had been recommended was not
strictly a Churchman, and lived eight miles further. The only
person who could give us any information was a Baptist preacher,
who most obligingly ofl'ered to do all he could, showed us where we
could put up our horses, and assisted me and Mr. Scovil in taking
them out of the carriage, remarking that our Lord had said : " He
that is greatest among you, let him be your servant." These worthy
people then ottered us refreshment, and procured us horses (our
own being too fatigued to go further) for the rest of the journey.
Our host, to whom we had been recommended, was out when we
arrived, but on his return he welcomed us heartily, and sent out a
man on horseback to announce my coming, and my errand.

Next morning (Sunday), though the notice was so short, the
wliole country was in motion, some on horseback, some in wagons,
many on foot. Having robed at a cottage hard by, we proceeded
to a chapel, where three hundred people had assembled, scarcely
any of whom had ever seen a Bishop, nor had ever heard the Church
Service. They behaved with great decorum, and we sang the Old

Notes ok a ^'ISlTATIo^• Tour.

:»:>

Hundrcdtli Ps^nliu. I preached from tlie text: "Whose (an is in
his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor." I never had a
more attentive auditory. A tew very zealous Churehinen were there,
who, aided by others not Churchmen, subscribed £i}0 towards a mis-
sionary, who would no doubt find an ojjening for his labours, and
inigiit do extensive good. We returned to our friend's house, who
gave us .^ome dinner, fed our horses, and wished us (lod speed on
our way.

In the afternoon we just escaped in the rear of a most terrific
thunder storm, and I held service again, where I feel sure the sound
of our liturgy was heard for the first time. I preached from,
" Behold I He cometh with clouds," etc. Though the evening was
wet, it was necessary that wo should get into the high road again
that night; so we again returnetl twenty-five miles, and having
travelled forty in all, were very glad to retire to rest.

The next day wc proceeded on a smooth and easy road to Sussex
Vale, the residence of the Kev. II. N. Arnold, one of the Society's
missionaries, ^tr. Arnold accompanied us the following morning
to a place called English Settlement, where a church is building,
in which, though unfinished, I held .service, and was plea.sed to find
several of my countrymen from Plymouth, Taunton and the West
of England. They rejoiced to hear of the prospect of a missionary
among them, and one of them zealously undertook to be responsible
for the completion of the little church, and said the clergyman
should never want a hon)e whilst he lived. This worthy man also
expressed his intention of giving land for glebe.

Having been kindly welcomed ami hospitably entertained by
these settlers in the wilderness, we i)roceeded on our way to Grand
Lake, the mission of the Rev. A. Wood. Our road was very bad
and very tedious, and we were from half-past three till near ten
accomplishing a journey of twenty-three or twenty-foar miles, the
last part of it in the dark. Heartily glad were we, after number-
less turnings, to find ourselves within sight of the lake. This is a
noble sheet of water, thirty miles long, and in one place nine miles
wide, in most three or four. Mr. Wood attends to a district about
thirty miles in length, chiefly on the shores of the lake.

:, !

fi i

U(]

Tin; Most IvKVKUKNb John Mkih.ky, D. I).

The next day we visited Young's ('ove, where a new church is in
tlie course of erection, and called on some worthy members of the
Church.

The day following I crossed the lake in Mr. Wood's boat, in com-
pany with himself and Mr, Scovil, and we proceeded thirteen mile.s
i'urther in Mr. Karlo's wagon to Newcastle, where Major Yeaman,
a liberal contributor to the Church, received us hospitably. The
next morning I held service in an upper room in his house — the new
cliurch, which has been chiefly built by him, being unfinished and
full of shavings. About sixty assembled for prayer and hearing-
the word, an opportunity seldom, alas I granted. Along this side of
the lake there are settlers for forty miles, and .some, though not
many, members of our Church. There is also u parsonage, and
there are two churches, but no clergymen. All I could undertake
for the present wa.s that Mr. Wood and Mr. Stirling, two of the
Society's missionaries, should each visit once a quarter, giving them
a .service once in six weeks. Alas! how meagre and unsatisfactory
a performance of duty; yet it was all the case admitted of. The
lake is often dangerous to cross, which renders the difficulty greater
than it otherwise would be, and the roads are very bad.

On Sunday, September 6th, I held service at Mr. Wood's lower
church. The congregation was larger than the Church would
hold, and I confirmed thirty-five and addressed them. In the after-
noon I crossed the lake and held .service at Canning, on the other
side, when I preached from Romans, 7th chapter, the latter part.

Havijig slept at a comfortable inn, about two miles above the
church, I left it for Maugerville, where I found my family waiting
to accompany me to Fredericton.and reached my own home, through
divine mercy, in good health, witliou^ any accideiit or serious ill-
ness, having travelled nine hundred 'ind thirty-nine miles, ajid iix
all since January Ist, 1846, two thousand five hundred and fifty-
seven miles, for which all praise be to God.

Those who read the foregoing account will, no doubt, be struck
with the small number of young people confirmed in each place.
This nuiy be accounted for, in part, by the prevailing custom that
each single parish should present its own flock to the Uishop.

Notes of a Visitation Tolr.

llruck
Uace.
that
shop.

Though the social cliaracter of the ordinance is thereby diminished,
its devotional ette(!t is increased. I do not recollect to have seen a
single instance of that levity, which is so common in J^nglish
churches, where vast numbers are brought together from the sur-
rounding parishes. With us the young people come with their
parents, and sit with them, the congregation taking a deep interest
in the holy rite ; and when service is ended, they return (piietly to
their homes. This appears to me to compensate abundantly for the
want of numbers. Still, it must be confessed that one reason of
the small number of young persons who are confirmed is the preva-
lence of other bodies of Christians on the oa.stern shore of New
Brunswick, i)articularly of Koman Catholics and Presbyterians ;
although whei-ever an active, useful clergyman is placed, our Church
not only holds her ground, but more than holds her ground, and I
think we may reckon on a steady increase in such places.

But the Society will judge of the destitution that prevails, when
I tell them that after filling up twelve vacancies I could find im-
mediate and full employment for twenty additional clergymen with-
out diminishing the labours of any one at present in Holy Orders.
Unhappily I have at present neither the means nor the men ; but
it will easily be seen that when one clergyman attempts to discharge
the duties of three, four and even six parishes, it must be done im-
perfectly and unsatisfactorily ; schools cannot be superintended, the
sick and the whole cannot be properly visited ; and after hurrying
from place to place on the Lord's day, the result is exhaustion of
mind and body, without a due ett'ect on the minds of the flock.

One of the great ditticulties we have to contend with is that of
bringing home to the mass of professed members of our communion
the duty of exerting themselves for the increase of Missions.
A few give liberally to all good objects, and these few give again
and again ; but there arc numbers, and these not the least wealthy,
who seem entirely blind to their own responsibility, and indiflerent
to everything but making money and enjoying the good things of
this life. Such is not the case (I am bound to admit) among
Dissenters. and Roman Catholics; and from all I can learn they do
far more towards the maintenance of their ministers than we do;

I.I I

TiiK Most I{kvi:ki;m) John Mkdi.kv, D. I).

nnd had tlu-y boon as supine ns the nienihcrs of the Church of Eng-
land, many of them must, long before this, have become extinct.

The Hame feeling induces many persons to put their luuncs to a
subscription list, for the niuintenance of a clergyman, which they
have either not the means or not the inclination to act upon ; and
it is notorious, that no subscriptions are worse paid than those which
are promised to the clergy. Some system niust, i think, be devised,
by which the clergy may be saved the difficulties under which
they lalxHir from this source, wherever they depend on the volun-
tary contributioii of their parishioners. Among instances of a
better i'eeling I am happy to notice Maugerville, where the people
raised ,t.'200 towards the rebuilding of the parsonage house, besides
nearly .C400 raised in Fredericton on the same occasion ; and Wood-
stock, where more than ,i;200 has been contributed this last year for
various Churcli pur{>oses, the effect of which is that there are now
live services on the Sunday in different parts of the Parish, the Rec-
tor and his Curate each travelling from twenty -five to thirty miles.

To arrive at a sound conclusion respecting the whole effect of our
Church in the Province is a very difficult matter, but I am in great
hopes that we are advancing rather than going backwards. Still I
confess our state morally and spiritually seems to me to resemble
the church of Laodicea much more than that of Smyrna and Phila-
delphia : " The deceitfidness of riches and the lusts of other things
enter in and choke the Word," and many, if they could have their
heart's wish, would have a new preacher every month, who should
.send them all away satisfied with themselves. It is our place, how-
ever, to labour to be what we advise others to be, to see in their
faults only a type of our own, and to trust that when God has
brought us to confess our sins, "He will be faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

In conclusion, I must thank God for the kind and cordial recep-
tion I met with in my visitation tour from all classes of persons,
both within and without the Church ; and will add my earnest
prayers, in which I trust every member of the Society will join,
that I and all my fellow-labourers may be found more diligent and
faithful, and may sec the fruit of our toil.

October 29th, 184(5. J. Fredericton.

Heport to S. I' (; __r,v..,

a hicks oftu,, „„„,„ i„ , '^".^0. ■""1 took no noli™ „C,|,o

''» '""I tl,e ,v„n„os, f, ";,■-'" '" '"-^ '^-■b- Lome. The o

visit will 1,0, when r»ot ,„v 1 ; '"■''"l'l'"'stl«irtofnn.

^'^"-/"'■""ythatoondbooft r' •■'^'''""'"» '".V own

"'•■'■o It may not l,e o„t ofol"!", '• '" ^''"IS^""<1"
"rote at the time of hi ° . ? '° """^■««'hat the IJi»ho„
Brnnswiek. "' "^ "' "» to tlie elimate of 5

" Ueyoncl all (ineatio,, » i
than that of |.;„„,„,,, "' ''" «^'.'». "it is a finer elim.,f
^"l -itlie,. the h':,„/ ■:;'.:""";-".>■ I">t'«.- ai^l .', "
1" England. r i "^ '" ''■^'"S "» thev ivonl i

*-vi". feeli,,, oVo-ol,ut, Z^TT "^ ^"^ ""''"- -1 •
,•;-«• Oui. .mshine in wint , ijT "" 'I """"«' ""k-w ,'
»«;Iw,th England; the bril ^t ' '" •' ""^•" '" <>- -"-
«o the snowv laiKfeeape. " ^"" f '"ng a eheerfm look

■ ■ ■ Uo roads of general

(!)9)

*'i

Hii

ttf

: 1

■!i (

:! I

100

The Most Kkverknd John Medlky, D. D.

coniniuiiicatioii from town to town arc very ^ood ; in tlic
iinsottlcMl place's thoy are wliat roads in woods and bye-})laoe8
in Kn<^land are, very ba<l; bnt, if men's hearts could bo
mended as last as their roads, no one coidd c<)mplain
of New Ui'tmswick."

In writing to the S. P. (J. in 1H47, the IJishop states that
already tlie nund)er of the clergy had been increased from
twenty-nine to thirty-tliree. Keferring to the need of ad-
ditional clergymen, and the state of the jteople in the
neglected districts, he says : " It is surely onr fault more
than theirs that so nianv stray from the told and are lost to
the Great Shepherd altogether."'

In the coiirse of his two first visitations, the IJishop con-
iirmed ujtwards of six hnn<lred candidates, and was struck,
lie said, " with their serious and devout demeanour."

The first visitation of the clergy took place at the pro-
Cathedral — the parish church at Fredericton — on the 24th
of August, 1847. From the charge of the Bishop delivered
on that occasion the following extracts are taken :

Our great buainess seems to me to be, to teach men not to study
controversy, but to study be xlncss ; to manifest their Christianity
and their Churchmanship, not by hollow sounding words, but by
solid and fruitful actions ; and to confute or convince their real or
supposed antagonists by a more virtuous and practical kind of
religion, and by a humbler walk with God.

1:81
1^1

■

And if the remembrance of sins of omission weighed heavily on
the dying moments of the profoundly learned, diligent, and heavenly-
minded Archbishop Ussher, how painfully sensible ought wo. to be
of our faults in this particular! Which of us can say that the
theory of our Church in regard to pastoral duties has been, to the
full, exemplified in our own practice ? Where is the clergyman so
deplorably ignorant, or so intolerably vain, as to imagine that his
own life or labours are a perfect copy of the exhortation to Pries.a
in the Ordination Service ? How sad it is to reflect that some souls

on
^ly-

Ithe

I his

Extracts from I'ltiMAUY Ciiaruk,

101

may liave been led astray into lieresy or schism, whom a kind word
from us mijrht have stayed ; some blinded spirits have passed into
eternity, whose blood maybe re(|uired at our hands I How often
have we been content with the ordinary routine of Suinlay duty !
How often has the injrratitude or churlishness of man paralyzed ojir
exertions, and we havt; "persuaded men, and not God!" How
often has the worldly spirit, wliich we deplore or censure in our
Hocks, crept in j'on ourselves, and rendered all our disct)urse3
unimpressive and nuj^atory ! Wc "watch for men's souls." "It
•will be work enough," says the holy Bishop Wilson, " for every man
to give account of himself ; but to stand charged, and be account-
able for many others, who can think of it without trembling?" We
can indeed easily preccivc the evils which abound among our flocks;
and we wonder that they listen to our discourses, and continue un-
improved. But may not a counterpart of their sins be sometimes
detected in ourselves? Do we not read and expound the Holy
Scriptures to others without that stamp of reverend piety, that in-
dubitable seal of holiness which impresses where it cannot persuade?
If men saw in our order universally an entire self-denial, a fervent
and unshrinking zeal, a thorough love for the ordinances and dis-
cipline of our Church, and a perfect union of mind and action, could
they remain so worldly, so self-indulgent, so disunited as they are?
If all the bishops and clergy of our Church were " perfectly joined
together in the same mind and in the same judgment," and if that
mind were "the mind of Christ," we should have more hearts with
us, and our adversaries would have less power. The disorderly
spirits among the multitude appeal to similar passions raging among
oureelves ; and while we creep and grovel on earth, we fail to " point
to heaven, and lead the way."

Our reformation then must begin at home. To cure our Hocks
of schism we must heal our own disorders. We must banish that
frightful party spirit, that minute exclusiveness, which refuses the
hand of fellowship to those who have signed the same articles, own
the same creeds, and are burlt on the same foundation with ourselves.
The odious cries of High-Churchman and Low-Churchman,with other
more offensive names, must not be heard in our mouths, lest our own

102

Tin; Most IvKvkuknd Jmiin Mki>m;y, I). I).

>! f

wonpoiiH he turned ngiiinst oiirselvcH. We should take our tone of
doctrini! and practice, not from low interoHtcd writerH, hut, next to
the pure fountain of Scripture, from the manly ('xpositions of the
nuiistcr-Hpirits of the iMiglish (.'hurch. There must \w ahoiit our-
selves that genuine heartinesH, that hone.st si' )ll('ity which no man
can mistake, and which will persinide more . rcihly than the most
elegant diction, the most impressive delivery. . . It nuiy sound
strange in your ears, yet I feel it necessary to say it, he not ashamed
to he rcdl men ; to state distinctly, though with sdhriety and respect
for others, your acknowledged convictions, iiml to set your seal to
what you hclic^ve to he true; and let meiuhu inftonhi do its worst.

No man, indeed, gains much, even in the opinion of the world,
from a cowardly shrinking from the cross, which the profession and
practices of thi^ gospel impose. Though he may n()t he attacked
with j)ul)li<' and open slander, ho will he met with the wink of con-
temptuous reproach, as one \s>." known to he sailing in the same
boat, only to be n little more sly.

Kemcmber that if public characters are public property, much
more should public accusers be public chahicters, or rather real
charaeteiv. Shun, therefore, as a moral contaminalion, the ignominy
of anonymous censure; nay, it might be better generally to av(tid
the risk of anonymous defence. For you may sometimes wound
when you only mean to uphold.

But to return to our own practical duties. The first to which I
desire especially to call your attention, is that of publi(! prayer. I
have observed with regret that the churches in this Diocese are
seldom open (biring the week for prayer. Now, without wishing to
press upon you duties which you might feel unecjual to perform, it
appears to me that there are few i)laces in tlic Diocese (none where
any number of jiarishioners reside) in which prayers on the Litany
days at least, and in many cases oftener, might not conveniently and
most profitably be nuide.

The state of the Church and of the world denmnds more frequent
intercession. The very life of the Church hangs upon it. Our
people require it, and would in many instances be refreshed and

Extracts fuom riUMAUY ('iiaiu;i;.

lo:;

U'C

,it

lero

l\ny

lind

)ur
xiul

comforted hy it. Tlio objection tlmt few woiiM lUtoiid is mot at
ouvv by the I'tict tliat our Lord's promise is i:iveii not to tlie many
but to the t( u' : '.iial tin- uil-sei-inix prescnee of (Jod should l»e dur
jj;reat iudueemenl and reward: and thsit the prayers of two or three
would not continue without a blessiujj. Not to say tluit othei-s
would probably by degrees be found to achl to the "little Hock;"
and, if I must name a more huMiilialin^ reason, that we are almost
the oidy body of (Jliristians in the Province whose churches are
shut up from one Lord's day t) another, r^et me hope that those
who iuive for some time past continued this good practice will soon
be no IoMi;cr tlie exceptions, but that the rule will generally be
observed among us. No idle distinctions of party can l»e a reason
for the omission of prayer and intercession. A custom enjoined in
Scripture, sanctioned by our Saviour, followed by Ills apostles, aiul
for which ample provision is made l)y our Church, riMpiires no
recommendation fnnn nic, the most unworthy of its servants.

" Preach the word," is the eternal command ; and what must be
done in obeditMice to God ougiit to be<loue in the best possii)l(< nuin-
iier. One of liu' great faults commonly found with sermons is, that
they are dull. Preachers do not .sulKciently study variety and
copiousness of information. They "bring" not "forth out of their
treasures things new and old." Either they dwell on single points
of (h)ctrine in every ficrmon, in almost the self-same words, or confine
themselves to th(i same rouiul of moral duties, or preach about
nothing but the Church, or else they never mention it. If we take
the Scripture for our guide in preaching, we shall (ind it otherwise.
Continual variety is found in the Word of God. History and ex-
hortation, j)recept aiul parable, sententious [)roverbs, sim()le nar-
ratives, holy and comforting doctrines, supported by weighty
arguments, and followed by practical exhortations, are interspersed
iji ra})id succeesion in its .sacred pages. I would advise my younger
hrethren not to confine themselves to single trite texts, divided into
three regular parts, with the same kind of conclusion for all. It is
useful often to expound a longer passage of scripture, as, for instance,
a Parable, a Psalm, or one of the Gospels or Epistles of the day ;
and by following in the wake of the Churcli throughout the year,

lij

1 1

104 The Most Ukverexd John Mkdlky, i). D.

Avc are sure to obtain a variety of u.seful and interesting subjeets.
Thus tlie lives of the Saints, the sayings of our Saviour, the Christian
application of the Jewish Psabns, the jjriiu'ipal events in our Lord's
lite, the |)rop]i('('ies of His fii-st, the signs of His second advent, the
<l<)ctrines and duties contained in tin; Creed and the Conimandnients,
I'rayer and the Sacraments, the nature, constitution, and progress
of the Church, will all in their turn furnish matter for instruction.
Decies repetita placebit.

The style of i)reaching is, in its degree, of as much importance as
the matter. INIy meaning on this head cnnnot bo so well expressed
as in the words of Archbishop Seeker. "The concern of a parish
minister," says the Archbishop, "is, to make the lowest of his con-
gregation a])i)rehend the doctrine of salvation by repentance, faith
and obedience, and to labour, that, when they k 'ow the way of life,
they may walk in it. Sn)ooth discourses, composed partly in fine
words which they do not understand, partly in flowing sentences
which they t-annot follow t(» the end, leave them as ignorant and
unreformed as ever, and lull them into a fatal security. Your
expressions may be very common, without being low ; yet employ
the lowest, provided they are not ridiculous, rather than not be
understood. Let your sentences and the parts of thorn be short
where you can. Avoid rusticity and grossness in your style; yet
be not too fond of smooth, and soft, and flowing language, but study
to be nervous and expressive ; and bear the censure of being un-
polished, rather than uninfluancing."

Let us remember that, though we have truth, we have not num-
bei"s on our side in this Province : it becomes us, therefore, to be
"movestand hund)le in our ministration," not speaking of other
bodies of Christians with a bitterness which will do us no good, and
the Church all possible harni ; but lotting them see that we respect
their zeal and honour their piety, though we believe our own system
to be truer and more effectual for good. Hasty anathemas and
execrations upon tliose wlio cling to the faith of their parents or
ancestoi's, are neither wortliy of the Christian minister, nor service-
able to him. The anathema is a two edged sword, a weapon only

Extracts fkom Primary Charhi;.

10.-,

to be wielded by an apostle or a council ; and if the weight of
ecclesinstical censure is to full upon any, it should rather be upon
the notorious proHigatc, drunkard, or worshipper of nuunnion, wifliiu
our own body, than on, as wc deem theui, mistaken, but sincere and
zealous pei-sons ivithoitt it.

As regards ourselves, one thing seems certain, that, hunianly
speaking, very much more than we seem to imagine depends on the
energy and truthfulness of the Churchmen of this Province, even in
this generation. England may dole out to us her money, but our
real strength and prosperity must come from within. If we are
disposed to tamper with religion, to deal with it as if it were a
system of traffic, — as if we neither realized nor believed the doctrines
of our Church, nor were desirous of practising the duties which it
enjoins, and only cared to find all manner of fault with everything
which earnest-minded men are doing, then I see not what good can
come of it. Hollow hearts and sinful lives will make a Church
that is rotten at the core, and " whose breaking cometh suddenly, at
an instant." Then it had been better a Bishop had never been sent
out: nay, far better that those who thus deal with the Church had
never been born. IJut if our hearts be true, and our eyes single, we
shall not sutler from our present |)overty ; we shall grow and increase.
Then it will b>-' said of us, "I know thy works, and tribulation, and
poverty, but thou art rich : fear none of those things which thou
shalt suffer: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown
of life." AhisI who can look on all that is passing around us, on tlii'
unknown future, and on the fearful alternative, without fear and
trembling? "O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years:
in wrath remember mercy."

I have now brought before you such thoughts on the duties of a
Christian jjastor as have appeared to me to be both necessary and
profitable at this time. And though I um sensible how unworthy
they are of the great sul)je('t, how imide([uate even to express my
own deep and growing convictions, I feel assured, and I trust that
you also ai'e persuaded, that such a course is fiir preferable to en-
gaging in the mazes of interminable dispute. I am sick at heart of

J ii

I 1

I :

106

Thk Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

controversy on trifles; and on great points your minds as well as
mine are, I hope, made up. I see that those who delight to agitate
and inflame the public n\ind on disputed questions, neither grow in
grace, nor beneHt their fellow-creatures, and only hinder the good
which others attempt to do. If there are any who aflect to believe
tliat I am not sincerely labouring to do the work of the Church of
England in this Province, but that I have other designs in the
back-ground, they are welcome to their opinion. I have accepted an
office which nothing but a desire to work for the Church of England
would have induced me to acce])t, and which, if it were not from
the same paramount considerations of duty and affectitm, I would
not retain one hour. IJut if what is done does not move men to
take a more lil)ei*al and charitable view, nothing that is said will
effect it. We shall soon stand before another tribunal, where it will
be impossible any longer to conceal names, motives, and actions.

To you, my reverend brethren, 1 may speak in another manner.
I claim your indulgence both on tli'_' present occasion and on all others,
for inadvertencies and negligences, from wliich the most diligent
and persevering are not wholly exempt. The same indulgence I am
])repared to extend to others: but this must not be mistaken for a
corrupt allowance of sin, a blind indifference to clerical misconduct.
Such instances it is my bounden duty not to overlook : it is due to
my office, to your own respectability, it is necessary for the main-
tenance of the Church in its integrity, that discipline should be
enforced. A cinii-ch whose pastors preach what they do not en-
deavour to practice, and who records on paper what she does not aim
to perform, is a pretended truth, and a real lie: rejected by God,
and despised by men.

In the great duty of maintaining the doctrines, and ui)holding
the discipline of the Prayer Book, we shall all, I hope, be united :
and if our union in these vital nuxtters be sincere, the differences
which in so wide a range of thought must 0(^cur, will be of lesser
moment. Let us learn to act together : mutually to confer, nuitually
to instruct and comfort each other. Though additions have been
}nade to our number, we are even now a .small, and for the work we
have to perform, an insuflicient body. But our actions are not the
less keenly watched, and carefully noted down. It becomes us

i' *

Extracts from Primary Ciiaroe.

107

therefore to be tolerant on niattei's of speculative oi)inion ; and in
action to be prompt, compact, and united. Our influence then will
be felt: and even our opinions cannot safely be disretrarded.
Especially lot us seek to win the affections, as well as to conciliate
the respect of our lay brethren. They are ef|ually with oureelves,
nieml)ers of Christ's body, though not placed in the same ixiculiar
relation to our common Head, and are at all times most valuable
co-operators in every work of Christian charity. To some of tlunn
no thanks that we can pay are too great for the services they have
already rendered to the Churcli, for the cheerfulness with which
they have been given, with a happy mixture of discretion and of zeal.
May a far larger number imitate their good example : and if I
am not permitted to see it, may some wf)rthier Bishop be gladdened
with the sight of a numerous, exemplary, and united clergy, earnestly
labouring with unwearied zeal to promote the temporal and spiritual
well-being of flocks who more than recompense their pious toil by
an aflectionate respect, a heavenly conversation and a faith that
" worketh by love."

The forcgoiiiif k'Mii'theiiod extracts from tlio ITishop's
primary cliart;'e will ho read and valued for theii- intrinsic
worth. They are uiven hero to show the sort of g-iiidanee
he sought to extend to the clerii'v in the early days of his
episco[»ate. From that sound Catholic teaciiini;- H will he
seen he never varied.

Four of the Bishop's charires (1 858-1802) were published
in 18Go, l»y the Kev. K, C. Wooleomhe, IJalliol College,
Oxford, with interesting notes and an acoonnt of the Cathe-
dral, Frederieton. A number of copies wore sent the Bislio[>
for the use of his cK'ruy and friends in the Diocese. These
he never distributed, assigning as a reason that he con-
sidered the preface too landatorv. The remarks of ^^r.
Woolcomhe, from which the Bishop's natural humility
shrank, wore those :

I was anxious to bring, if possible, into wider circulation, in the
cheapest form, the weighty teaching, at once so primitive, and so

1 V '

ii '" ., ,,

108

The Most Tvkvkrend John ^Iedley, D. T).

peculiarly suited to our own needs, of a Bishop, who even iiinong
the many admirable men who are guiding and governing the Church
in our colonies holds a foremost place.

It would be unbecoming in me to praise these Charges; but it
would be, I Indieve, most unnecessary also. There is a manly vigour,
a firm grasp of the whole body of Truth, a courage and yet a
gentleness in stating it, above all a deep, holy earnestness in every
word, which is singularly winning, wonderfully refreshing.

I remember well how in troublous times, when the Church at
home was suffering the loss of some of her noblest sons, our spirits
were cheered once and again by the consecration of true-hearted
men to tiie posts of chiefest danger and difficulty in the Church's
warfare ; at present we are again in the midst of controversies, and
I would fain call the attention of my younger brethren in the min-
istry, and of Candida* "s for holy orders, to the brave and bold, but
still more to the loving, fervent words, of one who is indeed a Father
in God.

Bishop Medley, of Fredericton, very remarkably cond)ines the
gifts of a real theologian and a devoted pastor with practical skill
in architecture and music, in a way which we supposed belonged
only to the prelates of a far distant age of the Church ; but, liesides,
he is a noble self-sacrificing leader, where difficulties are great, and
the fellow-soldiei-s are few. May young hearts be kindled by such
an example, and may we who are older take fresh courage, when
we trace the work of such a standard-bearer in our battles.

It was at the first visitation of the clergy, in 1847, that the
Diocese was sub-divided into seven deaneries. Seven rural
cleans were chosen by the clergy, and their election was con-
firmed by tlie Bishop. Instructions for the guidance of the
deans were given by the liishop. At each triennial visita-
tion, to the present day, tlie like election and confirmation
has taken place. The instructions then given and recorded
in the Annals of the ])iocose are still in force. This arrange-
ment has been fouiul of benefit in many ways, and has
been the means of material assistance to the Bishop in the
attairs of the Diocese.

Visit to Encsland.

100

III

.1-

\\\

Oil the 17tli Mari'li, 1H4H, the IMshop, aecoiiipiiniod l)y
liis t'aiuily, left for Kiiii:;laii(l. He remained in Kiii>:land till
September 2nd, endeavouring to procure funds for bin
Cathedral, candidates for lioly orders, funds for a triivelling
missionary, and books for the Cathedral library, lie suc-
ceeded partially in all these objects. Two thousand pounds
were subscribed for the Cathedral, the S. 1*. C. K. also voted
£1,000: iioO a vear for five vears were i^vantcd for a travel-
ling missionary, and Ji-WO a year additional for missionary
efforts l)y the S, !'.(;. The University of ( )xford gave 4.100
for the Cathedi'al library; and benevolent individuals gave
the Anglo-Catholic Library, and Lil)rary of the Fathers,
making in all about six hundred volumes. The Bishop also
procured a small organ for St. Anne's Chapel.

In a letter on his leaving Kngland, addressed to tlic
secretary of the S. 1*. G., the Uishop says:

. . . Were our Church become reprobate, or a castaway, the
blessed fruits of the spirit woulil not abound, love and joy would
not utter their glad voices throughout our Iwrdors ; we should act
be enhirged everywhere, and be t'^.e heralds of mercy to the utter-
most parts of the earth. I am not blind to the sad, sad tokens of
our unfruitfulness, our backslidings, or national guilt, but the
greatest sin of all is despair of the mercy of God.

Oh, let English churchmen pray tor an increase of this true spirit
among all sincere persons, though they he of diiicrent views ; let
them give uj) hard thoughts of each other and all will yet he well ;
let them not be so anxious to pull down what is ei'roneous, as to
build up what is true. Love, victorious love, will win the day at
last.

. . . After a three years' absence, I see more earnestness and
reverence in the f^nglish Churcli than when I left for America, and
I do not see that those wlio have gone out from us have improved
their position or their usefulness. ......

I shall return to my Diocese benefitted in luany ways; pei-sonally
cheered by sympathy amidst severe and unexpected trials, and
assisted by men and means.

il>

'■'■i>

110

Till'; Most Rkvkukxi) John Mi:i)I,ky, I). I).

On liis ivtiini to the Diocese, the Bishop proceeded at
once on a long visitiitiou tour.

The second visitation of the clergy was held at Fredericton
on the Festival of St. Barnahas, IHoO. At the close of tlie
proceedings, on the morning after the deliverv of the charge,
the following address was [>resented to the 15islio[):

Wo, the clergy of your Diocese, feel that we oii<,dit not to return
to our several homes without having first tendered to your Lonlship
our grateful ackuowledgcnient of the paternal kindness which has
marked all your intercourse with, and proceediags towards us, during
this visitation.

Having seen with admiration your unwearied labours for the
promotion of the general interest of the Church throughout the
Diocese, we rejoice in believing that, by the blessing of the Almighty,
they have been productive of valuable fruit, and that in a time of
considerable trouble and ditticulty, we have been making progress
in the right direction.

We shall return home cheered and animated for our holy work
by the solemn services in which we have been engaged together,
and shall endeavour to turn to profit the wise counsel we have
received ; and your Lordship may rest assured that no difference of
opinion which may exist among us will be allowed to prevent us
from co-operating faithfully and earnestly, one and all, with him
who is set over us in the Lord, and with each other, for extending
the knowledge of divine truth and the i)ractice of righteousness
among the people.

On behalf of the clergy of the Diocese of Fredericton.

George Costeu, Archdeacon.

To this address the Bishop made the following reply :

The affectionate and cordial address which you have presented to
me, signed by youi"self on behalf of the clergy, I receive, I need not
say, with pleasure and gratitude.

I rejoice to find that my imperfect endeavoure have been so far
successful as to be appreciated by you ; for though, next to my own
salvation, the welfare of this Diocese is nearest my heart, I know

1^"K ni.no..'. Kkp,v to thh CL.U.V. ni

that I can only b,. useful when I work uIM.
over you in the sj.irit of Jove and Tn ^""' "' '^■''" "'^ l'''''^^^^

'"ore nnportanee, by soleuni uctr of nf 'v ""' ""^ ^^'^'"^ ''^ -^'
ourselves and our lav brethren to u- . '■"^'"" «>"""i.nion between
ior the readiness n Ideh t^ W e "i; 7 T" ""' "— ^ ^''-'^^
«« •^tran.e.., but as bretiu'e u d ' 7 ' " ^"^-^-•"'"^,^ "S not
journey after a o,,d|^ ,„,t „ ' '" ''''"'g'ng us forward on our

woS^itdlX^C::;''''"-^^ ^^^^'^ - ^^^ -^ '--^ if any
^-^I>ot-God.ab,ei: ;::;-;-; -/-^;7 have been, b ^

^^•^'0 "• any point differ fron. e / .^'"I ^''^'"^' ^^^^'''-^'^ then,,
«an- tin.e fully eonseiou t tTo'u r f',' "' '""'^'^' '-'"^'' "^ ^he
to be, rather than what I T^ '''' "''^''"^^ "^ ^^''-^ I ought

John Frederwton

II -1

t >

■

!■%

CIIAPTKU XI.
The Work of tiii: I)rocE.sAN Cihrch Society — Notes

FROM AnXALS of THE DiOCESE — CONSECRATION OF THE

Cathedral.

fE ImvG ulrcadv noticed that, in tlio ori^anizod mis-
sionary work of the ]>ioceso, nndertaken by the
Diocesan Ohnrch Society, u hir<jre nnmber of intlu-
ential Churchmen stood aloof. This was in many ways a
jjreat hiiuh'ance to the proi^ress of the Church. Soon after
tlie Bishop's arrival an effort was made to unite all parties
in the good work the Society had undertaken. This effort
was crowned with success. Ft was found that, when men
alike earnest and sincere in their desire to do what was
right, met together, consulting and acting for the common
good, their differences grew smaller. In promoting the
interests of peace and good will, the Bishop set a noble ex-
ample. Sincere and firm in his own opinions with reference
to the doctrine and position of the Church of England, ho
was ever kind and considerate towards those who took what
were called /o//vv views. A eonsistent line of action was ex-
hibited throughout his episcopate, both in his dealings with
candidates for holy orders and in his appointments to vacant
parishes or missions Xo complaint was ever made of undue
bias or ] tarty feeling.

Now it was this sort of thing that gave a heartier tone to
the ])rocecdings of the ])ioccsan Church Society, aiul was
tiie beginning of that great change which, in time, came over
the C'hurch throughout the Diocese.

The work of the Society, of which the Bishop is president,
is maiidy carried on by a general committee, consisting of all
the clerifv and representatives of the laitv. It having been
(112)

Notes fuom Annals of the J)iocEfJE.

113

lound (lesiraljlo to ajiply to the loL?islaturo for a charter, there
was j^avat o|)|M)sitiou to the passai^e oi' tht' act of iiicorjiora-
tioii, in coiisc(|UeiU'e of a i)i"()visioii wliicli <^ave the Ilisliop a
veto on any chaiii^es in the constitntion of the ISoeiety. The
hill tinally was passed hy a small majority.

And here we may antici[tate a little. The t^oeiety has hoen
in operation over tifty years, 7Vi)art from the hlessini^s con-
ferred thronii^h its missionary work, it lias done very mnch
good throni^h its meetinii^s and mntnal work of its menihers.
In no one case lias the IJisliop ever heen called u[nn\ to ex-
ercise his veto power; nor has there, dnrinij^ the lonii; course
of years, heen any instance of a grant or vote on the i»art ot
the treneral or subordinate con)niittees carried contrary to
his wishes or expressed opinion.

to
lis

|t,

NOTKS FROM THE ANNALS OF THE DIOCESE.

1851, Septciuber 11.— The Bishop of Newfoundhuul (Dr. Field)
arrived at Fredericton, preached twice on Sunday, 14th, and left
Frederictou in company with the IJishop of Fredericton on Monday,
the loth, on his way to Boston. Thence the two Bishops proceeded
to Montreal, where they were met by the Bishop of Toronto. The
Bishops preached in several churches of the city. On Tuesday
evennig they nil went to Quebec, where they were hospitably enter-
tained by the Bishop. On .Sunday the liishop of Fredericton
preached in the Cathedral for the Widows' and Orphans' Fund of
the clergy.

On the Feast of St. Michael, the Bishoi)s received the holy com-
munion together, in the Cathedral, with many of the clergy of Quebec.
On Wednesday the Bishops left for Montreal, and the Bishop
of Fredericton proceeded to the Uinted States, where he visited
New York, Philadelphia, and other places. By the liberality of
many friends, especially of the vestry of Trinity church, the Bishop
collected upwards of .i!l80 towards the Cathedral, which, with some
other money, enabled him to order the east window. October 19th
the Bishop preached twice at the Church of the Advent, for the
il

11-A TiiK M(tsT ]{kvkhkm» John Mkdley, D. D.

Rev, Dr. Croswell. The scnnoiis have suice been printed at the
ro(Hic.st of the vowtry.

During the stay of the Bishops in Quebec, they proceeihul to
draw up certain resolutions, a copy of which is subjoined. They
were transmitted to the Archbishop of ('antcrl)ury by the Bisliop
of Quebec'

Suininary of year ending 31st December, 1851 : Churches conse-
crated, throe; burial grounds, two; ordained priests, two; confirmed,
six hundred and one; travelled three thousand eight hundred and
8eventy-five miles. "All praise be to God."

18-")2, April 1. — The Bishop left Fredericton for England with
his family. At ]?oston he attended the services at the Church of
the Advent, where Bishop Southgate is rector, and assisted in ad-
ministering the holy communion. On Easter .Sunday, Bishop

' TheHO resolutions, referred to by tlie rJishop, fornunl tlie groundwork of
tlie Declaration of Principles, Constitution and Canons of the Provincial
Synod. The following are the concluding words:

" Lastly, while we acknowledge it to be the bounden duty of ourselves and
our clergy, by God's grace assisting us, in our several stations to do the work
of good evangelists, yet we desire to remember that we have most solemnly
pledged ourselves to fulfil this work of our ministry according to the doctrine
and discipline of the Church of England, and as faithful subjects of Her Most
Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, unto whom the chief governments of all
estates of the realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil, in all causes doth
appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction.
And we cannot forbear expressing our unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty
God, that He has preserved to us, in this branch of Christ's Holy Church, the
assurance of an apostolic commission for our ministerial calling, and together
with it, a confession of pure and catholic truths, and the fulness of sacramental
grace.

"May He graciously be pleased to direct and guide us all in the use of these
precious gifts, enable us to serve Him in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace,
and in righteousne&s of life ; and finally bring us to His heavenly kingdom,
through Jesus Christ our Lord."

(.Signed) G. J. Qiebkc,

John Toronto,
Edward Newfoundland,
John Frkdericton,
f. montrkal.

I 'i|

Notes from Axnai.s of tiik Piock.-!E.

115

Southgate addressed to hiiii, before the congregation, an affectionate
farewell, and Mr. Wainwright accompanied him to the ship.

He readied Enghmd, by God's mercy, April 27. The Bishop
preached at Liverpool, Oxford, London, Winchester, and many
other places, and collected nearly I" 1,200 for his (.'athedral, but was
taken seriously ill from over-exertion. At Westminster Abbey he
attended the concluding Jubilee service of the S. P. G., but was
unable to take any part in the services.

The liishop received several munificent presents for the Cathedral
and Diocese, a list of which is subjoined, viz. :

Eighteen hundred volumes of books for the Cathedral Library;
donor, Kev. K. Podmore.

A large brass eagle, towards the cost of which ,C60 was given by
Mr. Podmore.

A pair of candlesticks for the altar, by the same donor.

An altar cloth, by the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge.

An altar frontal for Easter, by Mrs. Woodcock, of Wigam.

An altar carpet, by !Mrs. ShuteLsworth.

Carpets for sedilia, etc.

Altar frontal, by Kev. O. Prcscott.

Twenty pounds' worth of books from S. P. C. K., and various
musical books by Rev. R. Podmore.

Several chalices and patens, by the same liberal donor.

Encaustic tiles, by H. Minton, Esq.

Especially three dear little boys at Hursley, nephews of Miss
Young, gave silver spoons, which were all made into one paten.

The Bishop ordered eight bells for the Cathedral.

He left Exeter on the 15th August, . . . and on 6th Septem-
ber he reached Fredericton in safety with his family.

This year the main aisles of the Cathedral were changed into
transepts.

On his return, the Bishop put in the east window, by "Wailes, of
Newcastle. This window was partly the gifl of the members of the
Church in the United States and partly the gift of the artist himself,
vrho donated £80 towards it.

110 The Most Ukvkreni) John Mkdi.kv, 1). D,

;■ '■: I

Ah iilroadv iiotvd, tlio corner-stoiu! of tlic Catlu'dnil was
laid by Sii' Williaiii CoU'lu'ookf, at that time ifovernor ol'tlio
Proviiirc, on tlio l.Otli Octoltor, 184'). For soino time tlio
work proci'C'dc'tl slowly. One*' it was tlioiii^lit lu'ccssary to
enclose oidy a iK)i'ti()n ot the hiiildiiiii', and leavi- the reinaiii-
dcr to he erected at u future day. 'IMiis was to the IJishop
a Konrce ot ufreat itieplexity and trial, dust then, as if in
Bpeeial answer to prayer, the {{ishop most unexpectedly
received a letter from Knu^land, enclosinu^ a larije i^ift in ai<l
of the C'athedi'al hnildini;*. The name of the ii:enerons i^iver
irt nnknown to this day, hut the initial letters F. S. M.,
carved in one of the stoni's which support the chaiUH 1 near
the Misiiop's seat, nuirk the place wheri' the work was sus-
pended, and where, hy tiiis timely otieriui;, it was resumed.
At lenifth the work wan iinished throuy'hout.

Since the above was written, the following; most interest-
m<f incident has been kindlv supplied bv Mrs. Medlev :

When at school at liristol, the future liishop very early became
a Sunday school tcaciicr, and was much loved hy the boys hi his
class ; and one of these boys, George Hatherley, became a devoted
helper when the l^i.shop began to build his Cathedral. ^Fr. Hather-
ley was at that time a traveller for a tea ;iiercluuit in Bristol, and
when he had finished his employer's business, and taken such orders
ns he could secure, out would come his subscription list for his old
Sunday school teaciher's Cathedral, for which lu; pleaded so elocpiently
and effectively, that he was able to send contributions amounting to
£500 sterling.

In the Auiuvls of the Diocese, the following mention is made of
Mr. H.'s kindness by the IJishoj) :

1853. "Among the benefactoi-s to the Cathedral, special mention
nuist be made of Mr. George Hatherley, oi' IJristol, England, who,
by unwearied jjcrsonal efforts, has raised and transmitted to the
Bishop the sum of £500."

C'UNSKCKATIUN oK Till; ('.AIIiKIUlAI,.

117

lull
\w,

Ihc

Mrs. Medley u'ives llic lollowi !>,!.■; tlctiiils reifanliiiu;' tlio
initials on tin- tower jiier :

Wlicii tlie ISisliop was huilding tiu> Cathednil, and had coniiilctod
the nave and aisles, the I'nndrt were at so low an eMt that he called
the hnildini,' eonimUtee together, to see if any means eonld he taken
fur gettinLT in iinmiised snhserlptions or eulleetini,' nntrc nimiey.
He had hinisell' ;,fiven largely, an<l his friends in J']ii;,dand had
been nohly ;;enerttns, so ho eonld not well appeal to them again.
Rnt the eonnnittee, lukewarm and inditlerent, suggested that the
part of the ehnrch alrea<ly completed should he shored otl' and nsed
for divine service till better times and new suhscrihers enahled
them to resnme the work. The liishop was sorely hnrl and dis-
tressed, and spent the night in anxions prayer, that he might he
onahled to see his way to completing the work he had began for the
liononr and glory of (iod.

Next day bronght the 1'iiiglish mail (which th(>n came bnt once
a month), and a letter in an unknown hand. Prayer was turiu'd
into thanksgiving, for when opened, it contained a che(pie for jLoOO
aterling, with these words : " To the glory of God, ami for the cona-
])letion of Frederieton Cathedral, F. S. >[."

The Jiishop felt this dir(!ct interposition of Almighty God .so
deeply, that he was always loth to speak i>f it : it seemed too sacred
for ordinary mention.

He had the initials " F. S. M." out on the next stone laid in the
«outli-west pier of the tower arch, and the anonymons gift was so
abundantly blessed that means flowed in as recinired, the church
was coni])leted, all debt wiped out, and in addition to all the valu-
able |)roperty of the Cathedral, plate, library, altar hangings, etc.,
etc., the Bishop left a handsome cash balance to his successor.

What an encouragement is this to nuxke, as God prospei-s u.s,
offerings to Him for His Church and her services!

The Cathedral wa.s consecrated on the 81st August, 18")3.
The following account, taken from the New ^'ork Church-
tnan of that date, is from tlie pen of the late Dr. ITaio^ht, of
Trinity church. New York, who was present at the service :

3-^^\

118 The Most Reverend John Medley, J). J).

!l ' i

For several days previously, the clergy of the Diocese, aiul several
from the neighbouring Provinces and from the United States, had
been assembling at Fredericton, so that on the morning of the con-
secration there were many gathered round the eminent prelate,
whom God had placed over this extensive Diocese, and whose
labours have been so zealous and successful.

Of his lordship's clergy, all, with a very few exceptions, were in
attendance to cheer him with their presence, to aid him by their
prayers, and to assist in rendering the service in some snuvU measure
worthy of the greatness and solemnity of the occasion. From
abroad, the Right Rev. the Bishops of Quebec and Toronto, the
Right Rev. Bishop Southgate, of the American Church, with several
Presbyters from Nova Bcotia, Canada and the United States, came,,
animated, as their words and deeds testified, by a spirit of true
Catholic love, rejoicing in the prosperity of their brethren, and anx-
ious to mingle their ])rayers and })raises with those of their fellow-
members of Christ's Mystical Body on this high festival.

Early in the morning the Royal standard and other national
flags were unfiii-led from the windovTS of the tower, and the sweet-
toned bells rang out a merry peal. The apprehensions of unjileasant
weatlier, with whicli the clouds and mist had agitated many breasts,^
were soon happily removed ; and, long before the hour appointed
foi the commencement of the service, the spacious nave and aisles
were crowded to their utmost capacity. At eleven o'clock the pro-
cession formed at the Province Hall, and moved in order to the
Cathedral. A number of boys bearing appropriate banners pre-
ceded and flanked it. The members of the legislature present, the
officers of the Tdth, the members ot the bench and bar, the wardens
and vestrymen of the parish, the master workmen, the mayor of the
city, with other inhabitants and strangers, were followed by sixty-
one of the clergy in surplices, the architect, Frank Wills, Esq., the
Archdeacon, and the foui Bishops in their episcopal robes. On
reaching the Cat'.edral grounds the bishops and clergy commenced,
chanting the 121st Psabn to the fifth tone.

In the paper referred to, a minute (lesc'rii)tioii is ifiven of
the service, and the names are subjoined of those wlio took
part in it, and it is added :

Consecration of tiii: Cathedral.

Thus dosed a service wliich, in point of interest, solemnity and
importance, has rarely been equalled. Notwithstanding the vast
assemblage, which crowded every part of the building, the utmost
decorum prevailed. The spirit of the occasion was evidently felt
by all.

The edifice itself, which was thus solenuily consecrated to the
eervice of the Triune God, now demands our attention. It is
situated at the eastern end of Fredorlcton, within a short ('istance of
the bank of the river St. John, and is the tii-st object that strikes the
eye as you aj)pn)ach the city from that (]uarter. A more desirable
and beautiful site cannot be conceived. The style of the archi-
tecture is that generally denominated second pointt'd, or decorated,
with a determination rather towards the Hainboyant, than the geo-
metrical, in the great eastern and western windows. The ground
plan is cruciform with central tower and spire. The nave, including
the aisles, is eighty-four by sixty-two feet, and is divided into five
bays, the porch being projected from the second bay on the south
side, from the west end. West of the chief doorway, in the west
end, which is of small dimensions after the manner of ancient
English churches, is a porch, or triple arcade, fianked by massive
buttresses, and surmounted by a cornice on which is inscribed the
following legend :

Deo et Ecdcsiic A. D. 1849.
Over the inside of this doorway, between its apex and the sill of
the west window, in richly illuminated letters on a scroll, are in-
scribed the following legentls :

I have waited for Thy salvation, O Lord.

The Lord of Hosts is with us.

O pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with
praise.

• ........•*»

The exterior of the Cathedral is striking, both from the cruciform
nature of the j)lan, and from tl)e numerous bold and massive but-
tresses, and the pinnacles and crosses surnjounting the gables and

; ji

;

120 The Most Jxeverknd John Medley, D. D.

spires. The extreme length of the building is one hundred and
fifty-nine feet; breadth aeross transept, seventy feet; height of
nave and ehoir roof, sixty-two feet ; height of eross on we.st gable,
seventy-one feet; height of cross on transepts, fifty -four feet; height
of aisle walls, twenty feet; height of clerestory, forty-three feet;
height of tower to base of spire, eighty-five feet; to apex of cross
Hurnionnting the sj)ire, one hundred and seventy-eight feet. The
building is entirely of stone excei)ting the spire. The stone of the
body walls is from the immediate neighbourhood ; the weatherings
of the buttresses, string-courses, cornices, etc., are from the Bay of
Fundy ; all the dressings of the doorways and windows are of Caen
stone, executed in England. It a})pears to stand the climate of New
Brunswick admirably, and by its beautiful texture and light cream
colour, forms an agreeable contrast to the more gloomy-toned
masonry around it. We ought to have mentioned before that the
piei*s and arches supporting the clerestory wall, and also those sup-
porting the nuissive tower, are all of cut stone. The spire, as well
as the ro()f, is covered with metal. There is an admirable chime of
eight bells in the tower, the tenor bell weighing two thousand
eight hundred pounds, key E fiat. They were cast by the cele-
brated firm of Messrs. Warner, London.

The colkH'tiou at the otfertorv, moniini;' and eveniiio;,
finiouiited to 81,820.25, wliieh was, however, insnfHeieiit to
pay tlic (l')l)t romainiiig on the church.' This, with so much
else oonnectod Avith the holy services of the clay, caused great
joy and tiiankfnlness to the Bishop.

The following notice in the Churchman is from the pen of
the eminent clergyman from the city of Xcw York, before
referred to :

On the following day, Thursday, the Bishop held his Triennial
Visitation in the Cathedral. All the parochial clergy of the Diocese
were present in the chancel, in surplices. After Morning Prayer

'Of this debt the Bishop personally assumed a large amount, which was
afterwards paid in a way subsequently to be noticed.

}at

Address to Visitini; Bishops and ('i,i;rgy. 1.1

the Bislioj) proceeded to deliver hU Charge, after having received
and coniirnied tlie nominations of the several llural Deans. We
have not sj)ace to give an analysis of this masterly production, nor
is it necessary, as it will soon he published. It was marked by his
lordship's usual perspicuity, eloquence and strength — his deep
Catholic feeling, and his lofty views of the res|)onsil)ilities and duties
of the Church of Christ, and of all its memhers, and especially of
those " who boar the vessels of the Lord." His closing words were
most solenni and touching. Every heart was melted, and we retired
from the sanctuary, feeling that we had indeed heard words of wis-
dom and power not soon to be forgotten.

After the nioniini; service on Friday, the bishops and
oleri^y assemblod in tlii' library, wlien the following" achlress
Avas presented to the visitinu' bisho[»s and clerg'y by the
Bishop of Frederic'ton in the nanie an<l on beliaU'of liimseU'
and bis elorirv :

We, the bishop and clergy of this Diocese, now assemi)led in this
city, having brought to a close the business on which we came
together, could not think of separating without an attempt to give
expression to the feeling with which we have seen the delightful
solemnities of the last three days graced with the presence, and for-
warded by the assistance, of three distinguished prelates —two of
them belonging to our own branch of the Church Catholic, and
the third a ^Missionary Bishop of the .Sister Church in the United
States — together with that of several presbyters of other Dioceses,
American and Colonial.

We are grateful for the honour you have all been impelled by the
best of feelings to do to a i)ortion of the Church not long ago so
small and insignificant ; and shall not fail to derive hope and
courage to grapple with the ditHculties of our position, from the
kind interest you have shown in our well-being, and from the ani-
matinir words vou have addressed to us.

Tht

las

e presence among us, on tins great occasion, of such a noble
band of Fathei's and Brethren in the Lord, some from very distant
parts of the world, has enabled ustoexhil)it an example of Catholic

'! V

IH:

122 Tin; Most Reverend John Medley, D. I).

union upon which we shall never cease to look back with comfort
and encouragement; and we trust this is only the first of many
occasions on which similar examples of it will be exhibited on this
side of the Atlantic.

We entreat, Fathers and Brethren, your prayers to the throne of
grace upon our lal)ours in the cause of Christ and His Church,
which you have done so much to stinuilate ; and shall from our
hearts pray God ever and in all things to prosper you and yours.

(Signed) John Fuedericton,

And on behalf of the Clergy.
Frederidon, Sept. 2, 185;>.

The Arclidcucon then caniu forwiird und presented the
t'ollowiiiti; address to the Bishop of the Diocese :

To the Right Reverend John, Lord Bishop of Frederidon :

May it Please Youu Lokdship, — Your clergy cannot permit
this, their fii-st meeting in the permanent Cathedral of the Diocese,
to separate without ottering your lordship their most heartfelt con-
gratulations on the completion of this great work, which they pray
may long continue to afi'ord your lordship, personally, all the satis-
faction that you have anticipated from it, and to the worshij)ping
people over whom you preside, all the religious advantages you
have hoped and prayed for.

It is needless to assure your lordship that your clergy highly
appreciate the excellent charges you have delivered to them on
difierent occasions, and especially at this present Visitation. Their
unanimous vote to request its publication is sufficient evidence of
their feelings on that subject.

Your clergy would beg further to thank your lordship, and
through your lordship the other munificent contributors, for the
inestimable gift of the Cathedral Library, a collection of books of
such varied literature as cannot fail to supply, to a considerable ex-
tent, the deficiency of their own generally limited collections.

Deeply sensible of the solemn truth, of which your loi'dship so
feelingly reminded them in your excellent address, that, probably,
they shall all never again meet in this world, they would conclude

XoTEs FROM Annals of tiik Diocese.

123

with their most fervent prayer thiit God may long continue your
lordship's presidency over this extensive Diocese, and bless it with
increasing happiness to youi-self and the flock over which the Holy
Ghost has made you ovei-seer.

Ill tlie Annals of the Diocese the Bishoi) makes this brief
entr}' :

1853, August 31. — The Cathedral, the corner stone of which
was laid October, 1845, was consecrated this day. All praise be to
God, who has enabled me, amidst many difficulties and much op-
position, to finish it. May the Lord pardon all that is amiss, and
make it His iioly dwelling place for evermore. Amen.

Towards the close of the 3'ear, as it a]t])eare(l that the
Bisho[) wonld sntfer a heavy pecuniary loss in the (cathe-
dral (lel)t, for which he was personally responsible, tlie Kev.
C. C. IJartholonii'W, Mr. llatherley, and other friends, raised
most nobly 41,000 sterlint;- for its li(|uidation. This paid
£400 sterling due on tlie hells and £000 of other debt, leav-
ing still a balance against the Bishop of £500, afterwards
reduced by a benefaction of £100 from Mr. Kooke, and
smaller sums from other friends, for which the liishop ten-
ders his grateful thaid<s to the donors, and above all to Tlim
to whose goodness he owes all he has and all he hopes for
in time or in eternitv.

On the 19th December, 1854, there is the following note
in the Annals : ^ On my birthday, received a letter from
Mr, Ilatherlev, who has collected sufKcient to ]»ay off all the
Cathedral debt, for which great mercy all praise be to God.
Thus is the year of trouble and peri»lexityjoyhilly ended
through the never-ending goodness of my (Jod."

P)eyond a ijuestion, the erection of the Cathedral, with its
constant, reverent, soul-inspiring services, produced a bene-
ficial effect on the whole Church in the Diocese. An end
was brought to the building of any more unsightly edifices.

124 TiiK Most 1{i;vi:iu:ni) John Mkdlky, I>. I).

On the occasion of his curly visits throusi'hoiit the Diocese,
the Bisho}) liJid remarked, that tliere was uothin<i; externally
to (listini^uish the sacred l)nildinu:s of the Cliurch of Fini^land
from those of other bodies of Christians. It was wholly
otherwise, he said, in every town and villaife in Knifland.
In the Diocese of Fredericton, the style of church architec-
tare of olden days has been revolutioni/A'd, and all through
the influence of the Bishop and his practical skill in
architecture. At first there was some opposition. The
Bishop's good taste and knowledge on the subject, were not
all at once api)reciated. Time soon wrought a change.
For many years past, few churclies in the Diocese have
been planned without the Bishop's advice. In the city of
St. John, Trinity church would compare well with a city
church any where. So would the church of St. I'aul, though
l)uilt of wood. A traveller throughout the I'rovince well
knows now when he comes to a church belonging to our
communion.

Following the example of the C^athedral, the system of
free seats has been adopted in most instances throughout the
Diocese. Fiach year has been noted l)y more frequent cele-
brations of the holy comnumion, and more fre(]uent week-
day services, and those responsive and reverent, while in
many other matters of minor importance, the advice and
wisdom of the Bishop have been very generally regarded.

CHAPTER XII.

le
e-

TiiE Bishop's Teachini; and Example — Marked Ciiarac-
TERisTj'.'s — Illustrations — Essay on "Good Taste" —
Confirmation Tour in IHoT — Extracts from Annals
OF THE Diocese.

^^^^IIE Wi'ii of the IJisliop was iilways one of unceasing
(HP / activity. In the intervals between lengthened jonr-
neyings to the distant parts of the Diocese, his atten-
tion was niueh given to the services and duties connected
with his Cathedral. He generally preached there twice
every Sunday, and also found time to pay a visit to his
Sunday school. All this to him was a work of love. In
his letters, he often speaks of the hapjjy hours given up to
worship in the house of God ; of the crowded attendance on
the Lord's Day, and the increasing nund)or of comnmnicants.

As years went on, the Bishop was better understood.
Those feelings of distrust to which we have repeatedly
alluded were }»assing awa}'. l*eople began to see that there
was no going toward- Rome, no danger trom (Jrecian gifts,
nothing to be feared either in the Cathedral services or the
teaching of the Bishop.

Very great was the inlluence of his preaching and ad-
dresses. Their excellence will be plaiidy observed in the
preceding extracts. There was something wondertully at-
tractive in his sermons — always sonuithing fresh — some-
thing original in the way of holy teaching and illustration,
which seemed to go straight to the heart and conscience of
the hearer. There was displayed profound learning and
knowledge of the holy scripture, and yet the language suited
the capacity almost of little children. Those who had

(125)

126

TiiK Most Reverend Juhn Medley, D. D.

|.l

I Si 111^5

listened most frequently to his uddresses to those confirmed,
could hiirdly ever tind a re[>etition ol" what had previously
been said.

Once during the season of Lent, in the city of St. John,
the Bishop <jjave a course of instructions on the ditiicidties in
the Old Testament scriptures. ][c s[»oke without notes, aiul
engaged the rapt attention of all his hearers in a large and
crow<led hall. "He sitoke," said one, capable of judging,
but who had not beforctime fully appreciated the liishop's
ways, "as one inspired." The study ot the original text
was with the Bishop, constant and unvarying. His
Hebrew [)salter — frequent companion in his journeys —
had his own marginal notes on every difficult passage.
His translation of the Book of Job, dedicated to iiis clergy,
displayed accurate knowledge of the Hebrew, and close
and careful study.

The example of the Bishoi), as a student, had a blessed
influence on many, especially among the younger clergy.
"With what deep reverence, with what sound, unchanging
views did he look u^ton the word of God ! It was a great
privilege to hear him read the lessons. He generally read
one or both at the daily services in the Cathedral. IJoth in
reading an<l in preaching there was a quiet simplicity, com-
bined >vith a softness and clearness of utterance, which
reached the ear of the most distant in very crowded assem-
blies. One filling a high position in social life, who had for
many years been an attendant at the Cathedral, said that
she received the greatest spiritual strength l)y the deeply
impressive manner in which the Bishop pronounced the
benediction.

In imparting infornuition in private, the Bishop had the
kindest manner. He was readv to listen with attention to
the opinions of others, and then he would give his own,
void of all assumption. Upon any difficult passage in holy

The Bishop's TEArniNc and Example.

127

•eat

•cud

iin-

lieh

em-

for

ply

the

-Ml,

gcripture hfs ex['lanati()nH wore often tbuiul clearer and more
satisfactory than those inii>arte(I hy vahied commentaries.

What was said of the hite liishop of Wincliester, very
fully ai»i)lies to the first liislioj) of Fredericton :

He was a man of groat learning, and liad read very widely, and
yet it would not bo very easy to find any one so exceedingly modest
and gentle in putting forth his learning to others. It would not be
easy to match him, in that sweetness of humility, which, even when
he was talking to others who had no pretensions to share his very
wide ac(juaintance with the writings of the early church, caused
him to be so simple and so gentle in the assertion of his opinions,
so ready to listen to what any one else had to say, so singularly
deferential in his manner, and so encouraging to those younger
than himself

It was a vast advantaijje to students in divinity to liave
recourse to such an instructor, guide, a)id example. When
at home in Fredericton, the Bishop had, once u week, a
class for instruction. To candidates for holy orders he ever
afibrded kindly help. Many were indehted to him for the
gifts of valuable works, and others received substantial
assistance when it was needed. In the case of the younger
clergy stationed in Fredericton, tiie Bishop was ready to go
with them to visit the sick and sutlering, and in other cases
of difficulty. All through his life, till the later period when
physical strength began to fail, he was ever ready with his
wise and kindly ministrations to the sick and dying, and no
teni[)oral Avant brought to his notice was left unrelieved.
When his mind was ytreoccupied with weighty cares and
difficulties, the Bishop was, at tiines in these earlier years,
abrupt and hasty, especially in his intercourse with those
wanting in zeal and love for the Church. If, in this way,
offence was given, it soon wore away, and in many instances
ended in enduring friendship. Under a manner at times
repelling, there was found true sterling worth — the sincere

128

TiiK Must J{i;\ kuk.nd .John Mi;i»li;v, J). I).

good lioart. Ah tlie 15ipih()[»'s toucliliii; jiiid cliiinictcM' were
more tullv uiKlcrstood, iieoido tMt ho was wortliv of tlio
t'ulli'st trust and coididi'iict".

What we are s|i('akiii_ij:; ol' may he ilhistrated hy one
marked instance. Aniouii' the opponents (if tlie ITishop in
the earlier years of his episcopate was a h'adiiii; niemher ot
tlie har and the h'i;'islatnre. lie afterwards tilled tlu' hi^'hest
Jndieial post in the Siipnnne Court itf Canada. When this
gentleman had learned to loiow more of the JJishop and of
his work, he came forward manfnlly, and, to his honour, at a
meetiuii' eoiineeted with tlu' work of thi' t-hureh, said that
he desired to express his rei^rel puhliely for the line of
action he had })reviously taken. " I have discovered," he
said, " that your lordship was riu:ht and \ was wroni::."'

In (Miureh music the Hishoii took great delight. His
proticiency and good taste are generully known and highly
upjjreciated. The reader will see this point well set forth in
a valued letter written hy ('olonel Maunsell, which appears
farther on.

A Diocesan IFymnal had hcen compiU'd in IH.Jo hy the
Bisho]), with the assistance ot a committee of his clergy.
This was a great improvement on the old metrical version of
the I*salter hy Tate iS: Bradv. Soon this hymnal was found
too meagre, and, at the recommendation of the Bishop,
Hymns Ancient and Modern was very generally adojtted.
In nothing was there a greater imi)rovement gradually
brought ahout in the churches in the Diocese than in all
that relates to pul»lic praise in the services of dlod's house.

In the Bishop's lengthened and frecpient journeys, l)efore
the existence of railways, he came in contact with all sorts
of })eople. They iuvariahly treated him witli the greatest
respect. He would, however, often tell of many most amus-
ing incidents, and of jokes, sometimes at his own expense;
for, with all his seriousness, he had a keen sense of the ludic-

Markk!> Ciiaracteuistics.

V2d

the
II of

1(1

ird.

lail

■*e.
ro

ist
8-

roiis, and ii pocnliar (U-lii^lit in luiytliiiii^ (Hiaint or odd. Tliis
Vein oi'liuiiiour made liiiii clianniiii^ in soeial lil'c, when siir-
rouiuU'd Ity liis iVn'iids, and the eares of liisoll'ice hii<l aside
for awhik'. lie was so (juiek to see the hiniioroiis asjieet of
tliiuijs or persons, and Ids way of speakini^ of them was
inindtahle, always takinj^ care to keep hack what woidd
injure or hurt the feelings of others.

The Bishop was at one time on hiH way to En<:^land, proh-
ahlv on his second visit. On hoard the steamer was a very
active, forward lady, who was seekini;' to ohtain autographs
of any distin_i:;uished passengers. After repeated solicita-
tions she persuaded the Bishop to sign his name in her hook,
"John Frederieton." This was not sutHcient. "1 want
you to say what you are." The JJishop complied with the
lady's re(|uest, and wrote heneath his name, "A miserahle
sinner ! " At one time he was waited on by a clergyman
who was ready for employment in the Diocese. " To l)e very
candid," the reverend gentleman said, "you luust kn<nv, my
lord, that I am a ver^- low churchman." The Bishop re-
plied : " I only hope you are a very lunnhle one."

We have already noticed the Bishop's chief joy in the
public service in the house of God. This was especially
marked in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. On such
occasions it would seem as if his whole mind and spirit were
absorl)e(l in worship) and adoration. In his constant private
* (h'votions also, "he strengthened himself in (Jod." Xor
did he pray for himself alone. We have already called
attention to the prayers of his mother in her son's behalf in
his early boyhood. In the notes kindly furnished by Mrs.
Medley, she adds :

A prayerful mother made a prayerful son, as the following testi-
mouy from one of his clergy \vill show :

" Few of us know how much of our dear Bishop's work was done
upon his knees. Through all his long episcopate he daily prayed
I

130

The Most Kkveukxi* John Medley, D. I).

for evory clorgymnn in his DioocHC, rejnenil)oriiig each one in turn
bof'ore tlio tlirone of God, not by imnie only, hut as to his own
special lu'ccirt and the circuinstauot'.s of hi.s individual work. As
the years j)assed on the list hecame a long one, for though many
went to other spheres of labour, and many, we trust, to the rest of
Paradise, yet their names were neither struck oil' nor forgotten.
Whether in other lands or in other mansions of the Heavenly
Fatlu r's house, they were still commended to f Jod's care and bless-
ing, and as the task grew longer the love grew stntnger to perform
it. Can we doubt but that this was one secret of the almost un-
bounded influence he had among his clergy. Their work was his,
and while he helped it with sympathy and counsel, and by open-
handed liberality, he helped it still more by his secret prayers."

Tlio eaniost dcsiro of tlio Jiisliop wlien Ji boy, " tiiiit lii*
miiirht be able at sonic time to compose what might really
be called sermons," was iji'anted in full measure, as years
went by, as the following:; testimony will sbow :

A warm personal friend of the Bishop's, a Canadian, had some
literary business with one of the law lords of the House of Peers
in London. When the interview was closing, Lord H. spoke of
Fredericton, and said he was on the western circuit nearly fifty
years ago, when Mr, Medley was appointeil to the Diocese, and
accompanied Jud^c Patteson to St. Thomas' to hear his farewell
sermon. The church was densely crowded, and it was evident that
it was no ordinary tie of love and esteem that bound the people to
their pastor — every one present seemed to feel the parting as a
personal sorrow. The sermon was plain, earnest, ])ractical, but*
with a tenderness of appeal, a spirit-stirring earnestness that could
never be forgotten. The fifty added years of a busy life had not
erased the distinct impression of it from his mind.

The Bishop's friend said something of his later life, and that he
was as deeply loved and revered by his Canadian as he had been
by his old English friends. Lord H. at once quoted those beautiful

inies "Upon its mother's knee, a new born child

Weeping it lay, while all around it smiled,
So live, that sinking to thy last long sleep
Thoii, then, mayst smile while all around thee weep."

M AU K i:i» ( '11 \K ACTKUISTICS.

l:il

Bishi^li McdU'V was always the Hislatp. I'lu'Oiisi'lously
you were nuvdo to tbel that. I'mt it was the ottiee he niasriii-
lie<l and not himself, so that you never t'oiind his muMneront
of phiee. As it has been writtiMi of'amother :

There was nn uncoiiscioiKsncss of outward things, of the faniiture
of life, which left liiiii freer than inest men to face the indivi-
dual soul that approached him, there wao also a tine cousisteuey in
his nri<,diiality ; no tampering with the world, no tryiuj^ to serve
two masters. The graveness of his ])reseiiee was felt hy all who
approached him ; he seemed to he invested hy a strange remcHeness
from the atlaii's of the world.

Ills mode of life at Mishopsoote was sini;nhirly plain and
unostentatious. What was lari>ely saved from outward
show and expensive livini;-, was added to the fluids \'<\' the
poor or for the heneiit of the Chureh. In this, as .so
numy other ways, he set u ltri!j;ht and needed exanijtk'.
Nor was there at Bisho[»seote any want ot liospitalit\ !
kind, eheerful <:;reetini;; and nuuks of lii<;-li culture and
good taste were evident there. The words of Tennyson, of
one of the great among men, might he ajiidied to Bishop
Medley in his <lomestie ami social life:

"As the greatest only nre,
111 liis simplicity subliine."

The followiui'" incident is <;iven l»v the Rev. Oharles
Medley, late rector of Sussex, in his rejiort to the S. 1*. G.,
in the year iH(li) :

One very stcu'my and hilterly cold Monday in March last, the
Bishop started with me for Dutch Valley. We had to hreak our
road through ahout fourteen inches of snow for nine miles, and
then climb up on our hands and knees to the church, which is on a
steep hill — a feat not easily accomplished, for underneath the snow
was a thick crust of ice, upon which we slid down almost as fast as
we crept up. However, after many struggles and eflbrts, we suc-
ceeded in reaching the corner of the chureh, when a furious gust of

132 The Most Iveveuend John Medley, 1). ]).

■wind sent the Bishop aiul his missionary flying down the hill again^
with the Bishop's robe box following. When at last we managed
to get inside the chureh, we found four men for a congregation.
On the following day I met one of my most constant attendants at
church, and asked him why it was he was not present, especially
Avhen the JJishop was there. " WeD, sir," he said, "it was such aa
awful storm, it wasn't fit for a dog to be out."

As an illustration of the Bishop's varied mode of teach-
ing, the following extracts are given from a lecture on
" Good Taste," read hefore the Church of England Young
Men's Society, St. John, 1857 :

We are all impressed by the past in a far greater degree than we
are willing to allow ; but we must remember that the past history
of mankind is a treasure given us by God for our pi-esent improve-
ment. In referring to this history, we ought to endeavour to form
a cautious, charitable and discriminating judgment, and we should
csi)ecially be on our guard against two errors, equally pernicious —
a wholesale condemnation and a slavish imitation of past ages.

To refer to the first, our ancestor, and the ancestors of other
nations, were men of like passions, beset by like temptations, and
possessed of like virtues as ourselves, and in many respects neither
much better nor much worse. For the political institutions or
religious errore of their times they were not wholly responsible.
. . . But they ought never to be judged by the standard by
^vhich we ourselves should be judged, who live in times of libcriy,
of which they knew nothing, and under the shade of institutions
many of which did not then exist

On the other hand, a servile imitation is as much to be censured,
though perhaps, in the present day, not so much to be apprehended.
"Whatever was noble, generous or wise in the manners, morals or
institutions of the past, we should study, and, as far as possible and
usefulj we may reproduce. . . . Mere servile imitation is char-
acterized in our tongue by a very contemptuous, but a very forcible
and significant term, aplshness, which exactly expresses the error I
am speaking of.

Insured,

lieiuled.

Iralri or

)le and

cliar-

t)rcible

rror I

Extracts from an Essay <.x (Juod Taste. 133

. . . 'rhere is an.,tlM.r error (.f which I have taken note, and
wuch go^d tast. will always eschew. In writing controv ,"
otters, It ,s ast..n,s nng how eager people are to taste,: on each other
the charge of falsehoods, and to hurl at each other the n.ost vile and
conten.ptuous ep.t ets. Now falsehoods should never be allc.
aga.ns another w.thout the clearest evidence. All allowance shoul
1)0 nnue ... the nustakes into which the n.ost accu.-ate a.-e p.:!;;
' vll, a..d ..o v,r nous or charitable nn..d can teel a picas...', i.. the
<l.scovery hat h.s fon.,or friend, acp.aintance or' neighbo,.r is
iru-lty of the s.n of falsehood. . . . The affixing thi bad c^n
^n.ctK>.^.s a n.ark not only of" bad taste, b..t of a .er^ unscrupull
"nnd. Ihe t. n.e w. con.e whe.. one g.-ai.. of .val charitv iill be
iHorc valued than all the cleve.-, bitter thh.gs written or'spo ...
and .t IS one sad effect of writi.ig to please the lower class of ..i '
nnd to h..,nou.- the cap..ice of the hou.-, that such writers app t
be enfrely reckless as to what they say. or whon, they wou..d.

In our household ar,-a..ge...;..ts. h. o,.; d.-eJs, in ll.e social lesti-

vUies. .. shall eschew the extremes of extravaga... and ...ea... e .

and look upo.. al thu.gs, great and sn.all, as given us that we n.ay

discharge the <lut=es belonging to then. i,. the best possible ...a.,..^

s,.c,al y we s. all seek to lead the n.ind of youth k.n. the lov f

tli of • """T'r ""' *'"^^''"""^'' ^'"'^ ^'* «-■" ^''-" <T1>--

tun.ties of enjoy.ng real beauty in ihi. beautiful world

a K pleasu.-es which a.-e co..d,.cive to their physical 'and 'n.o'.-al
health and ;Mtellect..al g.-owth, and which leave ..o sting bel.i..d

Thus wh.le we ca.-efully guard the sacre.l <Icposit of futh fro,.,
all adulteration, a..d found our religion strict'ly and soberly
God sn.ost holy word, good taste will p.-cserve that religion fVo.^
sourness and self-co..,placencv. and will ...ake it gradous ,
acceptable to all who have sufHcient can<lou.. u> app.-eci^te 0. u !
t:ous, and gene.-ally useful to the woi-ld.

As illustrati„o. the Hisl.op's clovotedness to his work, a,..l
^il.so tlio sn„i.lclunuely way in wl.ich ho wont i,. an.l o„t
fimon^- h.s peoples a tow extracts are now i^ivon from the
very interesting suinniury of a rocont coniirnu.tion tour

.11

134 The Most Reverknd John Medley, D. D.

which he read before the anniversary meeting of the Church
Society, February lltli, 1858 :

I left Fredericton on St. Barnabas' day, June 11, for St. Andrews.
On Sunday, the 14th, I confirmed twenty-nine and preached morn-
ing and evening. The congregations on both occasions were large
and attentive. Dr. Alley, who has held the rectory between thirty
and forty years, is still able, by the blessing of God, to perform
three full services on Sunday, one of then) at a village three miles
distant, a duty which very few at his advanced age could perform.

June IGth, I proceeded with Dr. Alley to St. Stephen, and on the
17th confirmed eleven. It was a great satisfaction to me on this
occasion to be assisted by the llighi Rev. Dr. Burgess, Bishop of
Maine, who very kindly preached to us, and gave us a most earnest
and instructive discourse, useful alike to young and old, which I
enjoyed exceedingly. He was accompanied by his valued friend
and presbyter. Rev. G. W. Durell, of Calais, who has been of signal
benefit to this Diocese. The church at St. Stephen has been greatly
improved by the addition of a new chancel, an excellent organ, a
better arrangement of the pulj)it and desk, a new communion table
and chair (carved, I believe, by Mr. Durell's own hands), and by
being painted throughout. The singing also was much improved.
For many of these additions to the church, and for much of its
life and spirit, we r\re indebted to the zealous liberality of a young
layman, whose modesty might ])erhaps be pained if I mentioned his
name, but whose kindness will not be forgotten by his blessed Master.

June 18th, I proceeded to St. Davids; confirmed nine, and
])reache(l. There was a large and attentive congregation, though
the day was wet. The church, as a whole, is one of the best of our
country churches, and reflects great credit on the zeal of its pastor,
Rev. J. S. Thomson.

June 19, ^[r. Thomson drove me to St. Patrick, distant thirteen
miles. It was a wet and fatiguing day. I confirmed seven persons
there, and preached. Mr. Carson extended to us his usual kind
hosi)itality.

On the 20th I went to Campobello, to a house where hospitality
always makes a welcome, and on Sunday, 21st, confirmed five and

Extracts ruoM a Confirmation Tour.

185

liirteen

arsons

kind

ptality
and

preached twice in St. Ann's Chapel, hitely built by the exertions of
Hon. Captain Robinson, aided by the S. P. C. K., the D. C. S., the
parishioners, and a few friends. The Kev. J. S. Williams assisted
nie and accompanied me in walks to visit some sick and suffering
members of the congregation and some young and old persons.

On Saturday, the 27th, I left in the packet, accompanied by Dr.
Alley, and with some difficulty and not a few curious adventures or
misadventures, we reached the parsonage at Grand ^lanan after
dark, very niuch disposed to retire to rest. The next day (Sunday)
I confirmed four and baptized an adult, and preached again in the
afternoon. Mr. Carey, at my request, rode five miles to take his
usual afternoon service, but all his flock had come up the same five
miles to hear the Bishop, so that his labour was lost. The congre-
gation was very attentive, and I saw with pleasure many old familiar
faces and heard them join heartily in the prayers, and some of them
still more heartily in the singing. Mr. Craig, who seems to be
elected church warden for life, was at his post as usual. The
next day I went to Seal Cove and held services there and preached.
Thence over a very rough road t(j Southern Head, where I baptized
Mrs. McCaughlau and three infants, and confirmed Mr. and Mrs.
^IcCaughlan. As they reside on Gannet Rock, eight miles from
shore, and perfectly inaccessible for three-fourths of the year, my
visit was timed very seasonably. I have since sent them a little
present of books, as they have a great deal of time for reading.

Sunday, July r)ih, I confirmed thirty-nine at St. George, a verv
considerable numViti, considering that there is also a Roman
Catholic, a Baptist, and I believe a Presbyterian_congreL'ation there.
There is a good Sunday school and an excellent day school in the
place. In the afternoon we went to Pennfield, where I confirmed
twelve. The congregation was crowded. It is not too much to
say of this mission, that I never visit it without fresh evidence of
the zeal aud usefulness of its pastor, and I never leave it without
being strengthened and refreshed.

On Tuesday we drove to Lepreaux, and thence thirteen miles,
happily accom})anied by a guide — for otherwise in crossing the tide-
harbour, we should probably have got a good wetting, or worse —

13(>

TllH ^^()ST IvKVERKXl) JoHX ^^^:DLKY, D. D.

and readied Lepreaux light-hoiuse in the evening. Here Mr.
Thomas hospitably received us, and the next day I confirmed ten,
baptized a child, administered the Lord's Supper, and preached in
the little cliurcli at Dipper Harbour, three miles distant. At
Mus'|uasli the next day I confirmed six, preached and administered
the Lord's Supper. The church at Musquash has been much im-
proved, and a chancel has been built. The congregation are re-
markable for their excellent way of responding, the two church
wardens and their families setting them a good example in this
respect. The singing also is hearty and general.

On Friday, July 17th, I went up to Hampton in the steamer, and
on Sunday confirmed thirty-seven in the Parish Church, and
addressed a congregation so crowded that sixty or seventy persons
could not find seat room. In the afternoon I proceeded to Norton,
where I confirmed eighteen and preached. The singing was excel-
lent, and staying to practice with the choir the time passed rapidly
away. I did not return till eight o'clock.

On Monday, 20th, Mr. DeVeber drove me to his parsonage at
Upham. Mr. Walker accompanied us, and at his request I turned
aside from the road to visit and confirm a blind woman, aged
eighty-four, in her own house. She appeared very devout ami
very thankful for my '-isit. On Tuesday we went to Quaco, distant
twelve miles, but f jm the extremely hilly nature of the road, one
hill being nearly t.iree miles long and another two miles long, it
appears much further. The mission of Quaco for a long time was
in a very d(nibtful state, and the people were very apathetic. By
perseverance, however, progress has been made ; the building pur-
chased from the Methodists has been gradually converted into
something like a church ; it is floored and ceiled, and has rough
benches. The congregation are very steady, and though the day was
very unfavourable more than one hundred ^vere assembled. I con-
firmed eight. On the 23rd we drove to Londonderry, a settlement
eighteen miles distant, among the hills which are crossed on the
new road to Albert County from St. John. The little chapel was
now consecrated by the name of St. Paul. It was crowded to its
utmost capacity by a most attentive body of worshippers and hearers,

|e was
By

pur-
into

tough
was
con-

ineut
the
was

lo its

Irers,

Extracts from a Confirmation Toir.

137

who drank in every word, though I spoke for nearly an hdur; and
I am sure I felt as happy as they appeared to he. 8oine eurious
proofs were related to nie of the readiness of some of these rough
soldiers of the Cross, to defend the Bishop, not only hy word of
•^louth, but if neeessary by more powerful weapons. On the 2")th,
1 confirmed nine at the little handet of South Stream, and on Sun-
day I confirmed eighteen at the Upliam Parish Church, and
preached morning and evening. Among the numerous congrega-
tion in the morning was an aged woman of eighty, who forty years
since was an inmate of His Excellency General Smythc's family,
and who, though living in the bush, had remained steadfast in tlu'
communion of the Church. She had walked three miles to church
this summer, and now the missionary went ten miles to fetch her,
and brought her back full of a trcnd)ling joy, to receive the rite
of confirmation. This is one of the most laborious missions in the
Province ; too much so indeed for any one man, or I may say for
any one horse, but it is well served and the fruits are apparent.
And though this mission always gives me a laborious round of
work, yet I never leave it without comfort and satisfaction. Mr.
DeVeber kindly drove me to Springfield on 22nd July, and though
by miscalculation I arrived a day before my time, yet the people
cheerfully left their work and came to the church in considerable
numbers; twenty-four were confirmed. .....

September 22nd I Ic^'t Fredericton with Rev. J. B. iNFedley for
Prince William, where I confirmed seventeen, and the next day
forty-two at ^lagundy, among the rest an aged man of eighty-
nine, with his two children, daughters-in-law and five grandchildren.
The present rector has been most kindly received, and is inde-
fatigably engaged in the good work. His accession to our little
band lays us under a second obligation to St. Augustine's College,
Canterbury, of which my dear and valued friend, Bishoj) Coleridge,
was the first warden. From Prince William we proceeded to
Woodstock, where, on Sunday, the 27th, I confirmed thirty-five, and
administered the Lord's Supper, assisted by Mr. Street and my son,
and I preached again in the evening. In this thriving aiid populous
neighbourhood there is quite work enough for a third clergyman.

liili

138

The Most Revkrend John Medley, I). 1).

The clergy who have hitherto assisted Mr. Street, though very
kiinUy treated by himself and his parishioners, are not ambitious
to end their days as curates of Woodstock, l)eing very hardly
worked and very poorly paid. The parishioners presented their
rector with a new wagon the morning after my arrival.

October the 2-lth I visited Kingston, and on the following day
confirmed in the church at the Reach (the Parish Church being
under rei)airs) one hundred and seven persons, being the largest
number ever j)resonted to me for confirmation at any one place in
the Diocese. I am still more gratified to find that this confirmation
has added largely to the communicants, one hundred and thirty-five,
all parishioners having communicated on Christmas Day, at King-
ston, when the Parish Church was re-opened for divine .service,
having been almost rebuilt. It is much improved by a central
passage, a small chancel, and by the removal of two most unsightly
desks ; and the whole expense being, I believe, more than £900, is
met without any apjjlication for aid to the Diocesan Church Society,
th(jugh I am afraid an undue proportion will fall on the rectoi'.
Kingston is an instance of what indefatigable parochial visiting will
do to keep together a flock long united to the Church by loyal and
hereditary afiection. May its worthy rector long be spared to
carry on the work which his father and grandfather so happily
began.

On the 27th October I returned to Fredericton, having, by the
blessing of God, travelled twelve hundred and fifty-five miles, con-
firmed eight hundred and ninety-six persons, and having had
abundant evidence that our Church is, on the whole, at least, hold-
ing her ground, laying her foundations deeper, and that whilst her
clergy can claim no exemption from the infirmities and imperfec-
tions common to their brethren, they are, as a body, striving to do
their duty in the responsible office to which God has called them.

The mission of our Church in this Pi'ovince appears to me to be
a most important one, both as regards the laity and the clergy.

We have to prove ourselves the worthy successors of those noble
and consistent men who sacrificed all their worldly prospects to
what they believed to be their duty to their king and country, and

iii

Extracts from Annals of the Diocese.

130

brought with them an invariably strong attachment to the British
Constitution in Church and 8tate.

We liave to prove ourselves the worthy descendants of those still
nobler spirits who bequeathed to us the Reformation, whose CiTorts
guaranteed to us freedom from persecution, from doctrinal corrup-
tion, and from the Roman yoke, and whose judgment and sagacity,
aided by the assistance of wisdom from above, designed to reject
only the evil and to retain pnly the good.

We have to prove ourselves worthy of the Church which num-
bers among its members a Ridley, a I^ighton, a Hooker, a Taylor,
a Pearson, a Kerr, a Wilberforcc, and u Howard. We have to
prove ourselves worthy of a Ciiurch which rejoices in the circula-
tion of the Scriptures, because it acknowledges the Bible as its rule
of faith ; which clings to the decisions of j)rimitive antiquity as the
surest bulwark against ancient and modern heresy; which has
nothing to fear but everything to hope for from the progress of
science and the spread of learning, and which desires nothing bet-
ter than that its doctrines should be known, examined and sifted.

Some idea of the course of events (lnriii<i; the next few
years may be gathered from the following extracts from the
Annals of the Diocese :

1860, August 4, Saturday. — His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Newcastle, Earl St. Germains,
General Bruce, etc., arrived at Fredcricton. On Sunday they
attended the Cathedral at eleven o'clock. . . . The Cathedral
was crowded to overflowing, but the congregation, though a very
mixed assembly, were very ord'rly.

The Bishop went to the west door to receive the Prince, the
whole congregation rising, and God Save the Queen was played
by Mr. Hayter, who ably presided at the organ.

The Bishop dined at Government House on Monday, and pre-
sented an address in the name of the clergy at the levee.

September 2. The new organ, presented by the Bishoj) to the
Cathedral, was used for the first time.

140 The Most Ivhvrrkxu John Mkdlev, D. I).

Deceinl)er 25. Observed as usual, juul a midnight service, well
attended, in the Culhednil on New Year's Eve. Three hundred
and fifty-two persons conununicated between Christinas Day and
the Epiphany inclusive.

Confirmed this year, eight hundred and twenty-two ; travelled
fourteen hundred and fifty-one miles; consecrated two churches,
one burial ground, one rural cemetery; ordained two priests. All
praise be to God.

• ••#•••••••

1801, May 31. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred' arrived in
Fredoricton, and staye<l till Thursday, June 0th. He attended
divine service in the Cathedral on Sunday morning, June 2nd.

. . . On Monday he inspected the Cathedral, the clock, bells,
etc. His visit was without state.

In the year's summary it is stated that the Bishop travelled two
thousand nine hundred and fourteen miles.

1802, January 18. The Bishop went to St. John and stayed
two Sundays, preaciiing to some of the troops sent from England
in consecjucnce of the difficulty respecting the "Trent" with the
American government. The soldiers assembled in the Mechanics'
Institute.

On the 28th he returned to Fredericton. Five thousand troops,
with artillery, passed through the Province on their way to Quebec
and other places in Canada. . . Some were landed at St.
Andrews, and went by the railway to Canterbury, and thence to
Woodstock. The travelling was very good, the troops were well
provided with warm clothing, and they travelled on sleds holding
eight men besides the driver, by stages of about thirty miles a day,
in companies of one hundred men, and later of one hundred and
sixty.

The inhabitants of St. John provided a series of entertainments
for the troops, Avhere they were most plenteously feasted. They were
extremely pleased at their reception.

The records in the Annals for the next few years are
mostly of a routine character. Every year speaks of an
increased amount of work. Most tonching notices are

Extracts from Annals of the Diocese.

141

given in tlie case of the death of any one of tlic clergy, and
pad ex[»ressions of deepest sorrow, in the liai)pi1y rare in-
stances of misconduct.

In the year 1872 the summary states :

Confirmed eight hundred and one; ordained deacons^, two; priest,
one; consecrated churches, five; burial grounds, four; travelled
three thousand four hundred and ninety-nine miles, duriug which the
Bishop enjoyed almost uninterrupted hcaltli. Ail praise be to God.

!J 1

tll.UTIiH XIII.

Diocesan and Phovincial Synods — Thr Bishop Chosen

MeTIIOI'ULITAN — KXTKACTS KHO.M ADDRESSES TO THE PRO-

vixciAL Synod — Presentation of C'rozier — Address

AND ivEPLY.

^S early us the yotir 18o(), the ([iiostioii with rci^aiNl to
tlio tbnnatioii of a Diocesan Synod was a,u;itate(l.
The work uii(U'rtakon hy tlic Diocesan (Miurch St)-
ciety, whieli embraced the clcri::y $»•>(! representatives of tliu
hiity, in some respect supi»lied the i)hice of a Syno(L In
nearly all thi^ otiier Canadian Dioceses they had their Dio-
cesan Synods, in coimection with which the lionie missions
were maintained. At the time referred to, Fredericton and
Nova Scotia alone stood aloof from the synodical system
which had been ad<)[ttcd elsewhere in the Dominion ot
Canada.

In his chart^e to the cleri:;y, delivered in 1850, the Bishop
ftlhides to this subject. "Our Church," he says, "though
amply sup[»licd with standards of doctrine, is ill-furnished
Avith discipline, and this is sometimes exercised in an infor-
mal manner. . . . The power left in the Bishop's hands
to enforce discipline is encumbered with many legal ditH-
culties. . . . The establishment of a code of Church
laws would be one use of a Synod legally constituted."

When we look back to that time, it seems strange an<l
unaccountable to notice the warm opposition to the measure
of which w^c arc speaking. This was the case with regard
to several of the largest and most influential parishes in the
Diocese. By a church newspaper of the day this opposi-
tion was encourao'cd. It was contended that undue power
(142)

PlOCK.SAN ANU I'UOVINCIAL SyNOD.S.

14:3

II OS EN

Tro-

iDUKSS

iU'd to
itatcd.
•ch So-
ot" the
(I. In
■ir Dio-
lissions
:on Hiul
system
lion ot

|r.isliop
houi^'U
■lushed
|i iulbr-
lauds
.1 ditH-
bhinrh

Ire and

leasure

Ire2;ard

in the

)pposi-

Ipower

woidd he ,<?iven to the Bisliop, and the rights of rectors ot'
parishes iniuht ho iiitriiii^ed

"The best nnswcr however," tlio Hishop Hiiid, " to these ohjections,
is, that in tiie Cliureh Society, no freedom (»f (lis(Hls^<ion, no indept'n-
dence of (tpinion has ever been clieeked l)v the presence and veto of
tlie JJishop, and that no measures adveive to the liberties of the
clergy or huty have ever been carried by his InlbR'nce. If, tiu'refore,
the eonstitntion of the Synod shouhl re.send)le that which is already
in operation, what is there to fear? Or, why should this unworthy
suspicion be entertained ? Synodieal assemblies would also be found
useful in re^ridatinu; the temporal affairs of the Church, and in
devising such prudent measures as may promote its eidargenu'ut
and prosperity."

It was not, however, till the lapse of six years after the
charge, from which wc have fpioted, was delivered, that a
Syjiod was constituted. ])nring these years the rough edges
of party spirit were being worn oil". Time works wonders
in this way, when there is really no ground for distrust or
suspieion. A meeting called tor the especial purjtose de-
cided iinavlmoiish) in favour of a Diocesan Synod. The
ettorts of the best and most capable among the clergy and
laity were engaged in the preparation of a Declaration of
Princii»les, a Constitution and Canons. Proper and due
authority was assigned to the Bishop. A charter of incor-
poration was obtained from the legislature, with authority
to act in all matters relating to the well-being of the Church.
Still later ati act of the letjislature was obtained, codifvini; all
the laws relating to the Church of Kngland in the Diocese,
with the enactment of other provisions agreed to by the Synod.
The organization of the Diocesan Synod, it must he admit-
ted, has benefitted the Church in many ways. As in the
deliberations of the Church Society, so without exce[»tion
it has been in the Synod ; in no instance has any conflict
arisen with the Bisho[>. As chairman at all meetings, he

Ill Tm; Most Ki;vi:iu:n'i> .Iuhn Mi:i»i,i:y, I). I).

lirosidcd with miitoriii iiiipai-tiulitv n\u\ \Kit\cui\\ Aiiioti^
till' luviiiL'ii sitlriidiiii; till- iiU!L't'ui";s of tlu' Sviiod liuvc t^ciier-
ally 1)0011 iiicliidcd tlio foivmost iiu-ii in tlio Provinoe. Tlioy
limy liiivc hold docidodopiniourt, ditlofiiin in soiiio cihcs from
thoHo of tho i5ishoi>, and itorluiits from u nuijoi'ity of the
monihors of tho Synod; Imt in no oiu' instiinoo has thore
l)oon party strife, or a party voto in the Synod of the
Diocoso ot Frodoricton.

In this rospoct a strikinsj; conti-a is prosontod in some of
tlio other Diocosos of Canada. Thore von will fnid a marked
line, a doei<led party voto, os[iooially in the election of dele-
gates to tho Provincial Synod.

From varions cirenmstances atJoctini; tho Dioceses in
Ontario, and from the fact of many important livini^s havin<r
been filled by cloru:ymon from Ireland, there was at one
time a stroma majority in the Provincial Synod, opposed to
anything!; that might bo called llii;'h Chnrch views. Thore
was dann'or, it was thon_i;'ht, lost moasnros mij^ht bo adoj)ted
which miijht bo deeply roti:rotted throughout the Church in
the Dominion, something allied tr \q line taken by the
Chnrch of Ireland.

Xot a shadow of i>arty fooling wa?, uianifosted in tho elec-
tion of the first doloicatos to the Provincial Svno(h The
Synod itself was impartially represontod. For the most
part, however, the delegates wore ready to act in concord.
(3n their admission to tho Provincial Synod, together with
the delegates from Nova Scotia, nniny of whom were of a like
type, the state of things thore underwent a change. Dangers,
which had boon previously anticipated, were no longer
droade(h A prominent member of the Synod, as the pro-
ceedings went on, and questions of importance were dis-
cussed, was heard to say: "We greatly rejoice in the
presence ot your people from the Maritime Provinces; you
are the very salt of the earth."

Till; r»i.-iioi' CiiosKN Mi:tk(H'()i,it,\n.

14;')

clec-

The

most

licord.

with

Ijilike

[liTcrs,

pro-

(lis-

II the

you

Of iiioro importjuK'o still was the presetice of ".lie Mishop
of FiT(U'ri('ti»ii in the iippor house. His wise roiuisel, his
(loop h'tiniiiiu; ainl tiicoloi^icjil attaimiuMits, wore of the
y:rcate.st valiio. Later «»ii additional strciiiith was addiMl to
that hody l»y tlic attendance of the jiisliop Coad/iufor of
Frederieton, with his hii^ht scholarship ami hi^h iiitclli'c-
tual eulture.

In the Annals tlu- Uishop wrote with ri'u'ard to the tirst
attendance at the I'l-ovincial Synod: " The delei;-ates were
received with i^rt'at enthusiasm." He alludes to the pres-
ence! of the 15ishoi» of Lichlield (Dr. Selwvn), and his
address at a s^reat missionarv meetini:;.

It is added : " Oetoher .Srd, the iiishop o| Lichlield, with
his chaplain and si'cretary, arrived at Frederieton, havin<;-
travelled from Xehraska, one thousand five huiulred miles,
to show 1ms friendship. He preached twice in the Cathedral,
and dwelt most earnestly on tin; missionary work, especially
on the life and lahours of IMslioj* Tatteson, of Melanesia.
Great numhcrs attended. . . . lie left us, much to our
sorrow, on ^^onday, the 5th, to attend the (Jeiieral Conveu-
tion in Xew ^'ork."

('\»onthe resi^-nation of irishoji Oxeiiden, the l>ishoi» of
Fret.'-rieton w.s clu^sen to till the ollice of Metropolitan. At
first the Bishop's }»osition was somewhat unsatisfact(^i'y, hut
not from any itersonal ohjection. it was claimed, that in
l>oint of law, the otKce pei'taiuc(l to the See of Montreal. The
suhject was discussed at lenji;th in the Synoil, without any
animosity, and the (juestion was finally settled in favour of an
I'lection on the part of tlu' House otlJishops. A canon was
jiassed to that effect. I>y all [»arties, the manner in which
the duties of the Metropolitan were i)erformed l»y liishop
^fedley met with full ap[»roval.

The tii'st meetins'- of the l*rovincial Svnod, under the
Bisho}) of Frederieton as Metroi>olitan, Avas held at Montreal,

140 The Must Keveuexp John Mei>ley, 1). ]).

I !

8c[ttoiul)er 8tli, 1H80. The Metropolitan, in liis address to
the Synod, alhides to his election as the choice of the
Ijishops. He then speaks of the [)Osition of the Church in
the colonies as wholly set free from the ties which were
loiii; supposed to connect us with the State in Eui^hmtl.
Tliis frcc(h)ni rc<|uircd u'rcat caution. " Our wisdom," he
said, " lies in maUinijj a broad distinction between wliat may
be fairly rcii:arded as thiufj^s ..itcrable, and of no vital con-
se(|uence, arisiui.'; either out of necessary jjolitical changes
or the usa<i;cs and feelini;s of coni2;reiratioiis and the Huctu-
atiiiii; sentiments of tiie times, and those deep iwu^ solemn
truths revealed to us in holy scri[)ture, embeihled iirmly in
our three ancient creeds, interpreted by the first (Tcneral
Councils ol'the Church, and secured to us by our own tormn-
laries, to which the ancit'nt rule, (^)>ll>(( smipcr, '/nix/ nhiijiit^^
(jiKul (i/i (iiin)lljus, may be safely applied."'

The Metropolitan urn'cd the need of deeper learning on
the part (^i'the cleruy, esjiecially with reference to the works
of the primitive fatliers, and the records of Church history.
lie then alhides to the pro[iosal before the legislature, which
was subsequently carried, to legalize the marriage of a man
Avith his deceased wife's sister. "I trust," the Bishop
added, "that it will l)e deemed desirable by this Synod to
express in a canon what has previously been exjiressed by
resolution, and to guanl, as far as possible, our clergy and
our laity from partici[)atiug in marriages contrary to the
spirit of the (gospel, contrary to the mind of the Church in
its purest ages, and contrary to the Judgment of the Jie-
formed Church of Kngland.^

" And now to bring this address to a close, we pray that
the same spirit of brotherly love and forbearance which
characterized the last session nuiy be shown on the present
occasion. Let the awful words of the inspired apostle never

^The advice of the Metropolitan was acted upon by the Synod.

Presentation or a Ci{(i/ii;it.

\\o{\ to

kmI l»y
:y and
|t() tliu
vli in

ly that
Iwhich

1 never

be absent from otn* minds, that the ' Hre' of (Jod's searohinir
Juds^niont shall ' trv every man's work of what sort it is.'
No man amon^'st us can devolve on tlu' colleetive body the
responsibility which (iod has imposed on himsclt'ahmc, and
no man, therefore, shonld forijet that if he build ' the wixxl,
hay and stuhblc" of faithless counsels and unworthy actions
on the icreat foundation of (Jod's Church, the last tire will
l)oth try and consume it; the scheme which he deenuMl
most snecessful shall perish in the sight ot all men, ev^'U as
the leaves and trees of the forest are eau^'iit up in the
blazini;' whirlwind, and theii- [ilace is fouiul no more."

Immediately after the ^rst (hiy's session of the I'rovineial
Synod, the I'roloeutor — the Veneralde (leorn'e Whittaker,
Areluk^acoii of York — in the i)i'esenee of a laru'i' number
of elerical and lay delen'ates, and in thcii- lielialf, preseiUed
the Metro[iolitan with a very costly and most heautiful
crozier, or Metroi)()litan's staff, aeeompanied with the fol-
lowing: a<Mress :

The first nsscmblinii; of the Synod of this Province, under your
lordship's presidency, has been roganlod by many of its members
as a most tilting occasion for presenting you witii a small token of
the veneratiiMi and atieetion with which you have been long and
justly n-garded by the mendicrs of the Church in Canada.

Your j)rolonged episcopate, extending over a term of thirty-tivc
years, has furnished abundant testimony to your unwearied devo-
tion to the duties of your sacred calling, iui<l has given repeated
occasions for proving your unshaken iidelity to the holy doctrines
and the godly discipline of Christ, while the words of connsel in
which youi' lordship addressed us, at the o|)ening of the present
session, tdve us profound cause for thankfulness, that, in a time of
peculiar danger, we enjoy the inestinial)le benefits of witnessing the
example of your steadfastness and of being- warned with all fiilelity
as to our own most solcnui obligations.

Such are the grounds on which our reverence for your lordship
rests, while those of us who have enjoyed the privilege of personal

~fT

148 The Most Revkrend John Medley, D. D.

•( !

intercourse with you cannot but have learned to regard you with deep
affection. Witnessing, as we do, in your instance, a rare blending
of strength with gentleness, of the unyielding constancy which
refuses to relincjuish any truth, or to abandon any duty, with a
genial, courteous sj)irit of Cliristian sympathy, which draws others
to itself by cords of love.

We pray that your lordship may long continue to preside over
this Ecclesiastical Province, and that, if it should be necessary that
your Diocesan ial)ours should b" shared with another, there may be
associated with you one in whom you may place the fullest confi-
dence, who may serve with you as a son with a father, affording not
only official relief, but also the solace of personal friendship and of
cordial intercourse.

This offering of our reverence and of our love is the emblem of
that pastoral office which you have so long and faithfully dis-
charged, and as we present it to you we would direct our thoughts
and hopes to the Great Day " wlien the Chief Shepherd shall ap-
pear," when all who, constrained by His love, have lovingly tended
His sheep on earth, "shall receive a crown of glory which fadeth
not away."

To this address the Metropolitan made the following
roply :

My Dear and Honoured Brethren :

Your words of affection and reverence can hardly be received by
me without feelings of deepest thankfulness, humility and fear — of
thankfulness for so unexpected and too little deserved tokens of
your esteem anii love, of fear lest the Great Searcher of all hearts
should find in nie far more, and more glaring, imperfections than
your too j)artial eyes discern.

Still it is no small consolation to me, amidst the trials and burdens
of my holy office, to know that my exercise of that office for so
long a period, has won for me the regard of so nuiny whom I esteem
and love, and it will be an additional incitement to labour on in
our Great jNIaster's work, and to beware that no unwise or faith-
less act of mine may rob me of that approval which I hold so
precious.

I i

Addrkss of Till-: Mktropolitan.

14!)

hdeep
niding
which
with a
others

le over
ry that
may be
t confi-
ing not
I and of

bleni of
lly dis-
houghts
liall ap-
j tended
1 fadeth

owino;

ived by
!ar — of

vCllS of

hearts
lis than

jurdcns
for so
[esteem
|r on in
faith-
lokl so

What couhl be more appropriate, what more touching, than tlie
symbol of tlie Shepherd's pastoral othce, committetl to mo by Him
who hiid down His life for us all ! This valuable token of true love
will be dear to me as the remembrance of yourselves individually,
and as the symbol of a hope which looks beyond the grave tn a
place of blessed reunion, where the Shepherd and the sheep shall
find resting places, quietness and assurance forever.

I thank you for the interest you take in my desire for a Coadjutor.
At the age of nearly seventy-six, I naturally desire not idleness but
help, and the help, I dust, by God's blessing to obtain, and I ask
your earnest prayers that all you have spoken may be fully
realized. . . . So may the love of God be with you all.

To the account of the presentation gy\-Q\\ by the T3islio[t
in the Annals of the Diocese the following' note is added:
" The crozier is to be the property of the Metropolitan and
his successors in that ofhce."

At the meeting of the Provincial Synod, July 12th, l.ss:j,
the Metropolitan delivered an address, in which he says :

As three years have passed quickly since we last met in Synod,
and each year calls more loudly upon us to " work while it i.< day,"
and that day short, so uncertain, full of a terrible responsibility,
you will pardon me, 1 trust, for setting before you this urgent ques-
tion, What is to be the future of the Ecclesiastical Province of
the Canadian Church ?

I call it the Canadian Church, not for a moment forgetting that
dear Church of England, in whose sheltering urms the earliest
years of many of us were spent; but chiefly to call to your remem-
brance that no love for the old country, no union and communion
with the Church of England in the Catholic faith, can absolve us
from a sacred and solenni trust for the good of Canada, for which
we must give an account when our privileges, our duties, and our
works shall be weighed in the balance of God's merciful, but even-
handed justice. .........

Our position in Canada is a trying one. We live in the very
midst of a very whirlpool of diversities of beliefs, of bodies all

■-IT

150 Tin; Most IkEVErend John Medley, D. D.

■vehemently asserting tlieir position in tlie Church of Christ ; one
large and important section claiming to be the only representatives
of the Catholic Church on earth, others denying this claim, but
divided into various sects and parties, yet full of energy, proving
the strength of their convictions by the fire of their zeal, honourably
(Usirous to raise and maintain their position by institutions of learn-
irg, and by all tho other ajipliances which 'lodern enterprise and
ingenuity uses to increase its members and ike itself a power felt
and recognized in the body politic;. We should do ill to overlook,
we should do worse if we attempt to despise sui-h efforts of Christian
sentiment and earnestness. Even when we deem it misdirected, it
is important I'or us to remember the peculiarity of our position.
On some points we closely touch our neighbours, even while we
seem most to differ from them. In others, while we seem to agree,
we are forced to admit essential differences. For exam])le, we
entirely agree with our Roman Catholic brethren in all the funda-
mental doctriiiesofCliristiaMity, as set forth in the three great creeds,
and asserted by the four (Bishop .Jewel says the six) first general
councils. We have no difference with them as to infant baptism,
or the primitive origin of liturgies; many of our collects unaltered,
or only s';glitly altercMl, are taken from sources which they honour
alike with ourselves; had they been content to add no new articles
of faith, and above all, not to insert a new and impassable wall of
j)artition between us, we might have dwelt at unity in one house;
but, as long as their additions to the primitive iViitli remain, union
is impossible.

Turning to the other side, we might suppose that those who
believe in the fundamentals of the Christian faith, and have no
fellow-feeiing for Koman doctrine, would liavi' little to find fault
with in the Cbureh of England. ]}ut here we are met by very
considerable difierences both in doctrine and discipline.

I cast no reflection on the personal piety of a single nuMubcr of
these vast connnunions. God forbid that I should presume to
undervalue true piety, wherever it is to be found, or refuse to

Address or Tin; Metropolitan.

i:.l

it ; one
ittitive*
ini, but
provinjj
Durably
if learn-
•if^e and
wer felt
I'C'i'look,
hristian
ccted, it
position,
vhile we
() agree,
nple, we
e funda-
^t creeds,
; general
l)apti8iu,
iiaUered,
honour
articles
wall of
house ;
in, union

k)se who

Ihave no

Id fault

hv vcrv

d)cr of
lunic to
Ifuse to

reeogni/e — thankfully to recognize — the glorious fruits of tlic Holy
iSpirit of (iod. Amidst tiie melancholy spectacle of a disunited
Christendom, it is good never to forget this tiuth, that lOlijah's
ministry was sent to the ten revolted tribes, and that God had seven
thousand chosen ones, where His proi)het knew not one.

Tlie Jiisliop u'oi's oil at sonic Iciiu'tli to sjK'ak of tlu' i»ro-
]>ose(l iiK'asnrc with refLToiicc to unity anioiin' tiu' various
Cliristian bodies. Ho points out tJic uscIcssik'ss of any at-
tciiiiit to force the subji'ct of union on any of tiic ivliii'ious
bodies wliicli surrouiul us, and that w c iiiust not suriTiider
any truths coiniiiittcd to our trust wliicii scrvi' as a conncct-
iiiir link with the [trimitivc ai>vs of the Church, ih' then
proceeds :

We have all the elements of strength in our Church if we wisely
use them — an ancient foundation, primitive usage, brilliant ex-
amples, sanctified learning, cajjacity for jirogrcss, inissionary zeal, a
providential awakening from sloth and iiiditlerence, a wonderful
eagerness for the right interpretation of Scripture, an unipieiich-
able thirst for knowledge, we may stretch out our branches to the
sea and our boughs unto the river, and make our Church known,
respected, beloved, progressive, wherever our language is spoken
or our empire bears sway.

The- Bisjn>|i then alludes to the recent consecration of Dr.
Sullivan as tlu' second Hishop of Alu'oiiia, the Missionary
I)iocese of the Canadian Church, and he uruvs iii()st sti'oiii>;ly
continued and u'eiierous support, not only in the missionary
work, but in niakiiiii" a provision for the eii(lo\\iiieiit of the
hioeese. lie s[ieaks of the iniLiiity prosjiects opeliiuii' up ill
the <«;rent l)ioceses in the West, and of one of the liisjiops
tiicrc, once a pupil and thou a teacher in his Sunday seliool
in Kiiii'laiid more than t'orty years a_i:"o.

The r>isiio[i concludes in the followiiiLC words:

What brotherly greetings we have ever met with from our dear
sister Church in the United States is well known to us all. No

152

The Most Iikverexd John Medley, I). I).

differences in civil government can ever part us. We lAoug to
the 8anio linoi.-e, we are iieirs of the same promises, we cherish the
same truths, wv. maintain tlie same Church government. We are
numbered witli them in faith, in worship, and in love. We joy in
their presence among us, and in the words of truth and soberness
that flow from their lips, and our hope is to be numbered with them
in joy everlasting.

lint bear in mind that we are on our trial ; keen eyes are watch-
ing our success or failure. " Canaiia expects every man to do his
duty."

At tlic nu'ctiiio- of the J'roviiicial Syivod, in 1880, the
Metropolitan inado a l)nef address, ivfei'riiio- chietly to mat-
ters of a ])ractical diaracter. At tlie close of tho'i)rocoo(l-
iiii^s he .i^ave utterance to tlie followino- words, his last words
to the Provincial Hynod :

I earnestly pray that both in what we have done, and even in
what we have left undone, a higher wisdom than our own may have
guided our deliberations, and that God may pardon whatever has
been done amiss.

The Bishop was nnal.le to attend the nieetino- in 1889.
Actin.i; in his jdace, at the opening- of the Synod, the Jiisliop
of Montreal said: ''He was sure thev jIiI rei-Tetted the
absence of the Most Reverend the Metropolitan, and still
more the cause of his absence."

CHAPTER XIV.

ExTRAns FROM Ti[E T>isiioi''fi Triexxial Cmarces to Nrs
Clkhcy, 1<s71-LS77 — C'ai,a.m[tols Firk in St. Juiix —
Bishop's Sermon.

stil

T the tfieniiial visitation ot" tlio oleriiv on tliu 4tli
Julv, isTl, the charge of the IJisliop oinl)raoe(l
sultjects of iK'iMiliar ititerest to tlie Churcli. The
followiiiiT extracts will l»e hi_si;hly valued :

You may expect me to say something on two important changes in
which we are all (lee))ly interested — the revision of the Lcctionary,
and the revision of the English version of the Bil)le. Bearing in
mind the eminent scholars and divines who are engaged in these
revisions, and the worthy motives by which they have been influ-
enced, I shall nevertheless venture to express my own opinions
freely, and leave you to form your own judgment, according to the
best information you can ol)tain from myself or from others.

St. James informs us that "Moses of oM time hath in every city
them that preach him, being read in the .synagogues every Sabbath
day;" in other words, that appointed portions of the Pentateuch
(and as we learn from St. Paul's address in l.'jth chapter of the Acts),
of the Prophets also, were read on the Jewish Sabbath-days before
the people. The fourth chapter of St. Luke supplies us with such
a reading by our Lord himself. Following this godly custom of the
Jews, the Christian Church in like manner ordered to be read select
portions of the Old and New Testament. In the time of Archbishop
Parker, Tables of Proper Lessons were introduced, which were
nearly identical with those in our present Prayer Book, and they
were settled in their present form in 166L The Cycle of Proper
Lessons seems to have been formed on two very wise principles.
First, it was desired to set before us the creation, the fall, and the
consequences of that fall; the steps taken by God to procure our
redemption ; the election of a peculiar jieople to preserve true

(15>i)

lit

154 Till-; MtisT Ukvkuknd .Iuiin Mkdlky, D. D.

religion ill the oartli, and to proparo the way for the IiK-aniation ;
and thf coiKhict of that pooplc, their apostasy, niid their puiiish-
ineiit,as ilhistnitioiis of (Joil's (U-aiiiigs botli with eiiiirehi's and with
imliviikial.s in Chl•i^stiall times. A second ohject in the selection of
lessons was to fix in the minds of the worshippers the chief truths
of the Christian religion in due order, whether hy prophecy, as
during Advent and lOpiphany, and on Whitsunday; or by type, as
on (lood Friday, Easter Sunday, and Trinity Suiulay ; or l»y his-
tory, as in the lessons in Holy Week. Further, it is j)r(tvided that
the Old Testament should he read once, and the New Testament
three times in the daily course throughout the year.

All will agree in the wisdom of these general principles, and in
the value of the continual instruction thus given to the people at
large. The chief thing to he regretted is, that both clergy and laity
have so little availed themselves of the inestimable privilege ; the
Bil)le being to the great mass of (»ur congregations, a sealed book
from Sunday to Sunday, and the priest teaching his fiock hy daily
example, that the church is the only place where, during the week,
prayer is never wont to be made; and this while we vainly boast of
an open Bible and an incomparable Iviturgy. If we loved either
the one or the other as we think we do, we should undoubtedly
nnike nuuh more frecpient use of both. In towns especially, there
can be no sufHcient reason why this should not be done. Now the
very fact of a selection of passages from the Bible, proves that we
consider the Church authorized to consider some portions of the
Bible as more instructive to a mixed congregation than others.
And even those who cling the most closely to the divine authority
of every syllabic can hardly refuse to admit that there are chapters
which we would not willingly hear publicly read ; and that there
are others, mere lists of names ^ I do not refer to the two genealogies
of our Lord, the public reading of which is defensible on other
grounds), which could serve no good purpose in being publicly
recited.

But if there be a selection at all, the Church has clearly a right
to improve upon that selection, unless it can be shown to he in-
capable of amenduieut. The need of improvement rests, I believe,

TllK HlSHOP's TkIKNNIAL C'llAIUiK.

155

oil the followiuf^ grounds: Some Icsnons are rend, especially in the
daily st-rvice, which it is desirable to omit; not merely chapters,
but whole Hooks of Scrij)ture, arc in the present Lectionary for no
valid reason omitted. Among these is especially to be noted tho
Book of Revelation, which in its obscurest parts is no more obscure
than some of the prophetical books, and can be no darker to us than
their own proj)hecies were to the Jews. The selection of chapters
to be read on Saints' Days is, on many occasions most unsuitable,
there being no apparent reason why the chai)lers selected should be
read rather than any other. Certain of the chapters selected from
the Apocry|>l)a arc unwisely chosen; and lastly, the lessons are (in
many instances) too long, and break in on the unity of a history, or
a j)arable, or an exhortation, by various other matti'rs which fail to
leave a distinct impri'ssion on the mind. I feel comi)elled t(t admit
the reasonableness of many if not all these objections, whilst at the
same time one cannot help making the following (I think) not un-
important observations I The liible is remarkable not only in the
Old Testament but in theNew, ft)r its distinct mention and its plain
condemnation of sins, the very name of which is painful. The spirit
of the age leads men to hush up all such matters, biit to act in secret
the vile things which it is afraid to speak of, and to bear condemned.
As in this respect the JJible and the world are clearly at variance,
nothing can be more dangerous to public morality than to refuse
to road what the sacred writer has evidently recorded for the
general good, ami which will be in all probaltiiity unhi-eded in
private, when the lesson is considered unfit for jtublic reading. A
clergyman who would close the book or substitute another chapter,
when the chastity of .loseph is recorded for instruction, if he would
be consistent must cease to read the first chapter of the Epistle ft)
the lumians; and where are we to stop? I should regard this clos-
ing of the Serijjtures as trifling with the Word of (Jod, a kind oi'
Protestant concealment of which a Uomanist might be ashamed. A
remark may also be made on the Apocryphal lessons. Admitting
that there are a few parts of the Apocryphal Books which many will
gladly see removed from the Lectionary, a very large j)ortion of the
rest contains lessons of the deepest wisdom ; and on conij)aring the

156

TiiK Must lii:vi;in;.\i) .Ioiin Mi:i»i,i;y, I). 1).

■

Apocrypha with the Bcjoks of the New Testament, it is very remark-
able that the .sacrccl writers often make direct (|U()tations from the
Apocrypha; or it seems that the description or exhortation j^iven
l)y the New TeHtament writer was first sketched out l)y the ancient
Jewish authors. For instance, the conclusion of the elevontli chap-
ter of the lOpistle to the Komans is taken from the Book of Wisdom ;
the description of the heavenly city in the twenty-Hrst chapter of the
IJnvelation, from the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Tobit; and
the very striking account of " the multituth,' that no man can number,
clothed in wiiilc robes, with palms in their hands," is adapted iVom
the sec()nd Book of Ksdras. The lesson in St. James' Kpistle,
against (iotl tempting ns to evil, is taken from the fifteenth of
Ecdesiasticus ; and the "one day with the Lord is as a thousand
years," the being "swift to hear," the " weeping with those that weep,"
the "revealing of mysteries to the meek," from the same Book, be-
sides many turns of thought, and parts of sentences, which reai)pear
in the New Testament ; and I make no (juestion, that had the second
chapter of the Book of Wisdom been found in the Prophet Isaiah, it
would have been considered as ])erfect a ])rophecy of the conduct of
the Jews towards our blessed Lord, as the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah
is justly considered at present. It may therefore be a question
whether the new Leciionary will not be found to have removed too
much, rather than too little of those venerable books, which, though
they never formed part of the Canon of Scripture, were higldy
esteemed by the Jews, and largely quoted and adopted by the
writers of the New Testament. In the new Lectionary, the change
in the Sunday lessons is not so great as at first sight might be sup-
posed, especially from Advent Sunday to Trinity Sunday ; and the
general principles to which I have before adverted are still strictly
observed. After Trinity Sunday the greatest change in the lessons
occurs. But we have obviously a great gain in the insertion of les-
sons from the Book of Revelation, the Book of Job, and the Books
of Chronicles, hitherto kept almost out of sight in public reading.
It may be an objection, and a reasonable one, that soine of the les-
sons will be found too short. It seems to me, that if the object
were to shorten the time of the .services, that object would have

ThK J>ISIlol'',S ThIKNM.M, Cll.\K(iK.

167

been much more profitably attained by abridging the umit number
of State i)niyers by whicli our Prayer JJook is burdened, or by a
fresh arrniigement of the services, or by shortening tlie sermon,
than by lessening the nuiidier of verses of Holy Scripture which arc
read. If thi; Lord's I'rayer is repeated rather too frecjuently, much
more unnecessary is the continual repetition of State I'rayers, one
of which would be anijdy sufficient for a single service, but which
now o<'cur four or live times on a single mr)rning. And considering
the very few oj)j)(jrlunities which the |)oor, and indeed many others
who are not pcior, have of reading or hearing the Word of (lod, I
think they will much miss their accustomed portion of the Sacred
Word. I'robably in other particulars too little time has been given
to the sid>ject, and the Church at large has been less consulted than
is desirable. However, if the bill becomes law, I fear we shall
have no choice but to submit, as the new Lectionary will be inserted
in all new Prayer Books, and it will soon become impossible to
procure the old. I should advise the clergy diligently to study the
new Lectionary on its first ap])earance, carefully to ob.serve when a
discretion is given them of choosing new lessons, and when it is
withheld, and to be very particular in reading, that tluiy begin and
end with the right verses, as in the new selection the lesson often
begins in the middle or end of one chapter and ends in the middle
of another. If this is not read very carefully, the sense of the les-
son will be lost. This is the first of the changes made; I cannot
say it is the last that will be aUemjiU'd in our Prayer liook, and the
])rospect before us is a very serious one. Wo .see too plainly that
all changes must pass through the ordeal of assemblies consisting
in some part of unbelievers, and in great part of men hostile or
indirterent to our services ; and that a great number of legislators
dei'er rather to what is popular than what is right; and that we are
supposed to accept as much or as little, as they in their collective
wisdom think proper to leave us. If this yoke is to be made yet
more heavy, and their little fingers are to be thicker than our
fathers' loins; if the voice of the Church is not to be heard, and
the very foundations of the faith are to be tampered with, sui)scrip-
tion to the Formularies and Articles of the Church will become a

:!l

Irf

158 Tin: Must UKVintKNn John >rKi)i,i;Y, D. I).

matter for virv .xcrious consideration with every man who 1i:m
hitherto helieved in the connection of the Church of Enj;huul with
the past, and in her «uccc»sion not only of holy ordcr-s, but of holy
doctrine. " SufKcient, however, unto the day is the evil thereof;"
uhen the trouble c(,in(s we must pray for Divine lij^dit to x'C the
right coursi; to lake, and for couragi' to take it.

I may now call your attention to another i'(jinilly important mat-
ter, the proposed revision i>f our ]*^iglish translation of the iJihie.
I suppo.se few persons who have long read and loved their ird)le —
as I trust we all havi; — and have made it the subject of their daily
study, can think without serious misgivings of the necessity for iv-
vision, and of tlu; prnbable or p(issil>le conse<|uences of revi-iiou.
Our English translation is a household god (so to speak) among
us. Its idiomatic felicity of expression, its true ring of sterling
Saxon Englisii, its charming rhythm, its memories which recall our
youthful lessons, ami suggest our holiest prayers, and linger on our
lips as the last words we utter to those dearest to us when we bitl
farewell to earth, have given it a standing in our minds which ap-
proaches the idolatry of the letter. We forget that these are not
the very words which our Lord and the inspired authors uttered.
They are only an attempt, in all good faith, but an imperfect
attemi)t, to reproduce their glory in a foreign — and to the original
writer — a barbarian tongue. God has indeed signally blessed that
attempt, but lie has not been pleased to exempt the authors of our
translation from the infirmities to which all men are lial)le. The
Holy Spirit (I doubt not) bles.>ed and assisted our Iranslators as we
may sui)[)ose he l)lessed the authors of the Septuagint translation
of the Old Testament ; but he no more made our translators uood
Greek scholars than he gave to the Alexandrian Jews good Hebrew
manuscripts. And as our blessed Lord and His A^iostlcs read, and
used, and (pioted frotn a translation which, when compared with the
Hebrew, is extremely imperfect, and yet it would be absurd to -op-
pose that this translation was intend •' - lude all further
improvement; so we have done wcl' m many respects)
faithful translation; but t' lirK' ^„„, len amendment is
clearly practicable, and if ^ iciUn x pi .ive duty. It is not

Tin: UlSllnp's TltlllNMAI, ClIAltiii:.

loit

! ni)t
erctl.
■rt'oot
: ill til
I hut
t' our
The
u^ we
;\tion
I

irocH

llVL'W

ll, uiul
1th the

II r

thor
liocts)

not

generally recollected, or perlmps j^eneriilly known, tliiil the prtsont
translation is the tit'th, not the first, of such attempts in the Kni:li>h
tongue; and if we owe niiich to the idiomatic version of Tyndale,
in some places we have deparled from his renderiiiir, to the injury
rather than the improvei'ieiit of tlu^ sense. He this as it may, let it
be remenihered that the history of English translations is a history
of attempts to do well and to do lu'tter, rather than one sudden and
permanent efllirt. It is a history which rather points the way to
future improvenii'nt than hars the road l>y an ahsulntely perfect
success. The very fact that our translators adopted alternative
renderings, some of which are in the margin an<l some in the text
of our J{il)Ies, and the better rendering is often that which is not
rend to the peoi)le, would lead us to the conclusion that we may
lawfully revise both, if a still more accurate rendering can he found.
Ikit our duty to < Jod must manifestly supersede all other consider-
ations. The l)il)le, like the Christian religion, is a trust consigned
to us for the benefit of niankiml ; and we are as nuich bound to
fidelity in our version as to the extension of the Christian religion ;
and fidelity is rightly shown when we allow the light which God
gives us to be reflected on the version and on the text of the Holy
Scriptures.

There can be no doubt that many of our translators were accom-
plished Hebrew scholars ; anil in difficult passages it is evident that
they generally leaned to the opinions of learned Jews, as nuiy be
seen by any one who reads eitlur the Commentary of Pococke or
Ko-sonmiiller, IJut it would be affectation to deny that gri'at light
has been thrown on various texts by the researches of niodi'rn com-
mentators ; and that in the IJooks of .lob, of Solomon's Song, and
of the minor Prophets, our translation is capable of a nuicli clearer
sense. In respect of the New Testament, not only is the Greek
language more studied and more critically known than in the time
of our translators, but much light has been thrown on the peculiar
phraseology of the Macedonian Greek in which the Apostles spoke
and wrote, and the niceties and turns of thought are now more
distinctly apprehended. Those who hold to the verbal inspiration
of every syllable of the New Testament are bound to reproduce the

ICO

TiiK Most Kevekkxd John Medley, I). I).

If!

same in FnglLsli, iis far as is possil)le . and t!ioso who think that
such verba) inspiration was not the object aimed at by tiie control
and assistance of the Holy Spirit, must be no less anxious not to
lose a particle of what our Lord sai<l and the Apostles wrote, but
to reproduce it as correctly as a version in a different tongue can
ever do; though l)e it renicmbored, a perfectly exact reproduction
of the original in another language is not possible in the most
faithful translation in all cases.

It is doubtless a great convenience, and it is considered a para-
mount advantage to have one English Bible for the whole English-
speaking race ; but it may be doubted whether this advantage,
great as it is, has not been overrated. The unity of the volume
has not preserved us in unity of faith and practice. We appeal to
the same texts, and to the same version of them, to support our
respective differences; and scholars in the several communions in
their aiguments with each other, are never satisfied to abide by the
translation even while they commend it, but invariably appeal to
the original as suj)erior, and to their own version as the best; so
that even if a revised version should lead to other like attempts,
which is not certain, that which Time proves to be the best will
supersede the others, and Aaron's rod will swallow up their rods.
These, however, are only possible or probable consequences. Duty
is the first point ; and fidelity to the text and to the version demands
that we should make both as perfect as we can. Hhould it be still
objected, that on this principle the version of the Bible may always
be changing to the end of time, it may be answered that this is the
history of the Bible from the beginning, as soon as the languages
in which it is written ceased to be spoken and generally understood.
A dead language can only be understood in a version. The present
square Hebrew letter, with its accompanying vowel points, is a sort
of version of the original character, in order to retain as nmch aa
j)ossible the ancient traditional pronunciation and the use of the
words. The Septuagint version was an attempt in a wider direc-
tion to reproduce the origiiuil in a foreign language. The earliest
known version of the New Testament was in Svriac, made as early
as the second century probably ; but this was succeeded by others

TlIK I>ISI1U1''S TUIENNIAI. ('ii.\R(;k.

IGl

in the same tongue. Both Greek, Syriac and Hebrew being dead
languages to the Latin race, the Versio Itahi was made, the origin
of which is lost in antiquity; and it *>eem.s uncertain whether it was
made in Ronu or in tlio African provinces, as the first converts at
Rome probably spoke ( ireek. Be this as it may, that version, tliough
widely dispersed, popularly used, and considered l)y St. Augustine
as the best, was not the only Latin version. There were, it would
appear, several others, which have long since <lisa})pearcd. The
greatest step in advance, and in the way of wholesome progress, was
made by St. Jerome, the most learned of the Fathers, when he under-
took to j)roduce a version of the entire Scriptures from llel)rcw and
Greek into the Latin tongue. It was expressly written in Latin in
order that it might be more generally understood; the Latin lan-
guage being in the fifth century more widely diffused (in Lurope at
least, for which he wrote) than any t)tlier. So successful was his
attempt that this translation rapidly took the place of every other;
and having at length received the sanction of two Popes was, with
some emendations or alterations, adopted by the Roman Church as
the one correct translation ; and in consetjuence of the sway of the
Papal power (being called the Vulgate originally from its pojndar
character) was received and used, and is the present version of the
whole Roman Ciiurch. No possessor of our English translation
ought ;o forget the debt of gratitude he owes to St. Jerome for this
version ; for without it, it is probable that inferior materials would
have produced an inferior English translation ; :au\ had no transla-
tion been made dirc^ctly from the Hebrew, wo might possibly have
been still dependent on a translation I'rom the (ireek of the SejitiM-
gint. It is certainly very remarkul)le, and reassuring to those who
are alarmed at the consequences of a revision, to find so great a
mind as is that of St. Augustine — greater in dej)tli and original
power than any of the Fathers, but deficient in seholarsliip and
entirely ignorant of Hebrew — thoroughly shaken by the prospect
of a revised translation, and most strenuously '>j)j)osi'd to it, so little
did that eminent man understand the advantages which would tlow
to all posterity from having recourse to the fountain head of all
sacred learning, the Hebrew verity. Strange indeed it seems to us,

162

The Most Tvkvkkknk Jdiix Miulky, D. I).

that whilst he must Imve known tho advantage of reading St. Paul's
thoughts in the language in which the Apostle wrote them, he
should not have applied the same test to the writings of Moses and
the Pro))hots. We see, therefore, from this hasty and imjwrfect
glance at tlie history of translations, that we have no cause to be
alarmed at an improved English version. We are not now (as St.
Jerome) proposing an entire new translation from the Hebrew ; that
has already been done. Nor is there any desire for an entirely
new translation of any part of the ]iii)le. The only purpose of the
revisors is to correct those errors which all scholars nuist admit to
be nunurous and important; in the words of that able scholar,
Canon Lightfoot, " to sulistitute an amended for a faulty text ; to
remove artificial distinctions which do not exist in the Greek ; to
restore real distinctions existing in the original, which were over-
looked by our translators; to correct errors of grammar and errors
of lexicography; to revise the treatment of jjroper names and
technical terms; and to remove a few ambiguous or faulty expres-
sions, besides inaccuracies of editorship in the Knglish. All this
may be done without altering the character of the version ; and if tho
language of our English Bible is not the language of the age in
which our translators lived, but in its grand simplicity stands out
in contrast with the ornate and often affected diction of the litera-
ture of that time," (as we may see by comparing our Bible with the
sermons of Bishop Andrews and Dr. Donne), '* we may well believe
that if a better model was possible in the seventeenth century, it is
quite as possible in the iiiiictccnth."

So much I have deemed it right to say, to allay needless alarm
in the minds of any of yourselves or of your flocks, as to the future
of our English version. Still I am bound to admit, that the pro-
ject has been taken up with more haste, and pressed with less
consideration for the feelings and interests of JCnglisii-speaking
people living out of Englaiul, than was desirable. Whether it l)e that
all real scholarship is supposed to be centred in men nurtured in
the English Universities, or that as the present translation was
made by English divines, it is thought the duty of the world at
large to accept without reluctance or hesitation, the decisions of

Till-: I>isiioi'"s Tkikxxial CiiAUtiK.

It;.}

Puul's
3111, he
ios and
perfect
a to be
(as St.
v; that
Mitiroly
' of the
ihnit to
sc'hohir,
ext; to
eek ; to
;'c over-
(1 errors
les and
expres-
AU this
ndifthe
> age ill
viids out
e Htera-
kvith the
believe
uy, it is

ii? alarm
|e future
jtlie pro-
it h less
peaking
l)e that
lured in
lion was
|,orld at
-ions of

English scholars; or whatever be the real cause, it is certain in my
opinion, that the excellent bishops and divines who originated this
nioveiiient, have been somewhat inattentive to the circumstances
and feelings of the times. It is im|)ossible to overrate (he difi'er-
rence between the days of James the First, when our translation
was made, and of (^ueen Victoria. In the first instance, great
power was centred in the royal will, great power was exercised by
the bishops; all the scholarship of KiigliMid was united in a few
minds easily directed to a common end ; the England of those days
was bounded by the circumferenee of the little island, and the rest
of the world was occupied for the most part by the Koman Com-
nuinion, to whom our tongue was as foreign as our religion. How
is it now? The tongue of tlio islands is spread abroad through the
whole earth, but their p()litieal institutions have (in vast regions)
ceased to hold their sw.iy, and the inHuence of Engl'ind is moral,
rather than politically dominant and exclusive.

I have made no allusion, as you must have perceived in this
address, to some of the controversies of the day, of which, if a man
docs not know already enough, he must be both blind and deaf. In
their legal aspects, 1 do not feel sure that they a})ply to us at all ;
und in other ways we are not much ati'ected by them, our danger at
present lying in another direction ; and I do not feel inclined to
take up stones to cast at brethren, who, whatever may be their
errors of judgment, are remarkable examples of self-sacritice and
continual devotion to their holy work, and from whom many who
rail at them might learn much if they would.

Whoever reads the past history of our Church with candour,
must see that excessive carelessness rather than excessive ritualism,
has been the i)revailing error, and that a hundred instances of
slovenly irreverence have been passed over without notice, whilst a
vast outcry is made against a single extreme in an opposite direc-
tion. Inasmuch then as the ditticulty has ever been even to bring
men up to the plain, positive, ujuleniable directions of the I'rayer
Book, I deem it wholly superfluous to speak at length on ritualism.
Kitual of some kind we must have, for no asseml)le<l coiiLiregation

,1 *
i

mT^

Ifiill

li <

164 The Most Keverend John Medley, D. D.

of worshippers ever met togetlier without it. The only ({iiestion is
what Rituiil is most conducive to life, reverence and devotion. But
the }ib(<ence of any specific directions on the subject in the New
Testament, whilst the most minute ceremonial is laid down in the
old, would seem to indicate that greater variety of practice would
be allowed in a freer dispensation, and that each church would be
left to frame its own directions on the subject, provided all be done
decently and in order. The stringent rules of the Act of Uniformity
liave confessedly proved an entire failure ; and whilst general direc-
tions are observed, some allowance, I think, must be given to indi-
vidual priests, acting, as would be desirable, in harmony with their
congregations. IJut I think we have far more to I'ear from the
dead level of cold worldliness, which eschews all reverence, and
sees no reality in the Church and its sacraments, and reduces the
whole act of worship to a meagre performance by a minister, than
we have from any excesses of ritualism. Mere outward show, for
show's sake, is certainly to be avoided in divine worship ; but our
Lord reserves for his severest displeasure the lifeless church, which
He will "spue out of his mouth," the cold lukewarmness of respect-
able and fashionable worldliness.

I desire also to call your attention to the necessity of making due
annual returns to the Society for Pro[)agation of the Gospel, on the
state of your parishes. I am well aware how difficult it is to make
such reports interesting to others without entering into details which
geem ridiculous when printed in the report and circulated among
one's neighl)ours. The Society, however, complains tliat fuller
accounts are constantly sent from other Dioceses, and the impres-
sion gains ground at home, that negligence and indolence prevent
tlie reports being duly forwarded.

The general state of the Diocese is, I hope, progressive. Since
we last met, twelve hundred and seventy-five persons have been
confirmed, a considerable number of whom received holy comnuinion
at the time of confirmation. It is of the utmost importance to press
upon all such |)ersons the duty of steady and consistent membership.
If these young people/vere all, as they should be, firm su]»portei-s of
ou" Church, regular attendants, and devout and constant communi-

The Bishop's Triexxial CirAUtiE.

It;.-)

stion IS
. But

le New

in the
; would
HI 1(1 be
be (lone
forniity
il (li rec-
to indi-
th their
roni the
ice, and
.ices the
er, than
how, for

l)iit our
h, which
I respect-

kiiifr due

1, on the

to make

1h which

|1 among

t fuller

impres-

prevtMit

Since
|ve hoen
luuuuion

to press
Uiert'hip.
i()rtei>» of
limmuni-

cants, how jireat wo Id he our i^uin I how valuable their ai^si.stance I
During the same period, seven priests and four deacons have been
ordained, and there is plainly an increasing desire that churches
should be made more worthy of the service of God, and the sacra-
ments administered with more reverence and devotion. One instance
deserves special mention. In rebuilding the Cliurcli of St. PanlV,
Portland, the j)arishioners have given at the offertory Si*,07''5, besides
§3,400 on the day when the church was consecrated, and S-l.-SOO
given by them.selves and various friends towards the memorial
windows in the church. No ba/.aars have been held to procure this
sum. All has been offered to (Jod. In luy last cdntirmation tour
I was everywhere encouraged by signs of increasing spiritual life
and activity; and the manner in which churchmen tiirougiiout the
Dioce.se have res])onded to the fresh calls made upon them by the
Church Society, under the direction of the Sclie<lule Conunittee, is
very gratifying, and exceeds my expectati-ms. We have no douI)t
a great trial to j)ass through for some years to come, but with
increasing earnestness, and in dependence on the Divine blessing, I
trust we sluill surmount all our difficulties.

I would also call your attention to the desirableness of jjresslng
on your parishioners the general observance of such days as CJood
Frida;, and Ascension Day, not merely that the day itself may be
observe'd, but that the great truths of Christianity specially taught
on those days nuiy be fixed in the heart. There is, I fear, an
increasing wish to maki; (rood Friday a mere day of worldly
festivity, and totally to disregard the Feast of the Ascension, which
is a ])lain proof how low the faith of many Christians has fallen,
and how cold is our love for a crucified but risen Lord. Imagine
what even John Wesley would have said of keeping Good Friday
as a feast, and of revellings and bantpietings at the hour of our
Lord's last agony. With a view to induce a better attendance
during Lent, to interest men's minds in what otherwise has no
special characteristic service to draw them together, I drew u}) a
special service, taken either from Holy Scripture, our own Prayer
Book, and sinular sources, bearing especially on the sins for which
*ve need forgivene.ss, and the graces we desire most to be imparted.

ji!!

ill!

1»)»I Tjii; Must Kkverexd John Medley, D. D.

Wherever this service wns used, it met with ivcceptaiico nnion*^ tlie
jjcople, and appeiin-d to be a lielp ti) reverence and devotion. In
doing so I only pursued the phm universally ado])ted in aM primi-
tive churches, an<l partially and t're(iuently pursued in our own
Church in England, and amongst ourselves, that on special occasions
the bishop of each (church is authorized by his office to assist the
devotions of the faithful l)y special prayers. This is a truly catholic
principle, which I am not prepared to surrender. If it had not
been recognized everywhere we should have had no Liturgy at all,
and specially no Litany. On every occasion of general humiliation
or general thanksgiving, I have drawn up similar forms of prayer,
which have been used in all our churches without hesitation, though
neither ratified by our Statutes nor fouiii' in our Prayer Book, and
the objection comes too late. The practice has already grown into
a usage, and that usage is universal ; for in England every bishop
draws up similar i)rayers on special occa.sions, and not only does
every bislioj) use a form of consecration not recognized by the Act
of Uniformity, nor found in the Book of Common Prayer, but every
bishop uses his own special form by virtue of the Apostolic j)ower
inherent in his office. I am aware that a Statute of this Province
has been appealed to, which inflicts the grave penalty of depriva-
tion on all who use any other service than that found in the Prayer
Book, liut it is no disrespect to the framers of the Statute who
adopted the clauses from the Act of Uniformity'to say that it was
made when no I)isbop had been consecrated here or was contem-
plated, and that it never could have been intended to deprive the
Church of those privileges which the possession of a bishop confers
upon the people at large.

In those very early days confirmations were hardly to be obtained,
consecrations of churches were hardly known, church assemblies
could not be expected, and the only notion that prevailed was to
restrain men by severe penalties from falling into entire anarchy.
Now that we have a regular order of Church government, the con-
struction of such Statutes must not be pressed too closely. For
there is not a cluucli in the Province (and they are more than a
hundred in number), nor in any of the other jjrovinces, which has

Tin: Bishop's Tuiknniai, Ciiaiuje.

167

Dtainod,

Heinhlios

was to

liKircliy.

[he con-

For

than a

M'h has

not been consecrated in tlie teeth of the Statute; the service used
is not provided fur by the Prayer IJook ; has proper I'salnis, Lessons
and Collects of its own ; and as you have all taken part in such
services, and some of you will he aj.'^ain calling for them, you ought
all at this moment to have been deprived, and be as if you were
dead. ^ly wonder is, that intelligent persons who ('.esire that all
possible life and vigour should be imparted to the ' 'hurch, consist-
ently with an orderly n\anncr of devotion, should not see that an
occasional departure from the one fixed order, at a special time and
fur a specidl purpose uidi/, and in liarmony with the [jrinciples of
our Prayer Book, and un<ler the direction of the Chief Pastor of the
Church, rather tends to increase our reverence for our usual form
of prayer than to diminish it.

One more matter I may very briefly mention, and it alludes to
the occasional offices, viz., that all the baptisms, burials and marri-
ages in your parishes be regularly entered in a suitaliie register
book, recognized as the property of the parish. There has been a
custom into whieii some clergymen have fallen, of making such
entries in a private book of their own, mi.xed up with private
memorandums of their own affairs. Great j)nblic inconvenience
and injury have resulted from such a practice, and. as it i.'- nuich to
be blamed, I desire that you will all entirely and for ever ;il)andoii
it. 1 trust also, that you will be very careful to institute intpiiries
of those who come to be married, in reference lo their < .)nsanguinity
and whatever else is needful to he in(juired into, especially if they
come from another parish or Diocese. I speak advisedly on this
point, for not only have there been rumours of persons being mar-
ried in our Church within the prohibited degrees, but two ca.ses
have occurred within my knowledge, in which I do not mean to
throw the iilame on the clergy, of open sin, one of which has
l)rought ruin and misery on an innocent family. I cannot but
think if due care were takt'U. and all persons were married as the
Church directs, that such guilty peoi>le woidd shrink from the dan-
ger of public exjio.-ure in the Church.

And now, dear brethren, l)efore I dismiss you, bear with nie, if a.s
britflv as the subject admits, I venture to give you some fatherly

! t
i,

I: i'i
I'll I

168

Tin; Must liKVEUiixu Juiix Mkdlkv, D. I).

advicr, which in my jii(l,i;iiiont is protitablo for your soul's health.
Many of you have luet often in visitation. We have seen our
brethren, one hy one, called to tlu* dread presence of our God, and
the account of their lii'e's Iai)ours on earth summed u|) and closed
for ever. We have a little longer to remain, but the lines of oui'
haiidbreadlh are visibly shorten i iij^' ; the thinijs that arc seen will
soon be the shadows that are past, and the thinj^s that are not seen
the lijrhts of the eternal world.

Once more, then, I pvess upon you I'rogrc-*^.

Progress in your spiritual life. Not only be more eariu>st 'u
prayer and more; iVe(iuent in prayer, !)ut let the stamp on your
character be that of heaveidy intercour.se. As the face of Moses
slionc! with a heavenly radiance, when he came down from the
mount, so let it be si'cu that you have drawn nij,di to God by the
increasinir reverence, humility, sincerity and sim|»licity of your char-
acter, and by that tender devotion in sacred things, which it is
impo.<sible for the worldly-minded pastor to imitate, and that
thoroughly single mind without which the most ostentatious piety is
but darkness; and "how great is that darkness?"

l'r(»/re'<s In i/our J'ltatontl irork. Let this be proved by the earn-
estness and life of your di.seoui'ses ; by your throwing youi-selves into
the spirit and nuirrow of Scripture, rather than in nuiking broad
your phylacteries by mere repetitions of the letter of Scripture; by
your faithful, allectionate, hearty, and jjaiustaking intercourse with
your Hocks ; encouraging the weak, warning the unruly, teaching the
young children, stoi>i)ing the mouths of the profane and di.ssolute,
and building up, not destroying, the foundations of the Faith for all.

Progress In your aajulrements of learning, for the Gospel's sake.
That you may know what the difficulties of the times are, and may
be able to encounter them nianfuHv and solidlv; that vou mav iraiii
some new learning every year; giving attendance to reading, to
meditation, till the Lord come; remembering that you cannot be
innocently ignorant of what a layman need not know ; and that if
your office binds you to explain the Scripture to othei^s, your duty
is to master its sen.se, and to search it as for hid treasure, i\ot to be
continually repeating truths of an elementary character.

The liisnoi-'s Turi:xNi.\i- ('iiau(ik.

109

niav uam

ProrjreM hi your PurifihrH. That in tlio midst of all tlit- irrtli;.'i(»ii
which alxaiiuls, many may 1h' .si'cii cliiij^iiij^ to your .-idi', ami with
you, fearing not to hclievc tlu; faith and practice it; that your
chiircheis may be more frequently, and in town j)arishe.s, daily o|)cn
for prayer: the sacraments more fre<|ueiitly and more reverently
administered, and your people not slumlicring in the prejudices of
the past; not longiiiir for the shadows that have <lep!irleil, hut active
to sujjply the present needs of the Church, and lii'lping themselves
and you by a faithful, honest, manly and energetic piety.

Onee niore, I exhort you to reverence, that grace tiu- most want-
ing in an age of real or fancied light. Reverence in all your sacred
offices will never he lost sight of, when the pastor lives, and works,
and prays, as in the presence of Clod ; and without this constant
sense of the Divine presence, the very handling of the Divine .Mys-
teries begets irreverence; and the intelligetil and devout layman
witnesse.. with ilisgust slovenly reading, careless manner, unpunc-
tual attendance, and above all, the unworthy celebration of the
Lord's Sup|)er, as if anything were good tMiough for that blessed
feast, and the more slovenly the manner, the more spiritual the
action. If the rubrics of our Church are carefully observed, their
spirit is so reverent, that irreverence in the priest would seem im-
possible ; but such neglect is by no means an unusual error. Thus
children learn irreverence from their youth ; their elders set tlu'iu
no example, and the offices of the Church are not done unto C»od as
acts of worship, but are <lone unto man as ceri'monies which lend
dignity to those who condescend to patronize them. Kemend)er
the words which were once said over you, and to which time only
adds a fuller, deeper meaning — " Receive the Holy Ghost, for the
office and work of a priest in the Church of God, now committed
unto thee by the impt)sition of our hands." These words ar^j living
truths, not dead formalities ; and it were better for us never to have
heard them than by the actions of our life and ministry to deny
them; and there can be none who ought to pray to be delivered
from the uninirdonable sin more than the clergy, for of them to

hom God has " committed so nuich," he wil

surelv

^k tl

more.

17'> Till-: Most linvKiiENit .Juux Mri»i,i:v, I). 1).

I I

Once more, I exhort Vdii to unity and charity. I (h) not mean
that yon, more tlian any other body or men, can lu' ahsohitcly
nnited in jiidi;ment on every point; l)nt a ^'ood (h'al n'ay i)e done
to promote tiiis end by those who strive for nnity, and who do not
fiictiously separate from their l)rcthrcn, or secretly cai)a' a^'ainst
them. "Tlie same .»*pirit," intt) which (;is the Aposth^ says) "we
were all i)aptize(l," is freely jfiven to us all. We have the same
Scriptures, the same Creeds; we were horn within the same Church,
and have declared that the whole Prayer ]J(jok we use is agreeable
to the Word of God. If we were thorouj^dily taught by the Blessed
Spirit of (Jod, then' is no doubt that we should nil bo, as the deni-
zens of heaven are, in all thinjzs one. lint -is by the imperfection
of our nature this cannot be at present, at least let us believe the
best we can of each other; and not only practice the usual c(»urtesies
of life, but use no terms which imply that other cler;,'y neither
believe nor understand the (Jospel, neitlu'r pray for, nor are taught
by the Spirit of (!od. In the free discussion of our Synod, we shall
have nuicli need of charity. There will be of necessity, as there
was in the first Council, " much disputing," but there neeil be no
breach of unity. And let us learu wisdom from other cjuarters, to
keep our discussions to ourselves, and not expose our weaknes.s to
the outside world. We are weak enough already ; we do not need
to excite . contemptuous pity of others, by taking the whole com-
nuinity into confession. Whenever we have mastered the principles
and adopted the jjraclice of the thirteenth chapter of St. Paul's First
Kpistlc to the Corinthians, we shall be a strong Church ; stroi g in
our unsellish anil forbearing love; strong in our untiring and
spiritual devotion.

It has plea.<ed God to allow me for more than twenty six years to
presiile over you, and during that long period I have to bless His
goodness for an unusual measure of health, and to thank you, and
numy of the laity, for cheerful and ready hospitality in my jour-
ney.*, and fur many other kind offices of love. Unlike the blessed
Apostle, I have not gone from place to i)lace knowing that " bonds
and afflictions await me," but rather encouragement and respect,
and though occasiomdly hard things have l)een said and unjust

I).

The _Ui!«iiui''t? TuiENM.M, C"iiAU<iE.

171

) not inciiu
ahsdliitely
<ay !>t' <l<nie
wlio do not
.l)ji' a^iiiiiist
' !Jay8) " we
(• {\w same
mu! C'luircli.
is aLrrocable
IIk" lUi'ssi'd
as tlu' (Iciii-
import'oction
, believe the
al court csios
,>ri'V neither
>v ari' tauglit
lod, we sliall
ity, as there
need he no
(luarters, to
weakness to
(h) not need
whole eoni-
le prin(;i|)les
Paul's First
; stroi f5 in
lutiring and

[six years to
to bless His
ik you, and
|ii my jour-

the blessed
Ihat " bonds

lul respect,
land unjust

ispieions entertnined of me, I liav*-, I Impe, outlived many of

them, and I wish tiieir authors no worse than

a wider j,'rus|) ot

truth and a less contracted vision. I have also much reason to
rejoice that I cannot recall a sinyle act of discourtesy and unkind-
ness from the members of any other religious body. On the con-
trary, I thankfully acknowlcdj^e from some, who do not belou); to
our communion, acts of sympathy and kindness, and general respect
to my oltiee from many more; and if a nearer, dearer tellowship is
hardly to be expicted on earth, may we at last meet where a true

underslandmi: will l)e given us ot the points on wliicli we have
ditlered, and there will be "no roimi left among us either for error
in religion, or for viciousness in life."

The llisiiop addressed his elerny as follows in his cliat^^e
delivered at the Cathedral in ls77:

I must ask your indulgence for too hiirriedlv setting before you
some topics of counsel and encouragement, having had little leisure
for writing, amidst the perplexity and distraction which the late
terrible calamity has brought upon us.'

Some portion of the work in which I have been engaged, on
behalf of the Church, has been as follows: In the year 1874, I
contirmed one hundred and eighty-tive persons, ordained live priests
and two deacons, consecrated two churches and one burial ground,
and travelled three thousand four hundred and fifty-eight miles.
Many visits were made to ditlerent parts of the Diocese ; and in
f^eptember, in company with the clerical and lay delegates chosen
by our Synod, I attended, for the first time, the Provincial Synod
of the several Dioceses of Canada. Wi; were received with the
greatest cordiality; and I have reason to believe that our presence
was considered of advantage to our Canadian brethren.

I ought not to omit that at the Provincial Synod, we were all
cheered by the presence and animating words of my dear and
honoured brother, the IJishop of Lichlield, who, after the Synod,
travelled one thousand five hundred miles in order to fulfil a

' Tlie calainitoiis tire in St. John.

Jil
■if

172

TiiK Most lii:\ i:ui:m> .loiix Mkdlkv, \K I).

if!

pniiiiisc that lie Wdiild visit Krcclcrictoii ; and on the 4tli of October
prciiclH'd twici' ill our Catlit'dral, and addressed our Sunday scholars
wilii such good eUeet, that of tiieir own accord, they proposed to
contribute to tin e(hicati<in of one of the ^[ehinesian sciiohu-rt at
Norfolk Ishiiid. Ten pounds sterlinj; has l)een raises! by them
annually, for this ^ood purpo!*e.

The intercession services were held as usual this year, and a lividy
interest created in the Diocese of Al^'onui.

In the year \H7-t, I visited u larj^e portion of the Diocese, ami
eonlirnied nine; hundred persons, ordained one priest and three
deacons, consecrated one church, and travelled two thousand three
hundred and sevi'nty-three miles. It is very satisfactory to find
that in the conlirmalions, the nnnd)er of tlu)S(> who communicate un
the same day, or on the next Sunday, has largely increased ; in
many parishes nearly all conununicating, in others the great nuijor-
ity ; though I have still to deplore the existence of backward
parishes, in which those who nuide promises failed to fulfil their
engagements, and appeared to be totally ignorant of the spiritual
loss they sustained. I'arents are, I fear, greatly responsible for
this neglect of dnty, and seem to be much hindered by a foolish
notion, to which the ("hurch gives no sanction, that it is improper
to have their children confirmed before they are fifteen or sixteen
years of age, Hy their delay it often happens, that this duty is
postponed till the yonng people an; easily h'd away by wrong im-
pressions; become independent and most difHcult to be convinced ;
and are led to believe that they can receive no benefit from the
ordinance, uidess they can declare themselves converted, not after
the manner of the Bible, but after the manner of human invention.

Having been taken suddenly unwell before the close of this
visitation, 1 was thankful to avail myself of the services of ray
valued friend and brother, the Bishop of Maine, who promptly and
most kindly confirmed in several country missions for ine.

In the year 1876, I visited the North Shore and other parts of
the Diocese, and confirmed four hundred and three persons, ordained
four priests and three deacons, consecrated two churches and two
burial grounds, and travelled three thousand two hundred and
sixty-one miles.

; ;. I

TiiK l>is]iui'"s Tuii;.\NiAi, CiiAiuii:.

178

^\ ronif iiu-

Knrly in the Mimnn>r I iiiul tlio great sHtififaction of receiving
into our Clhureh, llirotigli the kind assistanee of Rev. L. A. Iloyt,
the \vh<'h> cnlony ol' I)a''i.-h eniijjrants, two hnn(lre(t in number ;
and of o^(hlinin^^ after due exaininatioii, one of their nnniiter, who
liad been a sehool-teaeher, the Kev. N. M. Hansen. As Mr. Hansen
Hpoaks i)oth Danish and Knglish, and rea<l the (iospel in Itotli hm-
jruages in tiie Catliedral, he is well i|ualiried to h'ad the devotions
of tlie |)eo|de in tiieir <twii toULTUi', and to lielp tliosc wiio are (h'sir-
ous to ac'i|uire tiio English hmguage. I procured one hundred
])rayer ixioks, for tlie use t)f tiie scHU-rs, in the Danisli hmguage.
They l)uve already begun to l)uiid a small church, and I should
ftiel greatly obliged, on their behalf, by any donations sent to n>e
for that pnrp(»se, as assistance is nuich needed. Her lloyal High-
ness, the Princess of Wales, has kindly sent a donation of twenty
)(innds sterling.

This year was to me a sorrowful otie, being marked by the death
of three old and valued friends. The first, my dear fellow-worker
in the Vineyard, four years my senior, Bishop of the Diocese of
Newfoundland. Few bishops have presided over a harder field
of labour, or have worked more faithfully or successfully in it.
He left fifty-two clergy, where he found oidy twelve; u college
endowed with £7,500 ; two orphaiuiges ; a clergy widows' fund ;
churches doubled in number; and a (yathe<lral partly completed,
which requires only a dignified chancel to make it a very noble and
striking church. His was a mind of no common order. An ne-
C(Mnplished scholar; a well-rea<l theologian; exact and punctilious
in his recjuirements of duty, if stern to others, sterner to himself;
I)layful as a child, and full of genial humour; flinching from no
difticulty, and ever reaily to e.xpose himself to the .severest hard-
ships; bountiful to the Church ; a true friend in need and sickness,
— he shortened his days by exposure to the storms of winter in
a.ssisting a sick clergyman. He died in a portion of his Diocese at
present deprived of all ICpiscopal sui)ervision, and left oidy one
wish ungratifiod, — to be buried under the shadow of the Cathedral
he hail built, and in which he had so long ministered.

Another friend, if less distinguished, was no less dear to mo, —
the Ivev. James Ford, a brother I'rebendary of Exeter Cathedral ;

III!

;!ii

"•-^3

174

The Most Rkverkn'd John ^[EDLEY, 1). 1).

a ripe aiul elegant r^rholar, translator of Dante, and versed in Span-
ish and Italian literature. Hi.s praetical eoninientary on Scriptnre
is well known to the younger clergy of this Diocese hy his liberal
presents, and I was often enabled to give assistance in quarters
where it was required, by nis generosity. He died in Christian faith
and traJKiuillity, in his eiuhtieth year, at Bath.

A third valued friend and benefactor to this Diocese, who assisted
me in my lirst etfort in church building, in the year hS-Jl, has also
been called away — W. Gii)l)s, E.sq., of Tyntestield, near Bristol.
His na!ne will long be remembered in England from his munificent
charities; and in 1 S()8, I had the happiness of consecrating, at the
re(iuest of my f)rmer Dioce.san, the late Bishop of Exeter, the noble
church he built and endowed at an e.\pen.se of t:2?S,000, in the city
of Exeter. " Unto their a.^sembly may my soul be united,"

" In tliu Ij't'st kingdoms meek of joy and love."

With regard to the financial position and prospects of the Diocese,
though we may expect this year to be a year of considerable trial
and difficulty, we have reason to be encouraged looking at the
matter from the course of several years. I am informed by a
ciiurchman who has devoted much time and labour to tlio interests
of the Church, that if we allow $!),0()0 as a fair estimate of contri-
butioiiS to the Church Society, and parish payments in aided parishes
about the year 1868, that it is probal.de tha' under ihe lioard of
Home Mi.xsions. nearly 8")0,000 has been raised from that time to
the ])resent, over and above what might have been expected under
the old system ; and the Board have been eiial)Ied to raise the aver-
age stipend, about SlOO, besides maintaining several new posts.
Our inability to raise the stipend of the missionaries to a more
reasonable amount is only prevented ity the backwardness of a few
j.arishes, which hold back, and refuse to contribute with their
brethren. No e(juitab)c rea.«on can be given to show tha* gentle-
men, living in (juiet country jtarishes, should refuse to contribute
less iu proportion to their means than their neighbours, or should
call on those who i've in town parishes to make up their deficien-
cies; and iu many cases, the subscriptions to the Church Society ill
accord with the known wealth of the donors. Wealthy persons

The Bishop's Triennial Charce.

lio

still receive aid contentedly, wlu-n they could i\i\\m\ to do witliout
it, and should be a.shunicd to take it. The present vi.sitation, whicii
has cousunie(l property hy thousands, is doubtless intended to remind
many that what has been irrecoverably lost might have been laid
up in the book of God's remembrance, where none of it would have
perished.

It must not, however, be forirotten that contributions which we
see in ])rint do not include the luunerous instances in which improve-
ments have been effected in oi.r churches, and loving gifts have been
bestowed on the poor and needy. It is pleasant also to see that
whereas for many years no offerings were made foi- missions beyond
the borders of our own Province, that during the last year more
than .§2,0()() was contributed through various channels for this good
})urp()se, independently of what has been given in clothing to the
inmates of the Shingwauk Home, and the large contributions which
have been sent from different parts of the Province to the sufferers
by the fire.

Nor do I mention such gifts as ihe only or as the chief tokens of
spiritual life. They are on'y proofs of faith and love within the
soul. But where they are wholly absent, we fear that the love of
God has never taken root.

The growth of sip, and the general deterioration of public morality
in many important matters, is indeed an alarming feature of our
times. We see indications of self-will in general dislike and con-
tempt of authority, unbelief openly avowed, exceeding selfishness,
enormous waste and needless luxury; a scarcely disavowed Univer-
salism taints the faith of thousands; and flagrant dishonesty occurs
in public and in private accounts; a general distrust is felt in large
classes of the cominunitv ; in great calamities, multitudes resort to
plunder and robbery with an eagerness which betrays an entire
absence of all moral principle, of all kind and humane feelings; a
frantic desire is prevalent to hear the sensational, without regard
to the seriousness of the speaker or the truth of what is said ; so
that what is misnamed charity is sometimes no more than unbelief
in any distinctive Christian doctrine, under the pretence that all
teaching is equally good, or alike indifierent. Such are .some of the

17fi

The Most Reverend Johx Medley, 1). J).

terrible evils we have to encounter. But it would he unjust to
society at large, and to Providence, not to acknowledge with thank-
fulness the tokens we daily witness of holy, reverent fear of God,
humble self-denial, patient endurance of sickness and losses, daily
charitable efforts to do good, purity of life, constant sobriety,
honesty and upriglitness in all tlie transactions of l)usiness, un-
swerving loyalty to our Church even under the most unfavourable
circumstances, and regular attendance at the ordinances of our
Church, with a perceptible increase of devout communicants. When
the tares and the wheat so plainly grow side by side in the same
field, we cannot fail to ask ourselves with fear and trembling, has
the enemy .sowed those tares while we slept?

• • • • • • • • • • •

I am bound, indeed, more than any other person, to thank jou
all for the courtesy, hospitality, and good feeling with which you
have welcomed my coming amongst you, and for the unvarying
support you have rendered mj, Ixjth in the Church Society, and as
ju'esidcnt of the Synod. The laity also have given as freely and
abundantly of their valuable time and experience, and have been as
brothers to us in every good work. And not only in financial
nuUters, but in giving form to the discipline of our Ciuirch, we owe
nuich to their patient and assiduous labour. The busiest among
them have often worked the hardest, and I hope the time will come
when there will not be a layman in the Diocese, who does not think
it an honour to spend and be spent in the work of the Church.

The other subject on 'vhich I desire to say a word, is the spiritual
result we should er.deavour to draw from this calamitous fire, and
the means which may, under God, contribute to this result. Whilst
we ought to be especially thankful for the great charity which has
been shown in all (juarters towards the sutterers, that is, after all,
oidy an alleviation of our temporal wants. The good ertect must,
under the Divine blessing, come from within, not from without.
A general reformation, we can hardly, I fear, expect to witness. J .
SfeviUis as hopeless, as to "force the coui-se of a river." But no doubt,
many will be led to own, that God has spiritual blessings in store

Wii;

THH IJlSllul'V TrIKNXIAL ClI.ARtiK.

177

for them, under the <ijuise of temporal evils, and will i»btaiu from
their sorrows lasting good.

We wish to see a deep humiliation of soul under the mighty hand
of God. We wish men to acknowledge that it is a judgment, not a
mere accident; in which the innocent indeed may suHcr with the
guilty, but in which we dare not fix on individuals as the ciuise of
the evil, hut must share with them in the etfects. Wo pray that
thissullering may not only lead them to rebuild their houses, but to
improve their lives. We desire to see more plain living, and high
thinking. We wish no longer to fnid yonng men and women in-
dulging in expenses far exceeding their income, and in conse([uei.ice,
tempted to rush into wild speculations, or dishonest dealings with
their employers; hut incurring no debts whicli they cannot afibn I
to pay, and free from tht 'ndred vices of gambling, intemperance,
fraud, and licentioussiess. Above all, we would wish to see them
such Christians as the Apostle describes, living temples of the Holy
Ghost, pure in conversation, honest in business, full of undissembled
love, "abhorring what is evil, cleaving to what is good, patient to-
wards all men, not^ wise iu their own conceits, of the same mind one
toward another uud overcoming evil with good." And when we
hear the wish uttered, that the City of St. John may rise from her
ashes grander and richer than ever, we would proclaim in men's ears,
liighteousness is the true riches, which never makes to itself wings
and flies away.

It is for us, my brethren, to set an example of this Christian
spirit ; to take care that our families l)e models of purity, simplicity
and ]»rudence; to live in debt to no man ; to aim at the highest
standard of truth, that our example may shed lustre on our i)rofes-
sion, and crown an luimble and laborious life with a peaceful,
Christian, and most blessed end.

Ill the foroLi'oiiiij: extniets ulliisioii is niiide to o\w ot the
U'roatest eulamities by which the I^roviiice hud cvor heuii
visiti'd. On the '20tli Juno, 1S77, a tire broke out by wliicii
a larg [»ortion of the City of St. John was reduced to ashes.
The loss to inereliants and others en<!:ciii;ed in business was
enormous, amounting at a moderate estimate to 8:20,000,000.

i'llll!

>'l

178 TiiK Most Reverend John ^^EDLEY, D. D.

Generous _<;-itt8 luid kind s\'iiii»atliv heljied to allay, in .some
(U'lToe, the more immediate wants of the sntt'ereiM. The
nnuu' years which have since elapsed, with all the eneruy
and determination so laru;ely displayed, hfive tailed to make
i!:ood many an irre})aral)le loss. As always in seasons of
tronhle and distress, the Bishop was ready with substantial
aid, warmest sympathy, and fatherly connsel. Soon after
the i'u'c he |>rea(;hed in the stricken city, at St. John's
church. His text was taken from St. Luke xiii. 2, 8 :
"And Jesus answering said unto them. Suppose ye that
these (lalilicans were sinners above all the Galiheans, be-
cause they suffered such things? F tell you nay: luit,
except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish":

What are the lessons, my brethren, which God intends us to
leai .' from the great and unexpected calamity which has befallen
us? The text implies that all such evils are i)erniitte(l by God, but
it shows a clear distinction between the Providence of God and the
agency of num. . . . Even wlieu a special punishment was
foretold by the prophets of old, for some special national sin, the
righteous suffered with ihe wicked.

Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel went into captivity, and lost all
they possessed, together with the guilty Israelites, who had neglected
and mocked at their predictions. TIius, the chief caution of the
passage is a warning against self-righteousness; and we are re-
minded that our duty lies in doing all in our power to mitigate
the evil under which others are suffering without attcn ;)ting to
penetrate into the counsels of the Almighty, or to i)ronounce judg-
ment, individually, on our fellow-creatures.

. . . Our first lesson is one of deep humility. "We brought
nothing into the world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out."
Even if we admit that we cannot carry our possessions with us, we
feel confident of being able to bequeath them. But God steps in
and shows us, that not even this is always permitted. When the
sense of possession is strongest; when tiie j)roduce of our labour in
our silver and gold is nndtiplied; when our houses are enriched

T).

Calamitous Fire in St. Johx.

170

y, m some
rcr3. The
he eueruy
id to make
seasons of
substantial
Soon after
St. John's

xiii. 2, 3:
)8e ye that
lilivans, he-

nav : but.

ntcnd^ U8 to
has befalk'ii

1 by God, but
God and the

lishuit'ut was

tional sin, the

and lost all

lad neglected

liintion of the

Id we are re-

1- to mitigate

|itten ;)ting to

nounce judg-

We brought
Inothing out."
lis with us, we

( Jod steps in
When the

>ur labour in

are enriched

■i

with costly ornaments; when banks are laden with our accumula-
tions; when private citizens and corporations spend as if there were
no end to riches, and the world lay at their feet ; when men ciy
" peace and safety," then " sudden destruction cometh upon tlieni "
and there is no escajje. All is levelled to the ground

What a terrible reflection comes home to us, that we shall have
to give a strict account of all these riches which are gone, and
which we are not now permitted to enjoy! A humble submission
to the will of God will do much to mitigate the loss and soften the
blow. There is much suflering, but the great hope remains. If we
face this great sorrow manfully and resolutely, God may yet raise
our city from the dust. Industry and perseverance will do nuich to
restore our walls, but humility will do more; it will j)romote our
moral and religious improvement; it will teach us lessons of good,

which communities in general are too slow to learn

Now is the time for jilainer living and higher thinking; for con-
tiacting no debts we cannot in reason hope to pay. 1 ill Christians
come to understand that debts ill-contracted and undiscliarged are
ill-disguised robbery, they have not learned the elements of the
religion they profess. Their prayere, their alms, their comnuuiion,
are of no value in the sight of God. ......

But to our comfort under this calamity, we may remend)er that
punishment is always intended by (.Jod as a remedy. The sinful
heart of man requires to be taught by pain. Unchecked prosperity
corrupts and enfeebles the mind, as surely as a constantly hot cli-
mate enervates the body. Sin needs to be burned out, and grace to
be burned into the sou' and we arc braced and invigorated l>y
chastisement. ..........

Think of the readiness with which you have been assisted from
all quarters; the spirit of Christian charity which has been called
forth ; the union of many hearts and hands in untiring and unselfish
labour ; the eager desire to benefit without hope of return ; the hitnpy
forgetfulness of rivalries, all folded together in the embrace of a
universal charity, and you will see that, probably, more zeal and
.substantial good luay result, than if the evil had never been
permitted.

1 1

I {

III

180 The Most Reverend John Medley, 1). D.

Oh ! the blessing of heavenly contentment in every station in
which God has placed us; the blessing of inij)arting to the honest
poor, what is in our power to give ; of not hastening to be rich. Of
being able to lie down in peace and safety !

Soon I shall have nothing but a shroud, my coverlet will be a
narrow bed of earth ; therefore, oh my God, make me satisfied with
the portion Thou allottest me ; give me a calm and thankful heart ;
religious and reasonable desires, honesty, prudence and simplicity ;
a guileless soul ; a (piiet, trusting spirit, tliat I may find all I need,
desire and hope for, in Thee !

I- fi

CIIAl'TKK XV.

Intercourse with the Church in the United States —
Extracts from Sermons — Xotes from the Annals.

'HE Diocese of Fredericton {uljoiiis that of Maine,
Ignited States. Between tlie bishops and elerifv ot
tlic sister Dioceses tlie warmest and most brotherly
intcrconrsc lias always existed. These fraternal relati<»ns
began in the days of the saintly Eishon Hnrgess, the tirst
Bishop of Maine, for whom the Bishop of Fredericton enter-
tained the highest regard.

Tt was the cnstom of Bishoji Burgess, when he made his
annual visitation to the eastern part of his Diocese, to pass
over to the I>ritish Provinces, where he made the acipiaint-
ance of many of the P^nglish clergy. Beferring to one of
these visits, the Bishop of F'redericton penned the following
communication :

I had the liappines.s of a short visit from my osteenjed friend and
brother in pastoral work, in June, bS6o. I need say little on the
personal i)leasure we derived from that too brief sojourn with us.
His conver-sation, always instructive and charming, was onliv(>ned
by racy anecdotes, and touches of genuine humour, which added
to its cheerfulness without detracting from the solid sense which
characterized all he said. To this was added a modesty and un-
ati'ected sim|)licity, which sat well on one whose learning and ability
were unbounded. He kindly delivered an address at the anniver-
sary of our Diocesan Church Society. In the simplest ^tylc, without
any etlbrt or desire to win applause ; in weighty and wcU-chosen
words, he urged upon us the duty of missionary work, and rebuked
the unfaithfulness and coldness of heart with whii-h such etlbrts
were often met, and the excuses made for withholding what was
justlv due.

(if

ili

182 TiiK Most Revkrexd John Medley, D. D.

I may add that the Bi(*hop spoke with the ease and fluoney of a
j)rac'tised ext('tnp()raiK'on.s speaker: his sentences were uttered with
118 much deliberation as it' he had been readin;^ from a manuscript.
Long will that brief visit be remembered, and great has been the
sorrow of many among us, that we shall never on earth listen to
his voice again.'

Tlie rcijanl and iitt'ectioii expressed for the iirst Bisliop of
Maine were fully extended to his successor, IJishop Neely.
The liishop of Frederieton was ])reseiit, and took a promi-
nent i>art in the services at the consecration of the Cathedral
at ]*ort]an<l, Nfaine, in 1871. Aloni^ an extended border
line the missionary work was, in many instances, i>-reatly
advanced by the services of the cler«jy from both J^ioceses
without rei!;ard to the boundary.

Bishoj) >redley, on several occasions, visited Xew York,
and other principal cities in the Tnited States, at the tri-
ennial meetini2;s of the (leneral Convention. It is (juite
.safe to say that no I'relate from abroad was more ct)r(lially
welcomed by the representatives of the American (/hurch.
This is, jierhaps, the more remarkable, as, from his mannei',
habits, and early traiiuni;', there was a stroni;^ contrast be-
tween the l>ishop of Frederieton and his brother liisliops
and leadintj; churchmen in the United States. ITis marked
abilities, his plain, but impressive, sermons and ad(h'esses,
his earnest teachiuiij in accordance with the doctrines of the
Church, were highly a}>prcciated. American churchmen
are very practical. They will not endure cant or jiedaiitry.
Among them, too, is wholly wanting that intolerance wdnch
so often, in former years, was arrayed in opposition to the
Bishop in his own Diocese. They have, indeed, many
varied bodies of professing Christians, of whom little is
known in Canada. But they are free from that folly which

' Memoir of Bishop Burgess, page 35(5.

?]XTKACTS FROM SeRMONS.

188

watches for tlie errors of l{onu', under u cross on the iiUar,
op 11 snri)Hce(l choir.

The principles and teachint!; of tlio I'isliop were in accord
with those which, in years past, have hecn set forth in those
Dioceses in Anierii-a wiiich iiave nnuU' the i(reatest advance.
Ainonsjj the hiity that re[>resent the Church in their conveti-
tions will he found men well versed in the teachini:: of piinii-
tive times. Many such, hy tlieir very study, havi' hc^'U led
from various relii2;ious bodies into tlie communion ot the
Church.

As early as the year IHol, the IVisiiop of Fredericton
visited the City of lioston. At that time it was " the day
ot small thinii's" with the Church of the Advcit. Those
who ori<;inated the movement connected with the estahlish-
iiii:; of that church had to contend with many difhculties
and much op[)osition. ]\hiny of its supporters were far from
heinuj in favour with the ruliiii;; powers in the Diocese. The
years that iiave passed have wrought a wonderful change.
At the present day there is no church or parish in the
Diocese of Afassachusetts stron<i;er or more inHuential than
the Church of the Advent. The older members of that
church to this day speak with grateful remembrance of the
kindness and sympathy manifested towards them in their

early struggles by the Hislio^t or r redericton.

Tlie following sermon was preached hy the Bishop on the
occasion referred to :

"So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into
heaven, and sat on tlic riglit iiand of (iod." — St. Mark xvi. 19.

In these few and simple words docs the Evangelist, after his
manner, descril)c the greatest event which ever happened in the
world, — the soiu'ce of all ble.s.<ings to the company of believers here
and hereafter. What angelic hosts aecoinpaniod him as he went
up, what songs of love and adoration met him in the air, and
entered with him into heaven, the mind may imagine, hut the record

\'\\<

1S4

TiiK .NfusT Hkvkukni) .loiiN Mkdi.ky, I). I).

i^l 5-11

is not prt'scrvcd. Yet, lis tlio anj^clic liost wen' prosoiit when lu?
"ciiiptii'tl liimsull'" to l)(' l)oni of a woiimii, mid a.s two at least of
tlui iiniiil)or watched the phicp where tlie LdhI hiy, we may without
presuinptioii ^Mtlier, that tliey ascended with Him into ylory, and
" awolvc to joy" the spirits of the bUwt, who had lonj^ waited for the
j^reat Deliverer's coniintr.

And even tiie disciples, hy a miracle of mercy, cast all their
}j;riefs and doubt away, and " niturned to .lerusalem with great joy,
and were continually in the temple, praisiny and blessing God."
Now wore the Scriptures opened to their nnnds. Their hearts were
full of wonder and of love. They were ready to pr»'ach the word
in season, and to suller for the truth's sake, welcoming reproach and
shame, if, at the last, they might "shine as the sun in the kingdom
of their Father."

And should not some portion of their Joy be felt by ourselves?
We are not "men of Oalilee, gazing uj) into heaven," after our
ascended Saviour. But are we not, as they were, " fellow-citizen.s
with the saints, and of the household of God?" Are we not bap-
tized Christians, the redeemed of the Lord? Are not the same
Scripture.s before us? Arc not the same truths our birthright? Is
not the same hope of salvation made known to us? What blessing
has the lapse of eighteen centuries (pienched or diminished? Nay,
in one respect, we have more cause for joy than they; for surely
our Lord's second Advent is drawing nearer. Every Ascension
Day brings us nearer to that glorious era, when Ascension and Ad-
vent shall be one, when Christ shall be no longer " absent from us
in the body," but present a.s the Lord ; when the new Jerusalem
,«hall be seen descending from above, Christ's redeemed celestial
l)ride, a blessed and a countless throng, containing in that vast and
ever-increasing multitude, some, at least, whom we have known
and loved (fii earth, and about to receive some (Oh! that it might
be all) of this present congregation.' But let us now jiass on to
consider, in the explanation of this passage, what are the blessings
connected with our Lord's Ascension.

' How little did we anticipate that your blessed pastor would be tlie first to
follow in tliis train!

KXTU.U'TS FUUM ►SEUMONS.

18.-)

T. The Ascoiisluii i)f' our rionl was tlic great witiu'ss tt» his
iiiiioceiii'c and rijflitcousiK'ss. He alone lia<l I'lilfilled the hnv, he
alone (M)Ii1(1 ascend to the I-'ather. Tliis our Lord had declared,
when he said, " when the spirit of truth is come," that is of my
ri<,dite()iisnc.ss, " He shall convince the world of ri^diteousnojis,
because I go to my I'^ither, and ye see me no more." By tlii<
event, all t' . accurations of the wicked were proved to i>e false.
"It i.s God that justitieth, who is he that condemneth "i* " The
Father had accepted his sacrifice, had acknowleducd his merit,
and had placed in his hands as nuin, and as mediator, the kingdom
of heaven and earth. This enal)les us to understand, why our
Lord's ascension into glory is descrihetl as the reward ot his suHer-
ings. " lie hund)led himself unto death, even the death of the cro.xs,
therefore, also, hath (iod highly exalted him, and given him a name
which is above every name," and this was done, "to the glory of
God the Father." We are not to infer, that it was not done to the
glory of God the Son al.-;o ; for our Saviour says, " all things that
the Father hatli are mine;" he re(|uire.s that "all men should
honour the Son even as they honour the Father;" and they honour
the Father with worship and adoration as the supreme (Jod. Nay,
St. John assures us, that Christ is "the true God," and St. Paul,
that he is "God above all, l)lessed for evermore," and that he is
"before all things, and that by him all things were made." But
inasmuch as the Father, as Father, has a glory which the Son, as
Son, has not; and as the Son, as man, is glorified and exalted by
his Father, as God, therefore the exaltJition of the risen body of
Christ, is "to the glory of God the Father," who sent him into tlie
world. For even the Son, as man, is to be "subject unto him that
put all things under him, that God may be all in all."

II. Our Lord's ascension was the way to hi^ glory, as King and
Judge of all mankind ; it is thus that the Apostle describes him as
"sitting at the Father's right hand, far above all principality ami
power." He was seen by St. Stej)hen standing, which is the posture
of a combatant ; but is commonly described as sitting, which is the
posture of a judge. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Apostle
speaks of him as reigning; and the Psalmist says, "the Lord is

nil ■

IMAGE EVALUATION
TEST TARGET (MT-3)

4L^-

&>/

f/j

1.0

I.I

1.25

'^« IM 112.5

«^^ IIIIM
c IIM
1: m

1 2.2
12.0

U III 1.6

c^.

^^.

OpM

Photographic

Sciences
Corporation

n>^

c^^

23 WEST MAIN STREET

WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580

(716) 872-4503

?n?

186

The M ST Reverend John Medley, T>. D.

i 1 '

!!■

King, he sitteth between the cherubiins," that is, on the seat of
covenanted mercy ; for the cheriibims, in the Jewish temple, spread
out their wings over tlie ark, and the mercy seat, the great emblems
of our reden)ption.

All things in nature, providence and grace are subject to His
will, are cojitrolled by His power, are directed by His wisdom, are
sustained by His love. Innumerable worlds, innumerable creatures
in each world, gifted with various j)owers of life and intelligence,
are all cared for by Him at the same instant. His mind compre-
hends, at a glance, the almost infinite jiroportions of the univei-se;
and He is, virtually, and by control, present at once, in every part
of it. The angels continually behold Him, "binding the sweet
influences of Pleiades," and " clothing the grass of the field," " guid-
ing Arcturus and his sons," and hearing the cry of the wild beast
in the desert, and of the wailing infant at its birth, controlling the
dark designs of the blaspheming legions of hell, and breathing,
comfort in the heart of the penitent, and giving strength to the
walk of the believer. Yet the eternal Son sits on the throne of
Heaven, clothed in human form, never forgetful of Bethlehem, of
Mount Olivet, or of C'alvary. Each separate saint in glory, each
several ))ilgrim on earth. He knows by name. Their history, their
difficulties, their fears, their sorrows, and their joys, are all His
own. Oh, thought too great for utterance, too mighty almosi for
hunnin contemplation !

HI. But, further, our Lord's ascension into glory prepared the
way for His intercession. The intercessory part of our Lord's
priestly office is one of the most important parts of His mediatorial
work. And it behoves us to have clear and distinct conceptions of
it, as far as the Scrij)tures reveal it to us. He is represented, in the
symbolic language of the Revelation, standing "as a lamb that
had been slain," for His glorified body still bears the marks of His
])assion, and has an intercessory virtue in its very presence. For
it", on earth, virtue went out from His body before He was glorified
and healed all who had need of healing, much more do fresh springs
of grnee, and strength, and compassion, and pardon, issue from His
body in heaven, of which His Church mystically forms a part.

Extracts from Sermons.

187

When we reflect that we thus present our prayers and offerings
through " the Lamb that was slain," ti the Father, how joyfully do
the Psalmist's words ring out in our ears, " Cast thy burden on the
Lord Mnd he shall sustain thee;" ''When my father and my
mother forsake me, the Lord taketh me up ; " " Though an host
of men were set against me, yet shall not my heart be afraid;"
" Thou hast ascended up on high, and hast received gifts for men !"
We desire no better Intercessor — we ask for no more effectual
l)leader of our cause, than the great sacrifice for the sins of the
world. He who laid down his own life to save ours, can want no
stimulus from others to relieve and pity us. No name in earth or
in heaven can compare with His in tenderness; no name in earth
or in heaven can vie with His in wisdom ; no name in earth or in
heaven can comi)ete with His in power. There was indeed one on
earth whom he honoured above all her sex, by condescending to
call her by the sacred name of Mother. But whence came this
endearing, this most wondrous name? Was it not from His origi-
nal love? Was He not, as the Eternal Word, the fountain of
all her purest thoughts and holiest joys? And if she were both
" highly favoured," and " full of grace," was not that very grace
God's undeserved goodness to His servant? How, then, can we
for one moment imagine that this most worthy creature, who owes
everything to her Creator's love, should be necessary to infuse fresh
sympathy and affection into the heart of the Creator himself? We
might, with more reason, ask the dewdrop, that trembles on the
little leaf, to swell the multitudinous sea, or bestow its plenteousness
on the assembled clouds of heaven. Nay, let all the angels and
saints in glory condiine together, and let there be added thereto all
the grace that dwells in the inhabitants of the countless stai-s of the
firmament, and all is but as a single drop of g()odness, flowing out
of the vast encircling tide of Christ's unmeasured, unexhausted,
everlasting love.

So that the words " Put not your trust in princes, nor in any
child of man," apply universally, and have no cxceptiDii, even in
the mother of our Lord and God, "blessed" and honoured though
she be, "above all women," throughout all generations. We do

( li
ill

; I I

tV^

flp' :

f '*

188

The Must 1\evkrexd John Medlev, I). 1).

not detract frori her dignity, we rather preserve it, when we say.
" There is but one Mediator between God and men ; " one Inter-
cessor, " the man Christ Jesus."

But, if Christ ever live to intercede, should not we also ever live
to pray? Here, then, lies the practical use of daily public prayer.
It is the gathering together of the faithful, to remind each other of
('hrist's intercession, to desire to reap the benefit of it, to enjoy the
assurance of it. It may be said that this can be done at home as
well as at church. But the same argument may be applied to the
observance of the Lord's day. It may be said, " I can read the
Bible at home as well as the clergyman can read it to me." Now,
as far as reading the letters and syllables of the Bible, this is very
true; but it is rarely found that those who absent themselves from
church on the Lord's day spend their time in reading the Bible.
Even so I question whether those who say that they do not require
the prayers of the Church to remind them of Christ's intercession,
spend their time in prayer at home. The truth is, they do not think
common prayer of im|)ortance enough to lay themselves out for it,
by using all practicable leisure times for its performance. If they
felt that it was a blessing to their own souls, they would use it
whenever their lawful business permitted. He who feels prayer to
be a blessing, has something within him which renders it as impos-
sible wholly to abstain from it as to abstain altogether from bodily
food. There are times when food is not desired ; but, in a healthy
state, we cannot live without it. In like manner the soul wants
daily food. This food is prayer ; private prayer ; social, or family
prayer ; public, or connnoii prayer. So far from either of these
duties clashing, they assist each other. They keep up the life of
God in the soul of man. They remind us of a daily, hourly walk
with God, and of the benefit of His presence, and watchful care
over us. They begin the work of heavenly praise on earth. They
put some check (alas! how faint and ineffectual a check) on the
vortex of Mammon and dissipatiini of heart which surrounds us.
They prepare the soul to take wing and fly away. Suppose we
were to be seized with a stroke of paralysis, or of any sudden
disease, where could we be found with so much comfort as on our

III 1 1

i. ■

Extracts from Sermons.

189

kneea in public prayer? "We might be suddenly smitten .so iis
never to recover our speech or hearing. Would not the very
strength and purity of prayer lend wings to our enfeebled body, so
that it might be said of us, though speechless, or incapable of hear-
ing the word, " Behold, he prayeth." '

IV. Christ's ascension was the means of procuring God's greatest
gift to the Christian Church, the presence and indwelling of the
Holy Ghost. Though the Holy Spirit was given to the saints in old
time — for they spake by His inspiration, and all good things come
from Him — yet we read that " the Holy Ghost was not yet given,
because that Jesus was not yet glorified." Not only ilid the Holy
Ghost descend on the Apostles at the day of Pentecost in a manner
never known before, but his gifts were bestowed on ail faithful
Christians in greater fulness and abundance than on the Church
after Christ's ascension. Great saints there were before the coming
of Christ ; but fewer, 1 suppose, than after His coming. And
though the standard of perfection was higher, the mimber of those
who approached it was greater. Few good men under the Old
Testament disi)ensatiop. seemed to have equalled Noah, Abraham,
Job, or Daniel ; but I imagine that St. Paul excelled them all, not
only in the abundance, but in the perfection of his gifts.

What does the world owe, under God, to that one man ? The
greater part of the Christianity of Europe and America dates its
commencement, in all probability, from the labours and writings of
St. Paul. How precious a fruit was this of Christ's ascension !
What joy must have run through the courts of heaven when the
angels proclaimed that the relentless persecutor of the feeble Church
in Judea was arrested, converted, baptized, and, by temporal blind-
ness, had become the spiritual light of the world ! But what angel
in gh»ry could have foreseen the whole illustrious result? Thus
does the conquering king " ride meekly on," borne on the wings of
righteousness and truth, while of successive generations of His
willing captives the inspired poet sings, " with joy and gladness

' How blessed is the recollection that t)ie siiniinons to return tbiuitl your
loved pastor on liis knees, in act to bless you, and to pray for a blessing I Yo'i
will remember that the words are now printed, as they were preached.

lllll

i! li!

i;1

'iliiilllllli

190

The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

shall they be brought, and shall enter into the king's palace ; in-
stead of thy fathers thou shalt have children whom thou iiiayest
make princes in all lands." "The redeemed of the Lord shall
return, and come with singing unto Sion, and sorro'.v and sighing
shall flee away."

Finally, Christ's ascension is the proper proof of His present
humanity, and the great pledge that He will return. Hence His
Second Advent is called a "presence," a "manifestation," "an
appearance," as of a body existing locally, and reail}' to come
amongst us again. Two facts are undeniable. First, that the
time of His return must be nearer than when the promise was given ;
and, secondly, that the state of the world, in its main features,
grows continually more and more like the time when we are taught
to look for His coming. The witness of the Gospel is more gener-
ally proclaimed. Knowledge is more widely spread. The means
of salvation are placed within the reach of a large part of the
world. Yet dark and troubled are the waters and the skies. A
general agitation pervades every branch of the Church Catholic.
Men sigh for unity, but cannot find it, or seek it in error. The
love of the world grows more and more intense in the hearts of
Belief in any distinct system of truth grows weaker, and

men.

multitudes realize nothing, believe nothing, love nothing, fear
nothing. ^Mammon is the measure of everything, and frequently
takes the place of right and wrong. Concession is considered the
standard of wisdom, and every truth revealed in the Bible is wil-
lingly surrendered in turn to conciliate the good will of mankind.
Parental authority is becoming the exception, not the rule. Gov-
ernments are weak, and exist in many countries because nothing
better or stronger can take their place. These are tokens that the
" Lord draweth nigh;" and, though to pre<lict the absolute near-
ness of this event would be a foolish presumption, to watch the
various signs of His approach, and to rejoice with trembling, is
the part of the liegemen of the Cross, the followers of an ascended
Lord. One thing we know, foi- He has told us. When the proud
scoffer cries, " Where is the promise of His coming?" then will the
King of Glory return. When the world is locked in sleep, and

Extracts fuum tSEUMoxs.

191

clreiiins of everlasting continuance, then will the bolt he launched.
When the carcase lies prostrate at the feet of Mammon ami un-
belief, then spring the avenging eagles forth. When the fourth
watch of the night is come, the form of the Great Watcher is seen
*' walking upon billows," and the ship draws nigh to the eternal
shore.

Let us now draw one practical conclusion from what has been
said. Those who would ascend to "meet the Lord in the air"
must walk with the Lord on earth. Let us walk with Him, then,
in our daily devotions, "lifting up holy hands, without wrath and
doubting," hoping for His protection, trusting in His providence,
and expecting His mercy. Let us walk with Him when the bell
calls us to public prayer, " not forsaking the assembling of our-
.selves together," as the manner of too many is. Let us walk with
Him in our leisure hours, lifting up secret ejaculations, in the open
field, at the morning dawn, at even-tide, and in the silence of the
night. Let us walk with Him in hours of business, when His awful
presence seems out of sight, when lying and dishonesty stalk abroad,
when temptation is pressing, and snares close round our path. Let
us walk with Him in our recreation and mirth, never sufferiiig our
cheerfulness to sink into license, but remembering that it is " God
who giveth us all things richly to enjoy," and that " every creature
of God is to be received with thanksgiving," Let us walk with
Him in time of trouble, when men accuse us falsely, when pains
and losses come upon us as an armed man, when our eye is dim,
and our memory gone, and our natural force abated. Then shall
we walk with Him when death is nigh, and the awful tokens of
our decay shall bring His presence more sensibly near, and our
sick bed shall be the presence chamber of the King of Kings; and,
as the cords give way that bind this mortal body to the earthly
shore, the soul shall stretch out her hands to embrace the heavenly.
Then shall we know that the ark of God bears us up, that the Lord
himself hath shut us in, that His rod and staff comfort our steps,
that our prayers are all answered, and our voyage past, and the
long wished for land in sight ; that the false tongues that assailed
us have done their worst, and the devil that tempted us has lost his

lil

192

The Most Ukvkrend John Meuley, D. J).

i'"'

51 i

power. One f>lu)rt, tlecisiive, hitter struggle more, and lo I heaven
opens, and Christ, "with all His shining train," surrounds us, and
we pjiss out of this gloomy valley into the calm and peaceful region
of Eternal Day. Amen.

Ill October, 18,>}, the Bishop visited Xew ^'orl^ lie
preuehed before the Houses of (^mveiitiou uiid at the ordi-
nsitioii of the liishops of Xorth mid South Caroliiiii. Thirty
l)ishops were present. The sermon was printed at the
reipiest of the House of lJisho[)s. The text was taken from
'2 Timothy i. (5, 7. The followini^ are extracts from this
sermon :

We are apt to dwell so frequently on St. Paul's noble champion-
ship of justification by faith, that we forget the manifold graces
which dwelt in this wonderful man. Yet it is good to point out
each trait of nobleness ; his burning love, his surprising wisdom, his
unexampled tenderness, his ready self-sacrifice, his accuracy in the
choice of words, his masterly arrangement of his subject, his
judicious commendation, his no less weighty censures, his indiffer-
ence to stripes, to imprisonment, and to death. Thus viewing his
character on every side, let us exclaim with reverence and humility,
" what hath Clod wrought ! "

It seems to have been one part of St. Paul's peculiar trial, that
he stood nearly alone, when he most required support. He entered
the proud imperial city of Home, a forlorn and aged man ; in chains
and needing sympathy ; weak in body, worn with toil ; borne
down by clamorous injustice. . . . The trial was for life or
death, and the judge was Nero. The spirit of fear seized some, the
spirit of worldliness infected others. . . . Now one fancies that
one sees through the veil of that fatherly kindness with which St.
Paul addresses Timothy, an apprehension that this good and holy
man might be a little timorous and yielding. He bids him to re-
member his ordination vows and graces. It is no disparagement to
Timothy to suppose he might be less firm and courageous than St.
Paul. Who is not ? Perhaps we are not so courageous as Timothy.

o\ heaven
lis us, aiul
iful region

n'l TIo
the ordi-
Tliii-ty
(I at the
ken from
from this

chainpion-
)\d graces

point out
'isdoni, his
acy in the
ibject, his
is indifTer-
lewing his

humility,

trial, that

[g entered

in chains

1 ; borne

for lite or

some, the

icies that

,vhich St.

and holy

im to re-

ement to

than St.

Timothy.

KXTUACT.S I'UO.M iSKH.MoNS.

193

All moral and religious qualities are the gift of God. Whether
it be courage, love or wisdom, all is grace. From the corrupt foun-
tain of the nnUiral heart no good thing flows. " lie prevents us,
that we may have a good will." He works in us, when we have
that will: pardoning, sanctifying, preserving grace, all is His; for
His is the kingdom, the power and the glory. If this be so in the
case of ordinary Christians, how much more forcibly nuist it apply
to those who are appointed to teach others; to feed, to j)remoiiish
the Lord's family, to seek out Christ's sheep out of this naughty
world, to nurse, to govern and guide the Church. Every qualifica-
tion of which they stand in need, is to be found out of themselves ; it
is to be sought as His gift. His special gift, who alone can (jualify
them for their work, and make them successful in it. The Apostle
plainly declares that there is a special gift granted to faithful and
believing clergymen at their ordination, and to be e.\pected by
them in answer to prayer.

The grand qualification named by the Apostle is equally needed —
a loving, tender, aflcctionate spirit. What is more wonderful in the
character of our Lord than the union of hatred of sin with love for
the sinner? Now we find Him, with stern severity, scourging the
inerchandizers out of the Temple, denouncing the Scribes as whited
sepulchres, " looking round about on them with anger — grieved for
the hardness of their hearts" — even saying to St. Peter, "get thee
behind me, ?atan, for thou art an offence unto me," and again we
hear Him sweetly inviting weary sinners to their rest, drying the
tears of the weeping penitent, praying f )r His murderers, and own-
ing the repentant thief as His companion in Paradise.

. . . Courage without love is harsh and forbidding. It loves
to wound, rather than to hoal. It speaks not only severely, but
unkindly. It sees all the evil in men, and acknowledges none of
the good. It is bold in denunciation of sin, but makes no allow-
ance for the infirmities of the sinner. It might be a want of love
that made St. Peter's boldness degenerate into cowardice. Therefore
seek to unite boldness and affection. Sternly oppose sin ; firmly
uphold the si)irit of the cross ; but seek to win souls also. Learn to

; )1

! I

1U4 Tin-; Most I{kverexi> Juiix Meulkv, D. D.

tlistiiiguisli between the ignorant and the vicions ; the ill-instnicted
and the obstinate sinner. An unqnanehable love for the immortal
soul, " like a lively llaiiie and burninj^ torch, will force its way up-
wards, and securely carry you through all."'

And now, my dear and honoured brethren, whom I am jM-rmitted
to address on this most solemn occasion, what can I, a feeble, sinful
brother, say to you worthy of the dignity of the subject, worthy of
the occasion which has called us together? My heart is full ; full of
eymptithy and aH'ection for you all ; for you especially, brethren,
who are this day to receive this most awful, this most blessed gift.

Oh! that the prayers here oflered in godly unity and concord,
may descend on both brancihes of the Anglican Church, in rich
and abundant blessing ! May the mass of ignorance, heathenism
and crime which surrounds us, fall before the victorious banner of
the Cross! May the blessed truths recovered at our Refornnition
penetrate every bosom, and reach other shores ! May our Liturgy,
preserved through many fiery trials, form a link for connnuniou
with churches of the East and Northern Europe! . . . May we
become less bitter, suspicious and irritable; less vainglorious in our
speech and action, esteeming the praise of men less, and the praise
of God more.

And as for you, this day, to be called to the arduous work of the
episcopate, may a double portion of the gifts mentioned in the text
be poured upon you ! j\[ay you be men of high unflinching courage !
JSever may you betray the interests of the Church you have sworn
to defend ! Never may you court popularity by the surrender of the
truths entrusted to you ! May unquenchable love for the souls for
whom Christ died urge you on continually, nerve you with patience
for the conflict, and bless you with increasing success! May a
crucified Saviour be both your hope and pattern, the subject of your
discourses, your " worship, and the lifter up of your heads," the joy
of your hearts, and your exceeding great reward ! As life wears
silently away, as the hands now laid upon you grow feeble, and the
tongues that now cheer you to your high course lie silent in the

'Thomas i Kempls.

^'iii!

I).

NoTKS I'KO.M TIIK AnNALS.

1!K

1-iiistnic'ted
c immortal
its way uj)-

• •

ii permitlctl
(cble, sinful
, worthy of
['nil; full of
y, brethren,
les.sed gift.
1(1 concord,
ch, ill rich
heathenism
s banner of
Reformation
ur Liturgy,
communion
May ^\■e
•ious in our
1 the praise

vork of the
in the text
g courage !
liive sworn
nder of the
IH' souls for
1 patience
1! May a
ict of your
," the joy
life wears
e, and the
lent in the

tond), may other eyes behold you with undinunlshed energy, and
increasing love and wisdom, pressing firmly on ; and may our arms
be permitted to embrace you in the eternal kingdom of our Lord
and Saviour Josus Christ I Amen and Amen.

T)iiriii,u: his stay in Xcw York, tho nislio|> was hospitalily
entertained hy the Ki'v. Dr. Ilai^Li, at whose house lie
stayed, llv attended daily at the Chapel of the Seniiimry,
and otiee addressed the studi-nts. Ife was admitted to u
place in the lIouHe of l>isho[)s and in the liowcr House at
the sittiny;s of the convention, and received every jiossilde
mark of kindness. lie was also present at the solonn de-
position of IJisliop Ives, of Xorth C-arolina, for leaving- his
post of duty and ahandoninti; us to join the(Miurch of Rome.

Under date October 10th, 1H77, the IJishop reconls in
the AniuUs of the Diocese some facts connected with a later
visit :

The Bishop, with Canon Medley, left Fredericton for Boston to
attend the Convention of the American Church. They were most
hospitably received by Mr. and Mrs. Rice, and the Bishop found a
hearty welcome from the House of Bishops, and clerical and lay
deputies. Fifty bishops were in session. It was a remarkably
harmonious session. The Bishop met many old friends. He was
present and took part in the service at the institution of the
Rev. I. Allen, at the Church of the Messiah. Rev. Dr. Dix, of
Trinity church, New York, preached an admiral)le sermon.

On Wednesday, the 17th October, after bidding farewell to tho
House of Bishops, the Bishop, with the Rev. Canon Medley, jjro-
ceeded to Portland, Me. They were hospitably entertained by
Bishop Neely, and on St. Luke's Day, the Bishop assisted in the
service of the consecration of St. Luke's Cathedral, Canon Medley
intoning the prayers with the Rev. Dr. Hodges, of Baltimore.
Nine bishops and upwards of fifty clergy were present. The debt
of $35,000 on the Cathedral had been entirely paid off this year.
It was a joyful day.

I !

CIIAl'TKK XVI.

SkHMONS PHEArilEl) IN 7!\(iLAND — LaMDKTU CoN! lENCE

El'ISCUl'AL lilNti — AdUHESS AM> Ivlll'l-Y — XoKCS FROM

THE Annai.s.

|g«|UKVr()rSLV to the IMsliop's upiMMntniont to the
irii ^^^ ^^ Frodorictoii, or about that tiiiio, a voluiue
of his sermons was piihlishiMl in Kni^^lanch This
hook has boon very ii;^' no rally circulated in the DioccHOr
Those who hav(! road it cannot I'ail to ai>j»reciati' its value

The Sunday after his consecration, the IJishoj) preached
at Exeter Cathedral. The subject of !.''« sermon is " Alone,
yet not alone." The sermon itself is worthy of permanent
record, and the followini^ portions will be read with deep
interest, especially the reference to the u^reut work he had
undertaken in comiection with his episcojial office. The
text was Psalm cxxxix. 0, 10:

No .sentiinont sccnis more profouiully true, or more deeply affect-
iiig, tlian that which was uttered l)y the great Pascal — "I shall
die alone." This loneliness, which is peculiarly felt iti the hour of
death, when all human help is worthless, and even human sympathy
is weak, is, in fact, a part, and a most important part, of man's
moral nature.

We are horn into the world alone — we live in many respects
alone — we love in some degree alone — we rejoice and sorrow often
alone. But live as we may, we nnist die alone.

Wiiatever station we may have occuj)ied in society, by whatever
ties we may have been surrounded, by whatever joys or sorrows
encompassed, whatever of hunuvn sympathy may have been minis-
tered to us, in that hour we nuist break off all, and, single-handed,
surrender ourselves to the grasp of our last enemy.

But this sentiment of the great Pascal is applicable to many
other states of human life, and is also connected with another great
(196)

SkH.MiiNS ritllACIIHli IN KNiILAND.

ll>7

truth, which I desiigu to dwell i!])()ii at tliii^ time in conncftion with
the passage now before us. F<»r the loneliness of man was foreseen
from the first, and provided for. '* It h not go(»d that the man
.should 1)0 alone," .^aid the (.'reator. The form of expressidii, xIimiM
he. (done, if it he well considered, involves, as all words of God iiiii-it
involve, great mysteries of our nature, lint if considi-reil without
reference to any other truth, the loneliness of man would he most
jippalling to our minds, and would lead us to despair. For the
thought of dying alone may well shake the stoutest heart. . . .
What I design, then, to show at this time is, the fact of man's
being a creature made in some sense <ih)ie; what evils tlow from
this part of his nature, if not balanced by any other truth; and
how God has provided for us under all the trying circumstances of
our lives, this very compensation which, when united with the
former principle, enables us to live ha|)pily here, and unites us
with all the faithful in a world where separation and anguish are

no more

This loneliness of man seems the principle uppermost in the
Psalmist's mind, when he thus begins the Psalm: "O J^ord, thou
Jiast searched me and known me ; thou knowest my down sitting
and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afai-^)ll'. Thou
compassest my jmth and my lying down, and art acciuaiiited with
all my ways. Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither
shall I flee from Thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven. Thou
art there; if I nuake my bed in hell. Thou art there." How deep
Jind mysterious is the hidden world of thought within the human
breast — only to be fathomed by its Maker — only to be compre-
liended by its God. Were it not so indeed, there could be no
separate virtue, and so no separate and enjoyable reward ; but
that it is so, is as evident as that no two faces of mankind exactly
resemble each other. ........

And old age is proverb! ul for loneliness. The old man finds
Ins early companions gone or going, or taking a difierent course:
the busy work of life is somewhat past, but the love of life renuiins ;
4ind even this makes him lonely, until in the closing hour he comes
to be alone with God.

■ it ;

iti

i..---

ill

1^:; !

■15 . ^i:^

I !i

1 'f

;| i

I I

i liii '

1 !ll!!

198

Tin: Most Keverexd John Medley, \). D.

Now though it is necessary to our separate trial, probation, and
rewart], and to our enj(;ynicnt of that reward, that wo .should be
tlius alone, yet we nuist feel that without some balancing principle
it would be a fearful part of our moral nature ; and, corrupt as we
are, it becomes a most evil part — loneliness is of itself distressing.
How severely do we all feel this, if we are called to i)art with
valued friends, who have been staying with us, to whom we have
imparted all our conunon thoughts, joys, and griefs! When they
are gone, we turn back again to our house witli a feeling of desola-
tion : we are alone in the vorld. iNIuch more is tiiis the case if our
separation be hy death ; for then our loneliness is more certain and
more lasting ; we turn to our accustomed home, but home it feels nO'
longer; we visit our old haunts, but their former chtirni is gone:
nature herself seems clothed in dreariness, and the busiest crowd
])resenls the emptiest void.

And even in our stutlies and pursuits, in which we find a com-
mon interest, the solitary student feels a sadness creeping over him,
which he seeks to dispel by contact with others, yet from thence

returns again to loneliness.

One only Being then remains who knows us all, and all of us^
and altogether; and yet is accessible to each one single heart — ta
search its inmost depths — to feel its utmost wants — to hear its
separate prayer — to be to it, both now and at all times, its fountain
of thought, and life, and hope, and })eace — its fullness — its blessed-
ness without end, all in one, and that one is God. In ourselves we
are alone ; in Him only have we full communion, or as our Lord ex-
presses it — "ye shall leave me ahjiie ; and yet I am not alone,
because the Father is with me." This princij)le, then, of divine
incorporation is that which meets the wants of the human heart,
and when we have learned our own part 'n it, we are then, and
then only, truly useful, and truly happy. Then though " we take
the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the
sea" — though we be carried to far distant shores, or separated
from those we love, or tossed about by the opposing waves of con-
flict — even there also, where no friendly hand may aid us, where
accustomed sympathy is denied us, when our heart would sink>

mKii

Sermons Preaciied in EN(ii,ANL).

199

i.«icst crowd

and our strength fail us, there will our great Shepherd, master, and
guardian dwell ; there his supporting hand tihall lead us, his strong
right hand hold us up, till, as death's gates close upon us, the gates
ot" paradise open before us, and we are admitted to the presence of
our Redeemer and our God.

But we shall see this more clearly by endeavouring to point out
the evils which arise from the loneliness of man in itself, apart from
this blessed divine society, and then the happiness, and peace, and
usefulness, which spring from the latter source.

Now, if man dwell upon the loneliness itself, he becomes a selfish
being. Because he is alone, his hopes and wishes terminate in self

— he sets up no other standard but that (;f worldly comfort. To
obtain this he will sacrifice nuich ; he will rise early, and late take
rest, he will toil on the greater part of his short life; but he looks
no higher than the world. He holds no communion with his God

— he knows not the value of prayer — he esteems riches as the
great good — yet, though he lives alone, he never loves to be alone,
because then the sense of separation from God depresses him, and
he linds how poor and miserable he is. .... .

Such being the evils which flow from the consideration of nmn's
lonely estate, apart from that gi \cious heavenly society to which
God, his ^laker, has called him ; let us now see what blessings flow
from this holy and divine incorporation.

Fir>t, then, as regards our own eternal welfare, when we are one
with God our Father, by faith in his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by the sanctifying grace of His Holy Spirit daily renewing us
to a holy obedience; then, though we are alone, we are still always
present with God. He is with us — He is in us — He is about us
on every side. To Him we every day repair with child-like con-
fidence, with humble submission, with meek faith. We ask His
pardon, we obtain His strength, we commit all our ways to Him ;
whether we are still, or in a journey, in the chand)er, or in the field

— in the solitary place, itr in the crowded street — in the Church,
or in the haunts of men — we are His. He orders all our life — He
sustains our going forth — He hears our prayers — He vouchsafes
our answer — He directs, governs, chastises, or rewards us — He is

f i

200

TiiK Mu.sT Kevkkkxi) J«)HX Medley, D. D.

our hope, our life, our moruiug star, our resurrection day. Though
we "dwell in the uttermost partis of the .sea," why should we fear?
He who ir.ade the waves — He who walked on the waves — He
who controls the waves — He who said, "peace be still," is here ;
we cannot see Him, yet we believe in His power ; we know His
gooibiess, we have tasted of His mercy, we will trust him to the end.
Though we are weak and sinful, he will not leave us, for ho hath
said " I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." So that we may
boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man shall
do unto me."

iili iilii'

To part from all that England has of historic recollection, of
ancient fame, of noble architecture, of Christian sympathy, of the
great and glorious past ; to l)e severed from this Cathedral Church,
this holy, peaceful, common home, with other nearer ties, is indeed
painful, but what then? What is apparent separation if we be
verily members incorporate in the mystical body of Christ ? What
is a wide rolling sea, a far-offshore, a new and stranger land?
The morning hour of j)rayer shall find us together, not in bodily
society, but in true Christian fellowship. The sunlight of our
Saviour's countenance shines full on us together in the duties and
pursuits of life; the evening stars look out on us assembling at the
comnion hour of prayer; the Sabbath bell still cheers our accus-
tomed hearts ; the same Liturgy, unaltered and uninjured, strength-
ens our union; and, above all, the Holy Eucharist, that most sweet
and heavenly food, sustains, cheers, and renovates our hearts. One
conscious spirit of fellowship pervades us all. Though our bodies
are disunited, though the strains of earthly nuisic be not equally
harmonious, it is the Lord's song that we sing, and that song may
be sung in every land, by every tongue.

Let us go forth, then, full of hope, and on the wings of prayer
let us implore you who remain behind to send your prayers after
us, and to continue praying, and as far as your ability lies to assist
us in our labours. There are many ditticulties, and many adver-
saries, though " an effectual door is open." There is need of a
strong heart and mind, faith and patience.

mmmmmmmmmf

Sermons Prkached ix Enolaxi*.

201

But if His right haiul hold us who semis us forth, and lias given
us our authority, and our work, we shall do well. Come what will .
— opposition, affliction, a life prolonged or shortened — all will be
well if He be ours and we are His. Brethren in the Lord, mem-
bers of one common Head, members of this Cathedral Church, we
bless you in the name of the Lord.

Twonty-tlireo years had jiassod. The sanio |troaclier stood
ill tlio same |mli»it at Exeter Cathedral. He was somewhat
worn and auvd by these years of eoiistant devotion to his
Master's service. He had i)asse(l throuijh many trials with
unabated /.eal and trust. It was the anniversarv celebration
of those ureat societies, both of which had extended foster-
insi; care for many years towards the Colonial Church. We
yive the concluding portion of the ]>ishop"s sermon from
rhilip]>ians ii. 4 :

The Church has been, therefore, constantly " looking on the
things of others" by educating her members. .She has brought
the unconscious babe to the Lord's feet, mindful of His precept not
to forbid them. She has provided schools for orphans, and for
little outcast wanderers ; schools of instruclioli on the Lord's Day
to supply the defects of })arents ; schools for their training in all
the great walks of life ; schools for the poorer, the middle, and the
richer classes ; schools of science and ari ; and our two famous
universities, where so many of England's sons have received their
highest inspirations, and have won their first great honours in the
world. And when I say the Church is educating, I glatlly recognize
the eftbrts of all Christians in this holy work. For our contro-
versies and our convictions must not blind our eyes to the fact that
there are other Christians equally sincere with ourselves, many in
the field before us, many who have come in after us, and all eager
to fulfil the Apostle's precept, though some not in so excellent a
way as, according to our judgment, might be desired. Secondly,
all Church restoration and Church building, when it is attempted
on sound principles, is a fulfilment of the same duty. AVe have
lived to see a great work achieved by the Church in our own days.

202 Tiii; Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

The noble temples built by the piety of our ancestors have been
rescued from the decay and degradation into whidi they had fallen.
The spirit of catholicity has arisen, like that of the n)an whose
lifeless form started into vigour when he touched the bones of
Elisha. It has beeu seen and felt, and everywhere proclaimed,
that Christ's Church, both material and spiritual, is not for bishops
only, and peers of parliament, and learned judges, and wealtliy
coinmoncis, and escutcheoned s(juires, l)ut for all ; for the meanest,
and the feeblest, and the richest, and the wisest, and for the dregs
of poverty; and that there should kneel in one temple, yea, often
side by side together, the beggar and the rich man, the learned and
the fool, and that in (rod's most holy shrine we should " forl)ear to
judge" according to the judgment of men, " for we are sinners all."
And our merchant jjrinces in these days rejoice not to look only to
the monuments of their own industry and skill, but to raise many
a lofty spire heavenwards, where the blind may receive inward
light, the lame may walk, and the mourners may be comfortetl,
and where many a poor fatherless child, who knows no words but
"mother" and "home," may learn dearer words than those in
" Father " and " Heaven." And the Church has learned another
lesson from Him who went about healing all that were "oppressed
of the devil, and attending on all manner of sickness and disease
among the people." She has taught the dwellers in the free homes
of her Western sons that it is not woman's mission upon earth to
grow up in a refined and idolizing selfishness, surrounded with
every luxury that money can purcliase, and surveying, as from a
•pieenly throne, with half-averted eyes, the squalid sufferings of the
poor; doling out crumbs of comfort to needy supplicants without
sympathy, without personal interest, without house-to-house visita-
tion, and ready succour of their woes. We have, blessed be God,
heard, we have seen those sisters of mercy and charity — whether
they be clothed in one garb or another can signify little in His
sight, to whom all hearts are naked and open, and to whose favour
not the clothing, but the heart of the visitor gains access — scorn
them not, speak not ill of any of them, my brethren, however they
may differ from your own mode of action, whose purpose is real.

Sermons riiEACUED in Enuland.

203

and who.sc charity is full to overflowing. Rather rejoice to see the
well-horn and well-nurtured daughters of our land protni)t to every
call of woe, entering the haunts of darknes.s antl misery, where filth
and fever lurk in ambush for the lives of men, j)assing even into
the dwellings of sin and shame, without fear, with the Cross of
Christ before them, and the love of Christ, like a lamp, gilding the
dark passages, and illuminating the squalid rooms. Who does not
recognize in that figure kneeling beside the fever-stricken couch
the fulfilment of these calm and glorious words, " Look not every
man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others?"
And the Church has learned a yet harder lesson for the benefit
uf fallen women — sisters, we must still call them, in spite of their
most wretched and degraded fall ; children they still rcinaiu of one
all-pitying Father, members, if they knew it, though decayed mem-
bers, of the Lord of Glory — heirs, if not in hope, yet once in gift,
and still not altogether barred of hope, of the bright realms of
purity and peace. To recall such hearts," where wounds of deadly
hate have pierced so deep," to lasting, life-long i)eiiitence, must
needs be one of the hardest tasks we can perform : yet not an alto-
gether hopeless task. For where was one such woman found, but
at the feet of Ilim, whose precious blood was shed for every sinner
and for every sin ? If you have happily walked in the path of
virtue, turn not away with scorn from such a sight as a fallen
woman weeping for mercy. Recognize, loathe, and repent of the
like sin in your own bosoujs in its ^ecA, which has blossomed and
borne apples of Sodom in their bitter fruit. And if there be those
who have played with vice, and have put the world's mean gilding
upon loathsome crimes, how fearfully does the curse of broken
hearts rest upon them I Surely, if Zaccha'us could say, " If I have
done wrong ro any man, I restore four-fold," then not four, nor
forty, nor four hundred-fold would be too great a restitution for
him who has robbed a soul of its eternal peace, and has sent out
into the world a false light which has lured many more to their
never-ending ruin. Well, then, may we look pityingly on the sins
of others, "pulling them out of the fire," and repeating the noble
intercessor's prayer, " Behold, now, I invve taken upon me to speak

llr!

204

TiiK ^^osT Revekkni) -ToiiN Mkdlky, 1). 1),

liliiilli

^i ill

unto tho Lord, wliicli am hut dint and a-jho.s; poradventiire ten
should ho found there." You know tiio answer. Imitate the lov-
ing importunity! Enrich yourselves hy the glorious example!

Amidst so many tasks of love and duty, the rivers of mercy that
fertilize and hless our land, I am asked to remind you particularly,
that the Church has not forgotten her " hanislied ones." "Other
sheep .<ho has, which are not of this fold : them also she nmst hring,
and they must hear her voice" — dwellers in the i)Iains of India,
and the forests of Borneo, in the vast continent of Australia, and
the many-peopled isles of the Pacific, under hurning suns, and by
frozen rivers. Her mission is a grand one, if her children would
acknowledge it to bo such, and i)ractically act up to their duty.

You live, my brethren, in the ancient and luxurious homes of
religion. You have not wisdom to .seek; it is brought home to
your doors ; it knocks daily at your gates ; you cannot enter a city,
you cannot ascend a hill, you cannot go through a village or street,
where the "City of God" is not built, where the Word of God is
not preached and maintained ; maintained, not always by your own
voluntary efibrts, but often by the piety and liberality of past ages,
of tho.se who built the fanes in which you worship, whose bread
you eat, whose sacred songs you hear, whose benefactions you do
not scruple to appropriate, though it may be that you scorn their
religion. And you are all enriched by the i)roduce of those lands
to which England has sent her colonists. Your children make
their liomes and their fortunes there: the commerce that girdles
the world brings home daily to your shores a plentiful abundance
of all God's good gifts. Think it not hard, then, if you are asked,
and often asked, to help the two great handmaids of the Church in
their efforts to maintain and to extend true religion in the regions
beyond you. Remember that the.se societies (with some others)
are the only expressions of the love of the Church of England
towards her colonists, and towards the heathen. The State teaches
no religion in her colonial po.>*sessions, and exercises no principle
but that of impartial justice. But without a higher principle even
than justice between man and man, great and godlike as that prin-
ciple is, what State can long endure?

ii 1

l!tw

iii

SeKMcjNS rKKAClli:i) IN IvNiiLANO.

205

In these days of rapid coniimuilt'atlon and wide-spread intelli-
gence, God calls us loudly by the material gifts he so i)nHligally
bestows. As on the narrow wire, where the little birds sit securely,
unconscious that the lightnings play beneath their feet, but fed by
the same hand that gives the lightning power, one may listen to a
sound of music, flinging its wild notes abroad, and showing that the
harmony of God's voice is everywhere; so as we hurry along tlio
great pathway of life, on land or on ocean, by railway or by steam,
(jrod still calls to us, sweetly, powerfully calls, Remend)er for all
these gifts you must give account. Remember you are in like
manner hurrying to your end. Your gifts are many, your privi-
leges various and great, your opportunities of good are daily
becoming fewer, your time has been often misspent, your talents
often wasted. Sow, then, the seeds of good, which will spring uj)
when you are dead ; sow them plentifully, scatter them widely, sow
them beside all waters; say not, " I have much goods laid up for
many years," my skill, my industry, my might, has gotten me my
wealth. None is thine own, all is God's; thy very soul is God's;
thine only enduring wealth is the good thou leavest l)ehind thee
for mankind.

I n)ust not enlarge on the whole field of Missions which these two
Societies occupy, one by its ^lissionaries, and the other by its ver-
sions of the Scriptures, and its religious books. It will be more
convenient as to your time, and more suitable to my powers of
observation, that I should speak of the narrower field of duty which
I occupy ; for a narrower view, if it be the view of one who speaks
from experience, is often felt to be more convincing, than the fuller
tale of one who has never been an eye-witness. I speak, then, with
only four years' less experience than the prelate who last year ad-
dressed you. I can tell you from twenty-three years' eye-witness,
that the life and soul of the Church in North America is owing to
God's blessing on these two Societies ; that the one has fostered and
assisted every mission in the whole country, till we have learned
(and in all the towns we have already learned) to sustain our own
Church by our own unaided exertions ; and that the other Society
has assisted with small sums of money most of the churches built in

'fill I

ruE MijsT Ukvkukxd .luiix Mkdlkv, D. I).

th(! infiiiu-y of the colony, thereby callin;,' tortli coiitrihiitions h) a
much larger ariiouiit from churclimen in their several pay^hes,
those contributions being often ten, and even twenty times the
amount contributed by the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge.

You have, then, before you to-day the experience of twenty three
years on the part of one Bishoj), who has been concerned in the
planting or supporting of every mission in liis Diocese; who has
visited and contirmed in nearly every church ; who has been con-
sulted about every new mission, and every new building ; who has
lived to see his clergy doubled, and his churches or stations more
than doubled ; who has the happiness of seeing the laity of his
Church contribute four-fold what they once did ; and whose
Cathedral Church, consecrated fifteen years since, is maintained
entirely by its own resources. That this is matter of boasting, God
forbid we should say or think. That this is owing to the exertions
of the Bishop only, he would be the last to affirm. That this is
matter of blessing, why should we deny? That there are no
drawbacks, no dross mingled with the gold, no divisions, no tokens
of man's infirmity or sin — Alas, my brethren, are you free from
these evils yourselves? Would you have God's precious gifts with-
holden from you, because you have not always used them all aright?
Then withhold them not from us.

One admonition more, and I have done. I return, after twenty-
three years, to the accustomed j)lace where, in due course, I once
occupied this })ulpit, but the whole is changed. The venerable
Bishop is not here. The Dean and Chapter are numbered with the
tlead. I listen in vain for one clear, silvery voice which rang out
the accustomed tones, or mingled in the harmony. I ask for the
faithful, who once listened to my instructions, but many of them
are " gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here."
And while I muse on these things, a sad voice is wafted over the
waves of the Atlantic that another son of Devon, another prelate,
is no more. Only a few months since he was among you, rejoicing in
the memories of his youth, and full of that grace and strength which
distinguished him above his fellows. And is not this a hand let

■Ml

!Si:U.M(iNS riU;.\('||Kl> IX iv\(iLANl».

•>i\-r

•J07

<lowii from heaven, ii sure and inanit'est token to warn you, " What-
soever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is im
worli, nor device, nor knowhuige, nor wisdom, in the grave whither
thou goest?" Did you ever regret tiiat you had (hjiic too nuich,
given too nmcli, sutlered too much, for the Lord Jesus? So now
give to Him. (Jive in the spirit which St. Paul recommends, " with
simplicity," with a single eye, and a generous heart; "with cheer-
fulness," not in a hard, ungracious way, as if you grasped the gift
tightly while you gave it; not as if you wen; doini: a favour to the
recipient of your bounty ; hut in the gracious spirit of that mercy
which is " twice blessed," after the pattern of that love which gave
Itself for us all. Ask Ilim to bless your gifts, and you cannot give
meanly, unloviugly, unfaithfully.

Now nuiy Clod bless you all. Amen.

It was ton y*^'iH"!^ ut'tcr the period referred to. The liislioji
Avas in Kniihind in attendance at the Lambeth (V)nferenee,
Again, at the anniversaries of the two ijreat Societies, he
))rea('lie(l at the (•atliedral, at Kxeter. His sermon was
published and widely circulated at the time, under thi' title
" Other Little Slii]is." The text was from St. Mark iv. m.

Passing by the introductory portion of the sermon, the
Bishop contimies as follows:

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 dangtr, because for the moment He takes no notice of it.
How snuill and contracted is the view which |M)or sutferei-s have of
their temptations and their trials, of the motive which prompts
their j\Iaster to permit them, of the wise and tender love which
every moment cares for them whilst they suffer, and l)ecause they
suffer I And if He seems to sleep, it is to make them more vigilant,
that they nuiy 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

2()H

TiiK Must Uevehend Juiin Medley, D. J).

ffl

Ir; ill,:

souls of whom the worhl takes no account, unnaincil in history,
uncounted in tlie dironicles of fame — poor, Hutlering, tempted
.souls, for whom few human heinj^s care, who live in toil, and want,
and penury, and suffer unknown agonies of dreary douht, and fear
itf what may hap|)en, and their little boat is always tossing, no
sooner fnounted 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? liut does the Master forget
that in the "little ships" there are lives and souls as precious as
those of the Aj)ostles 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 Htate — one of the few who deserve consideration.
It is not for the laity to .«ay, it is well for you, the bishops and
clergy, to possess the saintly character ; we do not dream of ascend-
ing 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 Hock, and etitictual for the i)urposes for
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 (lod's ordaining, which, rightly interprete<l, and modestly and
reasonably set forth, is the strength and comfort both of the she})-
herd 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
<nxlinary men, whose hope lies not in brilliancy, but in rugged per-
severance ; in that simplicity and godly sincerity which an Apostle
gloried in, and which they may share with that great Apostle.

j'fj'. i rrgc i iija iHWBw

SSERMuNS i'lUCAfllKIi IX H.NtiLAXK.

•2W

And 80 it ia our comturt, brethren beloved in the Lord, when wo
come to P^ngland tor u little season, we gaze on the niagnilieent
shrines which ancient piety reared, and which your reverence and
liberality have restored, but only restored ( renu'inber), for your
han<Is built not these walls, your genius did not originate this
mighty plan, your souls were not first inspired with these lotiy
thoughts; but when our j<)ytul eyes behold it, we thank God and
you for the sight, and see everything to ndmirc in it, and nothing
to find fault with. We know that in our colonial .Sees we are but
" little ships." Vet, whatsoever we are, we are in the great Master's
Heet. It was His voice that called us to embark ; it is His hand
that beckons us to the shore; it is His arm on which we lean in tiie
midst of the tempest; it is His compass by which we steer; it is
His great salvation wliich we hope to share with you. You wor-
ship (it is true) in a cluirch 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 Noruum hands, when daring and successful builders pierced
their mighty walls, when the great designer of the choir first opened
out the vista, and the still mightier Grandison completed the o'er-
arching mive and aisles, and when the whole structure assumed
somewhat of its present form and comeliness. Beneath the shadow of
these walls generationsof 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 re-
calls the struggles and glories of the past. We have no history but
that which we make ourselves, iiut we will never despair. Sons
of the Church, we will build with the sword of the Spirit in one
hand, and the trowel m 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 com-
mitted to our charge. We are a body Catholic, because not merely-
Roman, separated, but not by our own desire ; ever praying to be

'Jlo 'rm-: Most Kkvkkkm) ,Iohn Mkdkky, I). I).

iii!';Hl^

Tcunltcfl oil primitive and Apostolic fouiidatioJiH, in true, Hul)staii-
tial, visible union with the several parts of our Church in many
lands, hut lioldin<; to "one Lord, one baptism, one Ciod and Father
of us all," and " contending earnestly for tlie faith once delivered to
the Saints." And when we have met together in conference, all in
communion with each other, surely it is not too much to say, that
widle there has been free and friendly discussion, there luis been
Hubstantial unity. No article of the faith luis been denied, w<
venerable creed iuis l)een surrendered, no word of tiie living God
has been thrust aside. Every Bishop has desired to build up the
•old j)rimitive foundations of the Catholic and undivided Church.
Surely this conference, if it did no more, wouUl be a sutHcient
answer to those who unwortidly represent us as one of many discord-
ant sects, as a body rent by endless divisions, witiiout foundation,
without coherence, without onlers, without sacraments, without
unity in itself. Whereas by our marvellous increase throughout
the world, and our union in all tlie verities of the Christian faith,
we are "compacted by that which every Joint supplieth, according
to the ett'ectual working in the measure of every part," and, we are
(we trust) *' growing unto a holy temple in the Lord."

"Growing." Not till one hundred and fifty years after the
Reformation did p]ngland begin to realize the blessing of growth.
The " plantations" (so called) were feeble, struggling comnmnities,
■without a native episcopacy, divided in religious belief, and uncon-
scious of their destiny. Now we behold a church, vast in extent,
considerable in numbers, with si.xty Bishops, some of them mission-
ary Bishops, with more than four thousand clergy, wit'i multitudes
of highly educated' men who have passed into her fold, converts
from all sides, a church thoroughly organized and synodically
compacted. Kent from us by a political revolution, in all the great
foundations of the faith, in all nnin's highest interest and hopes, in
Jove for England's Church, the Episcopal Church of the United
States is entirely one with our own in Great Britain and her
colonies.

"Growing." Once in India Christianity made its appearance as
an alien, feebly halting on forbidden ground. Yet such has been

■Ma

SkKMuNs rilKACIIKIi IN K.Mil.AM).

211

(iod'H l)lt'Sf*iiij; tluit ton tlioiisaiid imtivc coiivcrt.s fame to wt'loome
tin' arrival of our Sovcrcimrs son, and now, under tlu' caro of liisliops
lately con.-^'cratcd, t'ijrlilcfn tlioiisan<I natives have recjuested to l)e
'enrolled in the Chureli hy Holy l{a|itisiu.

"Grou'liu/.'' Ahout a century sinee, one Hisliop wa.-* authorized
«« n state ottioial to have nominal rule over the whole of the prov-
inces of Canada, NewfouiuUand, Hermuda, and the IJiihanms. So
little notion had the statesmen of that day of the spiritual needs of
<'hurehineu and the duties of a Hisliop. Now wo have two Church
Provinces, and fourteen IJishops in tlutse vast and populous reyions,
j)residing over their several -Synods, who luive each as nnich work
to do as any nian can reasouahly desire. The same reinarkahlo
growth has been shown in Australia and in Southern Africa.

And what need to speak of New Zeahuul, when thi' memory of
two loved and honoured names is fresh in your hearts, and placed
before your eyes? Surely the love we bear them should stir us, as
their best memorial, to greater energy and self-sacritiee, and nobler
gifts. And as we have wept together for the father, let our prayers
now ascend together for the son. Oh, that the lire of suffering
through which he has passed may be to him the ilie i t'strengtii. n{'
patience, and of love. In the love of the convert, in tlio steadfast-
lies.s of the native pastor, in the deepening convictions of the island
race, that he, the old IJishop'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, l)ecomo the poacel'ul heralds of
the kingdom of (he Prince of Peace. Thus from those five blest
wounds there shall stream forth fountains 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.

" Growiiitj." 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 confirnung seventy-four
native converts, and ordaining a native pastor, on the same Wliit-
sun-dav that I was ordaining the son of the old Pitcairn missionarv

!!? i

212 The Most Hevekend John Medley, D. D.

to the chiklreii of the mutineers in the Bountij, and likewise was
ordaining a Danish teacher to niiniieter to a body of emigrants
from Copenhagen. Truly the Gospel of Chrir*t supplies a graeioiis
Nemesis. The memory of old deeds of hate is repaid hy new deed&
of love. Mutiny is changed to bounty; and ravages of fire and
Bword 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 flowers
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 I'espondod 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 Hag formed itssimj)le but appro-
priate 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 journeyings, peril and constant service, of disappointments, of
contentions, of shortcomings and fallings away, of many jtrayei-s
and many tears; but sum them all up, gather them from every age
and every land, and they are not so precious as one drop of the
blood of our Lord Jesus, the Prophet who teaches us, the I'riest
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 cluuH-hman, 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 halt-
ing Christians, but the work of men ; of those who know that there
is dignity in labour, and that honest labour goes on till sundown,
and does not cease when the sun is high. Let every Bishop speak.

jisS

Sermons Preached ix Exct.and.

•2V)

■'•• i;

for himself, I come here to-day to hear my testimony, that my
Diocese owes a deht, which we can never repay, to those two vener-
able institutions; and that our greatest obligation is that of having
called forth our own exertions, and enabled us to make some sacri-
fices for our religion. Certainly I hold it to be an Artieulns Mautts
vel cadentis eodesia', that we not only believe, but that we do the
will of God. And where is the Apostle who, travelling in a foreiizii
land, found, as I have found, two noble and liberal institutions
ready to his hand ; helping to support his missionaries, and to
build his churches, and never failing him in time of need? Then
arc 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.

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 )f England is not an insular but a maritime greatness ;
if her fleets go forth, not only to protect her harbours, luit to extend
her commerce; if her power is felt in the little Hag of the Hsher-boat,
as McU as in the mightiest of her ironclads; if lu'r sons carry with
them to ail lands the proud trophy of her laws and of her freedom,
much more may Christian liisbups glory in CDutinuing to "sow
beside all waters," and in liolding the laud where they have sown
and laboured as their own.

Pefmit me, in conclusion, to remind you all of your own duty to
the Church, which is your mother, and to those in> iitutions 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 conipieu'd nations, but that you coiKiuert'd sin.
The living stones of tin' Redeemer'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 aii<l
in every land. Look you at this glorious Church, and fancy that
your work is done. These dead stones, instinct with life, tell in y<mr

1 i

t ■■ 1

; i ;

r ■

ii '

!:!!

214 The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

ears what living stones should be. The harmonies that daily wake
within these walls are but the prelude to the nobler anthem of souls
won to the love of Christ by your own eftbrts. Not to the clergy
only, but to the Church at large, is committed this divine, this diffi-
cult, this unceasing care. Never for one moment is the cry unheard
amidst the storm, Christiiui, "carest thou not that we perish ?"

Unholy soul, what hast thou done for Christ? Selfish, indolent,
careless, seU'-satisfied soul, what hast thou done for Christ? Bitter,
vindictive, harsh-judging soul, biting and devouring thy brethren,,
what art thou doing for Ciirist? And as the last word I may, per-
haps, 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
siffhing 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 hap-
piness, this is eternity's reward: "I have finished the work which
Thou gavest me to do." Amen.

AVe eoino now to the lust visit to Eiiij-land in 1888. The
dnties connected with the Lambeth Conference, attendance
at public inoctings, and other calls upon his time and atten-
tion, were somewliat of a strain upon the Bishop's strength^
now in his advancin<j: years. Before his retiirn to lii&
Diocese he was takin»>: a few days rest in the (piiet and
retirement of the home of his son. Rev. John B. Medley.

We have been favoured with a copy of his sermon on that
occasion. Takiuij for his text the words from the Apostles'^
C'reed, "And the life of the world to come," liis lordship
said :

This, my brethren, is the conclusion of one of the most solemit
parts of our service, when, in the presence of God, we set forth those
things which are to be believed and acted upon. What is this life
of the world to come which we all look for? Some pereons, from a
misapprehension of the passage in the Book of Revelation, think we

Sermons I^reachei) in KN«iLAND.

215

shall have nothing to do in the next world but to i)raise God unceas-
ingly as we sing His praises here. That seems to he a great mistake.
But what is the life of the world to come ; and of what does it consist?
It is life ; that life of the world to come is the only true life, and in
what does its happiness consist? In the resurrection of the body?
We all know how imperfect our bodies are in the flesh ; how often
they get wearied; how often they beconie clogs to the spirits in
woi-shipping God. Hut we read in St. Paul's Epistle to the IMiilip-
])ians that Christ will raise our vile bodies — tiie bodies of our
humiliation, our humble bodies — that they may l)e made like unto
His Glorious Body. What a marvellous thing is this I That these
poor bodies — the slaves to evil feelings, evil thoughts ami words,
shall be made like Christ's Glorious Body. This is an important
j)art of the life of the world to come. We know nothing of the new
life when the soul shall cling to this new found partner — the body
freed from all stain of sin. Made like Christ's Glorious Body T
We almost trendde when we hear of such a thing. That resurrec-
tion of the body, when our bodies shall no longer be the weak
ami imperfect things they are here but like Christ's Glorious Body,
if we are found true and faithful to Him in this world. The life of
the world to come is increased and made blessed by the perfect
unity which exists amongst all true followers of Christ. You
know how difficult it is Were to be absolutely one with people ; what
crooked tempei's there are; what distempered views of things are
taken ; what difficulties there are in the way of making ourselves
one. The Psalmist says, what a blessed thing it is to dwell together
in unity. Yet what terrii)le divisions, what deplorable dissensions
one with another there are now. So when we are made like
Christ's Glorious Body all will be as one. You and I may hear of
such things, we may speak of them, and try to realize them, but after
all it is but little we know. The life of the world to come consists in
work as well as in praise. When we look at the multitude of chil-
dren who are called away, and think that far more children than
adults depart this life, what becomes of those dear little babes?
They must have something to do. In the world to come there must
be a kind of growth. We know not. Do the Angels teach then*

fMiil

M \

210 The Most liiiVEREND John Medley, D. D.

'■ !

ill
1 i'l

' i!

•i

ill

' !

■

i
\

1 ^

■\vlmt we might have taught them. There will be work to do, but
we know not what it is. God is always working ; never idle ; never
at rest. So the life of the world tt) come must consist, in some
way, of wonderful vvork which God has for us to do. It is rest from
sin and sinful pleasures, but such a rest which consists of j)erpetnal
and unceasing work, of great and glorious work of what we know
not. How earnestly we should strive after this life; strive to be
one with Christ; one with each other; strive against sin; so that
the life of the world to come may be working in us, for when God
sends aitliction and distress, God is perfecting us for that life.
There is one thing which I may notice — that when people think of
the life of the world to come they think of it as rest. They know
it is a troublesome and a toilsome life here, and so they think
that the life of the world to come is rest; to sit down, as it were,
-and do notliing. That is not exactly the view that I wish you to
take; it is perfect rest, joy, pleasure, happiness, oneness, and unity
one with another in that life. Oh that you and I, .separated by
great oceans, separated but united in the Church and in Christ, may
seek to know more and more of the life of the world to come; that
God may work in us all that is necessary to fit us for it — whether
■\ve have few years, or whether God spares us, whether our children
are taken away or grow up; however God deals with us that this
glorious life, that world which shall bear true fruit in itself and in
us, shall be begun, continued and ended in Him. Knowing the
uncertainty of all life, and the diHiculty of saying we will do this or
that, I can onJy say tiiat I hope to again speak to you from this
place before I leave England, but now I entreat you as members of
the Catholic Church of Christ to seek more and more, by God's
grace, to become perfect for the life of the world to come.

Tlu' I)islio]» dill not utteiul tlio inoetin<>: of the first Liim-
l)etli Coiiferenco in 1S()8. To this nuitter lie makes the
followinii; allusion in his c'liari2;o to the clerijv, delivered on
the 30tli Juno of that year :

You may, naturally, expect something from me on the sul)ject of
the Lambeth Conference, and on the reasons vhich i)revented my
attenihince at that great assembly. I may say. t'lerefore, first, that

ClIAKtiE TO THE ClEIMY.

217

to do, hut
le; never
, in some
rest from
])erpetiial
we know-
rive to be
; so that
khen God
that life.
! think of
ley know
ley think
s it were,
sh you to
ind unity
rated by
rist, may
me; that
[■whether
hihlren
at this
'and in
ing the
this or
jm this
)ors of
God's

Lnin-
> the
0(1 on

ec't of
ed my
t, that

had His Grace the Aichl)ishoj) reciuired my presence as a matter
of dutiful (ibedience, I should, without delay, have complied with
his command. The matter coming before me, however, through
his kindness and consideration, in another form, it was left to me
to jn<lge whether I deemed it desirable to attend or not. At the
time fixed for the Conference, I had issued notices for many confir-
mations, and the clergy had prejiared their candidates ; and I was
unwilling, without very strong reasons, to postpone such confirma-
tions, as I must have done, for a whole year. Further, with the
utmost deference to the wiser judgment of tlie Bishops who urged
His Grace to summon that assembly, it appeared to me that in
consideration of the va.st distance from England of many of the
Colonial Dioceses, and the grave importance of the step contem-
plated, a longer time should have been allowed to give the matters
selected for deliberation full consideration, and to ol)tain, if possible,
the judgment of the Colonial Bishops generally, and of their clergy
(and indeed of the Uiity also, if the decrees of that council were
intended to carry with them the force of general consent) on the
subjects calling for the judgment of so august an assend)ly.

Looking back to the first great council of the Church, I see it
stated in the Inspired Word, that in a time of great anxiety and
much discussion on points partly ceremonial, and partly doctrinal,
not the Apostles only, but "the apostles and elders came together
to consider of this matter;" so that the second order in the ministry
•was not excluded from the deliberation. What i)art the laity took
in the nuitter is not clear; but it is certain that the final decree was
adopted with their consent, being issued in the name of the "apostles,
elders, and brethren," and that " the whole multitude" were listeners
to the addresses of the Apostles. I am well aware that what was
perfectly practicable at that early ))eri<)d, when the mend)ers of the
Church were few, may at the j)resent time be practically imp(issil)le.
But I see no insuperable ditficulty in collecting within a reasonable
time the judgments of the Colonial Dioceses on any given subject,
before proceeding to a more full discussion of it by the general
assembly. Above all, it api)eared to me unwise to gather together
from the ends of the earth Bishoj)s of the Anglican communion,

! I
I 1

!i 3 ■ !

\ \

218 The Most Kevkrend John Medley, D. D.

eonie belonging to an established church, some to a church jiartially
connected with the State, or in a very anomalous }X)sition, and some
to a church wholly unconnected with the State, without distinctly
stating the purpose for which we were called together, and the sub-
jects to be considered. Grave reasons, the force of which I do not
presume to impugn, may have prevented this course from being
adopted; but I am obliged frankly to confess to you (with the
possibility that some of you may think me mistaken) that when no
subject whatever was named for discussion, and when only three
days were allotted for deliberation, according to the notice first
given, I deemed it impossible that in so short a time a large body
could come to a satisfactory conclusion on points with regard to
which the members of our Church throughout the world might well
look for wise counsel from the whole assend)led episcoi)ate.

Tiio Bishop lived to see the difficulties niid diingcrs he
anticipated overruled, and at a later day he readily admitted
tlie vast advatitajL?e to the whole Anglican conininnion aris-
ing from the deliberations at Lambeth.

The second meeting of the Land)eth Conference was held
in 1878. On this occasion the Bishop was jiresent. Xo
prelate from afar was received with more respect and regard
at that great assemblage. It was the first occasion of the
Bishop's absence at llie annual meetings of the Diocesan
('hnrch Society and Synod. In his letter addressed to the
Synod, he said :

I greatly regret to be absent from the meeting of the Synod,
where I have so often enjoyed your kind co-operation and support.
Having been re([uested by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
to be jn-esent at the Lambeth Conference, which is to be held early
in July, my absence is unavoidable. I shall, however, be very
thankful to return to my work as soon as circumstances permit.

An interesting incident occurred on the eve of the Bishop's
departure. Some time previously, the clergy had most
gladly and readily conti'ibuted towards the [>urchase of an

,mm

Notes from the Annals.

210

episc'opul HOJil ring, as a mark of thoir affection ami respect.
There was no want of funds. Tlio work was adniiraltly
(lone in Boston, under tlie <lirection of a kind and valued
friend of the writer. It was completed just in time for
presentation before the Bishop left for Knij:land. He was
greatly pleased, more by the affectionate love of the clergy
than bv the beauty and value of the <?ift. ( )n his return, he
spoke of the ring as being greatly admired by his friends in
-l^jigland for its beauty and workmanship.

FROM THK ANNALS.

May 3rd, 1878. The Bishop received an address fnmi the elerj^y
and lay delegates of the Synod on his approaching visit to England
and attendance at the Lambeth Conference, and the Rev. Canon
DeVeber, in the name of the clergy of the Diocese, presented him
with a handsome episcopal ring — an amethyst, with arms of the
.*~ee, and the Bishop's arms engraved on it, and the mitre.

Tn his re[>ly the Bishop says:

. . . I have fonnd among you a home Avhich is very dear ta
me, and warm and faithful friends. And as long as my Heavenly
Father is pleased to spare my life au'l strength, I hoi)e to lalumr
with you in the good cause of Christ's Holy Catholic Church, and
to prove myself not wh(jlly undeserving of the confidence you repose
in me.

. . . As unity must necessarily he of slow growth, and abso-
lute uniformity is not to be expected, perhaps not to be desired, we
must not be disappointed if less should be done at the approaching
( 'onference than we expect. But we sliould put forth all our strength
in the education of our members in the principles of our faith, and
in those practical measures which will enable us to contend with
])resent difficulties and dangers ; and will afford the best guarantee
that the Church in this Province will live after us, undiminished
in power and efficacy, and fruitful in every good work which our
Heavenly Master has commanded us to do.

220

TiiH Must |{i;vkhexu JuIIN Mkdi.ky, I). 1).

; 1

!
I

a- -

§■

It is my earnest wish and determination to spend my remaining
days, so long as God shall give me strength to he of any use at all,
among you, and the happiest tiay of my journey will he when I set
my foot on hoard the steamer which will hring me hack to your
shores.

The Bishop left Quehec in the Sarmatian on the 11th May,
accompanied hy the Rev. Canon DeVeher, ai;d landed at Liverpool
on the 21st.

. . . On the 1st July he went to Londt)n, when the Bishop of
Chichester (Dr. Dunford) kindly invited him to take up his ahode
at the Lollard's Tower, to which place Bishop Selwyn had given
him an invitation. The Bishop was lodged in Bishop Selwyn's
rooms. There he remained during the sitting of the Laml)eth
Conference.

The Conference met on Tuesday, the 2nd of July, and all the
Bishops present received holy communion together in Landieth
chapel. The sittings were held in the Archbishop's library.

The Bishop was appointed to serve on the committee on union,
and was invited with the other members to stay at Furnham Castle
by the Bishop of Winchester. The meetings were singularly pleasant
and harmonious.

The Jiishop, after visiting nuiny dear friends, on Friday, the 22nd
July, returned to Lambeth. This week, until 26th, was occupied
with receiving the reports of the committees, and on Friday evening,
the Conference broke up. Thursday being St. James' day, all the
Bishops received holy communion in the Archbishop's chapel.

. . . On the 11th August, the Bishop preached twice at Ottory,
St. Mary, while staying beneath the roof where he had often visited
his honoured friend, Sir J. T. Coleridge. Monday he stayed with
Lord Devon, and on Tuesday, the 13th, he preached at the Cathedral,
Exeter, now happily restored.'

Shortly bot'orc the time of the assenildinti" of the Lainhetli
Ooiiferonce in 1878, the Church in Kiiii;laud had been deoiily
moved by the [)rosecutioiis in.stitutcd under the provisions
of what was known as the Public "Worship Act, against

'See Sermon, '' Otlier Little Ships."

TiiK Lami!i:tii ("unikkknck

'221

oortiiiii oi' the clcriry jiikI liiity of the Clniri'li, who desiri'd
services of sm oniuto cliai-in-tor with iulvjinccd ritual. The
iiiiijoi'ity of the Kiiirlish Bishops wore stroiiu'ly disjtoscd to
nphohl the hiw us hud (h)Wii in tiie Act referred to, hut an
the (|iiesti()ii was a hiiniinii; one, and one in wliicii the t>ntiro
Aniflicun coninmnion was interested, the Arehhisho|», at <»ne
of the meetings of tiie Conference, invited (Uscnssion on
the partof the American and Colonial Bishops, and indicated
that as onc! of the seniors, lie wonld like to linve the opinion
of the venerai)le Bishop of Fredericton.

l)ishop Medley, l)cini; thus unexpectedly called upon,
arose, and said in his (piiet and (li«rniiied way:

I had not tlioiiirlit that my opinion in this matter wns likely to
have very mneh weight, but since your (Jrace has reciuested it, I
freely give it. My opinion is tluit the CiuMrh of Knghuul will
never enjoy any real peai'c until the Public Worship Act is irpeahl!

The uttcraiu'c of these words iinnu'(liati'l\' ar

>usc(l a

per-

fect storm of disajiprohation on the jiart i»f tlu' friends of
the I'uhlic AVorship Act. ("ries of - Chair ! cl

uur

were

heard on either haiul.

The attenii»t to call the Bishoit down, lu^wi'Vcr, failed, as
all who are familiar with his courage and dctermimition
will readily imagine, lie simply stood and ((uictly waited
initil till' confusion had suhsich'd, and then, stimulated iiy
the opi>osition, proceeded to express his views with won-
derful force and ability, 'fhe speech crcati'cl a pi'ofound
im[tression at the Coutereiice. The American Bishops au<l
the nuijority of tlu' Coloinal Bishops strongly supported the
position assumed hy Bishop MimIIcv, and although tln'V were
in a nnnority in the liand)eth Conference at the time re-
feri"c(l to, the memorable debate attracted nuti-ked attention
on tin' part of tlu' religicms ami secular ju-ess, ainl was not
Mith(Mit its effect in bringing about that spirit of mutual
toleration wliich now so liappily prevails.

222

TiiK Most UnvRHKNi) Joirx Mf.dlkv, D. D.

i I;
i'l

- li

Tlio Uisli(»|t left Ijiverpool on tlio lilHli August, aeooin-
punicMl 1)\' Canon DcW-hor, and reaclit'd (2ii*''»i'<" oii tlu' Stli
Ht'ptcnilaM". On liis arrival at St. .I(»lin, on W^odni'sday, tin-
lltli, lie \\as jirescntod with a most kind and atU'ctioiniti'
address, jwid a similar wt'lconic was oxti-ndcMJ to him at
Frt'dcricton, <»n Thnrsdav, liith Sciitcmhcr.

Xotwithstandini;' all tli«' t'atiuMU' (»!' his fxtendcd visit, and
frc(|UC'nt sermons and achlre-ssos, \\v find in tlu^ Annals notes
of an extended contirnnition tour in the autumn, with the
followinu' note at the elose of the year;

Confinned three luni(hTd aiul seventy-five; consecnited time
churches; ordained t\V(t priests and <iiie deacon; travelled about
ten thousand three hundred and thirty-tive miles. All j)raise be
to God.

At the meeting' of the Synod in 1870, the followinu' ad-
dress was presented to the iJisliop:

Wc, tlie clergy and lay dele<.'ates of the Diocese of Fredericton,
in Synod assembled, take this the earliest opportunity to exj)ress our
warmest welcome to your lordship on your return from nttendaueo
at the late nu'Cting of the Bishops of the Anglican connuuniou in the
Land)eth Conference.

We feel assured that the high attainments of your lordship in
theology, as well as your long experience in the work of the Colonial
Church, aided iiuu-h in the deliberations and beneticial results of
that im])ortant meeting.

It is also our wish to congratulate your lordshij), most sincerely,
on your recent a})pointment to the high office of IMetropolitan of
the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada — an appoint-
ment which wo believe is justly appreciated by the Church through-
out this Dominion.

That your lordship may long be spared to us under the well-
remendjered title of Bishop of Fredericton, and that your wise rule
and counsels nuiy ever be blessed as Metropolitan of Canada, is our
earnest wish and prayer. <. ^j Armstroncj, Chairman.

Francis Partridge, Secretm-y.

liKl'l.V TO AdKUKSp KUOM THE {SYNOD.

'2-2-\

RKI'LY.

Your unaniinoiis and most kind address i.s n.s ^ratif'yiiii; as it is
iiiU'xpc'ctiMl. I most lu'artiiy tliaiiit y<iu for it, as an cvidi'iicc of
the warm tociiiiu and aHi'ctioii which you entertain towards your
liishop, and wiiieh, I humhly trust, will continue to ciieer nic in my
etti>rt8 to serve you, as lonj? as it pleases (Jod to spare my life.

In rej^ard to the Land)eth (Jonference, I can elalin no diiitinetion
beyond that of a peace-maker, and of an earnest endeavour to
extend toleration to all who honestly subscribe to the Fornutiarics,
and endeavour to carry into eifect what they deem to l)e the i)lain
rules of our Chureh.

I thank you for your congratulations on my election by the House
of Hishojjs to be the Metropolitan of Canada. I shall do all in my
power to show myself not undeserving; of so high an honour, and of
your good opinion of me. Ibit honourable as that title is, the name
of the Bishop of Frederieton is <learer to me. It reminds me of
nuvny a trial, of eonstant labour in your service, of willing support,
and faithful affection; of nuiny a beloved fellow-labourer, now
called to his rest; of a Cathedral Church, where, for many veal's,
the faithful have offered a daily sacrifice, and where a body of
earnest ycjung men have received the grace of Holy Orders; of
"psalms and hynuis and spiritual songs" wafted to the throne of
God, and chanted, as we hope, with fresh purity by those who have
" washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the
Land)."

My tongue must indeed "cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I
forget the title which I never sought, but which continually reminds
me, amidst the "troubles and advei-sities which God has shewed
me," that He was pleasc<l to "bring me to great honour, and to
comfort me on every sidi'."

I remain, my dear brethren,

Your affectionate friend and Bishop,

Joiix FiiKDEKicroK, Metropo/itan.

'K )

■■^

!!■

1 ,

lii

1
i

■ I.

i ii

(IIAITKU XVII.

Nomination, Klection ani» C%)nsk('Hation of tiii: liisiiop

('OAI).JIJTOU.

^ 7'"»? 1 1 V. Ilisliop iiiii(k' a most iiii|M)rtimt iimioiiiifi'nioMt at
lli/ tlu' iiii'i'tin.n- of tlu- Synod in 1H7!». He said that,
tlionuili still i>l('ssod with lu-aitli and strcntctli, his
udvaiu't'd years ivndiTdd it ditUcnlt to reach all thu work
re(|nirt'd of him in tin- DioeuHo. After jjriviiit^ the matter
carefnl consideration, he was minded to olitain assistaneo
tlironij:h a ('oadjntor. He would still williiii^ly devote thu
ahility which mii^ht he _i;Mven in his remaining!; years to the
henelit of the (Miurch under his chari;e. The Hish()[> ex-
pressed his willinii'iiess to provide the stipend ot the Coad-
jutor out of his own ineome. lie asked that the nomination
of the eaiulidate shoidd he left to himselt.

The existin<!^ eanon, in I'ase of a vacancy in the See, left
tiie entire choice in the Synod. A canon was therefore suh-
mitted and passed in accordance with the wishes of the
l)isho[). Ft may here he stated that with several memhers
of the Synod there was a feelini;: adverse to the [»rinciple
of the canon. Only out of reg-ard and respect for the
]>ishop was this t'eelini;' overruled. At the close of the pro-
ceedin<?s the following resolution was proposed:

Resolved, That this Synod, before which matters of so grave and
delicate a nature have been brought, bear witness of our high
ai)i)reciation of the dignity, the candour, the patience, and the im-
partiality which have characterized liis lordship's hearing arid
ntterances in presiding; our renewed love and respect for his lord-
ship; our wish and prayer that he may long be sjjared to us; and
our earnest thanks to Almighty God that the deliberations of this
Svnod have been so eminently free from the spirit of bitterness and
{'2-24)

CONHKCHATIoN nl" TlIK TJiSIIOl' CoAD-MTOR.

225

party ntritr, happily Issuing: iti tliat lianuony which coiiios from
noting "in the unity of the Spirit ami in the bond t>t" peace."

Tliu Bishop luiuU' ii most cordial iind happy ri'ply.

AVhou the Synod iiu't the t'ollowiiii; year, tho IMshop
stated that lie was not yet [irepai'cd to snhniit any name
or names for the otKee of a Coadintor. It was, he Hai<I, a

matter recinirinir

the d

l»est

consK

lerat

ion.

A resolntion was adopted hy the Synod approvinij of the
course taken hy tlii' Bishop, and expressins^ a desire to leave
the matter in his hands.

At a special meetini^ of the Synod, held in St. John on
the 12th dannary, LSHl, the Bishop snliinitted his nomina-
tion of a Bishop (\»adjutor in accordance with the terms
of the canon lately adopted.

He adih'essed the Synod, and read t'crtain letters and
testimonials received hy him with reference to the Hevorend
]I. Tully Kiiii^don, \'icar of (Jood Kaster, Kssex, and he
nominated him to the otKce of Bishop (\)adjutor. The
Tlonorahle the (Muef dnstice was called to the chair npon
the retirement of the Bishop from the meetinif. On the
first hallot there was a lar^e majority in favour of the nonn-
nation. The motion was afterwards imanimouslv adoi>ted hv
a standing vote. It may be added that tlie whole del)ate
on this important (piestion displayed the best of feeling, and
a total absence of all [>arty s[»irit.

Tiie consecration of the Kev. Dr. Ivinii;<U)n took jdacc at
the Cathe(b'al, Fredericton, X. I>., on Snnchiy, July 10th,
1881. The Metro[>olitan was assisted in the consecration by
the Bishops of Nova Scotia, (iuebec;, Maine, and Albany.
The sermon was preached by the last named prelate. In an
account of the proceedings published at tiie time it is said :

Thus closed the interesting, solemn, and important services in
connection witli the consecration of the Bishop Coadjutor of the

ll'l

■'!

Ill 111

■ I

1 i

! i

i i

Hi I

226 TiiK Most HeveuExND Joun Medley, D. D. .

Diocese of Fredericton. It was the fii-st instance of the consecra-
tion of a Bishop of the Anglican coniniunion in the Maritime
Provinces. Few of those present had witnessed before the conse-
cration of an Anglican Bishop. Few of the present generation can
reasonably hope soon to behold such a ceremony. Notwithstanding
the vast assembly, which crowded every part of the Cathedral, tlie
utmost decorum prevailed from the beginning to the end of the
solemnities. The spirit of the occasion was felt by all. The music
was appropriate and admirably rendered. The responses came
back from the assembly of clergy and laity with impressive dis-
tinctness.

All must have felt that it was indeed good to be present on such
an occasion, and in such company, imbued with the spirit of
brotherly love and Christian unity.

All must have come away impressed to some extent with the
solemnity of the services in which they had engaged, thanking God
for His past mercies to the Church in this Diocese, and prayerfully
looking forward to the future.

Allusion 1ms already been made to the great boon con-
ferred on this Diocese by the endowment of the See to the
amount of £1,000 sterling })er annum for all coming years.
The Bishop made over one-half of this income to his Coad-
jutor. For several years the Diocese has had the advantage
of extra Episcopal supervision. The Bishop retained full
management until within a few months of his last illness,
presided over the meetings of the Synod and Church Society,
and held contirmation in places easy of access. The most
distant and fatiguing duty was assigned to the Coadjutor,
who also rendered Uiost efficient service as assistant chair-
man at the meetino-s referred to.

CHAPTER XVIII.

rARisii OF 8t. Paul and the Mission Chapel — Fortieth
Year of the Bishop's Episcopate — Attendance at the
Third Lambeth Conference.

^T the meeting of the Synod in 1882, a memorial was
presented by tlie Kector of St. I/aul's Church, Port-
land, St. John, with reference to a proprietary
chapel, erected within the bounds of his pari?h, contrary to
his wishes and assent.

The circumstances of the case were of peculiar interest,
and of a character to cause excited feelintj;. A lady, for-
merly a parishioner of the Parish of St. Paul, had given
a considerable sum for the establishment of the Mission
Chapel, and it was well understood that the services therein
were to be conducted with an advanced ritual. Whatever,
on this point, were the views and wishes of the Bishop, he
evidently felt that much wrong had been done to a class of
men in the Church desirous of more ornate services, and at
the same time most devoted to their Master's service, while
great latitude was permitted to those who came short of the
requirements laid down in the rubrics. Intolerance was his
great aversion.

The Parish of St. Paul, in the City of St. John, was one
of the most important in the Diocese. The congregations
were large, and most generous in their otferings. The rector
was singularly well titted for his position, lie was in closest
terms of intimacy and friendship with the Bisho]!, and
greatly beloved by his people. He had accompanied the
Bishop on his visit to Kngland in 1878. A beautiful church
had lately been erected, and the services were earnest and

(227)

■• }

228

The Most Reverend John Meuley, J). ]).

reverent. The parish was ahnost wholly dependent on the
free-will ofieriniis of the eony-rei^ation.

A few of the parishioners, earnest and devont, prominent
members of the Cluirch, found that they eould not, in the
l*arisli Church, have such a ritual as they desired. They
ai»i»lied to the Bishop and to tlie rector ot the parish, for
permission to erect, within the borders of the [>arish, the
Mission Chapel referred to. They were allowed to proceed,
and the chapel was completed. A clergyman from England
was appointed to the charge, lie was a man of good ability,
high culture, possessed of considerable private means, and
of unquestioned piety. Strange to say, there was no falling-
off in the attendance at the l*arish Church, apart fron»
those who originated the movement. The services went on
in the Mission Chapel. Many from outside were drawn tO'
them. The work of the Mission was carried o!i zealously,
and no doubt much good was done in many ways.

All the while, the feeling with regard to the matter, both
in the City of St. John and in the Diocese at large, was very
deep, suppressed indeed, but not less trying. It was sad to
notice estrar.gement on the part of many who had hitherto
regarded the Bishop with reverence and affection. Prob-
ably no one felt this more keeidy tb.an the Bishop himself.
AVithout doubt, he had acted in this case, as he ever did,
from a sense of duty.

There was no public controversy, no writing '.n the news-
papers. Discussions on the subject in the Synod were marked
by the greatest forbearance. The rector of St. Paul's would
not allow an ai)peal to the civil courts. Time, by tlie grace
of God, was helping, all the while, to lieal old sores. At
length, under the wise management of the committee of the
Synod, to whom the matter was referred for consideration,
])oth parties were in(hiced to come together. It was agreed
to apply to the legislature for an act to legalize the position:

■i

Fortieth Year of the Bishop's Episcopate. 221)

of the Mission Chapel. To this the parish authorities ot*
St. Paul assented. In this way, what appeared at one time
a source of endless division in the Diocese, was aniical)ly
arranged. This was the more especially rejoiced in, as it
removed what must have been a great trouble to the IVishop
in his declining vears.

Since the arrangement of this difficulty, it may be said
there has set in a period of mutual toleration. Less objec-
tion is now made to what is called a high ritual, wlien it U
evidently accompanied by deep reverence and heartfelt
worshiit. From the Mission Church large offerings have
been given in aid of the missionary work of the ])iocese.
It is said that teaching of the young is well cared for, and
kind attention given to the poor.

Controversy and strife on the matter referred to are now
to a great degree laid aside. It is felt that a united stand
must be taken against attacks by which the very founda-
tions of the faith are assailed. Feople look back with
wonder, as they recall the des[)erate energy of leading part-
izans disputing on the subject of gown and surplice, coloured
stoles, or surpliced choirs.

Even in the cii <e of those who considered that the Bishop
had made a mistake in the origin of the Mission Chapel,
thev kiRnv he acted from a desire to do wluit was for his
Master's service. To his firmness, to his tolerant s[)irit, the
Church in this Diocese is indebted for its comparative free-
dom from [tarty strife.

The year 1SH5 completed the fortieth year of the Bishop's
<3pis( oi)ate. It was alike considered by the clergy and laity
t'.iai such a marked period should not be allowed to pass
witliout es[)ecial notice. They desire<l to present to the
Bishop a fitting testimonial, and much consideration was
given as to what it siiould be. It was well known that no
gift of a merely personal character would be acceptable.
Many plans were suggested.

^i^S

I 1

i:.:

Ji . „ -

230

The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

There was ta pressing want in the Diocese, which for many
years had been in ]>art generously supplied hy the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel, and this aid had lately
been withdrawn. We refer to assistance in their college
course to candidates for the ministry. Without such timely
help the admirable services of many of the most useful of
the clergy would probaldv have been lost to the Church. In
the Diocesan Church Society there was only a partial en-
dowment. It was iinally determined to raise an additional
fund for this object, as a loving testimonial to the Bishop on
the fortieth year of his episcopate, to be called the " Bishop
Medley Scholarship Fund." Xothing could have been more
SMtisfaetory to the Bishop. A much larger sum than was at
tirst suggested was gladly contributed, amounting to al)out
*(sOOO.'' '

The following is an extract from the Journal of the Synod!
in ISSO:

Resolved, That the annual proceeds of the Bishop Medley
Scholarship Fund should be placed under the control of his lord-
ship the Bishop of the Diocese, to be aj)propriated, during hi&
incumbency, as he in his discretion may deem in the interest of the
Church, in aid of Divinity Students.

And that the Synod be requested to accept and deal with the
said funds, and all other amounts contributed thereto, in trust, sub-
ject to the provisions aforesaid, under the name of The Bishop
Medley Scholarship Fund.

Moved by the Right Reverend Bishop Coadjutor, seconded by
Hon. Chief Justice Allen,

That the Synod has with pleasure learned of the formation of
the Bishop Medley Scholarship Fund, as a slight token of appre-
ciation of the work of our revered Bishop for the past forty years ;
and having heard the resolution requesting the Synod to accept the
trust of the said fund,

Therefore Resolved, That this Synod do accept the said trust as
retjuested.

"^^^liS»5»''^V"! V.y. «^licll~? :-V4

The Thikd Lambeth Conference.

•231

Dnrini? the summer of the next year the Bisliop had a
]»rovi<lential escapi The followinij; note, from the Annals
ot the Diocese, August 18tli, 1887, gives the particulars :

The Bishop left home with Mrs. Medley. At Zionville, seventeen
miles from Frederieton, the curs ran off the track, and they were
mercifully delivered from a sudden and violent death — the space
between the cars and the edge of a precipitous bank above the river
Nashwaak being only about a foot. After some delay they pro-
ceeded on their journey.

In the autumn of this year, October 15th, the Bishop was greatly
cheered by a visit from his son. Rev. J. B. Medley, who remained
at Bishopscote until Wednesday, November 2nd.

In the usual siimiiiarv at the close of this year it is stated:

The Bishop ordained at Halifax, N. S., three deacons and two
])riests, and confirmed eight. Miles travelled, eight thousand six
hundred and ninety-five. Confirmed in the Diocese by Coadjutor,
one hundred and ninety-two ; by the Bishop, four hundred and
fifty-nine; ordained three deacons and one priest ; consecrated one
ehureh ; received one young woman from the Church of Rome,
All praise be to God.

The third Lambeth Conference was summoned to meet in
July, 1888. The Dishop, Metropolitan of Canaila, was iu)w
in the eiiirhtv-fourtii vear of his age. Tliou<;h wonderfullv
strong and vigorous, much anxiety was felt at his undertak-
ing such an extended journey. Xecessarilv there would be
much fatigue in comiection with the various meetings, by
which a lite, regarded of sueli value, might be einlangered.

He left home early in the summer, accompanied by liis
son, liev. Charles Medley. The Bishop (Coadjutor had
])recede(l him. In the absence of both Bishops, the Rev.
Canon Brigstocke, 1). D., rector of Trinity church, St. John>
was appointed commissary.

i 1

i i

282 The Most 1{i:verkxi> Juiin Medley, J). J).

At the meeting; of tlie S^Miod, July 4th, 1888, the chairman
read the followin<? communication from the Metropolitan :

To THE Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Fkedericton,
IN Synod Assemhled,

Reverend and Dear Brethren :

I have been re<iuej<teil by His Grace the Archbishop of CaiUer-
bury, to attend a Conference of Bishops to be holden at Lambeth,
in the month of July next, to consider several mattei's of importance
to the Ciiurc'Ii, which will be laid before as by the Arehbishu[).
The resolutiniis which inay bo adopted at the Conference of so many
of our Fathers in God, presiding over Dioceses in our own Church,
and in the sister Church of America, though not binding upon us as
canons, will, no doui)t, receive the most respectful and attentive
consideration ; and I have felt that I could not with propriety de-
cline to be present at this Conference. On no other ground should
I be willing to be absent from you at a time, when the presence
and counsel of your Bisho[) seem to be especially required, both at
the annuid meeting of the Diocesan Church Society and at the
meeting of the Synod. 1 rely, however, on the wise and zealous
co-operation of the clergy and laity of the Diocese to adopt such
resolutions as are calculated to promote its extension and prosperity.
And I take this opportunity of expressing a hope that it will not l)e
necessary to abandon any of the work which the Church has under-
taken, and that by united and harmonious action this great evil
may be prevented.

I have appointed the Rev, Canon Brigstocke to be my conunis-
sary to transact such business as it may be necessary to do during
iny absence, and the absence of the Bishop Coadjutor,

When the Synod is duly organized, I should think it desirable, if
there be a quorum, that the reports of the connnittees should be pre-
sented and the comnuttees re-appointed ; but I should not deem it
advisable that any business be transacted which involves a change
in the constitution of the Synod. Notice must be given of the time
and place of the next meeting of the Synod.

I hope to return by the Vancouver steamer, on September 6th,

, !

The Third Lamijeth Coxfehexce.

233

! .1

and I onrncstly ask your prayers, that I may have a safe an«l pros-
perous Vijyage, and tliat I and my house may be preserved from
harm.

Commending you all to the loving care of our Heavenly Father,
I remain, my dear Brethren,

Your faithful Friend and Bishop,

John Fimcdehictox.

In the Aiuuils for 1S88 it^ tlie i()llo\viii<iC note:

April 21st. The Bishop left Fredericton for Halifax, and on the
Festival of St. Mark at 8t. Luke's church, Halifax, the Kev. F.
Courtney, late rector of 8t. Paul's church, Boston, was consecrated
Bishop of Nova Scotia, he having been unanimously elected by the
Synod. There were ])resent, and assisting with the laying on of
hands, the Metropolitan, the Bishojjs of Ontario, i\[aine, (Quebec,
and the Coadjutor of Fredericton ; also about sixty of the clergy of
the Diocese, several from the Diocese of Fredericton, and a deputa-
tion from the Diocese of Massachusetts, U. S.

The new Bishop was received with great i iithusiasm, being the
first Bishop consecrated in Halifax since the revolution, that is, in
one hundred and one years. Crowds of laynicn filled the Church
of St. Luke. The service was most reverently performed, and in
the evening the Bishop was formally installed.

Notliinii" l)at necessary Imsiness was taken n\) by the Synod
in tlie Bishop's absence. On the second day of the session
the chainnun was reqnested to send to the Most Reverend
the Metropolitan, by cable nicssaLfe, an expression of most
respectf\il and att'ectionate •••reetiiii^. It was also resolved
that an address of welcome be presented to the Lord IJishop
on his retnrn to his Diocese, and that a committee be ap-
pointed by the chairman to prepare snch an address.

The IJishop's lonji: ex[terience, deep leariiino:, and hii::h
theoloi^ical attainments, fitted him to take a }»rominent jiart
in the important deliln'rations of the Conference. lie was
y-reeted with resitectful feelim^s of reverence and reiranl on

t i

234 The Most Keverend John Medley, D. D.

liis visits at Cambridge and Durham, wliere he received the
liighest honours at the universities. lie also took a leading
part in the anniversary celebration at St. Augustine's College.
The following extract is taken from a memorial article in
the London Church Guardian, republished from the Otnadian
Gazette :

At the last Lambeth Conference the words and counsels of the
Metropolitan of Canada were held in honour, while no one who waa
present at the S. P. G. meeting that year will forget how the simple
patiios with which, at the close of his speech, he spoke of returning
to his Diocese to die at his jwst, touched the large audience that
filled St. James's Hall. When degrees were conferred at Cambridge
on the leading Colonial and American Bishops, at no name — with
the exception, perhaps, of Bishop Whipple's — did the crowd in the
Senate-house so " rise" as at that of Bishop Medley.

The following extracts from the Aniuils enable us to fol-
low the Dishop in his journey :

On the 14th June, 1888, the Bishop and Canon Medley embarked
on board the steamer Vancouver. . . . Tbey landed on the 23rd
June at Liverpool. The Bishop and his son proceeded to Windes-
ham, Surrey, and remained at Mrs. Robinson-Owen's till the 26th.
They then went to London. . . . They proceeded on the 28th
to Canterbury, and on the following day (St. Peter's) the Bishop
preached in the chapel of St. Augustine's College, and after a public
entertainment, in company with a large number of Bishops, he went
to the Cathedral, where the Archbishop delivered an address from
his throne in the sanctuary." . . . The Bishop received the
holy communion on the 2nd July, with the Bishops, in all one
hundred and forty-five, in Lambeth chapel. On the same day the
Conference began, aiul the committees were appointed.

The Conference met daily at 10.30 a. m. and 2 p. m., allowing for
an interval of a few days, when the committees were holding their
meetings, until July 28th, when there was a general meeting of the
Bishops at St. Paul's Cathedral, and the Archbishop of York
preached.

KXTKACTS FROM TIIK AXNAI.S.

236

July 7tl), the Bishop niul Canon Medley went to Salisbury by
invitation of Bishop Wordsworth. On Sunday, the 8th, the Bishop
celebrated at H a. ni. in the Cathedral, and read one of the lessons
in the afternoon.

An American candidate for the ministry was onlained deacon,
with the Bishop of Salisbury's permission, in the domestic chajwi.

At the morning service, the iiisho)) of Minnesotiv, preached in the
Cathedral, and in the afternoon the Metropolitan of India preached.
A large number of laity called after the afternoon service. Prayers
were said at 10 p. m., in the Bishop's chapel.

Mrs. Wordsworth, the next day, kindly took us to see the site of
old Saruin.

July 10, a i)ublic meeting was held in St. James's Hall, on behalf
of the S. P. G. The Bishop and other bishops delivered addresses.

We went to LuUington, and on the loth (Sunday) I celebrated
holy communion with my three S(m9, and preached in the evening.'
In the afternoon John and Cliarlo walked to Orchardleigh, and
Charles preached. July Kkh, a missionary meeting was held in
the school room. July 17th, John, Charles, H. Lancaster (the
Bishop's son-in-law), his wife and daughter, drove to liath to see
Mrs. Ford, who entertained us hospitably. We also went to see
the chapel and the memorial window in memory of my dear
daughter, Christiana. . . . The Bishop then proceeded to
London, and thence to Cambridge. On the IMth, an iionorary
degree of LL. D. was conferred on me by the University of Cam-
bridge in the Senate House. On the following day we went to
Norwich, and we remained over Sunday, the 22nd July, when I
preached twice.

From July 23rd to 27th, I attended the Conference. The last
meeting was held on the 27th. The following day there was a
grand service at St. Paul's. I did not attend, but drove to see an
old friend, ninety years of age, and confined to bed, with whom I
prayed and read.

On the 30th July, we went to Durham, and on Tuesday, the 31st,
the honour of a D. D. degree was conferred on me by the University

' See Sermon, page 214.

286

'riii; Mnsr lii:\ i;i!i:ni» .Ioiin Mi:ih.i:v. |). 1).

of Durlmni. On tlio f'jviiic day, two niajriiificcMitly rciidcrcd services
were held in tiie ("aflicdral. More than one thousand nine hundred
sinjrers took part in tiieni. Flic Cathedral was (|uite lull, and a
long procession ol' Bishops and oilier elcr^ry took place in the
sacrariuni. Hcl'orc we left Diiihani, the liishops i»rescnt suhs(;ril)ed
to present the liishop of Diirhani with service hooks for his chapel.

. . . On the 7th August, John, Charles, Edward and his wife,
went with the liishop to lOxeter. . . . The lii.-hop and his son
were most hospitahly entertained hy the Misses Marriote, the Close,
Exeter. ISiinicroii.s friemls joined the parly. All the family went
to St. Thonuis and JOxwick. The Jiishop stayed on the three
following days with Canon Courtenay, and his dear friend, INIrs.
Fox Strangways. . . . On thi' l^lh, the liishop and Canon
Medley went to .Southleigh, and on the IDth hoth preached in the
old church. ..........

On the ()th Septemher, the Hisliop and his son went on hoard the
steamer Vnncouvcr, and arrived safely on Friday evening, 14th
September, at Kimonski, and, travelling all night, reached Sussex
rectory on the loth, having been preserved by God's mercy from
perils on land and sea, and from any serious illness.

On Monday, the 17th, the Hishop reached home with his dear
son. The clergy and laity, and Sunday school children at Freder-
icton, all joined in hearty welcome. A thank.«giving service was
held in the C/'athedral on Thursday, the '20th September, and
addresses of welcome were prcsiiiU'd to the Jiishop and to the Bisho|)
Coadjutor, in the Cathedral.

It was on this occasion that the rolJowini:' address wjis
prosoiitc'd by the ronunittee on behalf oi" the Synod:

To TJiK Most UkvkuicM) Fatiikh in God, Jojin, hy Dfvink

PKKMISSION JjOItl) 15l.siIOl' OF FKKDimiCTON AND MkTKO-

POLITAN OF Canada.
Mny if please Your Lordshlj):

We, the clergy and laity of the Diocese of Frcdericton, as repre*
sented in Synod, approach your lord, hip with much respect and
affection, to offer our heartv welcome on vour return to the Diocese.

r>isHoi''8 Kki'ly to the JSynod's Aih»kkss.

•2^7

We ft't'l iliH'ply tlmnkt'ul to our Heiivoiily Fn !ier for the jrmt'ioii!*
care with which He has watched over you (hiriuir your ahseuce •
for tiie kind protection lie has afforded you in all your journeying;
and for the safety and health with which lie has been pleased at
all times to hleas you.

While greatly missing your lordship's counsel during our late
deliberations, we were not unmindful that at the Ltunbeth (.'onfer-
ence your deep learning and ripe experience were largely contribut-
ing to the highest interests of the Church throughout the worlds
and aiding in the solution of numy ditKcullies which now beset her
in her high and holy mission.

We gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity of expressing our
deep sense of the signal benefits which have accrued to tliis Diocese
from your lordship's work and example during your long episcopate,
and we earnestly pray that your remaining years may be productive
of still further blessing.

Signed on behalf of the Synod.

O. S. NeWNIIAM, F. H. J. BUKJSTOCKE,

Secretary. Chairman.

St. John, N. B., September, 1888.

Tiie Bisliop replied tw follows :

To THE Cleiujy and Laity of the Diocese of Fredeuicton.

Dear Brethren of the Cltrr/ij and Laity:

I thank you heartily for the welcome which you have given n»e
on my return to my Diocese. It afibrds me unfeigned satisfaction
to be once more among you, and to be assured by you that my
presence and labour amongst you are conducive to the best interests
of the Church. I have to thank our Heavenly Father not only for
the preservation from danger which He has mercifully afforded, but
the abundant measure of health and strength which have enabled
me to continue my labours among you from year .to year during my
long episcopate.

The honours which the Universities of Cambridge and Durham
were pleased to bestow upon me, and the esteem and veneration

238

The Most Kkvkkknd John Mkdlkv, I). I).

which our brethren ut home showed to my office in the Church, are
not gratifying to me alone, but must be felt in their measure by
yourselves, for when one meml)er be honoure<l, all the members
rejoice with it.

If it i)lease God to spare me, I hope as long as I live to be a co-
worker with you, taking the oversight of the flock of ^ ^ not by
constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a j mind,
through the gracious help of the Chief Shepherd, Jesus \_)hrist our
Lord.

f )

CHAPTER XIX.

Illness and Dkatii of Ukv. ('anon Mkdlkv — Thk lii.siioi'
AND THE Late IIkv. (Jeokoe M. Akmstuonu.

^N the ]>ish()|»'s arrival in tlio Proviiu'o in 184'), his
iaiiiilv consistt'd of tour sons and one thuiijhter;
tilt' latter a lovely woman, afterwards the wife of
an oftioer in the army. ThnM' of the sons took holy orders,
two of whom are now en«<^au;ed in ministerial work in Kni^-
land. Spencer, the third son, ijeeame an otHoer in the navy,
and afterwards resided in New Zealand, where lie died
January iJOth, 1898.

Charles, the second son, renuiined in Xew lirunswiek.
For a while he was suh-dean at the Cathedral, and, at the
time of his decease, rector of the lari^e an<l important parish
of Sussex. lie was a most (levote<l missionary, sinnularly
attractive in hi^ demeanour, zealous and untirini;' in the
anUious work « nnected with his charge. As his father's
chaplain, he was ' attendance on all puhlic occasions. For
several years he was secretary of the Synod, and lie per-
formed his duties to the perfect satisfaction of hoth the
clergy and laity.

As was mentioned ahove, he accompanied his I'ather on
his last visit to England. On his return he seemed in good
health, ready to resume his work with renewed strength.
Soon after this, came the terrible announcement that he was
suffering from cancer of the throat. It was a case very
similar to that of the late Emperor of Germany, and strange
to say, there was a startling resemblance in the personal
appearance of the sufferers.

A life of exceeding usefulness was l)rought to a close on
the 25th of August, 1889, after a lengthened period of acute

-: f!

1 iJli

240

The Must Jxeveuend .Iohn Mei»i,ey, I). D.

Hiilit'riiiii'. The Itriii'lit (.'xample ot patiunt enduranco and
cliecrful fortitude, has made up, in some de<2;ree, for sueh a.
loss to the C'hureh in the Diocese, throughout which he was
so deeply mourned.

To the liishop this was a terrible blow, yet it was liorno
with complete submission to the Divim will.

We subjoin the notice " In Memoriam," written soon
after the time referred to, l)y the Rev. Canon DeVeber,
rector ot the Parish of St. Paul, St. John :

It seems hut yesterday that we stood by the grave of our dear
brother. Canon Medley, "sorrowing most of all that we should see
liis face no more." Two months have passed away, and the sense
of our great loss is as keen and fresh as ever ; our thankfidness for
the enjovmcnt of his friendship; our appreciation of his useful life;
our sorrow on account of his suHcrings ; our hope of his blessed rest
in Paradise daily grow deeper and stronger. It was good for us to
be there. It is good now to cherish the thoughts forever associated
with that day and place.

Some, very few indeed among us, may perchance be able to recall
pleasant memories of his bright and sunny childhood in the dear
land of his birth. Others learned to love the. genial youth as he
grew in wisdom and stature, and the warm-hearted friendship of
early days waned not as the stream of life flowed swiftly onwards.
Most of us knew him best, when, after a well-si)ent youth and dili-
gent })reparation of mind and heart, he received from the hands of
his Bishop, his Father in God and his father after the flesh, authority
to serve in the priestly office in the Church of the Living God.
Happy father! Thrice happy son ! Prayers answered, faith re-
warded, liopes realized, blessings abundantly poured out on the
longing soul, gratitude too deej) for utterance weUing up in both
hearts alike. Nor were the exjHictations of those happy days
doomed, as, alas! too often happens, to end in disappointment.
Thirty years of faithful service, thirty years of devotion to his
Divine Master and labour for his Church j)roved the fidelity of
the son and rewarded the faith of the father. In the Parish of

recall
clear
as he
ip of
unls.
tl Hi-
lls of
irity
God.
re-
the
both
(lays
ineut.
his
ity of
sh of

Death of Jxkv, Canon Medley.

241

Douglas, where he won the hearts of the country folk by his kind-
ness and warm interest in all that concerned their welfare, temporal
and spiritual ; in the City of Fredericton, wlu're the services t>f
the nol)le Cathedral, erected by the untiring energy of his father,
atlbrded scoi')e for the exorcise of those nnisical gifts, with which
he was so largely endowed ; in Newfoundland, where his self-sacri-
ficing love for the souls of the jMJor of Christ's flock imperilled his
life and left him for awhile a wreck of his former self; in Sussex
and Studholm, where he spent the last twenty years of his lite in
abundant labours for the good of the souls committed to his care;
in each of these several spheres of <luty :o which he was called in
the good Providence of God, he proved himself " an able ^linister
of the New Testament," a faithful son of the Church of iMigland,
and a wise and loviug Pastor of souls. All his gifts, and they were
of no ordinary kind, were consecrated to Christ and His Church,
never employed for his own self-advancement. Generous, attec-
tionate, sympathetic, his ear was open to every tale of woe, and his
hand outstretched for the relief of the needy and distressed. No
presence so welcome as his in time of rejoicing, no voice more con-
soling in the hour of sorrow and bereavement. How well remem-
bered will be his ministrations in the House of God. How grave
and solemn his demeanour, how plain, earnest and forcible, how
interesting and instructive were his sermons, his rich melodious*
voice lending a peculiar charm to all he said. In the celel)ratiou
of the Divine Mysteries, and in all the offices of religion, the deepest
reverence marked his every action, as became a faithful Priest in
the Temple of the ]\Iost High God. His refined taste in music and
architecture gave him a singuUir advantage in building churches
and in elevating the character of Divine worshi|), not only in his
own parish, but tiiroughout the Deanery of Kingston, That such
an one should be personally popular with the clergy of all sciiools
of thought, and that he siiould have received marks of his Diocesan's
favour, and his brethren's atlection and confidence, cannot, surely,
awaken any surprise. The unanimous choice of the clergy, he filled
the office of Rural Dean of Kingston for many years with no less
credit to himself than advantage to the Deanery. Mainly owing

iil

,;:^

u I

242

TiiK Most IvEvehi:m» .luiix Mi:i>i,i:v, I). I).

to his wi.se and al)le administration the Deanery has attained a
degree of efficiency which is not surpassed, if, indeed, it be e(iualled
by any other. Selected from among the clergy by the unanimous
voice of clergy and laity in synod assend)led, he always discharged
the duties of secretary with equal ability and courtesy. It is not
easy to estimate the loss s.Udtained by the Parish of Sussex and the
Deanery of Kingston, by the Synod and tlie Church in the Diocese
by his death.

Gone hence to l)e no more seen. Gone to his rest after long days
and weary nights of pain and agony. Gone to the Master, whom
he hjved so well and served so faithfully, who visited with heavenly
consolittion his long tried soul, and enabled hlni to bear the heavy
cross of atfliction with meek submis^iion like unto Himself in the
day of His own unspeakable agony. Cut oH" in the midst of a life
fruitful in good works; called to lay down tlie weapons of his war-
fare while still lon";ing to ti<irht nu\nfullv under the banner of his
Heavenly King; summoned home from the field while the sun was
yet high in the heavens, and so much work remained to be done and
so few labourers to do it. Be it so. To no ignoble rest was he
bidden. The faithful no doubt serve their Master in Paradise no
less than on earth. Not theirs indeed the toil of slaves, but the
loyal and loving service of freemen. Let such considerations as
these comfort our souls touching him who has gone from us. He
has been graciously called away to another portion of his Master's
Vineyard. His works abide with us. The sower went forth sowing
good seed, oftinies weei)iiig as he went onwards. The seed grows
though he is absent. The Great Husbandman will nuike it fruit-
ful, watering it with the dew of His grace, and nourishing it with
the sunshine of His love. Not only in church and cottage, by the
side of sick beds, and in chambers of sorrow and mourning did our
brother sow the seed of Divine instriR>tion and heavenly consola-
tion. Upon his own bed of agony he taught us all such lessons of
humble resignation and undoubting trust, of courageous endurance
and all embracing charity, as, we fervently pray, may be ever en-
graven upon our stricken hearts. Though his ear could no longer
hear the voices of dear friends e /er welcome, and the tongue had

The Late 1\ev. Ueorce ^[. Aumstkon(j.

243

trrows

tVuit-

II with

|)y the

1(1 our

isola-

uns of

ranee

■r en-

longer

lost its power to give utterance to the feelings of the heart, the .soul
couhl still breathe its fervent supplications and its thankful praise
into the ear of his Most Merciful Creator and Redeemer, to whom
he committed his spirit in sure and certain hope of a blessed resur-
rection. And now he waits in Paradise for the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Amen.

On the 12t]i October followiiii;:, the Rev. Gcor<i-e >L
Arinstroiiii', rector of t^t. ALu-k, St. John, was called to his
rest. Ills [larisli was anionu" the most inij)ortant in the

lir

Dice

had

)eese. Mr. Arnistronu; was a man of nineli abilitv, earn-
est and constant in liis Master's service, and of sincere piety.
For many years lie was regarded as the leader ot what is
known as the Low Ohnrch school ; and he was certainly an
^.'xcellent type of that evangelical party to which the Ohnrch,
in days past, was so deeply indebted. At one time he was
strongly opposed to tlic IJisliop. From a stern sense of
<hity, as he deemed it, he felt called on to speak his mind
plainly, thongh he was never known to enconrage factious
•opjiosition in the Church Society or Synod.

The r>ishop, on one occasion, had i»reached in St. John's
ehurcdi. After the service, in the vestry, Mr. Armstrong
went so far as to say to the Bishop that " he had not
preached Christ." This rebuke was received without anger
or feeling of resentment. Tlu' Hishop explained the sub-
ject of his sermon with the greatest kindness and humility,
and I'xpressed a hope that the charge was unfoundeil. This
incident, with what afterwards occurred, pi'oduccd in Mr.
Armstrong's mind a truer ai)preciation of the Uisboit. With
<lee}> sadness of heart, he previously had been inclined to con-
sider that all true and vital religion was confined to those
who held his views. Now he was thankful to find out tliat
lie had been mistaki'ii. In bis own practice, and in bis own
theological o[iinions, he himself remained nnchanged in the
last; but he afterwards became one of the most steadfast

> 1

» L \{

I' i|

1: I

244 The Most Keverend John Medley, 1). D.

and devoted friends of tlie Bishop. There was between the
two a mntnal feeling of respeet and regard. The Bisliop^
more than once, spoke of Mr. Armstrong as among the
most respeetfnl and jittentive of liis clergy. During his
absence in England, in 1878, he acted as t' Bishop's
commissary.

While sutfering from a long and trying illness, Mr. Arm-
strong received from the Bishop many tokens of sympathy
and atl'ection. On his death, the Bishop, though at a con-
siderable distance and in enfeebled health, attended the
funeral, and pronounced the benediction.

CHAPTER XX.

Sermon ox Mission of the Comforter — Extracts from
Kecext Charges to the Clercjy — Last CnAR^iE.

KFOTxE ]>roccc(ling to give extracts from the Bishoii'.>i
later charges to the clergy, we subjoin the follow-
ing sermon on the " Mission of the Comforter,"
preached in the Cathedral at Fredericton on Trinity Sun-
day, 1807:

"The wind blowetli where it lissteth, and tliou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not te)l whence it conieth, and wiiither it goeth ; so is every one tliat
is born of the Spirit." — St. John iii. 8.

There is an important difference between the tliree first Gospels
and the foinlli. The three first speak of the facts rehiting t* our
Lord's Incarnation as historical truth: St. John deals with their
mysterious and sacramental character. We may observe this dif-
ference in the very opeinug of the Gospels. >St. Matthew, after
■connecting our Lord with the royal house of David, simi)ly tells
the story of his l)irth. St. ]\[ark, omitting tins as already told,
enters almost at once on his ministry. St. Luke, after recounting
■more fully the history of St. John the Baptist, gives us the particu-
lars which, possibly, he had received from the Blessed Virgin her-
self, of the Lord's Licarnation, and all the attendant circumstances.
But St. John (as the fathers speak) lightens upon us at once like a
flash from a thunder-cloud : " Li the beginning was the Word."
And without pausing to explain why he made use of that expres-
sion, he adds: "And the Word was with God, and the Word was
<jrod. The same was in the begiiniing with God. All things were
made by Him, and without Him was nut anything made that was
made. And the Word was maile flesh and dwelt among us, and we
beheld His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth." What depths of eternal greatne.ss and
wisdom are here unfolded; what a mightv i/iysterious revelation of

(245)

wfm

240 Till-: Most ]{kvi:ukni» John Mkdlky, D. I).

tlie Eternal mind, in a few verses, in language transparently simple,
in (lej)th of meaning wholly unfathomable!

The same diHbreneeof treatment is apparent in St. John's account
of the two Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper. The
tirst three Evangelists (with very slight variations) furnish us with
the same account of our Lord's baptism ; St. ^[atthew and St. Mark
record the general commission to baptize all nations. All three
Evangelists record the institution of the Lord's Supper; St. Luke
according perfectly with the account of St. Paul in the first epistle
to the Corinthians. St. John does not record the institution of the
Lord's Supper at all ; but he dwells on the mysteries connected with
both sacraments, and refers to their perpetual witness to Divine
Truth in his first general epistle : " There are three that bear wit-
ness on earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood : and these
three agree in one."' In the third chapter of his Gospel he select."*
Nicudemus, one of the great council of the nation, as the person
whose conversation with our Lord he deems it fittest to record ; and
he proves from that discourse " the great necessity of the Sacra-
ment" of baptism," of a new birth by water and the Spirit. None
are excluded from this necessity. All, learned or unlearned, rich
or poor, venerated rabbi or "simple folk," must stoop by this door;
for none can enter into the kingdom of Jesus but such as are born
of water and of the Spirit. Nicodeinus avows himself astonished
at the statement. He cannot understand the mystery. He asks in
amazement, can the natural birth take place a second time ? Our
Lord does not condescend to explain His statement, but assists the
clouded understanding of His disciple by the illustration in the text :
" The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth :
so is every one that is born of the Spirit." It is important to have
a distinct conception of the points of the comparison, and of its
bearing on the whole conversation.

Our Lord had announced to the astonished rabbi a new and
spiritual life connected with His kingdom. He showed him that all
who enter His kingdom partake of a new birth, and that in this

' 1 St. John V. S.

'Service for Baptism of Adults.

Ma.iyMit:j.'4A^yMmM4ap g"

Seiimox UN Mission of tiik Comfoutku.

247

door ;

horn
ii!«lu'd
■;ks ill

Our
its the

text :

sound

ijoeth :

have
of its

\v and
lat all
n thi»

new birth there are two parts, the visible and the invisible ; the
water which cleanses the body, and the Spirit which ]>urities tiie
soul. Water, in the old dispensation, hail l)een used as an outward
means of bodily restoration ; it should now be made use of in the
"mystical washing away of sin." Our Lord connects the earthlv
element with the spiritual grace by a link, the subtlety of which
altogether escapes us, so that what is perceptible to our observation
is inscrutabU' to our understanding, lie leaves it to time, and to
the gracious teaching of Mis Spirit, to make known to Xicodemus
the practical working of this truth. For we do not know that our
Lord baptized NicodcnuH, nor do we know at whose hands he re-
ceived baptism. The mystery of the Sacrament is what St. John
sets forth, and loves to dwell upon. In his view, it exalts the
dignity of His Master to raise the Sacrament in the eye^ of men.
In our days men speak of elevating Christ when they depreciate
His Sacniments, as if Christ could possibly be magnitied by under-
valuing what Christ instituted for the benefit of the whole world.
Surely such Christians take a very ditterent view of truth from the
inspired Apostle. One would suppose the true way to raise one's
blaster in men's thoughts was not to idolize the servant, but to
magnify the Master's law, and to esteem the lightest word spoken
by Him as more i)recious than gold; to think of Him as ordaining
nothing in which He was not forever present, never moving in tin;
sphere of form and ceremony, but in that of intense solemn reality.
In short, to exalt Christ is to lower the man who is .sent in the
greatness of the God who sends him ; to magnify the thing done,
rather than the earthly doer thereof.

On a former occasion I set before you the gracious work of the
Holy Spirit on the Church at large, invigorating it with new life ;
bestowing on it both miraculous powers and spiritual graces; en-
dowing the Sacraments with the gift of His presence ; and .so making
the one to become, when rightly received, the ordinary channel of
our new Birth, and the other the means whereby we receive the
Lord's Body and Blood ; inspiring fallible men with the power to
reveal new and Divine Truth ; eommissioning His servants to declare
that Truth, and validly to perforin spiritual functions. But beside

■

: :

V-

'i 1

■

248 The Most IxEVEuiiNu John Medi.kv, 1). D.

this general gift to the Cliurch at large, the Holy Ghost carries on
in the hearts of the faithful a work leading to their personal saneti-
iication and salvation. On this work I now desire chiefly to speak.
And I wish you all to observe distinctly that when I magnify the
{^acranu'ut which Christ appointed, I neither attribute to it a super-
stitious charm, nor wish to exalt it above the dignity which the
inspired writer ascribes to it, much less would I deny the necessity
of that continual life-long work of grace in the soul, of which the
Sacranient is both the sign and the seal. Our Lord's illustration in
the text is taken from the natural world. This is His continual
habit, to dwell on and to spiritualize what we call nature, but which
is not a power apart from God, but God's own handiwork ; for not
only is the God of Nature also the God of Grace, but His work in
the one sphere is analogous to his work in the other. A very simple
elementary truth, one would suppose, yet how nuich forgotten, mis-
understood, misrepresented. How many false principles would have
been avoided in ancient and modern times, if men had only believed
(as Scripture teaches) that God works in grace as He works in
nature, making allowance for the diflerent subjects on which He
works, and the diflerent purposes He has in view. When God
works in Nature He works on Matter ; it has no p* wer to resist His
will ; it forms such combinations as He directs, and is subject to such
laws as he imposes. IJut when He works in Grace, He works on
Mind, to which He hi\> vouchsafed a likeness in immortal l>eing
and attributes to Himself; to which He has given a power d<Miied
to Matter — the i)ower to reflect, to comi)are, to will, to love, to
hate, nay to work with or to resist, for its own good, or its own un-
doing. Omnipotence itself. The destiny of flatter is made for it.
The destiny of Mind, the mind makes for itself, though whenever it
works for good it must be aided and moultled by the plastic power
of a higher, wiser, nol)ler mind. And yet some men would repre-
sent God as acting more arbitrarily, capriciously, tyranically, and
far less lovingly, on the world of Mind than on the world of ^Fat-
ter; as less full of goodwill to the soul that tliinks than to the
matter incapable of thought; and as "passing by," with a lofty
inditterence, the necessities, and the woes, and the aspirations of the

Sermon on Mission of thk Comfuhtek.

241)

•11 eh

ts on

•cing

iiietl

e, to

n un-

)!• it.

cr it

)\ver

•L'pre-

;ui(l
Mat-

the
lofty
f the

souls which Ho has permitted for ever to exist. Surely the Ril)le,
soundly interpreted, teaches no such doctrine; and the common
sense of mankind will for ever revolt against it.

"The wind hloweth where it listeth." The grace of the com-
parison is wholly lost in English, because we use one word for the
•wind and another for the H(»ly Spirit, whereas both in the Greek
and Hebrew tongues the same word expresses both ideas. So that
some' have translated the text, "The Sj)irit i)loweth where He
listeth," yet we cannot doubt incorrectly, as thus the point of
nnalogy is lost.

Again, there are two words in the Greek signifying wind, one
applicable to the more violent motion of the atmosphere, and the
other, which is here used, signifying rather the gentler breathing of
the air, which is in constant motion. " The wind bloweth where it
listeth:" not the hurricane with its impetuous violence ; not the
..simoon with pestilential blast ; but rather (as it has been well trans-
lated) " the air breatheth whore it listeth." Go forth into the
Avoods at noon, on some warm summer's day, and note the deep
silence that prevails. The song oi" birds is hushed ; the lowing of
the cattle is still ; the very hum of insects is scarcely audible Not
a cloud crosses the skv ; not a breath of wind is felt. Suddeidv,
without a note of preparation, without knowing "whence it comes,
or whither it goes," a rustle is heard in the forest. Every leaf feels
the sweet imj>ulse ; a breath passes (jver the water, a soft nuirmur is
heard, and gently dies away. " So is every one that is born of the
Spirit." The free motion of the air is one of the greatest mysteries
in nature. It is perceptible to all our faculties. It is the susten-
ance of life. It infuses into us new vigour and unspeakable delight.
Yet it is inscrutable. The whence, the whither, the how, tlie why,
what philosopher can tell us? The secret mystery of its coming
and going no man knows. This vital air that breathes everywhere
in constant, healthful, life-sustaining motion, sometimes Huttering
as a whisper or heard as a "small still voice," sometimes rising like
a " mighty wind" that fills and overawes and is then hushed into
silence, is our Lord's beautiful illustration of the working of the
Holy Spirit on the mind of man.

'.As Liitlier.

2r>() TiiK Most Kkvekend John Medley, I). 1).

We learn from the comparison that the influence of the Spirit i»
as widespread as the hreath of air. It U confined to no chiss. It
is limiti'd to no age or nation. Tiie love of the Spirit is the love of
the human race. Yet it is as free as it is wide, indtpeiidefitof human
laws and condition.s, to he vouchsafed or withdrawn as (Jod sees
fit. We may not, indeed, .say that the gift was the same heforc our
Lord ascended into Heaven, as after lie ascended ; nor can we say
that the Spirit is vouchsafed to heatliens as to Christians ; hut I
think we should not err in saying, that wherever there is a tender,
loving heart, a generous impuUe, an honest mind, a reverent hom-
age to God, a desire to "do justly and love mercy," a shrinking
from injustice, cruelty, and impurity, whether in Jew, heathen, or
Christian, there is the motion of the hlessed Spirit for good, however
i'ar the heart may he from the perfect knowledge of (Jod. And
how various and manifold is this gift. As the air hlows on the
mountain-tops, or in the sultry jjlains, in the autumn evening, or in
the clear frosty air of the winter niorn, or is borne in upon the tide
ever in healthful though various motion, so the Spirit variously
works on the human heart. Now it whispers simple truths into the
child's breast; now it nerves the enduring man for a great and
hazardous enterprise; now it suggests the tirst thought of devotion,
or strengthens the last act of faith ; it speaks comfort to the
mourner, and fear to the headstrong youth ; it places in the hands
of the preacher the " how that is drawn at a venture," and that
sends conviction to the heart; it aids the counsel of friends, and
helps the weak to resist temptation, and brings before us the better
way, and bids us walk therein, and be safe; it speaks of content-
ment and hope amidst suii'ering, and assures us, in dark and dreary-
hours, that a way will be opened before us, and that at evening-tide
there shall he light. O, how gracious is this blessed Spirit, how
winning, and how wise I He chooses means adapted to hearts
which differ as widely as the faces of nuinkiud. He does not force
truth upon us, but presents it to the mind, so that it may be the
heart's own choice, inviting, persuasive, yet not irresistible, for
then there could be no grace in accepting it; and that the Holy
Spirit is not irresistible it is important to show for several reasons.

Skkmon ((X Mission dk tiik ('hmfoutkh.

-2ol

Nutliiii},' cun more clciiily prove this than our Lord's iiiipassioiied,
hitter ery, "O Ji'msnlein, .leni^ah-ni, how of'un woiihl I have
gatliered thy chihlreu togellier, as a hen ^athereth Iier ehiekeiis
uiuKr her wings, (ntd ye ^coiild not!"' Words full of the insult of
the deepest nioekery had there been nnything withheld which the
(trace of (Jod could have given, consistently with man's own per-
gonal responsibility of accepting or rejecting the olfered mercy.
And St. Paul's earnest entreaty is of the same nature. " We, then,
as workers together with (Jod, beseech yon also, that ye receive not
the Grace of God in vain." Yet He entreats mockingly if no grace
that might be resisted were vouchsafed. If the II(»ly Spirit could
not be resisted, though all ndght be .saved by compulsion, salvation
would not be the glorious crown of the Christian's own life-long
struggle. All the sympathy of Christ with His much-tried and
faithful soldiers would be htst; all the sympathy of the redeemed
in Heaven with each other would be destroyed. For what is
sympathy but fellow-l'eeling with otlu'r sufferers in their endurance?
The redeemed will love each other in Heaven because they have
nil " come out of great tribulation," and they love Christ in Heaven
because the Spirit i)rocceded from the Father and the Son to help
them in their struggles, not to force them into salvation. They
know they would never have reaclu'd that blessed shore without
His constant aid, and yet there is a humble, healthful consciousness
within each heart of having not done violence to those gentle
breathings of goodness, of having made a vigorous and continued
eftbrt, of having cherished a life-long desire, of having struck cnit
with both hands earnestly t;) reach the wished-t'or shore.

We know that even in the lower things, in schools, or contests for
earthly rewards, if prizes ten times more valuable were bestowed
without an effort, they would be valueless in the eyes of those who
received them. And what meaning would those noble words have
to us, " Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of (Jod ;"
and again, "But we see Jesus for the sufferings of death, crowned
with glory and honour;" if instead of bearing our cross after Him,
we were landed in Heaven without an effort, and ha<l no need to

1 i

; ■;

lit

252

The Most Kevkuexd John Mkdi.kv, J). J).

raise aii arm, or niaiiitain a struL'gle to take ih tliither? So that
tlie doctrine of irre^irttihle grace is founded on n misconception of the
whole nature iif Mian, and of tiie reward proper to man's nature,
and on a ndsinterpretation of all the passages of Scripture which
describe the struggle and the success of num.

So, then, as the grace of tin; Holy Spirit is resistible, as tiiat
blessed Person may be resisted, grieved, vexed, (luenehed, and His
light kindled or put out within us, we should see that we ])ut
forth all the powers and desires of our minds to meet tluit gentle
motion, and to fall in with its iirst suggestions. Nor are we to
look for His operation commoidy, in a way implying violence, or
sudden fiery impulses, that- take the heart by storm, and leave no
loont for resistance. When the Holy Ghost first came down from
Heaven, it was indeed " like a mighty wind, that shook the house"
where the Apostles were assembled ; for He was sent to give evidence
to unbelievers of a power that could not be resisted, and tt) support
weak and persecuted believers in the discharge of their high mis-
sion, lint the miracle was never exactly repeated, not even in the
Apostolic times, and the gift of tongues has since been withdrawn.
We know, from the history of JOiijah, that not in the "great and
strong wind which rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the
rocks," nor in the "eartlujuake," nor in the "fire," but in the "still
snuill voice" of love, the Lord's presence was manifested. So it is
not for man to assemble his fellows, and prescribe the manner of
the Spirit's operation. " Now it is to be seen and felt; in this way
only; on these very benches, with these set expressions of feeling
and with none other, ye must be born again ; feel as I have felt, or
ye cannot be born of the Spirit at all." This is the direct opposite of
the text. It is not the gentle motion of the air, infinitely various
in its operation ; now waving on the tops of lofty i)ines, now
whispering on the lowly flower, now stealing over the wide jirairie,
or visiting the retired valley, or lurking behind the
or (piivering on the aspen leaf, and then retiritig "
rather the fiery furnace-blast, that poui
scorches but not invigorates, and reijuin liu ai

kindled by the same spasmodic eflort. \\ i do m'

ad,

t is

itl i us,

>gaih lo be
look for the

Sehmon UN Mission nr tiii; C'o.mihutku.

258

gentle promjjtiiig.s of the Spirit in .surh wnys as these, much less
should we limit Hi.s grace to such means. We may admit that He
can hies.s cfl'orts the most irregular, hut we may rather expect His
hlessing in the meek and huml)le ways of sdhriety and trustfulness,
such as his word records and prescribes. Tiic greatest favour ever
bestowed hy the Holy (Ihost upon one of the children of men was
granted to a lowly Jewish maiilcn, who in few words of artless
modesty and conliding faith, with no graphic description or
seiisatit)n-specch, humbly submitted to the gracious will and words
of the Most High. And the words of the Angel were as siniple a.s
her own. In no less reverent spirit does our Church train her
children to ask for the gift of the Holy Ghost, and with no le.ss
trustfulness does she humbly expect that it will be bestowed in
answer to our i)rayers.

It may possibly be objected to our Baptismal .Service, " Why, if
you deny the Holy Spirit's visible operation, do you assert so j)osi-
tively that the child is regenerate?" But there is a vast diHercnce
between what we may expect when we use the means which Christ
has prescribed, and where means are used which men invent them-
selves, to which no Divine promise is annexed. The Sacrament of
Baptism is a Divine institution, to which Christ has promised His
presence; and wherever Christ is. His Spirit is present also to ble.ss
and sanctify. But let it be remembered that when we say the child
is regenerate, we do not mean what is intended when people say the
man is converted. Conversion supposes a change of nnnd, an actual
turning from sin to holiness. We ascribe no such change to the
infant. We say that by the grace of the Holy S])irit it is taken
out of the state of nature in which it was born, and is placed in a
state of grace ; it is made a Christian ; it is now God's child ; it has
the adoption and the privileges of sons ; it is an heir of the king-
dom ; and that so much is imj>lied in all the Scriptural accounts of
baptism in the New Testament, and that St. Peter expressly makes
such promises to our children. But we nowhere speak of converted
children. In order to conversion, a person must have conunitted
actual sin, which we are sure infants have not done. Further, we
do not limit the grace of the Holy Spirit to any one time, nor do

254 TiiE Most Khveukni) John Mkdlky, D. D.

we say in wliat nianner He will work on the heart of the child ;
but we say distinctly, that in order to eternal salvation, the child,
if it live and grow up, must "crucify the old man and utterly
abolish the whole body of sin," and that "all thinj^^s belonging to
the Spirit living and growing in him, having victory over the devil,
the world, and the flesh, and being endued with heavenly virtues,"
he will thus, and thus only, be in the end " everlastingly rewarded."

This oflice, therefore, only thanks God for a present promised
benefit, but neither proscribes tl:? manner in which the Holy Ghost
will at any future time work on the man's heart, nor does it in any
way anticipate his future and eternal state, excei)t according to the
conditions which the Scripture prescribes as necessary for all
Christians.

And now, my brethren, how shall we improve this passage of
God's holy word to our own use and benefit? If the air that
breathes in constant motion l)e our blessed Lord's own synd)ol of
His Spirit's grace ; if we daily breathe and enjoy, and are sustained
by the air, how much more should we long for, how careful should
we be to pray for the higher gift? Above all, how much should
we strive not to provoke, resist, grieve, or quench the Spirit of
Truth, of Order, of Decency, of Beauty, of Wisdom, of Fear, of
Love, Charity, Purity, and Peace ; provoke Him by opposition,
vex Him by neglect, quench His rays by deeds of darkness and
impurity, by deeds and wcrds of violence, by stifling the convictions
of our conscience, by wilful disorder, disunion, and disobedience to
any good advice ; for if, even under the old covenant, " when they
rebelled and vexed His Holy Spirit, He turned to l)e their enemy,
and fought against them," how much greater the sin, how mscli
surer and more severe the punishment, when the nobler blessing is
obstinately rejected ; and remember that all non-improvement of
ourselves is virtually rejection of the grace which helps us to
improve.

The more common and ordinary our duties in life are, " the more
necessary it is" (as has been well said) " to keep up the tone of
our minds to that higher region of thought and feeling, in which
every work seems dignified in proportion tn the ends ibr which, and

Extracts from ('ii.\K(;e tu thk CLERtiV.

.irr

k of

kiore
|e of

itich
and

the spirit in which, it is done.'" "And what we achieve depends
less on the amount of time we possess than on the improvement of
our time."

I leave the subject with one word of wurning suitable to a gener-
ation ever boasting of superior light, yet showing to(t many tokens
of unreality and blindness to its faults : " If ye were blind, ye should
have no sin ; but now ye say we see : therefore your sin remainoth."
And with one word of inexpressible eo*»/'o?'/ ; "The water that I
shall give him shall bo in him a fountain of water, springing up
unto everlasting life." And with one word of praise and truM, tit to
express our sense of God's great mercy : "All my fresh si)rings are
in Thee!"

The following extracts tiro taken tVoni a oluirije delivered
on the :50th Juno, 1880 :

Reverend and Dear Brethren:

It seems desirable that at certain periods of our life we should
pause and look within us to see what proof we are making of our
ministry, and how far the objects which daily engross our time are
helping us in the work of our salvation and the salvation of others.
At such peil'tds our minds may be withdrawn from many of the
passing excitements of the day, and our eyes may be more steadily
fixed on great moral and religious questions which concern the well-
being of the spiritual Body to which we belong. The holiness of
our members, our unity in the })rinciples and rules given us l)y the
Church herself, and the true methods of progress and permanence
in well doing, together with some regard to our financial condition,
may well occupy our thoughts ; and it will be my endeavour to lead
your minds in this ilirection to-day.

Of all notes of a standing and progressive church, the holiness of
its mend)ers is the most important. It is the one permanent and
eternal condition of the Church of God, whether nnlitant or trium-
phant ; without this, pU party organization, all worldly respectability,
all attractions and excitements, all popularity, all increase in nu!n-
l)ers, is of no avail. The more ample our endowments, the more

'J. S. Mill. Address to the Students of tiie I'niversitv of fSt. Andrews.

The Most Ukverend John Medley, D, ]).

abmidaiit our iiidividual wealtli, the larger our numbers, the more
cons^piciiDUs our stations, the worse we are if we are unholy. It
must he admitted that the tendency of all things arou'id us is to
forget this trutli. Holiness is no <jua!itication for office, no pass-
port to society. Wealth is the universal measure of good things.
Wealth is the secret of power in the Church and in the State. To
gain it appears to many to be the sum total of human happiness.
To lose it seems to lose all that makes life worth having.

An immense responsibility, therefore, rests upon the clergy and
laity of our Church, for there is but one gospel standard for both,
to be a holy body. More dutiful, unostentatious, self-sacrificing
piety is required in iAl of us, and a deeper study of Holy Scripture,
because objections are commonly urged against its insiiiration and
authenticity, which formerly were never heard of; and a more
dutiful obedience to the rules laid down in our Book of Common
Prayer, for how can we expect our flocks to com[)ly with our exhor-
tations if we break the rules of the Church every day of our lives,
and our whole tone and temper be adverse to its spirit? How can
the loose morality and sinking faith of multitudes in every land be
looked upon without a jealous fear for our own condition? When
a notorious atheist and teacher of immorality, who would take an
oath, regarding it as a farce, is elected to the British Parliament,
and when legislators nearer home proclaim themselves absolved
from all reference to Scripture rules in matters where the very
basis of faith and morality rests on the word of God, we may well
see what firmness and courage are required of us to stand sternly
by the truth of Scripture, and to abide by its holy and i)rudent
restraints upon our passions. Nor is there a more important source
of strength in our efforts after holiness than (inietncss, properly
understood. The meciianical inventions of modern religionism are
so complicated, and its demands so incessant and imperious, that u
clergyman in the full tide of popularity seems deprived of time for
reflection, study and meditation. Hurried from platform to plat-
form, incessantly framing motions and contriving constitutions,
soliciting new speeches or delivering them himself, he is in danger
of becoming a talking machine, suddenly set in motion, without

Extracts from CuARtiE to the Clergy.

257

are
H a

for
llat-
1)118,
iger
lout

control, direction, or profitable result. Holiness seems frittered
away and broken into loose fragments by never-ending excitements
of the mere intellect, forgetting that "the talk of the lips leadeth
only to penury." What a transition from this endless talk must be
the deep silence of Eternity!

8uch thoughts may surely be deepened by the reflection that in
the last three years, the hand of death has been heavy upon us, no
less than seven of our small band having been called to their
eternal home: Mr. ^Milner, at the great age of ninety-one;
Mr. Wood, aged eighty-seven; Mr. Allan Coster, at the age of
eighty, and Canon Harrison, all having preceded nie in their
laborious work in New Brunswick ; and yir. Carr, ^^r. C. G. Coster
and Mr. Woodman, ordained to the priesthood by me, and cut
off in the midst of a career of usefulness and in the prime ot
life. Thus those who lived in the early days of the Province,
when the greater part of Church of P^ngland missions to the
heathen were unknown, and those wh*o have witnessed great
changes in al! our relations, political and religious, have gone
down to the grave together, leaving us to (piestlon ourselves,
which of us shall go next, and what is our preparation for the
eternal world ?

I spoke of the progress of our Church. With a full sense of all
that has been left undone or done amiss, I desire thanki'ully to
acknowledge the loving zeal and earnestness with which both clergy
and laity have prompted and seconded my imperfect efforts to serve
them. In constant visitation of the Diocese, it is impossible not to
rejoice in the earnestness of the clergy and their flocks ; in a greater
degree of reverence, without which no service of jjrayer and j)raise
can be acceptable to (Jod or benelicial to ourselves; in increased
opportunities of si)iritual privileges both on the Lord's Day and on
other days ; in a more systematic and faithful preparation for Con-
firmation ; in a far larger proportion of the confirmed (in many
cases the whole number) who l)ecome apparently sincere, outwardly
reverent, and, I hope, habitual communit-ants ; in the loving care
bestowed on the material buildings themselves, in regard to which,
the expense of maintenance of churches falls wholly on the parish-

■

258

TiiK Most 1{i;\i:ki:ni) .ImiN Mkki.kv, 1). J).

ioners ; in the luiinhcr of per.«oii~ who on woi-k days ami even in
tlie time of liarvest crowd to eoiuiU-y churches to welcome their
IJishoj) and communicate with him ; in the unpaid and untiring
lal)our of many hardly worked men of husincss who never make
their lahonr an excuse for neglecting to give their most valuahle
as^sistancc ; and in a great general increase (with a few exceptions)
both of subscriptions and donations to the maintenance of the
Ciiurch and the clergy. God grant that there may be as great an
increase of personal holiness, of temperance, sobriety and chastity,
of charity and unity amongst us, such as our holy religion recpiires,
Jt is also a subject of congratulation that more young men, natives
of the Province, arc devoting themselves to the work of the minis-
try. Some of them, during their college career, have proved most
energetic and useful helpers to the Church in Sunday school and
occasional week-day services; and I hope the time may come when
the wealthier members of our Church will not withhold their sons
from the ministry because it is a profession poorly paid, but will
think themselves honoured by being able to bring into the service
of God some part of that wealth with which He has bountifully
endowed them.

I also rejoice that there has grown up among us gradually, in
the course of years, a better general understanding of each other's
intentions, u more hearty and fraternal concord, such as Christians
should do all in their power to cherish, and that the spirit of malev-
olent suspicion and perpetual insinuation of ignorance and faith-
lessness has been put down, and has received a severe check, as I
hope, by God's blessing it always will. Our Synod meetings, where
the freest discussion is allowed, have no doubt contributed to this
good end ; and the alarming predictions respecting their result
have proved to be without foundation.

A few words of advice from mc on some of the subjects first
si)oken of will, I trust, not seem out of place.

And first, of Conlirnnition. Important as it is to make a faithful
preparation for r'.. rite, it ia .sometimes forgotten that the real work
is after contirnuition. It is then that the most dangerous time of a
young person's life begins ; when the heart, susceptible of good or

EXTHACTS I'HoM ClIARtiE To TllK ('F.KKiiY.

•Jo!)

Ill

lor's
tiaiirt
alev-
"aitli-
a,^ I
licre
this
•e.sult

first

ht'iil
work

of a
k1 or

bad influences, lias been for a short time impressed by the earnest-
ness of the pastor, but is sure to meet with counteraetiiig influences,
with ridicule, with temptation in one or more of its varied forms,
with the unhealthy excitements or even heresies of the day, fostered
l>y self-conceit and spiritual pride. How many have been lost to
the Church and to God from the delusive notion that our work i.s
done when wo have seen them confirmed. Considering, therefore,
the ignorance and instability of the young, communicants' classes
may be found of advantage, that good habits may be formed and
strengthened, and help may lie given in the many difficulties which
surround the young. The })astor will thus be looked upon not as a
mere preacher, but as a gui<lc and director, to assist the conscience
in forming correct and godly determinations, and ''i bringing them
into action. Among these good habits thus nourished will be the
habit of daily prayer, of strict honesty, temperance and cha.-tity, of
constant communion, and, 1 believe, of early coninumion. For
without laying down this as an indispen.sable rule, one's feeling of
ordinary reverence would lead one to see how well it becomes a
sinner who owes everything to Clod's pardoning mercy in Christ, to
ask for spiritual pardon and strength, and receive his sjiiritual food
before, and not after, he has been all day long enjoying God's tem-
poral bounty, just as every Christian asks a bles.»ing before he sits
down to meat. Another good habit which should unquestionably
be fornuil in the younp' is that of dedicating to (Jod a tenth of their
.substance, small or large. Did our laity universally act on this
rule we should now be in a very difii'rent position. Till they come
up to this scriptural rc(iuisite they can hardly expect God's blessing
on their profits and [lossessions.

• • • « • • •• • • • •

Til Ills cliai'u'c ill Iss:}, the liisliop addi'es-ed tlio cK ru'v a??
follows :

Reverend (ind Dear Ih-rthren :

In addressing you for, I lieiieve, the thirteenth time at a \'i«itatinii
of the Clergy, it is my duty, first, to give thanks to .uir ll»-avenly
Father for tiie abundant measure of hialth and .-treiigth which He

BIT

200

Tjie Most I^evekknd John Medley, 1). I).

■■■1 \

'^SPB

has been pleased to bestow on me during the last thirty-eight years,
so that I have not been obliged to postpone my visitation from sick-
ness once during that long period ; and as, with the consent of the
Synod, I have secured the assistance of a dear brother who is ever
ready to assist me, I still hope to devote the rest of my life, with all
my remaining powers, to the service of the Diocese. I do not know
where a Bishop can be so happy, as well as so useful, as in continu-
ing to work with those who have been admitted by him to the
ministry, and have been trained up under his own fostering care.
They will certainly be the readiest to grant him all the aid in their
power, and to make due and kindly allowance for those infirmities
and, mistakes into which he, in common with themselves, may fall.
At almost every Visitation some circumstance has arisen to make
our meeting one of unusual interest. One period witnessed what
few of us can remember, the consolidation of the good work which
the late Archdeacon Coster worthily began, in laying the founda-
tion of our Church Society. Another period witnessed the com-
pletion and consecration of our Cathedral. At another the decease
of several of the elder clergy struck the note of warning. At
another our hearts were gladdened by the noble benefactions of
.some of our deceased members. At another we were roused from
torpor by the announcement that the long delayed reduction of the
Home Society's grant would become a stern reality, and a voice
sounded in our ears —

" Sleepers w«ke, a voice is calling;
'Tis llie watchman on the walls.
Arise, and take your lamps."

At another the important step was taken of the formation of a
Synod for this Dioce.se, built on the .strong foundations of the Holy
Scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer, fully recognizing the
respective rights of Bishop, priests and laity, and in full communion
with the mother church at home, though not part of its establish-
ment, or retaining legal connection with the English state. At
another period we joined in union with our brethren in the larger
and wealthier Dioce.ses of Canada and formed part of one Pro-
vincial Synod, At another your own Bishop was elected by the

EXTUACTS FROM ChAR(JE TO THE ClER«JY.

•mi

y
ic
on
1-
Vt
;er
ro-

Bl:>hops of the Ecc'le:<ia.stical Province of Canada to be their
Metropolitan, agreeably to the provisions of the first canon of the
Provincial Synod. At another period united and persistent etfort.s
were made to bring home to the hearts of all our members tho duty
of not only supporting their own churches and pastors, but of ex-
tending lii)eral aid to all poor missions within the Diocese. At
another the important step was taken of electing a Bishop Coadjutor,
with power to succeed me after my decease. It would be unthank-
ful to CJod not to acknowledge such manifest signs of progress'.
whilst we must sorrowfully admit that very much has been left
undone. Here, as in En;3dand and elsewhere, the poor and not the
rich, as a rule, set the e.xample of gifts corresponding to their
means, wliile great nund)ers of our communion give ne.xt to nothing.
And, while the books of the Government Savings Hanks bear wit-
ness to a ten-fold increase of personal property within a few years,
and while luxury and extravagant show arc ten-fold what they
were, systematic charity on scriptural j)rinciples remains, it is sad to
say, unpractised by too many professed churchmen.

It will, perhaps, be said that loUections of money are not the sole
test of vital religion in the heart. Admitting this to be true, it
must be remembered, on the otlier hand, that faith is not the mere
assertion of any formula, even of thai which, lias been called
articuliis stdiifls ve.l cudeiiils ecde'*ii(, and un({ue^ti'):iably, in the
view both of St. Paul and St. . lames, a grateful, Hbi'ral heart i.i
one of the surest evidences of that faith " which worketh by love,"
without which "it i> impossible to please God."

After this reference to the past, I proceed to set before you some
thoughts on duties specially incumbent on you at ihe present time.
The word-; of St. Paul solemnly and clearly warns us, "O Timothy,
keep the dej)osit," the tri'asure of uiulefilcd faith conuiiittcd to ihee.
With every desire to believe and hope the best of all, we can hanlly
fail to see a lamentable want of faith in Apostolic doctrine every-
where prevailing. There is a vague reception of one or two [)arts
of Christianity, soothing to the ill-informe<l and half-awakened c()ii-
.«cience ; the rest of its teaching is denied or iieglectrd, and the
Divine order is entirely broken. By many the necessity and the

i I

202

Till-: Mo.-iT liKVKKKNli .luHN MllDLKV, 1 ). 1 ).

efficacy <»!' Christ's siU't'anioiit.s are surreinlered ; by others the
promise made on the day of Pentecost to jtarcnts and ehihiren alike
is put aside; by some the Atonement and Deity of our Blessed
Lord are rejected, and amidst the J5al)el of di>('ordant tongues, even
atheism lifts its horrid head on high and proclaims war against the
sacred ineommunieable Name. How blest are we, that we are not
left in these dangerous days to form our own creed, but simply and
resolutely to teach and to uuiintain what we find plainly laid down
in the various olHces of our Prayer Jiook, and which can be " con-
cluded and proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture."
This faith uudi-r all circumstances, at all hazards, among all jKophv
you, my brethren, are bound to teach and to maintain. V(Ui arc to
teach it at home, you are to teach it in your Sunday Schools, you
are to enfctrce and explain it in your discourses; you are, al)ove all,
to expre,-is it in your lives ; everywhere and among all men you arc
to be known as those who will never betray or surrender the faith
of the Church ol' which you are ministers. •

I hope it is not necessary for me to .say much to vou on the neces-
sity of .1 religious life ; and yet mourning over some sad instances of
declension, I must remind you that the evil which an unfaithful
pastor works caimot be measured ])y the harm that is done to a
particular parish. Surely, if ever the saying were true, that " if
one member sutler all the meMd)ers suffer with it," it is so in the
present time, when what " is said in the ear is i)roclaimed on tiie
liouse-tojjs," and when it seems as if when men lose their faith in
the man whom they trusted, they lose faith in the Church of God
itself. Never was there a time when the various graces of the
Gospel were more recpiired of us in combination, when the priest
must "add to his faith courage, and to courage di-crimination, and
to discrimination temperance, and to temperance patience, and to
patience dev(»tion, and to devotion brotherly kindness, and to broth-
erly kindness the love that vaunteth not itself, is iu)t puHe(l up, is
not easily provoked, thiuketh no evil, beareth all things as a
Christian, believeth of others the best that is possible, and endureth
all tnnibles patiently to the very end." A conspicuous failure in
any one of these graces seems sometimes to risk the success of our
whole ministry.

KXTUACT.S FKoM ('llAKi.i; Ti' Till: ClKRCV,

:2(;:i

Let nie nls^osny a few words on order niul reverence in your niiii-
istnitioii;!. It seeiiis to he thoiiirlit l)y some well disi>osed |)ersoiis
tliat the sole duty of the minister of religion is to preach the (J()sj)el
of Christ. This witness home, this truth set before the peoph;, all
else may he left to ehancr, and the service of tiie most Ilijjrh God
nmy be ])erformed with a carelessness whicii most men won id not
tolerate in their own houses. Such persons must have read the
Bilile to very little purpose, and in a very superficial manner. Of
what kind was that Divine pattern ijiven to Moses on the mount,
and taught in after ages to David hy the Spirit of God? What
could i)e mure minute and careful than the Divine rules respecting
the forms of the tabernacle, the offerings of the worshippers, and the
dress of the priests ? Admitting that our great High Priest has not
enjoined on us the ceremonies of the old law, we cannot su[)j)ose
that the principles of Divine worship vitally differ from tiiose which
were given by the disposition of Angels at ^[ount Sinai. If " (Jod
is a spirit and they that worship Him must worshi[) Him in spirit
and in truth," spiritual worship is not on that acc(tunt, careless,
irreverent, slovenly worship. The seraphim in Isaiah's vision did
not presume to look with l)old and unaverted eyes upon the Lord of
Plosts. St. John, when he saw the Son of Man in His glory, " fell at
His feet as dead." The four and twenty elders, and the represen-
tatives of creaturely life fall down and worship. St. INiul, in his
first Epistle to the Coi'inthians, tells them that sickness and death
were the jn-oper punishment for their irreverence in not "discernii.g
the Lord's Pmdy" wiien they came to comnuinicate.

Wiuxtever, therefore, phiiidy manifests to the people our careless-
ness in the handling of Divine things, our coarse behaviour in
celebrating what our Church rightly calls "holy mysteries" is
calculated to shock the devout, and to harden the irreligious mind.
Why, men may ask, should we believe in a holier presence when
our [)astor a[)pears uneonseious of the gift? Why should we ofler
gifts to make God's holy board decent and comely, if not rich, when
we see him contented with the meanest covering on the meanest
table, with total disregard to the |tlain, undis[)uted rubrics of tlu'
Church ? Is the Church of God a music hall or a theatre ? Nay»

H '\

264

TlIK Mo.-^T lvi;\ KHKNT) JoilN M HDI.KV, I). I).

my hrt'thrcii, in niuslc-hiillH the >»iuglii<j is woll-rcheai'sed and care-
t'lilly i)orf()rmo<l, after tiie pattern given by the composer and
conduetor ; and in theatres, the dresses both of the actors and the
audience are the best, not the poorest, they can tin<l. Hut thus it
hiis ever been that the world jjives to God the meanest, not the i)est,
of what Ciod has given ns, and hivishes on self wliat the Lord l)ids
us to renounce if we would be His followei-s. Let us bear in mind
that the pattern for His ministers to follow is that of the Saviour —
not of the world. In regard, then, to the vessels for Holy Com-
nuinion, even if plain, they should be of silver — which is no i.M'eat
•(hMnand even for a poor parish — and in every Church there should
be a comely, decent font, so arranged that the water used for the
Sacrament may never be suffered to remain after baptism, and on
no account should a little common basin be i)laced within a com-
modious font.

These, however, are topics of inferior weight compared with those
which a Hishop in the Church of God should ever dwell upon him-
.self, and should rejoice to inculcate on his clergy. I am glad,
tiicrefore, to pass from these " "lements of the world " to those en-
during truths which the gn-. i festival of Saint John Baptist
(already ancient when Saint Augustine preached upon it) has in
the last month commei.ded to our daily prayers and meditations.
The Collect for that day in St. Augustine's time has not been pre-
served, but our present Collect is the work of meji full of the grace
and wisdom of the ancient prayers, and able to understand the evil
of gathering up the tares by violence, and of rooting up also the
wheat with them. This Collect, which bears a family likeness to
its glorious predecessoi-s, found a place in the first liturgy of 1")49.
We have asked in this prayer (and nuiy our petition be mercifully
answered) that " we may constantly sj)eak the truth, boldly rebuke
vice, and j)atiently sutler for the truth's sake." And what grace
more thoroughly displays the nobility of a man's character than
truthfulness ? Religious feelings may come and go, I'ke the passions
which Hit across the human countenance, strong and sincere, but
transitory ; they may be counterfeited by the scheming hypocrite or

K.\TRAOT^ FROM CliAllUH T<» TllK C'LKHtiY.

2t;r)

III
Ills.
)re-
icc
'vil
he
to

iko
ice
:iii

JllS

exaggerated hy tlie fanatic. Kven henevolence may he (hii>e(l or
corriipteil hy want of simplicity, hut tiutli is a fortress the enemy
cannot enter, and against this roek the proud an<l passionate waves
of mere opinion hish themselves in vain. The men wlio lived and
died for trutii are those whose reward has heen glorious, and
whose names arc imperishahle. their sun will shine out in the king-
dom of their Father, when deceit and guile will sink down in the
pit that they have made, detected, exposed, anil everlastingly con-
temned. Hut it is not only the truth that must he spoken, l)iit the
patient endurance of our Master that we must esjK'cially imitate.
*' God i.s strong and patient, and God is provoked every day." Why
then should we complain of our unrecpiited lahour who have neither
suHered "cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, inoivover honds and
imj)risonment," whose severest trials only expose us to unjust accu-
sations, hitter and reproachful names, unworthy motives foolishly
imputed, and incessant abuse of the conscientious practice of what
we have vowed to perform. If i)etter Christians than oui-selves
have borne wor.se hardships jjatiently, let us be patient and endure ;
hoping and daily praying for all who may unjustly as.-ail us l)y
word or deed, that they may come to a more reasonable mind, and
having carefully studied a subject of which they know l)Ut little,
may even preach the faith which they laboured to destroy.

In short, Patience, Time and Prayer (as every student of Church
history ought to know) are greater solvents of ditticulties than the
force of tyranny, or the subtleties of law ; Patience, which displays
the Christian character in its highest exercise of forbearance and of
love; Time, which works unexiiected changes in the most stubborn
miiids, and in their way of looking at things, so that prejudices are
<lissolved and obstacles vanish, if not within our sight, yet as the
result of our endeavours ; I'rayer, which brings to our aid the grace
of an unseen Power, working in its noblest wisdom, ])roviding better
things for us than in our weakness we know how to compass, and
crowning us with unexpected triumph when in the eyes of the workl
we were most unsuccessful.

N(U' can I dismiss you without an earnest injimction to that h<dy
)f 'liicli is the " bond of i)erfectness." DitiL'reiiccs of judgment,

206

Till; M'lST liKVEiiKMi .lujiN Mkiu.kv, 1). 1).

Hfhoolf! (tf thoiijjht, oxi.-stc'd in Apostolic time.-*, ainl cveii Inspiration
itself ilid not i)r('ViMit thf writers ot' the New Testament from pro-
sentiii;,' tlie same truth in wliicli they all airreed in a somewhat
flillennt aspect to their readers. Makinj^ this eiiaritahle allowance
for one another, we oii«,dit to see that each one ot" ns, who believes
all the holy trntlis of the Christian reliixion, and has voluntarily
siubscrihed to the same fornnilaries, and is duly licensed i)y the
Bishop, has as nmch rij^dit in the Church of our Conununion as the
• itlur, and should have the rijrht hand of fellowship extended to
him. Snl)tletit's of law in which the professors of the science (litter
(jnite as iiinch as the eler^'v, may emhitter, but will nevi'r compose
the ditlerencts ill the Church, especially where rubrics apjiear per-
fectly plain to those whose common sense and earnestness cannot
agree to be tossed about by the contradictory di'cisions of the courts
of law. He these things as they may, the truly Catholic spirit, the
truly iVatri'iial and loving heart will desire that as much or if ])os-
sible more good may l)e done l»y the Christian brother with whose
methods of ai'tion he cannot entirely agree. I do not say let all
dilierences disappear or be smoothed over, but I say let our love

line out pre-i'iinnent over al
d

Ia'I all bitterness and wrath and

dbe

anger and chiiuoiir l)i> put away ironi you, with all malice, an

ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even

as God, for Christ's sake, hath fory;iven vou." For this Christlike

spirit let ns all devoutly pray,

ilell.

Oiitlie Feslival of St. I'eter, Issi;, tlu' liisjioj. (lelivered
liis last rliart:'e, t'roiii wliicli i.ot oiw woi'd can [U'oiierly be
()niitt('il :

liecer'jud <tnd Dcnr Brdl rcii :

lieiiig permitted by the mercy of God to address you once more
on a triennial visitation, it is my pleasure as well as my duty to

^pea

k t

o vou as one who is

'< Si

I veil hv

It would be idle

to attempt to conceal from you our ditliculties, but it is on every
account desirable to taUi' the n.ost hojieful view uf our position. If

itv, I

e were a very rich Church, in times of great worldly prosperitj
could not have the same liopie. ( )r, if we were striving to make the

i :

J^A.-l ClIAUfJi; Tu JlIK C'LEHiiY.

■y>i

,'en
ike

ore

(He

eiy

the

Churcli u ckrical eliil), I'roin whieli the hiity wt-rc ri^iilly oxehitUd,
to till' sii|i|)ori of wliich tht V coiitii'Mited lu'ilhcr iiioiicy, nor iiithi-
eiiee, imr time, nor (liliL'i'ncc, imr piiticncc, nor |irayfr, I >houltl
Imve Imt litth' hope; or if we were so inis^fiiichMl as to throw all our
weight into the iiphoMin;,' one political party, I should have less
hojic, for tilt' Cluireli was never foiimh-il iiy a party in the State.
It never throve on politics, ami it was never in a less hopeful con-
dition than whi'U its richest iieiiclices were the ill-earned reward
of active and unscrupulous ])olitical parlizans. My hope for the
("hureli in C'niiuda, of which we are luenihers and ministers, is not
that we are so numerous as to control ihe State ; nor that we are so
rich as to dispense with the contributions of our meinhers ; hut tiiat»
Ixiiifj- (as without arro^auct' we may consider mirselves) a branch
of that Church which came to us tVom the aucs i>ast, which no
.storms of persecution Imve destroyed, and none of the isiaiiifold
changes of the woiM have shaken, wc still hope to hand d iwu to
onr chililreii the truth of (ind which is iu(lestructii)K' ; and iliongh
comparatively jioor, we labour to make many rich, " I'ontcnt with
such things as we have," and seeking the good will and the assist-
ance of all our brethren. It is ho|)eful, therefore, to look back
titty years, and see what the resources of the Church were then and
what they are now ; what the ntimljcr of our eommunieants was
then and what they are now: what the eontributiuiis of the laity
were then and what they are now; what the nuinlier of our clergy
and the frecpiency of our services was then and what they are now ;
what the appearance of our Church wa.s then and what it is now.
It is i>leasant to liiid that we are not despairing because the grant
of Co.Oi 10 sterling, from home, has been reduced to L'l.'JoO, ami will
be reduced still further, and tluit we are bracing up oiir energies to
meet and overcome' the dittieidty.

It is iileasant to find so much interest generally taken in the
Sunday Schools, and in iiici'ea>ing tlu' knowledge of the Bible ami
of the Church, among those who teach in Sunday Schools, though
our returns from the clergy are not yet complete. Our examina-
tions for holy orders are more strict, and our clergy have access to
theoloirieal libraries in their several deaneries. Above all it is u

268

Thk Most Rhverexd John NfEULEV, I). D.

a n

ground of hope when we find the clergy rising to a higlier standard
of knowledge and of duty, recognizin" the blessing of more constant
prayer, more fre(|uent comnuinion, and giving more opportunities
to their flocks to unite with them in the blessed and heavenly work
of prayer and praise.

It is delightful to find that this is done with the zealous and
active concurrence of thc!r lay brethren, who seldom fail to respond
to the joyful invitation, and turn the feast days of the Church into
occasions of ear'sest intercessions, abundant alms giving, attentive
hearing, spiritual communion, a!id heartfelt thanksgiv'ng to God.
In such services it has been my pleasure to mingle, and as long as I
have strength, my countenance and support will never be wanting
to them. Nor ought I to be backward to acknowledge the active
and energetic assistance which has been given by the Bishop Co-
adjutor to every object that I have named, many which would have
failed to receive due support by physical inability on my part to
perform all the increasing work of the Diocese. Such are some of
the gnMuids of my hope ; but it would not be a true statement weic
I to disguise the magnitude of the task wliich lies before us.

The financial i)rosperity of our Church is owing in a great
measure to the active and unpaid support of our laity To tlu^ir
assistance we owe its present condition, and we look to them for
continued and increased care and diligence. But there is no reason-
able doubt that our subscription-lists do not manifest any general
amount of self-denial. They might be doubled in ?nany instances
without hardship. At the same time it is gratifying to see that
larger domitions come from missions which have less abilitv to give
than they iiad many years ago, and that for the most part the
assessment which is inipose<l as a necessity is cheerfully and un-
grudgingly paid. We look forward with hope to the time wliun, by
the increased support given to our Diocesan Ciuircli Society, the
general interest taken by eve:y laynuxn in his own parish and mis-
sion, and the aid of moderate endowments, arising from benefactions
of the living, or the be(}uests of those who are called to give account
of their stewardship, we may become witli unnuallfied satisfaction
to ourselves and to others au entirelv self-sustaining Church.

Last Char(je to the Clergy.

2r,0

n-al

noes
that
irive
the
an-
il, by
tlu'
ini.s-
it.iiis
iimt
tion

But I gladly turn to that advice which it is my duty to give you
as a body of clergy whom God has given into my care. We must
thankfully acknowledge that we are spared the trials which fell
upon the clergy in former times. But your Bishop is. I hope, the
last man who would underrate or fail to sympathize with the trials
of the clergy in our own day : yet perhaps the sinalln«_ss and uncer-
tainty of clerical incomes is not the grer.test of the trials of a priest.
From one serious trouble, the expense of outfit when he enters on
the work of a mission, the riissionary isio a certain extent released,
or at all events be is greatly assisted, by the loan of S250 made by
the Church Society without interest, to be repaid in moderate sums.
With occasional donations granted by loving parishioners, and due
care and forethought, a clergyman, if he be prudent, may keep out
of debt. But only if he be prudent. Those who engage in early
marriages before they have earned anything for their own support,
and those who indulge in unnecessary expenses, cannot, on our
limited iiuiomes, keep out of debt. And debt is demoralizing as
well as depressing. It is sure to lead to borrowing, and borrowing
often supposes heavy interest, and interest sujiposes shifts and con-
trivances and all manner oi uncomfortable i)ractices, a doubtful
morality and a heavy heart. To the younger clergy J unhesitatingly
say, it is your duty not to marry until from your own income you
have laid i)y something towards the maintenance of your household
and the comfort of tho.se who reasonably look to you for support.
For the greater part of those who begin life in debt carry it on to
the end, and hara.ss their own minds and the minds of others by
want of prudence at an early ))eriod. But after all, is not the
greatest trial of a clergyman's life in himself? We who are called
by the Church to the office and work of priests in the Church of
God, who do not shrink from the awful responsibility of the n)es.sage
committed by our Lord to His Apostles, and through them conveyed
to us, liad need often to ponder in our hearts the words which no
subtlety of reasoning can explain away: " Receive the Holy Ghost
for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God." We
know that they are the Lord's own words, which the Church u.<ses
because they are His, and because the promise is given us of His

270

The Mu.-t Keveuend John Medley, I). D.

»^S

pre.->eiice with us " all 'lays, even to the end of the world." We
know that not the Bishop, but the Bishop'.s Lord and Master, can
alone bestow this or any other s])iritual iritt. We know that thi- is
given by the ehannel of a human instrument, because it pleases Him
to work by Human means, and to employ "earthen vessels." We
know that the gift which the Lord bestows to render our ministry
valid, and His sacraments effectual means of grace, is not to l)e con-
founded with the i)ersi)nal sanctification of the priest, which must
be sought for l)y him as it is sought for by every Christian — by
humble and constant prayer antl diliifent use of all the means of
grace. But, on the other hand, he to whom the Church says,
" Receive," must believe that the Church has wherewithal to give.
And that this gift is the gift of the Floly Ghost for the ettectual dis-
charge of (tur ministrations is evident, for from the Spirit of (tod
"every good and perfect gift" proceeds, and surely that gift which
is bestowed on us " for the perfecting of the saints and the work jf
the niinistrv," When we have ourselves desired this office, when
the Church, after due examination, has bestowed it upon us, when
the Church calls us priests and our order a priesthood, it were an
act of ingratitude and of cowardice to be ashamed uf the mime
when we use the ofiici'. None of us takeih this " honor unto himself
but he that was called of (iod, as was Aaron," and yet Aaron's
priesthood was disputed. Aaron himself was "compassed with in-
firmity." "The jjcople nuide i\w ''x\\i\ H'lticli Aaron made." And,
in that great miracle, when water issued from the rock in Kadesh,
Aaron shared in the uni)elief which led to the exclusio!i of both
Moses and Aaron from the promised land. If our priesthood be
not the sacrificing of bulls and of goats it is none the less a real
priesthood, because the Lord Jesus Christ confers it upon \\<.
Aaron's was a typical priesthood. Ours comes from the Great High
Priest in heaven, who says to us, " As my Father hath sent me, even
so 1 seud yo'j But docs this gift nuike us arrogant "/ Does it not
rather humble us in (he dust? The more our priesthood is C(jn-
nected with the Word of Him who cainiot lie, the higher it is al)0ve
the ancient sacrifices of the Mosaic rites, the moi'e tuie and real and

ful it becomes, and the more holv we ou^ht to be. If our offi<

sliKik

La.-^T ('llAHiM': TU TIIK C'l.KlMY.

:271

111-
iiiil,

)tli

enl

IltIi
von

lint
011-

love
Mild

be far iinbler than the liire of the people for a nioivel of I)rea(l ; if
we seek to ])lea.--e Goil rather than man ; if we await the jiidirnient
of our Master, whose word " pierces us even to the dividiuir of soul
and sjiirit, and discovering the thoughts and inte'its of the heart,"
what manner of ])ersons ought we to lie? What integrity, what
diligence, wliat faithfulness, what serious study, wliat nohU'iiess of
purpose, what loyalty to the Church, wliat discretion, what deadness
to the world, what weighing of the Scripture, what " ripeness and
perfectness " of age in Christ, what watclifuhiess in prayer, what
patience and huniility, what courage and steadfastness, what care for
everv soul committed to our cb'n'ye should we coiitinuallv show.
Surelv the tiuic of a Bishop's visK.ition should be a time of close
recivoning witli ourselves I How imperfectly have we fulfilled our
ministry! What shortcomings are there in all our services ! In
the forty-second year of my p]piscopate, no less than fifty of the
clergy liave been called to their account. As I cast my eye sorrow-
fully over this numbe* and wonder at God's sparing mercy to
myself, I shudder at ilie thought that I may prove wanting in that
y.eal, steadfastness, courage and humility which make me an example
to you who still remain amongst us.

" The priest's lips slioul'l keep know/edge." Earnestness and in-
tegrity of purpose are great gifts, but the present critical age
demands more of us. Tlie knowledge which the priest's lips should
dispense is of wider range, and of various kinds. In former days,
poor and ignorant people took for granted all that their pastor said,
and made no further incpiiry. He must know what was right.
They were simj)le and confiding. That was enough. But it is not
so now. Everything is called in (piestion, and the whole world is
turned loose to iiKpiire, to agitate, to dehate, to applaud or to con-
demn. Wliat chance li;'s the sim|)le miiukul clergymar. who merel}'
reads his chapter witliout thought, and performs his office witliout
knowing the iiistory of the Prayer Book and wliat is essential to a
right understanding of it ■/ The priests knowledge should aliove all
be Bihli' knowledge, for this is the poiiit in which so many of his
hearers are deficient, and this involves constant uibour and the most
diligent inquiry. It i.s easy to select seraiis of the English version

272 Tjje Must 1\everend John Medley, J). D.

and quote them authoritatively on all occasions. But if we con-
sider how the Bible is con>itructed, what knowledge is required of
history, of the gradual education of mankind, <»f succesrsive eras of
progress, of tiie Levitical ritual, of the fulfilment of prophecy in
the birth and ministry of Jesus Christ, of the foundation, laws and
progress of the Christian Cliurch, of the development of Christian
doctrine in the letters of the Apostles, of the history of the Jewish
nation since the destruction of the Temple, we must see that no
small task lies before us.

" The priest's lips should keep ktwwledf/c ! " How careful should we
be that in answering the objections of the scofter we do not insist on
unwise and traditional interpretations of Holy Scripture which the
text does not contain. How sparing should we be of attempting to
lay down a scheme of future events instead of stating clearly the
fulfilment of the past. What deep knowledge is rcfjuired in ex-
plaining the history and unfolding the meaning of these ancient
creeds, wlio.se root is in the Scri})ture, whose accuracy of definition
was obtained by men deeply learned in Bible truth, who were not
only defenders of the faith, but sufierers on account of their main-
tenance of it. Nor is the knowledge of the foundatioii and progress
of the Church le-ss necessary when our portion in the Catholic faith
is denied by some, and the continuance of the Church both before
and after the Reformation is set at nought by others. Hajipily, the
greater the difficulty of ac(pnring such knowledge the more abund-
antly are we su})plied with conunentators of orthodox principles and
extensive learnii.g. And every year books multij)ly on us which
illustrate some separate portion of Holy Writ, and throw light on
its acknowledged difticultios. Among our numerous benefactors of
this kind must be specially enshrined in our remembrance the
honored name of the late venerable Bishop of Lincoln, whose deep
and extensive knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and of the works
of the priniitive fathers, and whose nnswerv'ug loyalty to the Church
is a safe guide to studious clergy ; whilst his unsparing liberality
has enabled ns to enjoy the benefit of his labors at one-half the
price which we should othei .vise have paid. Such knowledge is in-
deed a possession forever, a treasure which in this new country we

I-

Last CHAR(iE to the CLERiiv.

273

Is in-

K we

could not otherwise secure, for which no gratitude of ours can be
too great, no love can be too fervent.

I am very unwilling to detain you longer, but you will not think
nie tedious if I add a few words of advice on some important points.
First, on the duty of those in whose hands the power of electing
rectors to parishes is vested, and on the duty of the clergy in rcsjtect
of testimonials which they give to persons who are desirous of ob-
taining a benefice. The law appeal's to impose checks on all the
parties who are interested in this important matter. The laity have
a large power entrusted to them, and the law very properly provides
that it should not be autocratic and al)solutely beyond control. The
persons elected must be in priest's ordei-s, without which they cannot,
according to the rites of the Church of England, administer Holy
Communion in the Church, or in the chamber of the sick and
dying; and they must have the Bishop's license, which is a security
to the laity that the Bishop has obtained proper and sufficient testi-
monials from those who are competent to give them, of soberness,
piety, and honesty; and this during personal acquaintance for a
period of three years. Similar testimonials are retpiired l)y the
heads of respectable firms before they will admit a young man into
their employment. A check is likewise imposed on the clergy. For
if they give careless testimonials out of mere good nature (as it is
termed), they wilfully impose upon the Bishop, and testify to what
they might know on inquiry to be untrue, and that by a most
solemn attestation to which in writing they have voluntarily set
their hands. A check is also imposed upon the Bishop. For if he
insiitute and issue his mandate for induction without sufficient testi-
monials from the clergy, in respect of personal knowledge for the
required time, and from the Bishop of another Diocese (if the person
(o be elected come from another), then he violates the order of the
Church, injures the clergy and laity wh< are placed under his pro-
tection, and subjects hiinself to ecclesiastical censure. And the laity
are equally wrong if they persist in electing a person who is not in
priest's ordei"s, or who has no testimonials or insufficient testimonials.
And they are fighting against their own interests, for testimonials
ere required as their security against the intvasion of unfit persons.

274

TiiK Most 1ii:vkri:xu John Mkdi.i'.v, D. D.

And it is not unreason a bio to suppose that the Bislioj), who has
i'ainiliar intercourse with the ch^'gy, may have oj)portunities of
knowint; wiiieh the laity have not. And it is most desirable on all
accounts that the laity and the ]}ishop should be satisfied as to the
election.

Secondly — on Confirmation. It is no doubt a great benefit to
parishes to have this holy rite administered fre<piently. But it
should not be overlooked that there is as much if not more need for
watchfulness after Confirmation is over than during the ])reparation
for it. The minds of tiie young are open to every kind of impres-
sion, and when the first fit of earnestness has spent itself, if the priest
be not watchful to strengthen the good impression which was made,
there may be a gpeedy declension from the promise of early piety,
or a disposition to seek assistance elsewhere. For this reason Bible
classes or Communicants' classes are needed after confirmation ; and
the clergy must not suppose that their work is ended when there are
no more to be confirmed at that special time. The young require
clear and definite teaching, lessons of reverence in regard to the
service of Holy Communion, which, if they do not get from us, they
will learn nowhere else. We must not take it for granted that they
have all they ouglit to know on such matters. It is highly pr()l)al)le
that no definite instruction has ever been given them ])y their parents
on the fundamental doctrines of their religion.

Next, I would speak on the Marriage Service. I know of no
more solemn rite in the whole Prayer Jiook than this. The symbol-
ism of the rite taught us by St, Paul ; the solemn appeal to " the
dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be
revealed;" the certainty that " those who are coupled together
otherwise than Gfod's Word doth allow are not joined together by
God,'" and even if their matrimony be legid, it is not in (Jod's sight
lawful ; the solemn espousal " till death do us jiart ; " the throe-fold
blessing ; the i)rayer that they may " live together in holy love unto
their lives' end" — these repeated cautions and warnings and
blessings invest this rite with a significance and seriousness unsur-
passed. And yet, where is there a rite more irreverently handled ?
I do not speak of the baser sin that is sometimes committed before

Last Charok to tiik Cleruy.

27-)

Ifore

marriage, but of the frivolousness with which niairiniouy is under-
taken. Tile alwenee of religious feeling, espeeially •)f religious unity ;
legality made the sole measure of lawfulness ; the money-making
business which often forms the chief desire for union; the hasty
performing of the rite in a house, where the prayers seem unsuitable,
the blessings unfit, where the whole wish is to make the service as
short as possible ; or if it be fashionable to go to Cliuivh, the crowd
of irreverent gazers, bent on nothing but criticism on the dress of
those who are a})pealing to God for His sanction and His blessing —
when all these signs of frivolity are manifest, who can wonder that
the rules and prohibitions of the Church are trampled under foot?
that bonds so lightly made are as lightly regarded, and that in a
neighboring country (as stated on high authority) one in ten of
every family is said to have had a divorce, and in some cases two or
three divorces ; so that mutual respect and family love have been
broken up again and again. What kind of children must such
disunions produce? A heathen poet who lived in a loose age will
U'll us—

yKtas parentum, pejor avis, tulit

Nos ne(juiores niox daturos

Progeniem vitiosiorem.

I thank (Jod we have not got so low as this. IJut we should fear
lest one step further should lead us to a point from which we cannot
go back.

The clergy, then, will do well to refuse to sanction unions pro-
hibited liy their own church laws, and to exhort and persuade their
parishioners to have marriages celebrated in the most reverent way ;
and further, which is probably the more ditticult task, to persuade
them not to contract marriages where there is no bond of religious
union, more especially where it is almost certain that the validity of
our orders and Holy Sm( ramcnts will be denied. Or, tluy will have
to submit t(; being re-bapli/.ed, re-cunlirnied, and then deprived, as
they most richly deserve, of one es.<eutial i»art of the Holy .Sacrament
of the Lord's body and blood. If you think highly of holy matri-
mony you will endeavor to counteract such evil^ as opjjortunity may
be afibrded voii.

276

The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

It only remains for me now to thank you for the many marks of
your respect and confidence which have been shown to me on several
occasions. A Bishop can only be useful when he acts, not as an
autocrat over his clergy, but as their fellow-laborer, in concert with
them in the duties of their common calling ; and in the exercise of
his ministry, the Church of God from the earliest days has committed
to his care functions in which priests take a subordinate part. The
clergy will readily acknowledge that these spiritual powers have
been entrusted to him for the strength and protection of the whole
body of the faithful, according to the wise rules which the Church
herself imposes,

A Bishop is as much restrained as a priest in nuitters of the
highest moment by the creeds which are the bulwarks of our faith,
and by the definite and clear interpretation of Holy Scriptures,
which our offices severally contain. As long as we abide by these
landmarks there must be a substantial and visible union amongst
us, greater than the mere opinions of any single member or officer
of the Church. It were to be desired that we should see eye to eye
in all things; and that there should be no division, even of opinion,
but that we should be " perfectly joined together in the same mind
and in the same judgment." But as this is not to be expected, and
some points, either of ritual or of speculative theology, will probably
always remain open to discussion, our best security is that charitable
construction of the actions and motives of others which each man
unquestionably desires to be practised towards himself. In these
respects the Church of England occupies the peculiar position of
being more tolerant and comprehensive than any other religious
body with which we are ac(/jainted ; and while there is a consider-
able divei-sity as to the means by which reverence is promoted, the
Church inflexibly holds fast to ])riinitive doctrine, primitive order,
and practical piety. So that whilst there has been in the last fifty
years a peaceful revolution in matters not absolutely fundamental,
and in the aspect in which certain theological opinions are presented
to the mind, and multitudes see no evil whatever in what they
formerly looked upon with distaste, or even with horror, the Church
has not departed one iota from the fundamental doctrines of Christi-

11,

Last Charge to the Clergy.

277

hey
Irch
Isti-

anity, and at the same time she has been everywhere stirred up to
greater and more earnest ettbrts in reclaiming the fallen, in searching
for the wandering, and in promoting every design which tends to
the practice of reverence and love.

It has ever been my earnest desire and prayer to act on such
principles ; and if in the prosecution of these 1 have seemed to any
of you to exceed the bounds of a sober judgment, I trust that you
will understand that I have not acted without much weighing of the
subject in all its parts. As Bishop of the Diocese I only claim what
seems to me to be an essential part of the Episcopal office : to mediate
between conflicting opinions and to give complete toleration and
support to all that may fairly be considered as within the limits of
the Church in the Province of New Brunswick. A narrower line
than this does not commend itself to my judgment; and I am ready
to bear patiently whatever amount of censure may be thrown upon
me for having adopted it. More than this I need not say ; less could
hardly be said by one who has the courage of his convictions, and
who desires to emlirace in the circle of his charity and his prayers
schools of thought which ditt'er, and methods of action which vary,
but which are consistent with the hearty love for the ark which
contains us all. Brethreh, the grace of God be with your spirit.
Amen.

It,; (

(HAITKR XXI.

Failin'<} Stuknuth — Instances of Kindness to those im
Affliction — Last Attendance at the Synod — Last
Sermon.

^T the trit'iinial period in 1880 the Hishop I'elt uiiulile
to deliver a Ch!ir<;e to the eleri>:y. His son Cliarles
was then h()i»elessly ill, and had sent to the Synod
his resiu;nation of the otHee of secretary. In a hrief ad-
dress, the Jiisliop most ieehntfly alhided to his <;reat atHic-
tion in words exj)ressive of meek resij^nation. He seemed
to appreciate very lully the deep symi»athy on the jtart of
the members of the Synod, and their kind and atfectionato
message sent to the sntferer.

The Bishop failed to recover from the effect of his son's
death. Of this he spoke himself. It was noticed that his
memory hei^an to fail, thoui>:h in other respects his health
was ^!;(>od. Fn tlie winter of 1889 he slii»ped on a l)it of ice
at the steps of the post office. I5y the fall he injnred his
wrist and ri,<;ht hand, which induced for a time a <2;o id deal
of sufferinii". With characteristic eneri>:y, he at once set to
work t(j learn to write with the ninnjured hand. He <;'ot so
far on, that he sent this messa«;je to the present writer : " Tell
him I can write more plainly now with my left hand than
he does with his rii;'ht." In the course of a few months he
wholly recovered from the effects of this injury.

From the time now referred to, the I)isli()[) felt une(]ual to
extended journeys. He was able to administer the rite of
confirmation occasionally. His time was mostly jiassed in
his home at Bisho[»seote. He was constantly present at the
tlailv services of the Oatliedral, ahvavs readinsji: at least one
(278)

Last Attendance at tiik Synod.

270

ill

of tilt' lessons. TIk'IV was, at this tiiiif, soniotliiiig vory
attnietive in ins calm clu'iTt'iiliu'ss.

Allusion has huen niado before to the Ilisliop's kiiidiu'Si^
ill visitiiiii; and oaring for thoso who wore in atlliction or
want. This c't)nti ..cd as long as his strength iti'rniitte(l.
Two instances here given will serve to illustrate his thought-
fulness. In Frederifton the I'reshyterians were numerous.
For many years the Kev. Dr. IJrook was their pastor. Ho
was on terms of intimate frieiidshiii with the iJishop.
Among his own people Dr. Brook was greatly helovi'd,
and he had justly won the respect and regard of the wli<»le
community. His wife, a most worthy helpmeet, had, after
a period of great sutl^'ering, lost her eyesight. Soon atter
this oeeurrenee Di'. Urook himself, hy reason of a stroke
of illness trom which there was no hope of recovery, was
obliged to resign his charge. The iJishop was )nost con-
stant in acts of kindness and svmpathv. His visits wi-re
freipient*, and his ministrations most heartily a[»[)reciated.
After the death <»f Dr. l>r<»ok the same kind attention was
shown to his Itlind widow till her death.

Another instance, in another class of life. There lived a
widow, advanced in years and of limited means, siuiie dis-
tance I'rom the Cathedral. She was a good woman and a
constant communicant. No want of a temjioral kind was
left unsu[tplied from the l)isho[»'s hand. At regular inter-
vals he sent a, coiivcyan<'c to enable her to be at the Catlic-
<lral to receive the holv communion. The dav was to be
spent at I)ishopseot'\ and then the jioor widow was taken
back to her home.

The r»isho[i was [ircsent for the last time at the meeting of
the Sviiod and Church Societv in St. John dulv <!th, l^i'.t^.
The Coadjutor presided. At the oi>ening of the Synod the
Bislio[t read the [trayers. His voice was (piite distinct.
Duriuir the session he came in now and then, and seemed

h 41

IMAGE EVALUATION
TEST TARGET (MT-3)

(/ A

<° UP.

,, .^,

1.0

I.I

:s w iM

•MO

2.0

1.8

1.25 1.4

•^

6" -

►

p*.

>^.

''^'^ A.:m^^^

■if

Photographic

Sciences
Corporation

23 WEST MAIN STREET

WEBSTER, NY. 14580

(716) 872-4503

4i>^

^<b

.f^^

Q..

280

'he Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

to listen with attention to what was goiiiijf on. At tlie anni-
versary service in Trinity church lie was unahle to join in
the procession. He came in from the vestry and took his
seat in the sanctuary, and he pronounced the benediction
at the conclusion of the service. This was the final parting
from his assembled clersfv. From his seat in the chancel he
was assisted b}' the Coadjutor to the vestry.

The Bishop remained in St. John the two Sundays fol-
lowing. He depended now, more than ever, upon the loving
and untiring care of his devoted wife. She seldom left his
side. With her he visited several old friends. He was, it
WHS said, " so like his old self, only perhaps more cheerful."

The Bishop, on Sunday, the 10th, attended two of the
churches in the city and took part in the services. In a
sermon preached the Sunday after the Bisho[»'s death, by
the priest in charge of the Mission Chapel, he said : " Xot
many days ago, on a Sunday, and at evensong, an aged
Prelate came up this aisle, stood in yonder chancC', spake
the great words of absolving grace, gave us his blessing,
and went on his way, to serve no more within these walls ;
and soon to exchange the life of wondrous labor tor the life
of rest and peace in the Paradise ot God.''

On the Sunday following, the 17th July, the Bishop was
present in the morning at St. Paul's Church. He took
little part in the service, and appeared very feeble. He was
again present in the evening and was much stronger. On
this occasion he preached a most touching and impressive
sermon, and was heard distinctly in all parts of the church.
The sermon is subjoined in full. Allusion has been mad^--
above to the comparatively brief interruption in the general
feeling of atiection and regard for the Bishop on the [»art of
the ir.ombers of St. Paul's Church. Only his long extended
kindness and benevolence were remembered now. No feel-
ing had a place but that of the greatest reverence and atfec-

The Bishop's Last Sermon.

281

tion for one whose oft-repeated messages from the Blessed
Master woidd be heard in that house of God no more.

Sermon at St. Paul's Cliurch, July 17th, 1892.
"Quench not the spirit."—! 2'hess. 5, r. li).

Two things are spoken of in this text :

1st. The greatness of the gift itself It is the Spirit which is
given.

2nd. The possibility of losing the gift by negligence, inditterence
or positive sin. We may " quench the Spint." To have lost the
favoiu' of a tyrant who never loved us, would not be a thousand-
part so miserable as to have lost the presence of a loving, tender,
ever-pre.sent friend, a wise counsellor, an unerring guide, who pleads
within us that He may be allowed to save us.

The greatness of the gift of the Holy Spirit is seen, if we remem-
ber that the Spirit is God.

When Ananias lied to the Holy Ghost, he lied (we are told)
*' Not unto men, but unto God." And as the Holy Spirit is divine
by nature, so is He equally divine by the personal relation He
bears to the Father and to the Son. When God made man, He
said, " Let us make man in oiir image." When God would make
man anew the Son of God said to Nicodemus, " Man must be new-
born of water and „he Spirit," if he would become an heir of God's
kingdom.

When our Lord before His ascension into heaven issued His first
command. He bid His Apostles go everywhere and baptize in the
one, yet three-fold name, of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Baptism in His name, signifies consecration to Him who is God,
adoption into the service of God, a new birth into the family of
God, a new gift to the jresencc of God.

When our Lord would instruct His Apostles on the deepest of
fundamental articles of the Christian Faith, He dwelt especially
on the divinity and personality of the Holy Spirit, who was to abide
with us for ever. The gift of the Spirit was to be the fruit of
Christ's going to the Father, and the answer to His prayers. He
was to represent Christ on earth invisil)ly but most truly. He wa.s

282 The Musi Rkvehexd John Medley, D. D.

to proceed from the Father and to be sent by the S(jn. He wjjs to
know the Son us the Son knew the Father. He was to take of
what belongs to the Son, /. e., of all that the Father had, His know-
ledge, His power. His love, and apply them to the good of man.
As the Lord Jesus was directed by the Father what He should say
and what He should do, so the Holy Spirit should represent to the
world the thoughts and actions of the Divine Saviour. " Whatso-
ever He shall hear that shall He speak." He was to be the Com-
forter and the Advocate, the Friend and yet the Judge — the Spirit
of Truth and Purity, of Wisdom and Consolation, of Unity and
Love. As all the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in Christ bodily,,
so all the fulness of the Godhead dwells in the Spirit, the lather
and the Son spiritually, truly and essentially. " For in this Trinity
none is afore or after other" in object of time, " none is greater or
less than another" in respect of ei?se>u!e, but the three persons iu
one Godhead are co-eternal and co-e(pial, and this is the Catholic
Faith, which it is most perilous to our souls to deny, for it is proved
by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture, and we are put in trust
with it by God. Tliis Holy and Divine Spirit is our Advocate, not
as Christ is our Advocate, by j)resenting perpetually before the
Father the merit of His passion and obedience unto death, but as
coming into our hearts. He teaches us what to ask lor, and how
to ask ; He puts the right meaning into our words. He shed&
abroad the love of God in our hearts, causing unspeakable, silent
yearnings after God, dove-like moanings of the heart jjleading with-
in us, warning, cheering, quickening, stirring the embers of spiritual
life, supplying us with the oil of the anointing, the holy fire that
burns within the breast. As j)arcnts teach their little children
and pray with them, before the children can understand the mean-
ing of the prayer, so the 'Holy Ghost is ever teaching us, His
children, in prayers and holy hymns, in parables and summaries of
belief, in inspired words and Christian exhortation, in holy sacra-
ments and godly books, in everything that ministers to our spiritual
strength and comfort and fruitfulness in good works, to our patience
under sutibring and resistance of sin, and perseverance in duty, and
hope of the worUl to c<inie. The two great means He is pleased to

I' :

The Bishop's Last Sermon,

28a'

( ' ?

use arc the Bible and the Church. The Church came before the
Bible. Many ages before a word of Holy Scripture was conunitted
to writing the Church of God existed on earth. Enoch was one of
its prophets, and Noah too walked with God. " Then began mer»
to call on the name of the Lord." Abraham had no Bible, na
written revelation to guide him, yet he was the pattern of believer*
and the friend of God.

Thus the Holy Spirit strove with men of old and dwelt in them
guiding them to the truth, though His grace was not given in the
fulness which was manifested after our L)rd ascended into Heaven.
In process of time the book of the law was written by Moses and
the writers of the History of Israel, and the Psalmists and the
Prophets followed at great intervals after, adding by degrees to the
inspired books of Holy Scripture, and last came the writings of the
New Testament, not written all at once, but during a course of
about fifty years, during which time the Church was growing every-
where, built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets,
" Jesus Christ himself being its chief corner stone."

The world vias not converted to Christianity by scattering vast
numbers of Bibles about the world. It was not a bock that con-
verted men, for the book, as a whole did not exist. It was not even
written, much less printed. Men were converted by the living
ministry of Apostolic teacheri?, guided by the power of the indwel-
ling Spirit, proving their doctrine by miracles, and by the prophe-
cies of the Old Testament to which they constantly referred and
appealed. This appears plainly from St. Peter's first sermon on
the day of Pentecost, and from the fact that St. Paul addresses his
Epistle to the Romans, to Roman Christians " called to be saints,'*^
though they would have had very little, if any, of the New Testa-
ment in their jjossession. Those who first brought to the Romans,
the glad tidings of salvation through Christ were probably the
straugei's of Rome, whether Jews or proselytes, of whom mention is
made in the Second Chapter of the Acts, as moved by the Holy
Ghost to declare " in their own tongue the wonderful works of ( Jod."

Our great privilege is to have the whole Bible and tlie Church
together. The Holy Bible is now complete. As it is the inspired

284 The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

word of God wo can neither take from it, nor add to it. It is closed
to the end of time. But the truth that comes to us in the Bible is
given to us by the living voice of the Church. We learn Spiritual
truth in the same way that we learn Natural Science. 'Ve are
taught it as children, we learn it as young men, not by picking and
choosing little bits of religion out of the Bible as our fancy please,
but by the ordinary teaching of the Church, i. e., of those commis-
sioned to instruct us whether they be our natural parents, or our
appointed ministers, or the Church at large by her daily course of
instruction, her sacraments, her creeds, her large extracts from
Holy Scripture, her whole body of Truth.

Neither of these two gifts supersedes the other. The Church can-
not teach us, as necessary to salvation, anything which cannot be
proved and concluded from the Bible, and the Bible sends us for a
sound interpretation of its words to the testimony of the Church in
all ages, received and professed by the general voice of all Chris-
tians, recorded in her Creeds, quoted in her Liturgies, and proclaimed
in her public assemblies.

Both those high and noble gifts are the work of one and the
same Spirit of God. We are not to receive one and reject the
other, our duty is to receive and be thankful for both, and to use
€ach of them in the order, and in the way that the Holy Spirit has
provided, humbly receiving, as children, mysteries beyond our
knowledge, advancing in the unity of the faith towards perfect
manhood, and to our dying day learning more and more, both from
the Bible and the Church, of what is the Way, the Truth, and the
Life which leads to everlasting salvation. Such > the gift of the
Spirit for which we thankfully bless God.

But the text also conveys a solemn warning to which every one
should give heed : Quench not the Spirit. This direction is a wit-
ness to the great and awful truth of our trial and probation. The
Holy Spirit is not given to us (as some teach) irresistibly — in such
a manner that when we have once received it we can never lose it.
Our Lord's parables point in the contrary direction. The ten Vir-
gins all had lamps given them, and oil to feed their lamps and keep
the light burning. In the parable of the pounds and the talents

The Bishop's Last Sermon.

285

the receiver was to trnde with them and render the gift more valu-
able. Those who had the good seed were to receive it in an honest
and good heart that it might bring forth abundant fruit. So the
Apostle's words imply that we have it in our power to quench the
Spirit, to put out the light, by unbelief and disobedience.

Fire was the symbol of the Holy Spirit's descent at Pentecost
and it stood upon each of them. Even Judas Iscariot had his com-
mission to heal miraculously like the rest, but he threw the gift
away and became the traitor.

Observe them now, all the attributes of the Holy Spirit seem to
give point and significance to the warning.

Ist. He is the Spirit of Truth. Therefore hypocritical ways, false
witness, the habit of lying and equivocation, the wilful denial of
of Truth, the being ashamed of it, and refusing to own it, in order
to gain popularity, the listening to scej)tical objections without
honest searching after Truth, the habit of slothful indift'erence to
Truth, the mockery of jesting over the Bible, as if it were only half
true and half false, the iri*everence which listens to the Bible with
a sneer, and never prays for the guidance of the Holy Spirit to
make it jjrolitable to the soul. All these come of evil and lead to
evil. Therefore " Quench not the Spirit."

2nd. He is the Spirit of Purity. Therefore the indulgence of
uncleanness in thouglit, word, or deed, the telling of filthy stories,
the reading obscene books, making a hei'o of the adulterer and the
fornicator, the making light of unchastity before marriage, and
generally speaking the words and deeds of an imj)ure and corrupt
life, these are of evil and lead to woree. Therefore " Quench not
the Spirit."

3rd. He is the Spirit of obedience. Disobedient children grow up
to be wilful, headstrong, unruly, self-conceited young men and young
women, and disobedient habits grow into hardness of heart, so that
the Holy Scripture is a snare and a stumbling block ralher than a
guide, and the disobedient temper disdains humility, init loves pride
and scorning, extravagance and dissipation and self-indulgence, and
hates lowly self-denying ways which are well pleasing to God.
Therefore " Quench not the Spirit."

280

The Most Heverexd John Medley, D. D.

4th. He is the Spirit of Unity and Love. Therefore shun the
quarrelsome, litigious temper, masterful, easily otf'ended when no
offence is meant, vindictive, thinking evil of others, rejoicing when
harm happens to them, too independent to submit to the rules of
the Church and to follow the pattern of the Saints, follow ^' after
many teachers with itching ears and frivolous hearts, striving for
wars and not for peace, "puffed up and behaving itself unseemly,"
and arrogantly boasting of knowledge but really ignorant of all
saving Truth. This too cometh of evil and leads to evil. There-
fore " Quench not the Spirit."

5th. He is also the Spirit of Consolation, known by this gracious
title, and so named by the Lord Jesus Himself. Seek not comfort
then in avaricious ways, in ostentatious display of riches or of dress,
for these things are a mockery of joy. They breed discomfort in
the hour of sickness and extremity of pain, in sudden and unex-
iiected losses, when the wealth of the world cannot buy an hour's
respite, when sight is dim and memory failing and friends are help-
less to assist us. Seek comfort in the light that shines brightest in
adversity, in the support and strength ever given to the weak and
friendless and desponding, in the hope that looks to the shining
ones beyond the river, in the pure stream that makes glad the city
of God, on the treasured promises that are " an anchor sure and
steadfast" in the last extremity. All these blessings you may need
sooner than you expect. It is the Spirit of God that seals them and
makes them sure to the day of your redemption. Therefore
" Queneh not the Spirit" — the Spirit of Truth, of Purity, of Obe-
dience, of Love, and of Eternal Consohttion. Amen.

ll 1 1|

CHAPTER XXII.
Private Lktteks — Last Kxtkact fko.m tiik Annals —

I'ASTOUAL liETTEU — XoTES IIV Mks. MeI>I-EY — IlLNESS

AND Death.

'TIE tollowiiiu letters, written 1)V the Bishop to a dear
relative in liiij^ltind, have heeii placed at the dis-
posal of the author. They exhibit another phase
of his life and character. Some of the letters were written
at an early period. The date of the last comes nearly to
the close of his life :

j\fy 2)e(„. ; Fredericton, March HO, 1871.

H WHS so kind as to write to lue a long letter, which I value

very much, containinj; many particulars of your dear husliand's
death, and of the gratifying tokens of esteem and atteetion, which
were shown hy his parishioners.

I need not assui*e you of our grief at the loss of one so dear to us.
His departure recalls niany of tlie happiest and the saddest mem-
ories of my life, — the happiest and the saddest reminding me alike
of him, who was always a friend, and for so long a time, a brother.
Our last visit to you is as fresh in our remend)rance, as if it had
occurred yesterday, and we constantly jHcture him to our minds, as
he sat at the table, and was the life and joy of the whole party.

I was spared what has proved so dreadful a trial to you — the
sight of his sutterings for so long a time, but I have not been per-
mitted to witness his faith and resignation. Accept, however, our
truest love and sympathy, and believe that we shall always think
of you, with the heartiest affection.

I was rejoiced to hear of H 's plan, and trust it will be a great

help to you to share and promote his usefulness

If you have any photo winch you could spare, taken since we
were in Kngland, we should value it very much indeed,

I am delighted with the idea of restoring the old cross, I have

written to H , but could not let the mail go without a few lines

to yourself assuring you of our sympathv,

(287)

f '

288

Tjie Most Hevekend John Medley, D. D.

Fredericton, Nov. 12, 1879.
My Dear ;

It is always a jjreat pleasure to get a letter from you, even when
it is less quizzical than usual. I am glad you approve of the out-
ward appearance of " Job," and I think you will agree with me that
the printing is very clear and creditable to a Colonial establish-
ment.

I hope also that you may like the matter as well as the manner,
and find some instruction therein. It cost n»e a great deal of labour
and my recompense will be to find some people, at all events, pro-
fited by it. The bookseller undertook the expense at his own risk.
I sent H a copy.

I do not know whether Mr. told you that our Synod deter-
mined, by an immense majority of 102 to 20, to let me nominate a
Coadjutor, when I desired it, who is to have the right of succession.
As I ffhall be 75 December 19th (if I live) it begins to be time to
get a little help, as well as to look out for the future.

It is astonishing how many of my contemporaries I have outlived,
and how many juniors to myself are gathered to their rest. Every
year adds to the number.

I had a long and laborious visitatir n this year, driving one day
in a pitiless storm of rain 46 miles to keep an appointment, but I
stood it pretty well, except that on my return I had a lame knee
(I believe from fatigue), which has kept me rather lame for a
month. It is now much better, and I hope will soon be well. . .

We were very much interested in the visit of the Governor
General and the Princess Louise. She went to the Cathedral. M —
and I showed her everything that was to be seen, and she took a
most intelligent and appreciative interest in everything, even to our
various beautiful altar-cloths, which she admired very much, and
was quite knowing as to the diflferent kinds of work. She was

highly complimentary, so I hear, to M , which, of course, I

think was deserved.

Since her visit we have put in two new windows, by Clayton &
Bell, and very charming they are — quite enriching the west end of
each aisle — three-light windows.

Trivate Letters.

28!)

I have to (Imnk you very much for your very clear and ploufiaiit
group in a photo, which arrived uninjured. The photo of yourself
is very good, but hardly looks as anuahle as when I saw you last.

M looks much older than I fancied hin), but I think I saw him

last in 1805 — a prodigious interval, during which his hair has
fallen ott" greatly. He looks le.«s ♦ierce than some of the others. I
thought the boy looked as if he were just going to learn a hard
lesson in Virgil or the (Ireek Delectus. But it is pleasant to
think that no photo can prevent his smiles and pleasant looks over
a plum pudding or gooseberry pie, or still more over a Christmas
present from grandmamma.

We have been new-shingling our house this summer, i. e., cover-
ing the roof with wooden tiles, as is the universal custom here, as

slates are seldom used. M superintended all the work, while I

was on a visitation.

I forgot to say that we were especially delighted with the extreme
simplicity, as well as with the gracious manner of the Princess.

M , who is a good deal of a radical, was quite won over, and I

have not heard her talk radicalism since.

I>!

knee
'or a

jn &
id of

Fredericton, Dec. 9th, 1887.
My Deal :

I was hoping that you would kindly I'enjember my birth-day, the
18th of this month, when you anticipated the day, and sent us both
some mementos of the time. I ought to, be and I hope am, thank-
ful for God's wonderful mercies to me, for I have enjoyed excellent
health since -my last birth-day, when I was 82, and now I have only
nine days more to be thankful for 83.

I think every day of my life, of our old life at Truro — of your
coming to see us, when our life was unbroken — when we all sat
down on the green sward overlooking the long Ship's Lighthouse at
the Land's End — of our going to St. Just four miles from Sennen,
and going down the mine, and hearing the roll of the waves over
our heads — of our trip to Falmouth harbour — of your temporary
sojourn at Probus — of the great re-union at Kenwyn in 1836, of

uncle S 's sudden appearance and the text he preached from at

21)0

The Most Hkvkhknd John Mi:i>m:y, I). 1).

Kcnwyu t'lnircli, "Slio wns a Widow," ami tlioii, the breaking up
of the family pjirty, — last, but not least, of the Viearage at Sax-
niundhani. . . . The world secnus to roll on fa.ster and faster
thtin ever.

It is a great i)len'<ure to hoar from you, of your son's well being
and well doing.

When one renuMubers the cnfnniee into the next world, and of
what is going on there everything that is past seems invested with
a peculiar awe. I recollect what you cannot — my life at South-
leigh, where the first days of my ministry were spent. How vividly
is that picture before me. as if it were only yesterday, — names and
doings as if they were just being done, and of how many I can say,
"They are all gone into tin; world of light and I alone left lingering
here," — surely "Man walketh in a vain Shadow."

I drcnm of coming home next summer to the Lambeth Confer-
ence, but I do not know whether I shall accomplish it. I long to
sec the dear faces again of such as are left, but most arc gone.

I need not say what pleasure we had in J 's too brief visit.

He was in high spirits, and was very stout and very rosy. I accom-
panied him and C — to Sussex Rectory and we spent three happy days
there, and then the ])arting came. ......

Dear M 1 is much better. She had a long and very painful

illness, — prostration of the nervous system, with feverish nights,
which reduced her strength ; but she now walks briskly about as
usual.

I was much amused with M — 's poetry.

What a state Ireland is in ! Will it ever end ?

The following letter refern to one of tlie greatest sorrows

tiie J)islioj) exi>erieiiced in liis entire life, and which wo

liave already referred to; viz., the death of his beloved son,

(Janon Medley :

Fredeiucton, Aug. 24th, 1889.
My Dear ;

It is, as you said in your letter to M , just a year

since our most happy meeting, and our uncertain parting, but not
then clouded over by " one being taken and the other left," and

I'UIVATK LeTTKRS.

291

sntldi'st of nil tho one left is the oldest, tlio one taken oiio of the
yoiiiif,'ertt of the party. How truly awful is the uiieertainty of life,
of .sickness and of death ! He whose iiealtii seemed so needful to
be a prop and solace to the aged now called away and his assistance
gone. His disease too, just what we should not have chosen ; so
very painful, yet on that account calculated to show forth his
Christian faith, courage, patience and humility ; hut to those who
stand by him, most certain to try their faith and to wonder why God
hath done this ?

The work of purification is no trilling sorrow: It is to us who
witness it, "the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning."

Dear C — ! I .«aw him last Monday struggling for breath, and
scarcely able to swallow, next Monday (the 2()th) I know nut
whether I .shall find him living. Many prayers are offered for him
and all are n(>4^1ed.

I thank you very much for your kind and loving sympathy, . . .

I think the end cannot be far off. May (lod j)ardon and strength-
en us and grant us His peace.

Tlio Annals of tlu' Diocese from wliicli the o.vtracts in this
volume hiive boon taken, with tiie e.xception of tho first tour
pages, are in the Hishop's own writing-.

At the elo.se of the voar 1889 we find tho followiny; notes
in a tremulous luind :

This year i)assed amidst much sickness and sorrow, upheld by the
Divine Helper and brought .safely through.
For which all praise be to God. Amen.

The year following- he again writes :

This year, 1890, sickness continued, and the Jiishop was obliged
to delegate a good deal of the hard work of the Diocese t(j the
Coadjutor, who took it up willingly and kindly. The Bishop con-
tinued to preach in the Cathedral on Sunday evenings, and took
part in all the festival services and daily praycr-i.

During- the year tlie Tiisliop's strength was in some mea-
sure restored. He administered the rite of eonfirmatioii to a

;,!*

III

292

The Mcst Reverend John Medley, D. D.

larf^e nuni])cr in the Cathc<lral on tlie 31st March, and in
the month following eoniirnied at several of the clmrches
in Jit. John, and j)reached on several occasions.

He was again in St. John in June. On the festival of tSt.
Barnaltas he writes in the Annals:

The Bishop consecrated the church of the Good Shepherd at
Fairville. ... In the evening the Bishop attended ii meeting
of the Board of Home Missions. This day 45 ye.rs ago the Bishop
was installed in the Cathedral at Fredericton.

From St. John lie went to Sussex on the 18th June and
attended a service connected with the Choral Union of the
Deanery of Kingston. The Bishop remarks:

It was well and reverently performed. On Friday he went ta
the grave of his dear son. *"

In the following August the Bishop left Fredericton for
Chatham. He remained a few days at Bushville, the resi-
dence of the Honourable Judge Wilkinson. There he ad-
ministered the rite of contirmation at the parish church, and
consecrated a church. On his return he contirmed four
persons at Moncton, on the 17th August, and preached in
the evening.

The record continues :

Sept. 9th. The Bishop loft home for Woodstock and Grand
Falls. On Thursday he visited New Denmark, where he confirmed
twenty. Hoi/ Communion was celebrated and ninety-eight com-
municated. The congregation amounted to about two hundred, —
all Danes. Canon Neales, who had accompanied the Bishop,
assisted at Holy Communion, with the Rev. Mr. Hansen, who hos-
pitably entertained us. Afterwards on Friday, the 12th, the Bishop
and Canon Neales returned to Woodstock, after an Evening Service
had been held at Grand Falls.

On Sunday, the 14th, the Bishop confirmed twenty-seven persons

at Woodstock and preached in the evening On Saturday,

the 13th, the sad tidings reached Canon Neales of the death of his

Last Extract from the Annals.

293

lis

brother, the Rev. W. S. Noalcs, who had several years since been
obliged to leave New liruiiswiek, on account of ill health. He re-
sided in California, otHeiating for some years in >San Francisco,
where he was universally esteemed and beloved. He held the
benefice of St. Paul's there, and was .Secretary to the Synod in
California. ..........

1891, July 21. On Tuesday, the Bishop left home for St.
Andrews. He confirmed on the 5th August, twenty-four in All
Saints Church.

On the 2oth August, he left home intending to go to Sussex and
Dorchester. He was laid up a week at Sussex, and was obliged to
return to Fredericton on Saturday, the 29th.

Tiie forei2;()inu: notes wore made in tiie TMshop's own hand,
and the followin<i; is his last record in the Annals of the
Diocese :

1892. The Bishop issued a short Pastoral referring to his inability
to continue the hard work of the Diocese.

PASTORAL.

BisiiopscoTE, Feb. 23rd, 1892.
My Dear Brethren :

You are aware that some years since I thought it prudent, in
view of a possible failure of health and strength on my part, to
obtain the assistance of a Coadjutor, in order that the work of the
Diocese might not be impeded. It has pleased God to take from
me some portion of the strength which then renuiined, and I fetl
no longer able to undertake tl)e laborious journeys which, up to a
later period, God gave me strength to perform. Painful as it is for
me to abridge any part of ray former duty, I am obliged at the age
of eighty-seven, to ask you to consult with the Coadjutor as to any
confirmations for the coming year, and as to the administrative
work of the Diocese in general, reserving to myself such work as is
practicable for a man in m^' present condition. You will, I teel
assured, not set this down to any want of afllection or earnestness on
my part, and will help me with your kind words and earnest prayers,
that what remains of my life may be spent to the glory of God and

i. ,

21*4 The Most Heverexd John Medley, 1). D.

the good of the Church over which the Lord hath made me a»
overseer.

Praying for a blessing on wliat has been done, and what remains
to be done, I remain

Your faithful and affectionate friend,

John Fredericton.
The Clergy of the Diocese of Fredericton.

For tlie followinu^ iiccount of the closing scenes in the
Bislio[>'s life, wc are indebted to Mrs. Mcdlc}' ;

The Bishop's health and strength never recovered the blow of his
dear son Canon Medley's painful death.

The heart's action became weak, and he was subject to attacks
of faintncss.

During the winter of 1891-2, he suflered much from neuralgic
pain in the hand injured by a fall, but was able to take part in the
<laily service at the Cathedral, and to preach almost every Sunday
evening. He appeared so well in July that he attended the meet-
ing of the Synod in St. John. He opened it in person and was
cheered by the clergy and lay delegates on taking his accustomed
seat: they were so heartily glad to see him, and, as one remarked,
"thought it so plucky of the old Bishop to be present."

He attended all the .services in connection with the session, and
specially enjoyed the Choral Evensong at Trinity, saying " he had
never expected to witness three surpliced choirs taking part in a
service in St. John !"

During his stay amongst them, the city clergy showed him much
kind attention, of which he spoke most gratefully. On Sunday,
July 17, he prea(?hed for iiis dear old friend, Cunon DeVeber, at
St. Paul's, and this was the last sermon.

During the week he went to Sussex, to visit once more his son's
beautiful churches, and his grave.

Kneeling at the foot of it, " his white head bowed and bare," he
had a short service. The 86th Psalm, 1 Thess. iv., collects from
the Burial office and for " All Saints Day," and Hynni 428 — "The
Saints of God." He then went to the Church, but seemed un-
usually feeble and depressed, scarcely speaking all the evening.

Last Illness and Death.

2i)5

!It

Next clay he drove to Studholni Church, and to see the " Medley
Memorial Hall," recently built, with which he was much pleased,
and in the evening went back to St. John.

On his return to Fredericton the weather was extremely hot, and
quickly prostrated him. It fell on the heart, still further lowering
its action, and on the nervous system. He had .sleepless nights and
faint, feeble days, and in six weeks was worn out, and calmly and
peacefully entered into rest — "The rest that remnineth for the
people of God."

During his illness the Psalms, especially the Penitential ones,
were his constant solace and support. On the Hunday before his
death he asked for the xxvii. of St. Matt., the chapter which Bishop
Juxon relates gave such strength and comfort to King Charles I. on
the morning of his martyrdom. It was read to him at intervals
through the day. The crucifixion made his tears flow, he said, " I
never knew what He ."^ufiercd for me till now."

He left messages to all his friends and to the clergy, repeating
again and again, " Tell them my heart was full of love to them all."
His dear Clergy for whom he felt such ample sympathy in their
laborious work, and for whom his prayers were daily ottered, were
much on his mind, he often broke out with, " Oh my beloved
Diocese, my dear Clergy ! " The Cathedral bells chiming for pjven-
song always brought him back to consciousness, " Why there are
my bells ! yes, they are my bells ! " he would say, and a gleam of
pleasure would light up his face. The last connected words he
uttered were from the Liturgy, " O Lamb of Ood, that takest
away the sins of the world, grant me Thy peace."

On Tuesday morning he became unconscious and remained so till
the calm and peaceful end on Friday, Sept. 51, at 8.30 a. ni.

The trihuto ot res[ioct to the HLshop's memory was uni-
versal and spontaneous, and only u very small selection can
be made in these paijes of all that has been written.

One oi" the elerirv ot the Diocese said :

As we recall the wise and true-hearted shej)herd who has gone to
the bright pastures and still waters of Paradise, of all he has been.

20*1 The Most Kkveuend John Medley, D. ]).

and of all that he has done for the priests and the people in this
Diocese, we may take up the Psalmist's words and say of him with
grateful love, " so he fed them with a faithful and true iieart, and
ruled them i)rudently with all his power." The Bishop's last ill-
ness, his death, the carrying of his body into his beloved Cathedral
by his Clergy, the watch all through the night, the crowded church,
the thronged eucharists on the day of liis burial, all told of a great
burst of love, and respect and veneration, which his life in its truth,
its simplicity, its unfailing courage, its deep and loving humility,
called forth from all who knew him as a groat Bishop of the Church
of God.

Another wrote :

It is not easy at once to throw back our thoughts over the space
of forty-seven years to that first summer and winter when the young
Bishop began his journeyings in this region, and thence on to the
later years, when he was called to "endure hardness" in the charge
of this Diocese.

How feebly can we recognize what it meant and what it cost. In
this, as in so much else, he was 'an example of the believers," a
true Missionary of the Cross, in toils, in perils, in travels, in ex-
l)osure and hardship, in the persistent efibrt to gather the scattered
members of the household of faith, to secure the funds, to find the
priests, to found and strengthen the missions and parishes, to build
the chur(;hes, to overcome prejudice, to bear the conflicts with
ignorance, and still as the work grew to feel the burden heavier,
and all the trials none the lighter, as misunderstanding and distrust
so slowly retreated. One is amazed at what the grace of God did
in thai soul, and at the thought of how the spirit of ghostly strength
dwelt richly in that ripening character.

The funeral services were held at the Cathedral on Sept.
18. They were most solemn, impressive and well arranijed.
Towards eveniny: on Mondav tliere was a short service at
Bishopscote.

A procession was then formed, consistiiii; of the Clei'ij^y
and elioir. The body was reverently borne by six of the

TllK BlRIAL.

•297

youn_u;».'r Clei'iry to the Cathedra]. It was jthu-cd in the
clianeel at tlic entrauee ot'the choir. The well-reniemhered
face was scarcely cliantred at alh lie ajipeared as it" in a
calm sleep. In his rol)es, with pectoral cross and rinir, it
seemed as if lie mnst rise and join in the holy services lie
loved so well. The Cathedral was well fille<l at even-sonu:.
From (i to !) o'clock there was a continned thronu' to ]tass
by the body and take a last look. All was so tjuii't, orderly
and ri'Ncrent I At 9 p. m. the cotKn was removed to the
sanctuarv. It was watched over all throu4'li the nii'iit hy
relays of Clerffv and laymen.

On Tuesday there was a celebration of the Holy Com-
munion at 8 a. m. and afterwards at 11. Very laruv num-
bers attended. At 12 o'clock the crowd in and around the
Cathedral was very i!;reat. Larii'e numbers had come from
the City of St. John and more distant parts, amonyst wliom
were to be found rei>resentatives of the church corporatiojis
of very many parishes, and the St. Geori^e's Society of St.
John. 7\fter the service in tae church, including hymns
401 and 428, A. and M., the colHn was carried out by the
six Canons, ])receded by tJie band of the Infantry school,
the Bishops and Clergy, and followed by a lengthened {»ro-
cession to the grave at the east end of the Cathedral, just
beneath the chancel window. The spot is well chosen.
There, in accordance w'th the oft e.\[»ressed wish of the
Bishop, his body rests in ('hrist under the shadow of the
building which he so loved.

After the the benediction, hymn 140 A. and M. was sung.
The whole service was most deeply impressive throughout.

On the return of the Cleruv to the vestry the following
minute was adopted :

" We the clergy, met together after having paid the last tribute
of regard to our late dearly-beloved Bishop, desire to give expres-
sion to our feelings of deej) mourning and sorrow.

ill

298

The Most Ueverend John Medley, D. D.

*' Wc call to iniiul his lengthened, constant, unwearied work in
our blessed Master's service, his deep learning, his knowledge of the
Word of God, his wise teaching in accordance with the doctrines of
the Church of Christ.

" We shall cherish in our memories his frequent, generous gifts,
his zeal and steadfast purpose in everything that related to the well-
being of the Church in this Diocese.

" We regard his saintly life and high attainments as having been
eminently fitted for the high and holy office which he filled for
nearly fifty years."

The Lord Bishop was reciuestod to forward a copy of the
minute to Mrs. Medley, with an expression of the (leei)e8t
sympathy and loving roganh

It was also proposed hy the Clergy to erect a memorial
cross at the grave.

^^ulJse(lUently, a general meeting of the Clergy and Laity
was held in the CMiureh Hall, with the l^ieutenant (iovernory
k>ir Leonard Tilley, in the cliair. A large representative
I'ommittee was appointed to carry out the wishes of the
meeting with reference to a memorial, the form of which
to l)e decided upon at a later day.

The meeting of the Trovineial Synod, on September 14,
liindered the attendance at the funeral of the JJishops from
the northern Dioceses. The liishop of Xova Scotia was
present, Arclideacon Gil[)in and several other clergymen
from that Diocese. Father Benson was also present. A
telegram was sent by the Presiding liishoii of the American
Ciiurch, exiiressive of his deep sympathy and atfectionatc
regard and of regret at his inability to be present. The
following was the inseription on the cofiin :

" The most Reverend Father in God, John M'nlley, D. D., Lord
Bishop of Fredericton and ^^etropolitan of Cana<la. Died, Septem-
ber 9, 1892. Aged eighty -eight years."'

CHAITKR XXIII.

Extracts from Letters to ^Frs. Me!)i,ey — Xotices in tuiz
Press — 1{esoutions — Letters from Rev. Caxox I^rk;-
snu'KE, D.I)., AXi) FROM Kev. Caxox Xeale-<, M. a. —
Extracts from Memorial Sermons.

'UK mnvorsal cstooni with which the hito Uishop was
ro<:;ar(le(l tbiiiid tittiuij oxjuvssiiin in tlio lottors of
sympathy rcci'ivod hy his bereaved wi(l(.)w, tVom wliicli
we are i>erinitte(l to taki' tlie tbllowint; extracts.
A (lii^iiitary of tlie Canadian Church writes:

The work which your great uud noble-hearted IJih^hop (Hd tor tlie
("hureh not only in his own Diocese, hut in the whole of Canada,
will only now he fully appreciated when it is set forth, as no doubt
it will be, in some worthy form by those who know it best.

For myself I was greatly attracted to the dear Bishop when I
first met him, now nearly thirty years ago, and felt even in one
evening's intercourse how much of sympathy and help and stiinulns
his Clergy must have in him in their studies as well as in their
work.

I felt too at once the charm of his preaching — so simple and yet
so eloquent and profound, so penetrating — and all beautified and
perfected by the savor of i)iety which ever encompassed him as an
atmosphere. I do not know that I ever heard preaching that moved
me so deeply in the best sense. If his inHuence was thus felt by
one who saw him so rarely what must it have been to those to
whom he was for years and years their Father in God !

A cler«;yinaii, or(hiiiie<l hy the Bishop, hut wlio luis been
workiiii; in the States tor nuinv vears, thus writes of him :

I was confirmed and ordained Deacon and Priest by the Bishop,
and have always had the highest admiration for his ability and
learning. There is nothing in his death to regret ; it was a full

300

The Most Keveuend .Foiin Mkdlev, J). D.

life, full of days and of li(»iiom> ; he accompli.^hed Ji jiTcat work and
did it well. 1 well remember the oppo.sitioii and ditticulty he en-
countered in the earlier part of his episcopate, and how bravely he
carried the banner of true and loyal churchmansiiip through it all.
I shall remember him in every celebration as among the faithful
departed.

This voices the feeling of many other (•leryvnien working
in tlie Ignited States and in other parts of tlie Doniininn.
A layman writes :

I cannot, even at the Bishop's advanced age, hear of his demise
without a keen pang of sorrow and a deej) sense of irreparable loss.
And if this be so to me, how much more to you, the privileged
partner of all his labours, cares and joys ; how much more to the
bereaved Diocese, which was almost his own creation, and of which
he was in the fullest sense a Father in God. Among his many high
and noble qualities there seemed to be two especially godlike : First,
his great patience and silence under attack and injury, of which in
the earlier years of his episcopate he had so much to bear. He
lived down all attacks, and so far as I can remember he answered
none, at least in the public prints. Second, his great and unceasing
benevolence: receiving nothing from the Diocese, he gave it every-
thing, even to the half of his income, and nuich more. But while
we mourn so great a loss, for him we can only rejoice, for, like a
ripened ear of corn, full of years, full of honours, and laden with
the loving prayers of thousands of his children, he dropped gently
into the garner of his Jjord. Ji. I. P.

Another layman says:

At length the long struggle is over, and our dear Bishop is in the
rest of Paradise ! How blessed a rest for him after the weary days
and nights of the last few years. How often he must have longed
to lay aside his armour ; yet how patiently he waited his Master's
time. And now the earthly tie is severed that for so long a time
has bound the Diocese of Fredericton to its first Bishop, its most
generous benefactor and truest friend. It is bard to realize, but we

Extracts from Letters to Mrs. ^^EI>LEY. 301

must all thank Gutl fur the noble life and bright example. Grant
him, Lord, eternal rest.

Another friend writes :

The lesson of the liishop's whole life seemed " patient continuance
in well-doing." "For My .ake thou hast laboured and hast not
fainted." His devotional habits reveal the secret of his influence
more than anything. Would that in this which seems the imitable
part of his example one could in any way resemble him. He might
have said, though he was too humble to do it, " Lord, how I love
Thy law, all the day long is my study in it."

An old friend, C^mon Townshend, now livinirin Knglimd,
says:

When the dear Bishop was last in England he did me the honour
to come down to see me ; as we stood by the grave of our old Rector
we read the following lines on his tomb :

"Solo in ctelo quies
Et sine nube dies."

Li that cloudless light our beloved Bishop now joins the song of the
Redeemed, adoring with the holy Angels the Lord Go<l omnipotent '
How blessed a thought is this, it is yours, and it i^ mine. Thanks
be to God !

^ The (V)lonel of one of the regiments at one time stationed
111 Frederieton says :

Shall I ever forget his bright, hearty services and his trenchant
sermons in that beautiful Cathedral which he had raised and
adorned m every possible way, neither shall I ever forget his kind-
ness and geniality to my wife and myself.

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge says :

It gave me a pang to hear of the death of my dear, old, honoured
riend who has for fifty years been by me most truly and deeply

honoure.1 and beloved He has been so intensely taken

up with the duties that lay around his feet that he has not been

802

TiiK Most l{i:vKHKNit John Mkdlev, I), D.

known in England ho well or m widely as he deserved, but ^^r.
Gladstone once said to me he thought " his was the wisest head that
wore a mitre." Flis goodness, his accomplishments, his noble sim-
plicity, I have seldom known approached in the exijerifiice of what
is now a long life.'

Anotlier eorrcspondeut in Kiii^ljuid writes:

How many delightful memories you have to sustain you amidst
the daily trial '! Every spot, every spiritual theme, even every
cross will recall h'un in some way to you. How you must niiss his
melodious voice at the Cathedral,' his gentle, thoughtful, reverent
manner, and the look of absorption in the worship, his hands folded
in prayer, as they now are " in peace," his face radiant with delight,
so (piiet and intense in the Psalms and music, his maidy, clear
utterance, so full of faith in Divine truths and so pregnant with
learning, and clothed in simple, terse, comprehensive Englisii, his
(juiet tread along the aisle, or by the altar, with such an al)sence of
.self-consciousness, and the unexaggerated reading of Holy .Scripture,
devout, yet marked with true and subtle perception of the inner
meaning and spirit of it all. "Truly a Prince, and a great man is
fallen in Israel."

'In Ills lite of Ki'})li', Lord Coleriilso gives a letter dated at Iliirsley
Vicarage, (itii Oitoher, ISoS, in wiiicli Kel)le writes: "1 do wish to l\now
wlietiier you liavc any objection to appropriating tiie proceeds of tlie next
edition of the 'Lyra' to Fredericton, for I very much wisli to do something
for dear Medley, and liardly know how to do it any other way."

Connnenting on tliis, Lord Coleridge remarks: "1 am unable to say wliat
answer I returned as to the ' Lyra,' nor is it material ; but I would not omit
the question, because it is a testimony to a dear friend, one of the most sound,
and zealous, and able of our Colonial Bishops, which it will give him a
pleasiu'e he well deserves to see recorded."

"■'The Hishop had a very melodious voice, and his reading was simply
perfect. The late Principal of Education frequently said it was the greatest
treat to hear the Metro[)()litan read the loth of 1 Corinthians — the Burial
chapter. ]t was a perfect piece of ehxinence, every accent, every tone giving
the full sense and beauty of that wonderful chapter. His reading of the daily
lessons was looked forward to by many as a commentary on the chai)ter, antl
throwing new light on eveiy verse.

J '-i

KXTUACTS l"K<iM liKTTKHS To Ml<S. Mk1»I,FA'.

.S08

Kev. ir. W. Tiu-ker, Secretary of the S. 1'. (i. writes:

I lioard of the death of the great and fanioiis lirst Bishop of
Frcderieton witli iiiueh sorrow. The liisliop's life and work has
been familiar to ine from my boyhood, and I shall always honour
his memory as I honoured his life.

In eonvoyiii^ u resolution of syinpntliy from the Staiidiiit;
Coniniittee of the Society for Proniotinu' Christian Know-
ledijc the liev. W. Oshorn Allen, Seeretarv, savs :

The Bishop of Frederieton had been a member of the Society
since 1828 and one of the Vice-Presidents since his consecration in
1845, We liave therefore to mourn the death of one, who was not
only a standard-bearer in the Cinu'ch in Canada, but also one of
our oldest niend)ers, and honoured Vice-Presidents. 1 find that in
the ten years between 1880 and 18!)0, we helped him to l)uild no
less than twenty-eight Chu relies in his Diocese, our correspondence
■with him was always a pleasure, and we received from him many
expressions of his gratitude. Yon alone can estimate the depth of
your own loss, but it nuiy be a comfort to you to know that the
Metropolitan of Canada was honoured in England as a great figure,
and a truly good man.

The ])ishop of TMoenifontein writes fVoni South Afi-ica:

I feci I have lost a dear and revered friend, yet we cannot grudge
him his rest after such a long, devoted and honoured life, and after
passing through so many trials, so bravely borne, I wouKl fain
hope that in his place of rest he still remcMnbers us who are strug-
gling here, as we are permitted to remember him, and all other
faithful departed, in (jur prayers.

Extracts could be made iroiii more than five hundreil
letters received within tlie first three months of liis death,
and from the public addresses, but the above will suffice t<t
show the universal love and vcMierati<iii with which he was
roijarded.

804

TiiK Most liKvi:Ri:Ni> .John Mkdley, J). I).

It was ri'jnarkod tluit on no previous occasion on the death
of any piihlir man was the press in the jtrovinee so unani-
mous in iiotic«'s ot" roijret, and in expressions of rei(ard.

Tiiu t(>llo\vin<; is an extract from tiie K'tter of a corrca-
[)ondent \t\ tlie C/iiU'c/i Tiiiic,'^ :

It niny be well said of Bishop Afodley what Dr. Macleur has
enihodied in iiis able nioiioyraph on St. Augustine's college, vie.,
that he brought home to himself and to his clergy the great fact
of the spiritual *ind catholic eharacterof the English Church, that
it holds entire a'ld uncorrupt the inspired Word of (Jod ; it retains
and uses the three creeds which it has iidierited from the earliest
times ; it has in the works of its own famous teachers a rich store
of accurate and philosoiddcul diviidty ; and it has ever been the
foremo.st in its witness to the cardinal truths of the incarnation and
sacrifice of the Son of God,

It would take volumes to tell of our dear Bishop's goodness to
" all .sorts and conditions of men." By the poor around his home,
whether in England or in Fredericton, he can never be forgotten ;
the sacredne-ss of his personal share of sorrow and pain cannot be
more than named here ; to his great generosity to his clergy their
churches, their homes, and, most of all, their libraries, bear abund-
ant witness ; to his full knowledge and great skill in administration,
to his strong and definite church principles, his diocese and every
parish and nussion within it afford plentiful testimony.

His last illness, his death, the carrying of his body into his beloved
cathedral by his clergy, the watch all through the night, the
crowded church, the thronged Eucharists on the day of his burial ;
all told of a great burst of love and respect and veneration which
his life in its truth, its simplicity, its unfailing courage, its deep
and loving humility, has called forth from all who knew him as a
great Bi.shop of the Church of God.

This short remembrance woidd indeed be incomplete if it did not
contain some tribute to our dear Bishojj's wife. She, as his unfailing
companion and help-meet, has done more than can ever be known
here for the Church and for our Bishop; as she is still here, as all
hope and pray for years to come, more cannot be said than this, that

NuTICE.S 1)1" TIIK I'UKSfS.

805

id not
iiiliiig
:nown
as all
;, that

the DiocoHC turiH to hor with an cxprosriioii <»f syiupnthy deop luid
true, boc'aiis«j its iove lor the IJishop \va!> tlw[} iiiid true.

The followiiii^ notice i?* from another Kiii;lisli paper:

In after years the good Hisliop often relate*! some of the aimising
memories of his first experiences in the; colony. From the fir.-^t he,
set a tine example of siiiiplicity and domestic life, so nerdfui ahove
all in a land where wealth confers the cliief distinction, and wlure
ostentation too often passes for the hall-mark t)f social pre-eminence.
He was enahlcd to lay broadly and di-eply the foundations of the
Anglican Church in the Province to which lie was appointed.
Many spots in New Brunswick which wen; spiritually " wa>itc
places" on his arrival are now centres of spiritual enlighteiiuient.
As a preacher Dr. Medley's style was nev( r wearisome or difluse.
Ho was a master of English, and he never talked over the heads of
his people, hut used pure strong Saxon that went straight to the
head and heart. His services in the cause of church nuisie, church
architecture, and the better and more reverential pfrfnrniance of
j)ublie worship are well known. In every sphere of lite thidughout
New lirunswick his name will long be held in liallowe<l remem-
brance, while many in more distant places will bear witness to hi.s
piety, his singleness of aim, and his personal worth.

At the nieetiiiiiot the Provincial Synod, held at Montreal,
the I'ollowing resolntioii was a<loi»te(l by a staiulini;- vote:

That the Lower Hou.«e of the Synod of the Province of Canada
do place on record their grateful sense of the treasure possessed by
the Church in Canada in the life and labours of the venerable
and venerated Metropolitan, the Most Kev. J. Medley, Bishop of
Fredericton, from the creation of that Diocese in 1845 down to this
year of grace 181J2. Forty-seven years' service in the sacred and
laborious office of a Bishop of the Church of tiod marked by such
unceasing and devoted labours and distinguished by such soundness
of jiulgment and ripeness of learning cannot be suinnied up in any
brief statement. The history of this ecclesiastical Province and of
the Church in the Diocese of Fredericton is the memorial of the

806

The Most Keverexd John Medley, D. D.

most reverend Father in God, for whose entrance into rest we bless
God while we mourn our own loss.

That the Prolocutor be recjuested to convey a copy of this resolu-
tion to the Synod of the Diocese of Fredericton and to Mrs. Medley,
with the earnest assurance of the heartfelt sympathy of the Lower
House of the Provincial Synod.

Letter from the Keetor of Trinity oliureh, St. John:

St. John, January 10, 1893.
Ml/ Dear Canon Ketclnim :

In complying with your kind request, that I should furnish some
personal reminiscences of our late beloved Bishop, I must confess that
I naturally feel a good deal of difhculty in making a selection from
those that crowd on the memory, through the lengthened period
of nearly twenty years, that it was n)y privilege to work under and
with him.

From my first introduction to the Bishop in October, 1873, when
I arrived from England to undertake my pre.-ent duties, to the last
time he was with me in Trinity Church in July, 1892, I received
from him nothing but the greatest consideration and much personal
kindness. As J was frecjuently associated with him in Diocesan
work, it is almost needless lo say that much occurred that called out
diversity of opinion, and sometimes constrained me to take a line to
which he did not altogether agree, but I never heard a reproving or
unkind word. In one matter it was my painful duty to differ from
him so much as even to record my vote in the Synod against a work
which he had approved, but his charity did not fail, and no dis-
turbance of his uniform kindness ever took place.

The first special mark of his favour I received in 1870, when the
Bishop appointed me one of the honorary Canons of the Cathedral,
and asked me at the same time to be one of the trustees of the
building and its furniture. In 1888 he still further honored me by
asking me to be his comuiissary during a lengthened absence from
the Diocese, while he went to attend the conference of Bishops at
Lambeth.

In thinking over his life and work, no one, I should say, could
fail to admire his attachment to his clergy and devotion to his

'ii

n the
Iral,

f the

lie by
from

a\)!i at

Letter from Rev. Canox Briustocke, D. D. 307

Diocese generally. To the younger clergy csjiecially he was indeed
a father in God, and felt for them the warmest sympathy in their
endeavour to grapple with the difficulties of their often widely
extended and arduous missions. His frequent gifts of money and
books, as well as his kind hospitality so freely bestowed on them all,
leave no doubt that he bore with them the burden of ministerial
liibor, and held them in remembrance in his thoughts and jira;, ers
The Bishop's attachment to his Diocese is the more worthy of notice,
as the history of the Colonial Episcopate furnishes, alas! so many
instances of Episcopal resignations, and return to the mother land.
I do not believe that our dear Bishop ever entertained such an idoa.
It is well known that when ho went to England for a visit, I think
it was the last one, he stated that the happiest day he spent away
•Nvas the one on which he put his foot on the steamer to return. O
si sic omnes ! The Church would then have a chance of taking far
deeper root in the land, and growing and expanding as we desire.

1 must further say that in nothing did the Bi.>hoj)'s saintliness of
life appear to me more conspicuous than in his simple habits and
unaffected piety. The fashion of this world \vas not ills guide, and
it was easy to see how much he dii^likod ostentatious display. He
even doubted the use of public meetings, because as he once said
to me, people so often say on platforms such nonsense and speak
so insincerely. Very closely did he follow the i?tcj)s of the Master
who came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and whose
voice was not heard in the streets.

I have mentioned above the time when I first met Bishop Medley ;
I must tell of the last scene. It was my privilege to be in Fieder-
icton during his dosing hours. The day before he died, as he lay
quite unconscious of what was going on around him, I knelt with
several others aroKiid his bed in supplication for Divine blessing
and help in tlie parting strife. The next morning I was in his
room at any early hour to know how he was. Apparently he was
much the same. I kni'lt by his bedside and said the "Nunc
Dimittis," and then took a farewell look. That was tlu' (.-losing
scene. In less than an hour, ihc dear Bishop had entered into rest.
The life of eighty-seven years, and the episcopate of forty-.seveu

iilli i

308

The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

were ended. It was a calm sunset after a life of long and glorious
work.

I shall trespass no more on valuable space. I feel it a privilege
to have been allowed to make this brief contribution to the memoir.

Yours very sincerely,

F. H. J. Briostocke,

Rector of Trinity Church.

P. S. — I herewith enclose a copy of the resolution passed by the
Vestry of Trinity Church in memory of our late Bishop.

" We, the Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestry of Trinity
Church, place on record our deep sense of the loss which the Church,
in this Diocese has sustained by the death of its Bishop, the Right
Reverend John Medley, D. D., which took place on September 9th,
1892, and the expression of our high esteem for his life and work.

We regard with much veneration his lung episcopate of forty-
seven years, and admire his abundant labours, his single-minded-
ness, and untiring devotion to the work of his Diocese.

By his great attainments, and high standard of Christian living,
we readily recognize his eminent fitness for the office of a Bishop,
and how richly he adorned it by his saintly life. As comparatively
few have attained his years in the P^piscopal office, so we believe
that few will be found who have more faithfully performed the
sacred duties attached to it.

We offer our respectful i^yrapathy to Mrs. Medley in her bereave-
ment.

Further Resolved, That the Vestry Clerk transmit a copy of the
. above resolution to ]Mrs. Medley."

Letter I'roiu the Kural Dean of Woodstock :

Woodstock, Feb. 14, Ud'l

The la.st visit of our dear I'i.siiop to our Deanery was made early
in September, 1890. On Tuesday, the 9th, he came by train to
Woodstock to start the next day for New Denmark, but in the
night he was taken so ill that Dr. Smitli was called in under whose
skilful treatment the Bishop soon rallied and recovered so rapidly
that by noon he (letert>iined to procei'd on iiis journey. He would

.'!l']^Wa.!«J..L"'

Letter from Rev. Caxox Neales, ^^. A.

:30!)

not if pof>sible disappoint the Danes who were expecting him, and
in whom lie liad always felt the very deejiest interest.

I accompanied him by train to Grand Falls, whence we drove to
New Denmark a distance of eight miles, the next day. The service
at New Denmark was of a most interesting character, twenty per-
sons were confirmed, and ninety-eight received the Holy Com-
munion out of a congregation of about two hundred. It was pleasing
to see the deep affection and respect of the Danes for the Bishop,
us they gathered around him after the service to have him shake
hands with them, and to sjieak a word of kind encouragement to
them.

Service was held that evening at Grand Falls and the next day
the Bishop returned to Woodstock, still feeling the effects of his late
sharp attack of illness. On Sunday, September 14th, he adminis-
tered Confirmation at St. Luke's Church, Woodstock, and in the
evening preached. The next day he returned to Fredericton. This
visit of our dear Bishop was a cause of great joy to us all though we
were forced to feel that it was likely to be, as it proved, the last
visit that he was to make us.

To express in few words the view which his life and character
present to our minds, and the place he ever held in our hearts,
would be impossible. As for me personally, the earliest recollec-
tions of my childhood are associated with him as friend and Bishop,
and through all ihe years of my life and ministry his wise and
loving character has ever been a deep and powerfully inspiring
influence.

In our Parish he always seemed to take an especial interest, — as
vas shown by his ever kind intercourse, his wise guidance, his con-
stant gifts in aid of the Church, and his fullest sympathy whenever
any sorrow or trial befell us, either personally, or as a Parish.

And the Clergy of our Deanery have placed these few words on
record. " To us his Clergy, he was at all times a wise, patient and
loving Father in (rod, and the memory of his teaching and the
exaniple of his life will serve to encourage us in all our future
labour in the Church of Christ."

Thomas Neai.eh.

310 The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

The following; extracts are from sermons preached the
Sunday after the funeral ot the Bishop, in prominent
churches in the City of St. John, hy clergymen of difterent
schools of thought.

From a sermon at the Mission Chapel of St. John Baptist,
St. John, hy the Rev. Pelham AVilliams, S. T. D., I'riest in
charge, from the text Psalm Ixxviii, 73, the following pas-
sages are taken :

While there is a hush in the air and a shadow over the Diocese,
men are saying to each other, " That was a great career which
found its earthly close last Friday." That was a great heart, which
beats no more; and a great brain, which has been bright, and clear,
and busy for niauy a long year with the grandest themes and inter-
ests ; and a great will-power, which pressed right on, right through,^
right over the most real hindrances and difficulties ; and a great
wisdom, which knew how to deal with knotty problems and perplex-
ing facts; and a great courage, which never quailed or failed ; and
a great patience which could wait, and wait, until the storm should
pass, and the turmoil should cease ; and a great firmness which
could not and would not yield one inch of holy ground, or Catholic
truth, or lofty principle, or steadfast conviction ; and a great perse-
verance, whicli could i-enew, in the fitting time and way, some hin-
dered purpose, or bafHcd effort ; and a great energy, which kept
vigorous nerves in an old manhood, until its work was done.

One would ghully turn to those pictures in the long life story,
which would give us the sturdy boyhood ; the dihgent student at
Oxford; the Curate serving in the rural life in Devon ; the young
Priest toiling in Cornwall ; the Vicar and Prebendary under the
strong Bishop of Exeter ; then himself a Bishop, crossing the seas
to serve and rule, in colonial life, a diocese not too ready to under-
stand and appreciate, and uphold him ; and then, at last, the Metro-
politan, honored, trusted, revered, wielding all his power for the
welfare of the Church ; ruling with gentle and gracious dignity,
enforcing respect, winning admiration ; true to his work, true to his
God, and true to the hope set before him.

¥ih—

1).

rtc'hed the
prominent
^ <lifterent

» Baptist,
i'rie.st in
vj"g pas-

5 Diocese,
-er which
firt, which
incl clear,
nul inter-
through^
J a great
perplex-
ed ; and
1 .should
s which
^'atholic
tt perse-
me hin-
■h kept

iBstory,
lent at
young
ler the
le seas
inder-
tfetro-
r the

to his

Extracts from Sermons.

311

Yet the sermon space is ever brief; and we may be content just
here and now, to ask what gave to Bishop Medley, that vigorous,
inflexible devotion to duty, at any and every cost, which made him
the hero and the saint, and which fairlv won for him, ere he fell
asleep, the title of the Brave and Wise Bishop?

I. First, there was the clearest vision, in that strong and active
mnid, of the Catholic Church, as "the Church of the Living God
the pillar and ground of the truth." For him, who holds thai
verity, with an intense grasp, it is wonderful how much else is clear
in all the realms of faith and duty. Vagueness goes. Light comes'
more and more. The Christ is not an absent Lord, but present
with his priesthood, in His mysteries of the altar, under the veil of
the written word, through His appointed means of grace bv His
angels leading His people, and sending His Spirit of Truth fnto a
world of Ignorance, and darkness and error. The Church of God
militant here, guarding, defending, proclaiming, upholding the'
truth of God, cherishing that truth as her most sacred trust • living
for It, glorying in it, and faithful to it above all things ; it is just
this when fully and fairly apprehended, which ennobles and inten-
s.hes a churchman's life. And it is this, my beloved, which is the
prime element of power in the episcopate. There is the semblance
of power indeed, which comes with some brilliant gifts, and exqui-
site culture, and charm of oratory, and skill in organizing and
perilous toleration ; and with that so-called " breadth of view "
which is only broad because it is neither deep nor high and with
that "charity," which at last gives away as much of the truth as it
nrnily retains.

Our Bishop, now at rest, was grandly restful while he wroujrht
because he held the Catholic Faith, which upheld him. L, wearied
and troubled moments there comes to us a "great calm," when we
say the Creed very slowly. After a second or third repetition, very
often the clouds vanish. When we have come to see acrain with
keen and patient glance, the Church, as the very ark of' Go'd the
sense of peace and security is renewed ; and when we behold'her '
as the pillar and ground of the truth, then we know that all i. «.,fe
and well, where that truth abides, which the Church keeps and
maintains, for the saving of our souls.

■' ''!!

« . i i

!-^P

IT Tf

^^' U one word of" «f d i
mine „ffioe." Nov^ 7"" ? " ""«'" »'" '» tl.-l.T, •'•''■«'

B'»l>op .., ,l,c Churcl, of ," j^ ""'''* '» 'iTget, tl,„( ,,; „,,„7
« '.. the j;,.a,„lo,„. ,„■ |,i, „^^ ' ° 'el •" oo>,„.,cl.or, i„ „„, ,,„, „, ;;^'

serv«nf \p r. , '''"««« to think thnt fl • "* " <^''l'til

«».'. «.e he,-,,.. :r:;i :sr";,:;'i' -•" -'-<-•• '»*e;™;„:-

Shcyhe.-,.a,K,,ii.,,„p„f „,„.;^ "'■ ™"" '" '"•"'■ fr- 'he

'.'"■'. 'he sy,„,,„|, „,„, ,„,, J ' ; «■ '■= 'i'd ..et di.dai„, l,„e a'd

«-»r'he!,,,ot„o^t c»,n-;;"'o:«.d s;;:;:^,;:;^^^
™ee-.,p„„ t,,o Epi,,„p„,^ j^ .;,rfi„!:r '""' °'' "^ "''°'« p^-

- ^' "I'.av. «"ishoi :;;':;':;'?,'"'' *'"'" "- 'oxt'o Tit'
Jfany of ,.„„ I,,, ^

v.ew was „„We „„d .no„,„ ^l^'t,:".?'?*,';!' ''™"' ""^ P"''"' of

-of .,„r„ed -og„i,ion-„„,:";;:,:'|-«°- -"-"■iodga.o,,'

• -i'"aise almost un-

KXTHAl'T.S FROM f>KKMuNS.

l^U

mingled and yet truth ; for there are lives where the old and altii.-sod
maxim, nil nisi bonum mortuis, can be exchanged for the hotter
rendering, nil nisi veriuu.

But we can do more than echo the words of praise that are on
the lips of all, irrespective of creed and party. At the end of a
course so long and so eventful, we can judge — we can anticipate
posterity itself, for many of us are the posterity of that generation
which gave birth to John Medley, Bishop of Fredericton.

The prciu-lier then alludes to what is called the "Oxford
moveniont," with which it is well known the IJishop was in
sympathy. lie then proceeds :

But the people of his Diocese knew him in other respects than as
a staunch upholder of one school of thought in the Church of Kng-
hind. They knew him, and 1 know that all respected and were proud
of him as the many-sided man — the man whose entrusted talents
had not been few, and had been richly increased ; the man wjio in
many, if not all intellectual qualities, stood above those who met
him or opposed him. .........

But two gifts were especially his. Powers which, if not indispen-
sable for a minister of God, are invaluable helps — the one for the
vork of rightly dividing the word of truth, the other as the means
of making its teachings clear, intelligible, and felt by the heart. I
mean scholarship and eloquence.

And another great gift he possessed was utterance, both by voice
and writing. Not his the pv)i)ular elocjuence which is advertised
and sent to market ; not his the power, and far less the inclination,
to startle or puzzle and excite to laughter in sacred places, or to the
vulgar admiration which demands a coaree sustenance. But his
was that true ehMjuence which depends upon accurate thought ami
exquisite fitness of language, pulsating with true feeling, like the
gentle rise and fall of billows on a summer sea. And when that
true eloquence is aided by the inflections of a voice like his, by an
utterance simple, distinct, earnest and coming from the heart, it is a
power for God.

Mr. (k'Sovres illustrates what ho has -aid hv several

314 The Most Reverend John Medley, I). D.

((uotiitioiis t'rorn the volume of sermons tlie Bishop imblishetl
in 1845, and eoncludes as tbllows :

Witli Christ his loved Master rests our good Bishop and Pastor.
He has hc«iiieathed an example to all of us, not in this opinion or
that practice, but in the scheme of his whole life. He has left to
Canada an examjde of a type which, whether in the mother country
or the colonics, tends sadly to dinunish — that of the gentleman wha
needs no lavish surroundings to prove his position aiid maintain his

dignity, who is ecpuil to himself in all circumstances

He has left us the example of a citizen who was an honour to his-
adopted country, avoiding no duty, grudging no obligation, but
knowing that it was in the due performance of his own work that
he best proved his citizenship.- Rarely he ottered counsel; more
often it was asked of him, and then he gave the ripe fruit of a keen
intelligence and wide knowledge of the world, and a profound sense
of what was due to a country's and a city's honour. And to us his
subordinates, his spiritual children, especially, he has left an ex-
ample most precious and yet most exacting. Though he never
concealed his own firm and strong convictions, no one could have
been, in his later days, as I knew him, more tolerant of legitimate
dirterence, more courteous to advei-se opinions within the limits of
our Church.

What that example was in munificent generosity, in anxious care
for his subordinates, in encouragement to young ministei-s, in scru-
pulous performance of duty, that is known to us all. May it be
ours to follow in his footsteps! May his constant prayers for this^
his beloved Diocese, be heard ! May the good providence of God
help us at the present time, assist the present Bishop, the successor,
of an historical episcopate, the inheritor of difficult responsibilities ! "

In luldition to what is hero so inqtrossively said, the t'ollow-
in«r words of the prearlier are subjoined, wbieli were written
duriuii; the Bishop's Hfotime :

Let us think of the Cathedral placed by the river side forever
afterwards his monument and his work. C^f that moment when it
seemed that it would never be finished, and how prayer was raised.

Extracts from t>ERMoxs.

315

and confiilence siirvivcl, and then the generous and unknown con-
tril)ution made all things possible once more.

What daring scribe will venture to dwell with needless emphasis
on what all who read this journal know as the living and acted
sermon of a life-time, that embodiment of the Christian and gentle-
man, blended so that each aspect is the necessary supplement of the
other.

Who will dare to repeat the genial stories which the good Bishop
(not seldom at his own expense) loves to relate, and relates so well
of amusing experiences in his travels, and of the records of inter-
course with many min.ls, of which none left him unimproved or
uncheered by courtesy or friendly word?

Who will speak of that perfect example of simplicity and
domestic life, so needful above all in a land where wealth confbrs
the chief distinction, and where ostentation too often passes for the
hall-mark of social pre-eminence.

But of these things we nee.l not write, because they are known,
llio people of this province know n„w, if they knew it not at fii^t
and learned it but tardily, that they have among them one who in'
any century, and in any environment, could have stood in the fore-
most rank, not as a scholar, although his knowledge far outstrii)s
many possessors of showy academical diplomas; not as an orator
though to listen to his preaching is the supremest luxury to a traine.l
iterary taste, and not one of hi. clergy even distantly approaches
him; not even as an orgaiii/.er, for the business faculty does not
thrive perhaps in Devonshire; butin that mysterious result which
men call character, which transcends all that men can do in what
they are.

No figure at the recent Pan-Anglican Congress excited such
attention as that of good Bishop Medlev, who (ha<l he wished it)
might have preached in every Cathedral pulpit, and been spokesman
at each banquet. Around him scholars of European reputation like
Lightfoot and Stubbs, preachers like Magee and Bovd-Carpenter
yiehled willing deference. And we believe that imne "can have read
w-ithout emotion the notice of that service in the little village church
of LuUington, where the Bishop and all his ,.>m met together for a
last meeting, perhaps.

i I

ClIAl'TEK XXIV.

^riX the course' of his labours in the pivpii ration of this
nf \V(»rk the autlior lias rccciwd niaiiv K'ttirs of iiiteri'st

from those" who had known Bishop Mt'dk'V intiniattdv.
The i»residin<? IJishoj) of the (Mmreh in the United States,
the liii-ht Iveverend J. Williams, I). D., LL. I)., Bishop of
Coinieetieut, writes as follows :

MiDDLKTON, Conn., Nov. 17tli, 1892.
My Dear Canon Ketch urn:

Absence from home and a great pres.s of work since my return
liave prevented me from Miaking earlier reply to your favour of
last month.

I am very glad to know that you are preparing a life of your
revered and l)eloved Metropolitan. It will be a.s heartily welcomed
in the United States as in Canada or England, and I rejoice in
knowing that it is in such good hands.

The tir.st time we had the pleasure of seeing your late Bishop in
the United States was at the General Convention of 1853, during
the session of which he took part in the consecration of the Bishops of
North and South Carolina, and preached the sermon on that occa-
sion. I well remember that after that sermon, or, jmssibly, after
one of the addresses which he made, the late Bishop Potter of
Pennsylvania said to me, " What a full man he is."

He was with us again at the General Convention of 1883, and I
think, at that of 1877. In this way as well as in others he became
widely known among us ; and for him to be known was also to be
honoured and loved. When he "came to his grave in a full age,
like as a shock of corn cometh in his season," there was sorrow and
a sense of bereavement far beyond the limits of his own Diocese
and Province.

It will always be one of my own cherished remembrances, that he
lionoured me with his friendship and regard.
(810)

Letter from the TJlshoi' uf Maine.

317

Wishing you all suoooss in your labour of love, I am, my dear
Canon, Faithfully yours,

J. Williams,

liishoj* of Connecticut.

P. S. — I hope the volume will he put on sale in our principal
houk stores.

From the liishop of tlio adjoiniiii; Pioeeso of Maiiio, the
Kiirlit liuvereiid 11. A. Xeely, 1). 1)., the following; letter wan
received :

Ml/ Dcnr Dr. Ketch inn :

I feel that your recjuest for some word from me to appear in your
forthcoming biography of the late Bishop of Fredericton and
Metropolitan of Canada should not be unheeded, and, indeed, I
would gladly embrace any opportunity to express my appreciation
of the excellence of the man, and of the value of his work. I could
not, however, hope in anything I might say from personal knowledge
of either to give any infonnation additional to that which will else-
where be furnished in ytnir volume, and, therefore, in complying
with your recpiest, will restrict myself to a brief account of the
impressions made upon me when brought into personal contact with
n)y beloved friend. Bishop Jledley. My interviews with him were
not very frequent or prolonged ; for though in charge of adjacent
jurisdictions, home duties were very exacting. The first of those
interviews was on the occasion of the consecration of vour own
Church in St. Andrews, twenty-five years ago, and I well remend)er
both the kindness and cordiality of his greeting, and the warm
terms of respect and regard with which he alluded to my venerated
predecessor, the late Bishop George Burgess. He then struck me
as being (according to the common American conception) a tyjjical
Englisiiman of the i-ultured class, who could, however, both conceive
and recognize excellence in otlier lands, homes and institutions than
those of England. A further acquaintance with him strongly
developed this first impression, and did not thereby les.sen my admir-
ation of his character. Honesty, courage, firnniess, resolute persist-

318

TiiK MosT lii;vi:iu;Ni) .Ioiin Mkdi.kv, D. I).

cncy ill labours and iiiider trials, without .show or hoaKtin^r, these
HCOiued to me to he among hid strongest natural traits, and with
thejn nuiy well have been eonjoined a temper, whitih would he
impatient, espeeially of any manifestations in others of cowardiee
and moral flimsiness. These are the distinguishing moral (puilities
of a good soldier and sueeessful leader, and to them nuiy doubtless
be ascribed some measure of the success which crowned the
life-work of this eminent num. But not less conspicuous in
him were those spiritual endowments and the tokens of that
inward discipline without whicli a real and worthy success in
the work of the Christian ministry is unattainable. One could
not iiiil to note that his eye was single to the service of his
Divine IMaster, and that in that service he had subjected hinij^elf,
his will and jiulgmcnt to the n>cth(ids and ))recepls of his Chief.
Hv was ruled by no selfish ambition, he sought not his own glory
or the praise of men ; he was distrustful of his own wisdom. What-
ever may have been the dominating natural traits of his character,
the meekness and gentleness of Christ had attained in it a manifest
supremacy. Strong and tenacious in his own convictions, and frank
in the expression of tlicm, he was neither narrow nor harsh in his
jiulgment upon the views or acts, much less the motives, of others.
In the exercise of his higli office he had no disposition to as.«ert for
himself a lordsliip over (Jod's heritage or demand an uncjuestioning
submission to his personal authority. And how .self-sacrificing he
was in his labours, how abundant in deeds of kindness, how con-
siderate of the wants of his whole flock, there are hundreds to testify.
Of the thoroughness and sturdine.ss of his churchmanship and of his
attainments as a scholar and theologian, I will say no more than
that for these the name of no Bishop or Doctor of our sister Church
is more honoured among us.

The brief estinuite which I have jjresented of his characteristics
as a man and an administrator is, I know, very iuadeijuate, but I
trust that it will not be regarded as wholly indiscrimiiuiling.

1 had thought that I might send you one or two letters in evidence
of my own indebtedne.'is to his unfailing kindness and affection, but
find that those which I have received should hardly be published.

i !!

LliTTEU FKOM TIIK HiSIIOi' (»!• Al.llANY.

31!)

Tlu' IVisliop <»t" tlu' DioccHo of AUuniy, tlio liiu^lit RovitoikI
William Croswoll Doano, 1>. !>., LL. !>., writes an toll«)\VH:

Alhany, N.Y., Nov. !»ili, 1892.
My Dear Brother :

You put u])on me a tluty which i.s really a privilcfjo in askinjr nie
to add a word to the life wliieii you are proposing; to puMisih of the
venerable Metropolitan of Canada.

IMy pei-sonal as.sociation with him dates hack to sonte of the
earliest and n»o.st .«aered memories of my life. He was my father's
very true friend, and during the |)ainful and trying days of my
dear godfather, Dr. Croswell's (liftieultie.H in AIaj?sachu.setts, he was
his hrave and loving supporter.

He is indelihly connectcid in my mind with the founding and
supporting of the ("hureh of the Advent in Iio.ston during its
troublous time ; and I have the most vivid and grateful memories
of his clear and courageous positions in the various Landn'th Con-
ferences at which I had the honour of being present with him.

His bright and gonial kindness to me when I had the pleasure of
being his guest at liislmpscote, at the consecration of the Coadjutor,
are lifelong and delightful recollections. And I feel that to no man
on the continent of America more than to him is due the great
advance in all things that tend to the upholding of the Catholic
faith and order in America. He was Nestor and Patriarch really
among us all, and was more closely identified, I think, with the
Bishops and with the interests of the American Church than any
Englisii Colonial liishop has ever been in America.

I venture to add the words which 1 have written for my own
Convention in regard to his death, which perhaps you will think
worthy of insertion in tli' volume which is to commemorate his
long and most useful and distinguished episcopate:

"Almost one of our own liishops, the beloved Metroi)olitan of
Canada has been so idcntilied with the growth and life of the
Church on this continent, that we mourn his death as though one
of our own number had been taken away. He was a power in the
Catholic revival. He came to America exchanging the sacred
shades of Oxford, the companionship of its great scliolars anfl

320 Th i; Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

schools, and the serene sweetness of English pastoral life, for the
bleak and barren loneliness of what New Brunswick was fifty years
ago. He was a scholar of rare ripeness ; a born leader of men ;
strong as a lion in his maintenance of the faith ; full of elegant
accomplishments — architect as well as musician. And he was a
man of most holy, self-denying life, to whom " to live was Christ,"
to whom we humbly hope "to die" has been "gain," for all the
grave and grievous loss to us."

All eminent layman of the Church in the United States,
one of the delegates to the tJcneral Convention, Causteii
Browne, Es(i., of Boston, writes :

My dear Canon Ketchum :

You have asked me to set down in writing my recollections and
my estimate of your late Metropolitan, the revered and beloved
Bishop Medley. My first feeling has been that A' gratitude for the
opportunity of contributing anything, however slight in value, to
the memorial you are preparing of that truly great and good man ;
but now that I set about it, all that I can say seems so inconsider-
able and so inadequate that I would gladly be excused from the at-
tenii)t. We all know how near you were to him in his coi.fidence
and affection. You can tell us all more about him than any of us
can tell you. And yet it may be well and acceptable to the readers
of your memorial if a voice, and particularly a lay voice, comes
from the sister Church to say how we too loved and honoured him,
claimed our share in the pride of possessing him while he lived,
and claim now the right to mingle with yours our grief that so
noble and beautiful a life is ended.

It is the simple truth to say that wherever Bishop Medley went
among American churchmen he inspired the warmest affection and
the prof'oundest admiration and respect. He was recognized every-
where as an absolutely first rate example of an Anglican bislioj).
We all knew him for a theologian and scholar of distinguished
learning, a forceful preacher and writer, and in social life a most
interesting and delightful companion. I believe; that no Anglican
bishop that ever came among us was more admired and resju'cted
than he. I am sure that none ever came nearer to our hearts.

r..'" —pTf '"--^^■"-"

Letter from Oausten Browne, Esq.

321

It is delightful to me now to remember my own intercourse with
him, if I may not even say the friendship that existed between us.
For no man that did not come within the circle of personal friend-
ship could know, or begin to know, the charm of his character ai>d
deportment. Never for a moment failing in the truest dignity, he
enjoyed social life frankly and heartily, and while he made it radi-
ant and delightful by his genial spirit, he elevated it always by the
sweetness, gentleness and simplicity of his bearing. He was indeed
a singularly charming gentleman. All the while he was " every inch "
a bishop. One's warmest affection for the man never displaced or
obscured the sentiment of veneration for his spiritual office.

Ii I should try to single out one aspect of the Metropolitan's
character which was most impressive, it would be the union in him
of pei'sonal meekness with a lofty conception of the dignity, auth-
ority and responsibility which belong to his order. He was utterly
without pei'sonal pretension or self-assertion of any sort ; but with
respect to his office, its rights, its powei-s, its duties, he was as un-
yielding as the rock.

The last time I saw him he was visiting a very small and poor
insular parish in your Diocese, and, manifestly for some good and
peculiar reason in the circumstances of the parish, he preached up-
on the subject of peace, peace-making and peace-keeping. It was a
noble sermon in its simple and earnest eloquence ; the heartfelt talk
of a father to his children. I shall never forget it. The exhorta-
tion to b .'otherly love and to the cultivation of i)eace among Chris-
tian men came from his lips with almost Apostolic authority, while
it seemed at the same time to be the spontaneous pouring out of his
own sweet and lovely spirit.

I know, my dear Canon, of how very little worth is what I have
written ; but you nmst take it as the expression, not only of my own
affection and veneration, but of that which I can truly say was in-
spired by Bishop Medley wherever he went among our American
churchmen. You may be perfectly sure of finding here sympathetic
and interested listeners to all you will have to tell us of one whom
we so loved and iionoured.

Believe me, always sincerely youi-s,
V Causten Browne.

822 The Most Keverexd John Medley, I). D.

One of the Canadian House of Bishops, the Kiijjht Rever-

■end Charles Hamilton, D. D,, LL. D., Lord Bishop of

iNiai^ara, writes:

Hamilton, 14th Oct., 1892.
My Dear Dr. Ketchum :

My veneration and affection for our Metropolitan prompt me to
■do all in my power to aid you in gathering up and preserving all
that will be of interest in his life and acts and words. I wish that
I felt myself in a position to furnish you with some points, which may
be overlooked by othere.

My first recollection of him is in the Cathedral of Quebec and its
pulpit in 1850, when the North American Bishops assembled there
in conference. I was too young to a{)preciate or remember his
sermon, but the remarks of some of my senioi"s as to the clearness
and force with which the Bishop presented the (piestion of Apostolic
Succession fastened themselves in my mind. He made many friends
in Quebec in his several visits to our venerable Bishop (Mountain)
and his son. His advent into our Provincial Synod brought to all
a, sense of additional power and confidence. You have the sermon
■which he preached at the opening of the session and his address
Tvhich produced a strong impression upon all.

Bishop Nicholson, of Milwaukee, in his address to the recent Pro-
vincial Synod, as a member of the deputation sent by the American
■Church to greet us, gave us a very touching and attractive account
of a sermon preached by the Metropolitan in Philadelphia on the
•words: "Speak the Truth in Love." His fatherly interest in me
at the time of my consecration went down deep into my heart and
hound me very fast to him. It was a relief to me in my troubles
and in the hard questions that have beset me since to write freely to
liim as my Most Reverend Father, and I think tha'. he valued my
-confidence and affection.

My opportunities of intercourse with him were, however, very
few, so that I have no storehouse to draw from for acts and words
which are not already and better known to you.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely,

Charles Niagara.

.1 !t^

rr =*il

Letter from Colonel Maunsell.

323

very
rorda

.A.

Colonel George J. Maunsell, Deputy Adjutant General of
New Brunswick, an old and valued triend of the late Bishop
Medley, contributes the following interesting letter:

Fredericton, St. Andrew's Day, 1892.
Dear Dr. Ketchmn :

You have most unexpectedly asked nie to add a few biograiihical
details to the already abundant stock of evidence you possess as to
the place in the heart of his people occupied by our dear Metro-
politan Bishop. In thus asking a layman, one, though, who has
had the great privilege of " sitting under his preaching " for over
twenty-five years, and one of the oldest living members of the choir,
whose efficiency he had so much at heart, you may naturally expect
a fitting reply, yet no words can adecjuately convey any idea of
our sense of veneration, love, respect and esteem for him who has,
without our being able to realize his absence from our midst, peace-
fully passed from a life of incalculable usefulness to the Paradise of
God.

"No fading frail memorial" his! Neither the beautiful Cathe-
dral, he laboured witli a labour of love and with nuich faith and
prayer to build, and in which he so otlen worehipped, nor the many
spires pointing heavenward, which sjieak volumes for his valued
active infiuence in this diocese of churches, include all that tends to
*' keep fond memory in her place and certify a brother's love."
■"His uiirouscions hijluence will endure treasured up in the eternal
world, where nothing really great can be lost or pass away, to l)e
revealed at that day when God's Book shall be opened, and the
thoughts of all hearts be made known."

Yet one should not hesitate to add a word, however feebly, if it
contained anything that may serve to bring to light any of the
hidden treasures of a life full of lessons of good, of " duties well
performed and days well spent." In the first place may be noted
his desire for accuracy, his leaving nothing undone to master every
detail. This was always apparent in the training of his choir.

In looking backward to days of Costei-s and Carters, Streets and
Wards, Ewings and Roberts, all remarkable tor nuisical taste and
skill, no choir practice was considered complete until every anthem

824

The Most Reverend John Medley, D. D.

and introit, every chant and hymn was perfect. Happy memories
of the choir practices and genuine hospitalities at Bishopscote will
linger so long as life lasts. I remember distinctly his asking a
member of the choir whether he considered a new piece of music
correct in some particular ; on receiving in answer, " I take it for
granted," he administered a severe rebuke, speedily followed by a
kindly smile — and who can forget those well-known " kindly smiles "
of our good Bishop?

A word about his own personal musical taste and skill, his rare
talent as a composer and lover of music, may not be out of place.

Those competent to offer an opinion have pronounced many of
his anthems, introits, chants and hymn tunes as worthy a place
amongst the best collections of such music. Amongst others is the
opinion of Harvey, the great composer, and Major A. p]wing, hia
dear friend and companion. His anthem, " They shall hunger no
more, neither thii-st any more," is undoubtedly one of his best,
though no Christmas anthem gives me more pleasure than that in
which he so beautifully gave prominence to hymn 62 A. & M, :
" While shepherds watched their flocks by night."

In all his compositions careful study of detail is plainly seen.
No inaccuracy, however slight, in seeking for eft*ect, can be
discovered, while there is abundant harmony and proof of genius
throughout. In all this is apparent the same principle that pre-
vailed in all his literature, where the pure and undefiled Anglo-
Saxon type, in all its freshness and beauty, stamped its every line.
There is no straining ettbrt for ornate wandering style or poetic
vagueness. His convei-sation was full of " finesse " and humor^
while in condenniation of fraud he " hit from the shoulder." His
stock of knowledge was varied and great. Another characteristic
was his unfailing care to keep every appointment, to fulfil every
engagement, his earnest effort to overcome every difficulty.

" Memory dear" carries me back to a mid-winter appointment of
our Bishop to hold an evening week-day service at 8t. Peter's
church, Kingsclear, and to share the evening meal with a friend en
route, such appointments in the case of others are subject, at that
season, to the proviso, " weather permitting." No such proviso in

Letter from Colonel Maunsell.

325

his case. One of the most severe snow storms ever known in these
parts prevailed on the day appointed. The host of the evening
made no prej "ration for tlie now not-exj)ected guest, the roads being
<juite impassable it was considered. Knowing, however, the Bishop's
determination to overcome difficulties, the would-he host set oft' on
snowshoos along the road, where no track was to be seen.

He had not gone far when, to his surj)rise, he found the Bishop,
in sleigh with weary horses, plodding along through deep snow-
drifts. On being remonstrated with for coming on such an evening
when there could be no congregation, there was the well known smile
as he rc])lied : " No congregation ! I fully expect to see you and the
sexton in church," and such was almost the extent of the congrega-
tion, when after a never-to-be-forgotten drive, encountering heavy
drifts and deep snow, though with fresh horses, the host brought the
Bishop in safety to the church.

A brief anecdote may not be without interest in proof of the
Bishop's desire to teach a practical lesson on every possible occasion,
in every-day, common-place life — on this particular occasion the
lesson of patience.

In days before the opening of the Intercolonial, Canada Eastern
or Canada Pacific railways, a journey to our northern counties was
not made so easy as it now is. An "extra " stage, wagon or sleigh,
via Chatham, or the sea voyage, Shediac to Dalhousie, had to be re-
sorted to. The Bishop had ample opjjortunity to test both of these
weary n)eans of locomotion. On one of these journeys by "extra "
stage both Bishop and driver were long silent, the former, well
knowing that the driver was an inveterate smoker, and that the
Bishop's presence alone prevented him from smoking. The Bishoji
Rt last broke the silence by incpiiring after the driver's health.
The latter replied, saying he was quite well. " Something is wrong,"
eaid the Bishop, " and I know what it is ; I only wished to try your
j)atie!ice. You are longing lor a smoke ; pray smoke to your heart's
content." Joy and gladness took the place of dull despair in the
heart of the driver. The Prelate's command was immediately
•obeyed, and the practical sermon on [)atience will never be
forgotten.

326

The Most Reverend John Mldley, D. D.

As a classical scholar, a divinity student, and a "great Captain "
of the Church Militant, Bishop Medley is well known and appreci-
ated. I can speak of his love of military history, of his many
valued proofs of being the " soldier's friend." A§ relaxation he
would turn again and again to " Napier's Peninsular War." He had
a thorough knowledge of every detail of the strategy and tactica
connected with the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular campaign
generally. He was an ardent admirer of that great military captain
the Duke of Wellington. On one occasion he came suddenly into
the office of a military officer at Fredericton, and at once put the
([uestion to him, " Why did Wellington form gonps (oblong form),
not squares, at a certain point in the battle of Waterloo? " — a ques-
tion that might have puzzled many a military student. On receiv-
ing an answer he was satisfied. He had, he considered, acquired
knowledge not previously possessed by him.

On another occasion he came into the same office with Sullivan's
tune for " Onward Christian Soldiers " on his lips, which he rightly
said is a grand march tune, and as he hummed the tune and paced
the floor to this quick-step he looked every inch a model British
general officer, a " great Captain " indeed.

Whenever practicable, too, lover as he was of a military band,
and cheering to him as it was to see the soldiers march to its strains
to church, he brought the band into his Cathedral in connection
with special services. In this he was, he well knew, but])raising the
Lord " with the sound of the trumpet," while he never ceased to
urge upon his people, " Let everything that hath breath praise the
Lord."

No mere outline of a biographical sketch could possibly be com-
j)lete without a word of reference to his helpmate, the good Mrs.
Medley,, who has been his stay and comfort amid all the " changes
and chances " of his well spent life. The value of her services as
the Bishop's wife will never be fully known this side the grave.

To her the chiefest solace, greatest joy — " thoughts of good to-
gether done ; " — " To us may grace be given to follow in their train."

Youi*s most faithfully,

G. J. Maunsell.

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Kwin<i.

.•}27

The t'ollo\viii4^ letter from Licutetumt C^olonel A. Kwinif,
the eomjioser of the well known hymn tune " JeruHaleni the
(Tolden," is partieularly interesting in connection with the
Bishop's great love of music :

The Lawn, Taunton, December 28, 1892.

During my residence in Fredericton in the veal's from July,.
18<i7, to September, 18(59, I was much associated with my dear and
revered friend, Bishop Medley, in the music of the Cathedral. He
was his own precentor and choir-master. The Cathedral choir
(which, of ctiurse, was a voluntary one) consisted of pei-sous of both
sexes and of nil ages, of various social stations. Naturally its
members were not exempt from the natural (and not unwholesome)
rivalry which is so fre(iuent in such circumstances. Musical
amateurs are proverbially " kittle cattle," and it required much
tact and constant watchfulness to maintain efficient co-operation oft
the part of all its isiomberri, inasnuich as those who considered that
they were not allotted their due share of "solos," were sometimes
disposed to be recalcitrant (a phenomenon by no means peculiar tO'
the amateur choir of Fredericton Cathedral).

In this lield the Bishop laboured with the unceasing energy and
assiduity which he displayed in everything to which he set his hand.
Besides sui)eriiitending in person the practices of the choir (a duty
in which he was good enough to allow me to assist him), he con-
tinually enriched its repertoire by anthems, services, hymn tunes,
and chants of his own composing, which, even at the time I am
speaking of, formed a large collection of important MS. works.
I am, of course, unable to say whether ht continued to write music
after my departure; but, at the time to which I refer, the music of
the Cathedral was completely " up to date," the repertoire compris-
ing everything of importance, both old and new, which one might
have met with in any home cathedral.

The music of the church was always one of the Bishop's chief
cares. It he went from home he would carefully plan out all the
music for the calculated period of his absence, leaving it in my
hands to carry out, during my residence there.

328

The Most Keveuexd John Mki»i,ev, D. 1).

He was good enough to allow ine to relieve him, to some extent,
of hirf duties as cholr-niayter, as well as to accept one or two com-
positions of mine, written on purpose for the Cathedral, which are
probahly in its repertoire now. I consider that it would have been
difficult to meet with u better service out of England. I have heard
many a worse in this country in ])laces of considerable pretention.

I always remember with much delight my association with him
in the Church niueic, and the fact that he himself took some
pleasure in this association. One of my most valued possessions
is a collection of Motetts, by Palestrina and other old Italian
masters, which he presented to me, and which bears the following
inscription in his handwriting: "Alexander Kwing, from his sincere
friend John Fredericton, in remenibrance of many happy hours
spent in the service of the Church of G(*d. Fredericton, April 8,

]<S()9."

Yours faithfullv,

Akex. Ewing.

The Kt'v. F. Alexander, Sub-Dean of the Cathedral at
Fi'ederieton, als*o makes the followini; iitting reference to
the Bishop's nnisical ability :

A memoir of our late beloved and venerated Metropolitan would
be incomplete without a short notice of his musical talent and
ability. For the Bishop possessed an enthusiastic love of music
and was no mean connoisseur of the art itself. He had studied care-
fully the famous work of Marx, and was in the habit of minutely
examining the comj)ositions of the great masters of church music.

It was in the days of the great Samuel Wesley, under whose care
and direction the cathedral choir of Exeter had assumed an import-
ance and efficiency second to none at that time in England, that the
Bishop occupied his Prebendal stall, and we may feel assured that
it was while thus connected with the Cathedral that he received the
most valuable musical impressions of his life. Certain it is that he
brought with him to New Brunswick a knowledge of music that
enabled him to take his place, and, nemine dmentiente, for forty-five
years to keep it, as musical conductor, as well as head and director
of his Cathedral choir.

Letter from Rev. F. Alexander.

32!)

Thoee who lind the privilege of belonging to tliat choir will retain
vivid recollections of the pleasant weekly meetings, for practice, in
the drawing-room of Bishopscotc, and the kindly welcome extended
at snch times to each member. Next to his Cathedral, perhaps, the
Bishop loved his choir, though, as he has often remarked, nothing,
not excepting his Diocese, ever caused him so much trouble as the
management of this small, but musically, refractory body of i)eople.
But it was a labour which the Bishop loved, and none will forget
how, when met together, all cares of office put aside, the often
harassed look upon his face would pass away and the features shine
with a happiness beautiful to witness. Not less striking was the
zeal and enthusiasm with which he would throw himself into his
work ; the active mind alert to notice the smallest indecision or
mistake, while a vigorous movement of hand or foot, oftentimes
both, would testify to the importance he attached to time.

Of the Bishop's love of music, and his diligence in its study, his
compositions, which are numerous, bear abundant testimony.

Among some twenty anthems he has written, in order of merit,
that to the beautiful words, " They shall hunger no more, etc.,"
occupies, perhaps, the highest place. Remarkable for its religious
feeling, its natural and effective progressions strongly impress the
listeners with the spirit of the words. Of shorter compositions,
" Turn Thee, Lord," and " Show me Thy ways," characterized by
a free and flowing melody and a grave and solemn treatment con-
sistent with the subject he is treating, deservedly take a place among
the best of those in anthem form. A very effective feature in the
former of these two is introduced at the words " For in death no
man remembereth Thee" by a change of key, and the form of har-
monic treatment adopted is worthy of our best composers.

Of his "Services," all of which are pleasing, the " Te Dcum " in
B flat, and the " Deus Misereatur" in E flat, are certainly his best
efforts in this form of composition. Often sung in his Cathedral in
Fredericton, they are ever hailed with i)leasure, indeed are among
the compositions of which the congregation never tire.

In the various collections of chants and hynm-tunes which have
been published from time to time, may be found several bearing the

1 1

330

The Most Reverend John Medley, 1). D.

i '»

Bishop's name, while a iiumher of his anthems, published by Novello
gome years ago, have t'ouiid a ready sale, and particularly at St»
Augustine's College in Canterbury, and in his former cures are
fretjuently performed and always enjoyed.

The ni8hop's i>jroat intorortt in cverv benevolent enterprise
JH neen in the following letter from Liidy Tilley :

Carleton House, January 22nd, 1893.
Dear Canon Ketchnm :

I am sure you will be interested in a letter which the dear Metro-
])olitan once sent me in regard to the Victoria Hospital at
Fredericton.

He felt that it was too great an undertaking for a woman to do

alone, and advised me to call u public meeting or consult with the

older heads of the town, as he would feel keenly should I fail in the

attempt. It was all so kindly meant, and I thoroughly appreciated

the good advice. But when I wrote and told him that I had laid

the matter before God and asked for Divine guidance, and that

under His direction I feared no failure, the answer came from

him saying, if that was the spirit in which I intended doing my

work, he would add a blessing witli an enclosed check for $100. It

was so like his dear kind way of doing everything, always ready to

respond to an appeal for good. His memory will long live in our

hearts, and our lives will be better for having felt the sweet influence

of his friendship.

I remain,

Sincerely yours,

Alice Tilley.

Tiie following tribute to the memory of Jiisliop Medley by
Mr. George E. Fenety, of Fredericton, is of s[)ec'ial interest
and value at* coming from a lai/inaii, whose personal inter-
course with the Bishop was intimate and long continued :

If the Bishop was at home in his church so was he at home in
the dwellings of the most humble of his flock. Instead of folding
his episcopal robes about him ind standing aloof upon the dignity

Letter from Georce K. Fenety, Esq.

331

'>.y

of his order, he ever seemed to feel it his duty, no less than if he
were the humblest cunite in the Innd to visit the poor and sick, the
widow and the fatherless in their uiHietion, and minister to their
spiritual comfort and not infre(juently to their jjecuniary necessities.
Many instances might he cited in support of this statement ; one ur
two will suffice.

In a humble dwelling a young man lies sick and near his last.
The good liishoj) is seen beneath that lonely roof and in the presence
of death spends lioure together in the dark houi-s of night, even up
to 12 o'clock, and n«)t until all is over does he retire from the scene
and wend his way homeward, and this long after he had passed his
eightieth birthday and at a season of the year when only the vigorous
and strong among the clergy might be supposed to be abroad
engaged in the works of mercy and benevolence. A young woman,
a domestic, is suffering from an incurable complaint ; day after day
•the good IJishop visits her, talks with her, encourages iier as to her
future hopes, and to soothe her sensitive mind in regard to her
worldly indebtedness, which disturbs her not a little ; he promise*
to assume all liabilities and tells her to make herself easy on that
score. The poor girl dies and the Bishop's promises are fulfilled.
The very last time he was out of Iiis house was in paying a visit to
an old colored woman residing near Government House. It was
only a few weeks before his death that he engaged a coach for thi*
exjn'ess purpose as he had fre(juently done before.

In the Sunday school he was at home aniong the children ; until
recently he was a constant visitor, and the children, even the most
infantile prattler, were delighted at his coming and taken up with
his fatherly admonition and kindly ways, and his tact in winning
them over to a consideration of llieir childish duties and responsi-
bilities. He sang among 'the children as though he were a child
himself, standing in the centre of the group. He was indeed the
great lode of the Sunday school. The children will miss him sadly
and the teachers feel they have met with a loss that can never be
repaired.

I have (as a journalist) known Bishop Medley since the day he
landed in St. John in 1845, most of the time personally and inti-

ni\2 TnH Most Kkvkukxd John Mkdlky, D. D.

.Hi

niatcly, uimI pcrliai).-' iio other person at the present (hiy lias a Itetter
knowledge than the writer of all his ways and nctioMs, whether in
or out of the ehureh, and therefore in a position to testify without
])resuniption to the great serviees he has rendered, not only to the
(.'hnreh hut to the Provinee at large, by means of the work he him-
self had set out to perforin at the beginning, and which helive<l long
enough to see so abundantly blessed. No one can duly estimate the
loss of such a nuui to the (.'luireh at large, i la to be hoped by

all Churehmen that the work he so nobl} /Uimeneed and ably
earried on, will continue and prosper, under wholesome guidance,
but the place of IJishop Medley is not easily (illed.

The liishop was a man of strong and resolute will in all niattei"s
ecclesiastical, due to religious convictions, and yet in asserting him-
self towards those who diH'ered with him he was gentlemanly and
Huavc. There were times long since gone by when his lordship
and some of the churchmen of his Diocese could not see alike; in
two cases particularly which le<l to considerable friction and some
irritation, but after a time it was generally conceded by those who
took an active part in the res[)ective disagreements that it was for
the good of the Church that the Bishop was actuated and so harmony
was once more restored.

Since then there has not been a single rij 'i the Church as

regards the liishop and his people.

In his habits the Bishop was simple, frugal and unostentatious
and always approachable by the most humble. Nor had he any
deep- rooted prejudices. While he was convinced that his Church
was of Divine origin, ami while he was exacting in the loyalty of
his i)eople towards her, he frecjuently bore testimony to thc/.eal and
good works performed by Christian denominations outside the
Church of England.

I was present on the delivery of his first and last sermons in this
Province in 184o and 1892. At the time of the Bishop's arrival
the Kev. Dr. Gray, of Trinity church, St. John, was pre-eminent as
a theologian, able scriptural expounder and pulpit orator. The
Rev. jNIr. Harrison, of St. Luke's, Portland, was also regarded as a
very able man, and his curate. Rev. Harrison Tilley (son of our

Lkttkr from GEuK«iK K. Fknkty, Ksg.

883

Licutcmuit rJovoruor), guvi' promise uf oct'iipyinj,' ut no tlis.aiit day
a very high phice in the Church, hut jvhis he was out offprcnaturely
in tlie midst of ii is usefiihiesis and prosjK'cts. When Bishop Medley
arrived in St. John great expeeijvtions awaited liini, tVoni the know-
ledge many of uh luid of hin great popuhirity in Knghmd h)ng pre-
cedent to his coming out to New Brunswick. His llrst sermon
fuHilhMi and gratified the hopes entertained of a sure; success as time
shouhl go on in his new field of labour. As a preacher liishop
Medley was plain, practical, forcible, learned, and easily followed
and understood even by the most illiterate; and, after all, the com-
mand of attention is the true standai*! of eKxiuence. Ilis seiniona
were ma.sterly pieces of composition, without superfluity of words
— rather, every word fitted into its place as in a mould, and there
was no room for another in the same sentence ; while his delivery
was forcible and highly effective, so that his listeners were always
finnly held and !)enefitcd.

As an instance of the g(jod Bishop's thoughtful regard for the
members of his flock, I might state that only a few months before
his last illness I was confined to the house by an attack of rheum-
atism, and in consecpience, for the time deprived of the privilege of
attending the C'lithedral services. The Bishop then called upon me
on Monday mornings and read to me his sermon of the day before.
This 'le doubtless did with others detained from the house of God
by sici less. He was a "Father in God" in the truest sense of the
word.

As a composer of church music Bishop Medley would have held
rank among the Masters, had not the Church demanded his services.
His Anthems, Te Deums, Introits, (yhants and Hynuis are among
the most beautiful sung in the Cathedral at the present day. In-
deed, what is called classic music has no such charms as the Bishop's
to non-professional ears; and it is to be hoped that his memory will
forever be kept green in the Cathedral by a continued performance,
at the right seasons, of these beautiful compositions.

Mrs. liobinson-Oweii, t'oniierly of Canniobollo, N. B., an
old and liit^lily estoonied iVieiid of the Bishop's, coiitriluite.s
the tbllowiug letter:

Ti[E Most Reverend John Medley, 1). D.

Belfield, Teuhv, S, Wales,

6th December, 1892.
Dear Dr. Ketchwii :

Thank you much for your letter of 8th November, which I only
received this morning and hasten to answer it.

I am afraid I have no incidents to record of our dear Bishop's
long and valued friendship which could be of general interest.
His friendship was steadfast and war ., as you know, and like all
his sterling qualities, unfailing. I have a few of his letters written
in our times of sorrow and bereavement, but unfortunately when
we came here in June for a lengthened j>eriod, I loft them with
other j)ossesions at Dindlesham.

I suppose you know that the first place in his Diocese upon which
he landed was Campobello. IMy father, then Capt. W. F. W. Owen,
R. N., in command of the survey of the Bay of Fundy, took H. M.
S. "Columbia" to Halifax to await his lordship's arrival in 1845
and brought him and his family, etc., round in the ship, calling at
Campobello (on account of the grave illness of one of my children)
for a few hours on the way to St. John.

The dear Bishop's interest was shown by deeds in every parish in
the Diocese, but Campobello seemed to benefit specially and ever
found him a generous patron and most loving shepherd. The
experience of many, if not all, must be like my own. In weal or
woe he was a sure and tender friend, and the house of mourning
always brought his ready jjresence when possible and his deepest
sympathy. Every sorrow found in him a responsive chord as I
can well record, and he certainly fulfilled the apostle's injunction to
" Rejoice with them that do rejoice," as well as to " Weep with them
that weep."

His intense truthfulness, too, nnide his friendship such a real
thing. One knew he never could say a word that he did not mean.
I think you will agree with me that wherever he touched the daily
life of those committed to his charge, he influenced them for .some-
thing better than they had thought of l)efi)re. All this is simply
truism and not a bit what you want, I know. No doubt you know
the incident at the Pan-Anglican in 1878, at Lambeth Palace, when

Conclusion.

885

our dear Bi.^hop spoke so nobly to the Archbishop about the P. W.
R. act, for I suppose Canon DeVeber was there. Bishop MeHey
wiis so Catholic minded that I hope that incident may be contri-
buted. I don't know whether it was in consequence of that, but I
fancy it was, that Mr. Mackonochie presented our Bishop with a
gold chalice.

_ I know iMr. John JNIedley has written to you, and perhaps has
given you much valuable information about the Bishop's life in

England. t> t

Believe me,

Youi-s very cordially,

C. RoniNSON-OwEN.

The labour of love, undoi taken by the Avriter with nuieh
diffidence and a deep sense of inability, is now broiiyht to a
close. By very many instances of kind eneonra<renient and
valuable aid the work has been greatly lightened

The endeavour has been to present the record of a life and
work such as have not often blessed the Church of the Livino-
God. "

If in reading these pages any one is led more fully to fol-
low him as he also followed Christ, the chief em\ proposed
will have been attained. A marked, a saintly character is
brought out, both by what he has said and by what lie has
taught.

The name of Bishop Medley may be included among those
of whom it is said : " Their reward is worthy of then;"; their
memorial shall never perish; the wide world is their 'sepul-
chre; their epitai.hs are written in the hearts of mankind;
wherever there is speech of noble deeds their names will be
held in grateful, loving remend>rance."

"UK liEimi DEAD VET S1>EAKET1I."