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PAUL'S, LONDON, CANADA WEST, ON MOJSTDA^Y, 2nd A.PRIL, 1866. WITH COMMENTS BY HENRY LANDOR, ESQ.. M.D. HAMI UXON : PRINTED AT THE SPECTATOR STEAM PRESS, PRINCE'S SQUARE. 1866. 1 # v^ ^ .J J -1 i.'.i f.iJ. VESTRY MEETING. The Bishop-Rectoe in the Chair. After the usual business of the Easter Vestry, the following resolution, of which notice had been given a month previous, was taken into consideration in the fullest Vestry for many years, there being about two hundred people present. " That in the opinion of this meeting, the welfare of the community requires the resignation of the Rector, and the appointment of a successor who will have both time and inclination to fulfill the duties of his ofiBce." 'I I -;fi Jo ■ n: t '. "I,' "Vff •^'■i\ vt > i>/)|Hjf>'i n»j-t .r-it The Bubject discuBsed at tho Yestry Meeting held in St. Paul's School, London, has excited bo much interest through- out the community, that I have determined to publish a full account of the proceedings. I have loft the speeches and remarks of the Bisliop and of the other gentlemen who addressed th6 meeting, just as they came from the short^haud writer's hands, without the slightest alteartion of any kind. I have not even attempted to render olearer any statement they have made. They are exactly as reported. With my own speech I have dealt more freely. I have added a point or an argument wherever X thought tliQ statement required further proof or greater strength, and I have appended here and there communications sent to me on the matter then before the Yestry. I have done this in the speech to save unnecessary repetition in the latter portions of the pamphlet. When I determined to bring the resolution I have quoted above, before the Yestry, I gave the Clerk notice, March 1st, and sent him a copy of the resolution, which I verbally requested him to make known to the Bishop-Eector. I had, on the 17th of January, in a letter on another subject, told the Bishop that I could no longer remain a passive spectator of the religious state of the community under his charge. I took no step that might seem to be directed against him without at once informing him ; but it will not surprise those who are acquainted with his general reputatiDU to hear that he met my straightforwardness in every instance, with trickery I thought that the interest of the subject would be confined to our own church, and therefore, as the time drew near, I wrote to Mr. MacMullen, the apparitor, to ask him for a copy of the list of the pew-holders, to whom I intended to send a notice of the hour of meeting and a copy of the resoltt- tioii. lie replied that the Bi»hop had ordered him not to give me a oopy. I iniglit have gone to the Vestry Clerk and paid a Bhilling and obtained a copy, as all the Church-wardent*' books are open, by law, to the parishioners on that condition. I took another step : I immediately advertised the matter in all the local papers, and that which might and would have been confined to our own Church, became, by the Bishop's shortsighted act, known to the whole community. Tlie interest it excited is proved by the crowded state of the Vestry, for it attracted two hundred people to the meeting. ^ Another attempt was made by the Bishop to defeat the motion by unworthy means. The meetings of the Vestry had been held for six years at seven o'clock in the evening. It became rumoured on Saturday, March Slst, that the Vestry on Monday, would be held at half-past ten in the morning. I met the Rev. Mr. Marsh, the Secretary of the Church Society, and asked him if that was the fact. He told me, like the truthful gentleman all know him to be, that it had been so determined. What followed is told in the report of the meeting, and it redounds to the great discredit of the Bishop, for no explanation will free men's minds from the conviction that it was an unworthy attempt to hold the meeting when few could attend it, and thus defeat the publicity it had acquired. i With these few necessary preliminary remarks I proceed to the report of the meeting. . * ' * .• ' ^ t . i. ... ■ :'.' ... . '. '/ •; .^ihlrf' t -■ • ■■'■:• ''J nH '-inb' 'A'hI •-!!*■';.. i>i> ■ \ ■T 1 -tie ( ; , ban ,fl:vr--'> • .J .,,f* ,.,..if.rrr.,,.f,i' .; :j; 1 mofi hti a ^h V» vWo* REPORT. ♦ .■■ t The Bishop began by saying that he had a doeirc to address a few words to the congregation relative to matters of ^interest to the congregation. For fully thirty'three years ho had presided over the Vestry meetings, and for the last few years had been relieved of the onerous duties incumbent upon such a position. When he was elected Bishop, the Rectory became vacant. Before he left for England, nfter his election, there was a large income attainable from the rectoiy. When he returned, he found it had vanished. Failures in business had reduced it to nothing. The Bishop re- marked that, the diocese had pledged themselves to provide him with a suitable house, and it was on the condition of that pledge being fulfilled that His Excellency the Governor-General consented that the diocese of Toronto should be divided. When I came back from England, the diocese was not in a position to fulfill that pledge. At the first meeting of the Church Society, after I came back, it was pressed upon me that I should accept the rectory, and continue to hold it until a house was provided. And, after the Church Society of the diocese of Huron was incorporated, at a regular meeting, they placed me in the position again as Rector of St. Paul's, with the understanding that I was to continue the occupa- tion of that rectory till a suitable house was provided, according to the pledge given by the diocese to His Excellency the Governor- General. Since then changes have taken place, though no changes have taken place in one respect, that is, no house has been provided. I urged upon the Synod of the diocese to provide me a house ; and in consequencp of my urgent request, a committee was appointed to meet with the church-wardens of St. Paul's, to take into considera- tion the purchase of the house in which I now live. That committte was not successful. The opinion they gave was that it was not desirable to purchase a house for the Rector. At the last meeting but one of the Church Society— which Society is the corporation that holds the purse-strings — I again pressed upon them the neces- sity of doing something towards providing a house. I felt I was in a position I had no wish to occupy,'that is, continuing in the rectory at the same time being Bishop. My duties as Bishop render it utterly impossible for me to discharge any large portion of the dutioB of the Roctoi', My ubHcucc from honir) in uluioBt cooBtiint. Thcroforo, the ouly thing I could poHsibly do wau to appoiut an Hctivo. man as my substitute ; and it is not necessary for mc to say to those present that he has performed the pastoral duties in the pariuh hi the most active and successful manner. (Applause.) T think this will be acknowledged by all. And therefore the wants of the parish anj fully provided for by the very excellent, very able and very talented performance of the duties of Rector by the Rev. Mr. McLean. This is the position and has been the position so far with regard to the rectory. I have been most anxious that the house should be provided. I repeat, in presence of those now present, that if I possessed means, as I once did, but which I do not now, I would assuredly provide myself a house. There is one thing I would wish to remark regarding my income: — When I entered upon the charge of the rectory, an immense amount of taxes had accumulated upon the property, and the income at that time was exceedingly small in proportion to the burden of taxes upon it. This continued for several years. The lands then began to produce something. From year to year they continued growing slowly, till the income now arrives at something worth naming. My son, who is now present, and who transacts all my business, is, I am happy to say, able to place before the meeting the condition of the income. He is prepared to show what that income was in every year; what expenses were incurred on behalf of the rectory, and what the income now is. I give these explanations ; but, gentlemen, while I do so, I feel that it is not right that I should be put in a position of this kind. I feel that no man has a right to call me to account for anything which is of my own private standing. The rectory was given to me by the legal authorities, and it is my private busi- ness so long as I continue in it. Let the diocese do its duty. ; let London do its duty (and London has a large duty to perform in the matter) and fulfill the promises given by thcu diocese at the time that diocese was created. Assuredly it is not for me, at my time of life ; it is not forme, after so many years living and laboring in this country, it is not for me to go around from house to house asking parties (some of whom would be very unwilling to give) the means of providing a house for the diocese. I labored throughout the I'^ngth and breadth of the diocese once to raise the Episcopal Fund, and surely it should not devolve upon me to go over that work *0 again nnd vndctivor to raise the two or tliree thousand dollars necos* sary fur the building of the house. But with respect to my position, as Rector, 1 would barely naggest to all thoHo who are now present that my position is not at all singular in this respect. In this country and in the neighboring country the thing is of frequent occurrence. The Lord Bishop of Quebec, for more than twenty years was Rector of Quebec, and at the same time occupied the bishopric of Quebec, with a large income. H9 also lived in the house which was the rectorial house, because there was no other house provided for him by the diocese ; and he continued to hold these two poHitiouti till his death. The present Bishop of Toronto, while holding the position of Archdeacon and receiving the salary which that oiTicc entitled him to receive, at the same time held the office and received the salary of Rector, and he held the office of Rector until a suitable salary was provided for him, and then he resigned. And the other day I was in Detroit, and speaking to the Bishop, he said : " It is only a few months since I ceased to be Rector. I occupied the rectorial house because I had no other house to live in. But lately an episcopal fund in the diocese has been raised, and out of that fund, the excellent, admirable and every way fine house in which I now live, has been built." So that if gentlemen will only consider for a moment the necessities of a new country, they will at once see that it is absolutely necessary for this to occur. Though, as I said before, I am most desirous to be relieved from the duties of Rector ; not that I desire to cease to have an interest in the congregation of St. Paul's; although many changes have taken place in that congregation since I first came among them ; although many have departed and many are yet departing, still I feel a lively interest in that congrega^' n, and that Interest can never cease. But still, at my time of life I desire very much to be relieved of the duties of Rector ; although I must say, that until the diocese performs its duties, until it redeems its pledge to the Governor-General, by pi'oviding me with a suitable house to reside in, which shall be the property of the whole diocese, I must continue to hold the rectory. It may be thought unnecessary to make these statements, because a large number of persons have known all these circumstances from the very first ; still I think these statements are now necessary, because there are strangers amongst us, strangers are continually coming, who do not know the JO circnmstanceB tinder which the diocese is placed, and thereby may think it strange, may think it rather an anomaly foi me to occupy the position of Bishop and Rector at the same time. If there is any person who has anything to advance with reference to my position as Rector, I shall be very happy to hear him now, although it is not strictly in order for this Vestry to take into consideration the rectory, the patronage of which they have nothing to do whatso- ever. That is in the hands, where it has been placed by the legal patron, that is, of the Church Society of the diocese. , Br. Landor : — I think that the remarks which the Rector has juBc addressed to the meeting, would have been a great deal better deferred till after my motion, unless they are meant as an appeal " ad misericordian." Bishop : — I must request that in your remarks you will not be personal. Dr. Landor : — I do not consider the remark personal in an oBfensive sense. If your remarks were not intended to secure beforehand the compassion of the audience, then I am at a loss to know why they were made before my motion was put. Bishop: — Nothing of the kind. Dr. Landor : — Much that yon have stated will naturally be replied to in the course of the observations I shall have to make. For much more I am obliged to you, as you have pointed out to me many things to which it will be necessary for me to reply. I am not going to deal with this question as a personal one ; I address no persoual remarks against yon or anybody else ; but I am certainly going to deal with this subject plainly, us regards the official coaduct of the Rector. With regard to your remarks respecdng the curate, I most cordially agree. So far as it is possible for a substitute to fulfill the duties of Rector, so far M*. McLean has worked zealously. (Applause.) Everybody respects his zeal and his energy, and none more than I do, (Applause) although I do not agree with many of his opinions. You say in your remarks, that you thought it was not the office of the vestry to take any notice of your position as Rector. Now, I am not going to call upou the vestry to take any notice of that ; but I am going to call upon the vestry, as the congregation, to express their opinion on the manner in which the ^ be 11 duties of the Rector have been performed, and to express a wish that the duties of the Rector shall be performed in a way they have never yet been in this parish. It has been said to me by several people since the resolution to be moved by mo became known, why do I concern myself in the matter ? Why do I not exercise a little prudent selishness, and abstain from any interference 1 Well, I say, foj my part, I do not believe in such a thing as prudent selfishness. No selfishness can be prudent, whether it belong? to things of a personal oi- things of a public nature. ^ If such motives had influenced men in former ages, no reforms would ever have been accomplished, more especially no religious or ecclesiastical reforms, which have ever been effected by those who have cast all selfish considerations to the winds, and cared nothing for the croubles or persecutions they might bring upon themselves. Men well know, for it is a pro^ erb that " good christians are very vindictive," that they shall incur all the enmity, " good christians" can display, when they begin to attack religious opinions, and still more when they touch upon religious profits. The resolu- tion, of which I have given notice, expresses an implied fact, and it calls upon this meeting to express an opinion as the congregation of this parish. The fact that it implies is, that the Rector has not performed the duties of Rector of this parish. It declares that they ought to be done, and that they C4tnnot b& properly done by the man who occupies two positions, either of which is enough for a young, active and energetic man ; and that a man in the decline of life cannot perform the duties of two offices so important as these. — Therefore I ask the congregation to support this resolution, the truth of which they must see every day. Able as the curate jnay be, no curate can be a substitute for the Rector. What is the position of a Rector in an English parish ? In that christian coun- try the Rector is acquainted with every man in the parish ; he is a mediator between the rich and the poor ; the sympathizer and the soother of those who are sick ; every person in the community is his friend ; none can come to him, whether rich or poor, without meeting with the kindnesses and charities of his office. He is the cement and link, as it were, of a goodly neighborhood ; the healer of divisions ; the friend in whose open ears every man may pour his troubles and his sorrows, certain to meet with advice and alle- viation, where alleviation is possible. Even with those whose li 12 opiniouB are not altogether his own he is on terms of friendship and conciliation. On the Sunday he is the incarnation of the common piety of the people, realizing to each mind the ideal of a people's homage to the God of the people. Wives, children, friends and neighbors, he gathertt all into one common fold, making all feel that they are oS one blood, and going onward to one coiymon fate, and seeing that they fall not out by the way. Now, what man in this meeting can say he has over seen our Rector at his house to pay a parochial visit ? Not one. (Ories, I have, I have.) Weil, I have been five years in this parish and he has never been at my door ; and there are many others who can say the same thing. Not one single parochial visit has he paid them. I have been in trouble, and he never ministered unto me ; I have been sick and he never visited me. This is not my own experience merely, but it is the experience of every man of my acquaintance. He never voluntarily paid them a single parochial visit. Now, is this right ? Is it right for any men occupying the position of Rector, so to neglect his duties 1 This matter must come home to every man's feelings. Every man in the parish must feel the want of a Rector who will not only come when he is sent for, but who will come voluntarily. It has never been denied that these are the duties of a Rector. Everybody admits that they are. There are many families in this parish belonging by education and habit to our Church who now attend the ministrations of other denominations ; some of them have attended our Church and have left because they say that while so attending they never had the benefit of a visit from, or the advice or pastoral cai*e of the Rector ; others knowing the deficiencies of care hers have never allied them- selves in this country with our Church, although belonging to her before coming to Canada. I have before me a speech of a well- known man, whom one may safely term a prophet of your own — not * high churchman — but a man who holds the position of princi- pal or one of those colleges for the manufacture of " lUiterati," where, by a score or two of so-called Divinity lectures, they convert bumpkins into clergymen, which have such a sweet savour in mis- called evangelical nostrils on both sides of the Atlantic — the Rev. Dr. Baylee, principal of St. Aidans, Birkenhead, in a lecture deliv- ered on the 20th of last February, at Preston, states— " Scripture says that some are apostles, some prophets and some pastors 13 and teachers. The apostle does not say some pastors and some teachers, but some pastors and teachers ; for he means that the pastor should be the teacher and the teacher the pastor, because we, the clergy, should go from house to house finding out whether men are going right or wrong, and doing what wo can to put those right that are going wrong, and to liecp those right that are right." Is that the case here 1 By none that I ar^ ever aware of. I am in a position to knoAv how the parochial duties of the Hector are neglected. I have attended the sick of the poor of this parish, and they have never seen the Rector or ever heard of him, and I know members of the church who do not know that there ever was a Rector. There is a gentleman in this room, a member of the church who has lived here for years, and who did not know until a few days ago, who was Rectior, or whether there was any Rector. Now that could not be, if the parochial duties of visitation from house to house were performed as they ought to be. I say the Rector of this parish never acted as Rector, he has never risen above the position of Rector of a clique within the congregation. Then with regard to other duties, I take the school that meets Sunday after Sunday in this room. Until within the last three months, the church catechism has never been taught there. Indi- vidual teachers may leach it ; but as a part of English church teaching it has not been taught. Bishop : — I beg to correct the doctor. The school is well con- ducted by individual teachers, and if indivuiual teachers teach the catechism, then the school teaches it. Dr. Landor : — I say again, in spite of that contradiction, that theca techism I'as not been taught in this school until within the last three months. I heard a gentleman say that he examined his children and found they d?d not know it, and he remonstrated. [I will add in this place a complete corroboration of my statement that the church catechism is not taught in this ChUrch of England school ] I addressed a note to the undermentioned gentleman, and the following is his reply. London, April 3rd, 1866. Dbab Sir : — In reply to your note of this morning, relative to the teaching of the Church Catechism in St. Paul's Sunday-school, I may state that it has lonned no part of the regular course of instruction during the past ten years, w tl 14 except for two or three Sabbaths about 4 or 5 years ago, and also during the last three months. In testifying to the above fiftcts, as a teacher, I feel bound to state that the aim of the teachers has been to give the children a sound Scriptural know- ledge of the leading truths of Christianity as tconained in the Bible, which, I consider, embraces the essence of the Catechism, and materially more. I am, yours truly, HENRY BRIANT. [ If the Rector had ever taught in, or superintended the Bchool, he must have known this, and he would not have dared to hazard so flat a contradiction to so patent a truth as my statement. As to the teaching being thoroughly Scriptural, it must be clear that it is only so, as far as the teachers interpret Scripture, and not as the Church interprets it, or else why omit the Church's teaching.] Dr. Landor : — Again, there are no children who come into other churches, so ill behaved, so ill taught to observe propriety of forms in Church as these are. The children sit behind me, and they read newspapers and story books, and even play with marbles and cents, and talk during the whole service. I have complained of that matter, and for a time it has been rectified, but only for a time ; complaint only produced temporary amelioration. Again, I alluded last year to the matter of the cemetery. There is no other Bector that for year after year, for so many years, would be content that his parishioners should be buried with only half of the burial service read. I called attention to this matter last year. I moved a resolution about it ; but no action was taken in the matter. No attempt has been made by the Bector to remedy the evil. Is there another Bector in the wide world who could be con- tent to have things remain as they are % Bishop. — That statement is very much wide of the fact. The burial service consists of two services — that performed in the church and that confined to the burial ground. If a person is buried with the oneservice his friends pay a certain fee ; if he has the two services they pay an additional fee, and it is not every one that can afford to have both services — only those who are possessed of consider- able means. Dr. Landor. — That does not make the slightest difference. The fact remains the same— only half the burial service is read at onr Iff cemetery. I must confess to total ignorance of the assertion that the burial service is two services. It is one in our Prayer Book, — only, one part is in the church and one on the ground ; that in the church is never performed here. I never heard in England that there were two services or two chargeSt one only accessible to the rich. There, rich and poor are alike burled with the same service complete in all its parts. It is for you only to ask for more money when you bury your richer parishioners. As to the remark that if you do more you must be paid more, to say the least it is an imdig- nified position. Bishyp: — No such thing was said. Dr. Landor : — I cannot think what your remarks mean then. If parties choose to pay an additional fee, the whole of the service would be read. Bishop : — No man has a right to twist words in that way. I have only stated that every Rector, in every case, would take more for performing the two services than the one. Dr. Landor : — If he would take more, he is to be paid more. What is the object of your statement, if it does not mean what I have said. But it really does not effect the matter at all. I contend that you have made no effort for many years, for six to my know- ledge, to amend that which every churchman must feel to be a very great omission. In your remarks, you laid very great stress upon the fact that the diocese provided you no house, and that the income of the Bishop could not be supposed to be sufficient to meet this want. The income of the Bishop is d600 — 12400 a year. And to that the Rector enjoys <£250 commutation money. Bisluyn : — No, no, you are wrong again, it is only c£206. Dr. Landor ;—Well, take it at that. That makes about o£800 a year as the income of the Bishop — an income that the people cannot touch. Now, I say, that income is greater than that of the majority of colonial Bishops, who have no houses provided for them. The late Bishop Broughton, of Sidney, N, S.W., had an income, the half of which, he gave to form another bishopric, when he found the labour beyond his strength ; but then he was a high churchman who was content to display his faith by his works. He never was 16 one who was always vaunting his faith and hiding his works. No house was provided for him, nor were his rooms furnished with carpets at the cost of his people. He was content with painted fur- niture and carpetlesB rooms, and though his simplicity of life and self-denial may he rarely imitated, it is often more nearly approached by colonial Bishops than your more selBsh retention of a luxurious house. When Mr. Wilson, for thirty years yours parishioner, Intro- duced this matter to a former Vestry Meeting, he made this o£(er:— " If you will give me the management of the rectorial property, I will take care that the salary of the curate L shall be paid and give you a handsome income besides." No answer was made to that offer at the time. The Bishop here interrupted and said, as also reported in the Prototype : — " But Mr. Wilson took care not to accept the offer of the management when made to him afterwards." [I wrote immedi- ately to ask Mr. Wilson if this statement was true.] Here is his reply : — i Bbookville, 6th Apbil, 1866. Deab Sib, — The management of the rectory property was never directly or indirectly offered to me by the Bishop, or any one on his behalf, at any time. If it had I should have taken it. , ,,. ,„ Very truly yours, J.WILSON. - [For the information of those at a distance, it may be necessary to say that Mr. Wilson is the Hon. John Wilson, one of the Judges of the Gourt of Common Pleas, Upper Canada. Comment is need- less ; nothing can be too strong to say.] Now, I state that the income of the Bishop amounts from ecclesiastical sources to upwards of o£800 pounds a year. I say that the man who receives that income ought to be ashamed of holding the rectory also. You alluded to the fact that the Bishop of Toronto held the rectr/ry of St. James' also for many years ; but you forgot to say, what many old residents have told me, that no one at the time condemned the Bishop of Toronto more strongly than the Rector of London : and no one has held the rectory of London with a more t juacioua grip than the Bishop of Huron. Bislvop : — ^I never condemned the Bishop of Toronto at the time. He held the rectory till a good income was provided for him and then he resigned. Dr. Landor . do not resign. n -You have an income of £800 a year, and yet you Bishop : — This diocese has pledged itself to provide a house for me to live in. The Bishop of Toronto gets £1,500 a year. Dr. Landor: — If the diocese has been pledged, it ought to fulfill that pledge ; but I say that it is no justification of your conduct, that one man does wrong you can do it hiso. It is not right for a man to hold a IWing, the duties of which he does not fulfill, and which he hinders another from performing. This is my position. I say, whether the Church Society requested you to hold the rectory or not, whether the diocese pledged themselves to build you a house or not, it is not right for you to hold a position and receive the income due to that position, the duties of which you do not fulfill and never have fulfilled, and hindering any other person from performing these duties — for the duties have not been performed. And what an excuse it is for a Christian Bishop to make ! What an unevangelical sense of gospel examples, in the true sense of the word ! But how charac- teristic of the party sense of evangelical duty ! Because there is no house, you will hold the rectory, do none of the duties, and see your flock suffer all the consequent injuries of such a determination ! This is a question I do not'care to reiterate. This is not*only ray opinion, but also the opinion of every man of my acquaintance, some of whom have lived here seven or eight years, and ;xme even twenty years, and yet have never received a single pall carry out that resolution, but not till then. Dr. Landor : — Then I must move a resolution, stating that in the opinion of this meeting the resolution ought to be carried out in the course of a year. The Bishop : — ^That cannot be done for the simple reason that this meeting has nothing whatsoever to do with the patronage of the rectory. Dr. Landor : — I do not wish the meeting to interfere with uhe parsonage ; but 1 wish to call on this meeting to express the opinion that the resolution ought to be carried out in the course of a year. Bishop : — I cannot consent to that at all. Dr. Landor : — You say the meeting cannot carry this resolution into effect I know very well they cannot without yo ar consent. They can only express the opinion that it is not right for things to continue as they are. And in spite of this resolution you will not consent to have these things changed until the diocese builds you a house. And so things will continue to go on as they are for the next ten years. I say this is a miserable and shameful position for a bishop to occupy. 25 The Bishop : — v ; henever the diocese, and London as a part of the diocese, does its duty towards the episcopacy I am mojt ready and willing and anxious to separate the rectory from the bishoprio and appoint a Rector. But until that is done it would be sacrificing the interests of the diocese to consent to the resolution. I shall carry out the resolution as soon as I can, perhaps in a year but I hope in not more than two years. Br. Landor: — I have now to asic your lordship a question as bishop, quite independent of the resolution. In the 18th clause of the church temporalities act, for Canada, it is said, " In the event of any person or persons or bodiee corporate, desiring to erect a church or churches, etc., the patronage shall be vested in them in the same manner as in England : they first having obtained the Bishops license to erect such a church." Now I should say that within the last week, upwards of £1,000 have been promised for the purpose of building a church under this clause, if your permission is granted, and if the right of presentation be given to the parties who undertake to accept the nomination of the Archbishop of Canterbury. We want to know if we shall have the right under this act to build a church, upon con- dition that the right of presentation of such church be given by the trustees to the Archbishop of Ci[interbury. Shall we have your permission as wf> are obliged under this act to obtain it. The Bishop : — With regard to the right of presentation, I do not conceive it is in my power to give it to the Archbishop of Canterbury. I should be very glad to see persons coming forward to build, suffi- ciently endowed churches ; but before I give my consent as required under that act I should know the parties who are to be the trustees of that building. I should know who they were ; / should be satis- fied with their views and opinions, and everything concerning them I should have a right to enquire into. If Dr. Landor will furnish me with the naKies of those parties who are to be the trustees of the church, then I shall give him an answer to his question. But I cannot consent that persons unknown to me, persons that I was not fully satisfied about, should have the patronage of any church in my diocese. Dr. Landor : — Allow me to ask you do you mean by that, you will allow the appointment of no clergymen, except those who held the same doctrines as yourself? Do you mean that you will permit no one to be a clergyman here, who does not hold such opinions and tenets as are held by the majority of this diocese, and by yourself? K: I 28 The Biihop :-^liO^T ASSUREDLY I DO MEAN THAT. Dr. Landor : — ^That means you will have no opinions but your owlj in the diocese. Bishop : — I think you will allow uo one to think except as you do. Dr. Landor : — On the contrary, I do not care how many Evangeli- cals there are in the church or who professes or acts on their views, but I object to a Bishop who rules the Church of England under his care which allows a great latitude of opinion, like a sect which admits of no opinions but its own narrow and prejudiced vie>y9. 1 do not want others to embrace my opinions on religious matters, I want freedom to enjoy my own, euoh is enjoyed in England and in other dioceses here, which is impossible under your rule, for you have now declared that you will not p3rmit a church to be built and endowed unless the clergyman preaches your doctrines. Bishop : — This vestry is now adjourned to this day fortnight and here I would recommend that if any one desires to bring a matter under notice they wait until the hour is announced by the proper authority, or it may be attended wiuh great inconvenience, I had on last Thursday arranged with the church-wardens to have this meeting held on this day at half-past ten in the forenoon, but when Dr. Lander's notice for seven in the evening came out, it was altered. Dr. Landor : — ^That is the strangest statement made this evening, for you say you had arranged with the church-warden last Thursday. Now I went to Mr. Hunt, church-warden, on Saturday, at one o'clock, to say that I had heard that some measure was to be attempted to defeat my motion, by altering the time from that at which it bad been held for at least five years. Mr. Hunt said he did not know that to be so. I also saw Mr. Elliott, church-warden, on Saturday morning and mentioned my apprehensions to him also. He said nothing, but I am sure that he would not have allowed me to leave him under a false impression. Therefore, when you say that you arranged it on Thursday, I cannot conceive it to be possible. The Bishop turned to Mr. Hunt, who said that he was not aware on Saturday the meeting was to be at half-past ten in the morning. Mi. Elliott said nothing, but I am sure if he could have confirmed the Bishop's gross mistake or gross mis-statement, be would have done so. My letter to Mr. MacMullen, for the list of the pew-holders was opnt on Wednesday, March 28th. Before that day there was no 27 intention, expressed or imagined, of altering the hour of the Vestry Meeting. I leave the public to conie to their own conclusions on this the final scene of an evening, exhibiting many traits characteristic of the man. There were not less than 200 persons in the Vestry, and yet the Bishop-Rector could only obtain sixteen votes, and some of these were his nearest relations and connections. Is it conceivable that out of so large anumber of parishioners so few would have voted for him, if they could conscientiously have done so, for it must be re- membered that he is a man of position, of much influence, with many families connected with him, residing in this city ; and I am an unpo- pular man, offending many by outspoken habits ; of no influence whatever, and no weight in the community ; and yet he had only sixteen votes. It is true, I had only twenty-one, but then there were two hundred people there who would have beou glad to have voted for him, if their opinbns had not been against him. I think this fact tells more of the justice and truth of my motion and statements than if there had been a large division carried by a small majority. It is also a most effective condemnation of the Bishop, that considering there were men (who had resided in the parish for all periods up to thirty years) at the meeting, not one spoke a single word in his favor. Is it to be conceived that old residents and new would have all remained silent if they had felt they could have supported his statements 1 The facts are quite the reverse. Old resdents present there. told me that they could bear witness that many of the statements made by the Bishop were erroneous, but they did not wish to speak against him, though they would say nothing for him. No work requiring money or help can obtain either, from old residents here, because they have no con6dence in the Hector, and will do nothing while he continues Rector. Every one who has tried to canvass the parish for any work knows this fact I said nothing about the violation of promises (made before his election) to resign the Rectory, nor about the amendment moved by Dr. Cronyn in the Synod of Toronto, to the effect that the elected Bishop should resign on consecration, because these facts add nothing to the force of my arguments, which were founded on the miserable state of the parish in his charge. I have a few comments to make on the Rector's opening speech, which I omitted to notice in mine. He lays the greatest stress on an alleged pledge of the diocese to build him a house, before the Governor-General would give his consent to divide the diocese of 28 Toronto. What diocese gave that pledge ? That of Toronto ? It could not be that of Huron, which was not formed. But if the delegates, or committee, or individuals who waited on the Governor, gave it, by whose authority did they do it ? I cannot obtain any reply to these questions, even from those who well knew the whole circumstances at the time. They say that there was no pledge further than this, that when the money could be raised, a house should be built ; that Mr. Oronyn himself was the pledger ; that it was a conditional promise, not a pledge, for there was no existing authority entitled to make the pledge, unless the diocese of Toronto chooses to consider that the pledge came from it. The Bishop states that a great duty devolves upon London, for he says, " Let London do its duty." How is this 1 Did London also pledge itself to any special obligation in the matter of the house ? No one can make any meaning of this statement, and all deny that London has any duty in this house matter, beyond its duty as a part of the diocese. He quoted the case of the Bishop of Quebec, retaining his rectory with his bishopric, but a gentleman present at the meeting, tells me that he resided long in Quebec , and that, the Bishop-Rector there did his duty as Bector, and visited his parish- ioners, and that he paid rent for his house. Bishop McClosky, of Michigan, also did the work of Rector without an assistant; doing the usual Sunday duty of a parish clergyman. The Bishop of Michigan replied to a lady who asked him if he did all the work in his own church, " Tes I do ; clergymen are too scarce in my diocese to permit me to be idle on a Sunday." The Bishop of Michigan was Rector of Detroit at the time of his election to the bishopric. There was no episcopal endowment fund provided for the Bishop. He, therefore, did the duties of Bishop on his rectorial income, the diocese only pajring his current expenses, until they raised a fund to endow the bishopric and build him a residence. This case is therefore altogether against the Bishop of Huron. It rather contrasts most strongly with his conduct. I imagine that there is also much to be said about his statements concerning the Bishop of Toronto which would give a very different color to that part of his speech. These cases therefore cited by him, tell against him. Nor if the facts were as L^ stated, could they justify him, unless he wishes men to infer, that the neglect of duty by others, 29 justifies its ueglect by himself, nor does th? conclusions he draws from their statements and other analagous instances in England, which he recites, stand on a sounder basis than his facts. His conclusion is, that in new countries this double holding of offices is necessary, from the circumstances of such countries. — On the contrary, it is far less necessary and less justifiable than in the old countries ; for in new countries, there is more need of effi- cient performance of duties, and of good examples, as it is well known there is in them a greater tendency to throw off moral restraint, and in men to divest themselves of religious principles, for there is not the constraining example and influence of a higher and better educated class, which has so large a share in keeping the mass in order and propriety of life, in England. No. In new countries it is most important that the best and most disinterested examples should be set, especially by the clergy of our church, who take the place in education and standing of the upper classes in the old country, or at least ought to do so. Such examples of office- grasping as this I am condemning, do more injury to the cause of morality and religion than open vice, and its defence by the Bishop is as indecent as the act itself. He alludes to his great efforts to raise the bishopric endowment, but the story of that fund, is the most indecent of all the things connected with him or the diocese. I addressed the following letter to Mr. E. Adams, who is intimately acquainted with the whole transaction, and his answer is appended. It will be new to those strangers whom the Bishop addresses, and wishes to become acquainted with the affairs of the diocese and Rectory. London, 4th April, 1866. My Dbar Sib : I believe you are well acquainted with the manner in which the Fund for the estabb'shmeot of the Bishopric was obtained in this Diocese. I have been told that it was got up hj parties. Clergymen, who urged that if it was inconvenient to pay cash, notes might given, upon the condition that the interest should be paid semi-annually for teu years, and then the princi- pal. You will have seen the report of the Bishop's remarks in the late Vestry, where he says that he was the person who spent much time and travel in obtaining the money for the Fund mentioned. I should like to hear from you whatever you please to say on this matter. I remain, ydurs truly, HENRY LANDOR. Edward Adams, Eh(j. 30 My Dkak Sill London, C. W., -Ith April, 1866. i I beg leave to avknowledgo tho receipt of your letter of this date. Tlio mformation you have received of the manner in which the Fund to establish the Bishopric of this Diocese was obtained, I can certify to as correct. The late Dr. Evans, of Simcoe, and Dr. Boomer, of Gait, called upon me at my office, soliciting a subscription to form the Episcopal Fund, and stated that if it was inconvenient for mo to pay the money, my note would bo taken, on which I would only be required to pay the interest semi-annually, and the principal in ten years from that date. On another occasion. Dr. Boomer urged the matter, when I again declined giving any subscription, stating that my experience in church affairs here, led me to consider it unsafe to trust either my note or funds to tho manage- of the Rector of St. Paul's ,and those associated with him. I remarked to Dr. Boomer and the late Mr. Shade, of Gait, who were then present, that I did not expect Dr. Cronyn would give up the Rectory or the House, even if he was elected Bishop. They said he would have to do so, but as they intended bceing him that evening they would ask him. On their return, they assured me Dr. Cronyn had promised them that if elected Bishop, he would immedi- ately give up tho Rectory and house. [For the information of those at a distance, I insert a copy of tho Resolution of the [Synod, of Toronto, before the Diocese of Huron was seimrated from Toronto] : "Any Clergyman elected a Bishop, and holding at the time of such election any preferment or benefice, shall resign such preferment or benefice prior to his consecration." Mr. Adams continues : To satisfy you that I was right in the opinion I had formed of Dr. Cronyu's management of church property, I need only refer you to the sermon preached by Dr. Yerschoyle, on the occasion of his consecration as Bishop of Huron, in which ho referred to the great value of the Rectory ho was giving up, to accept so much smaller an income as Bishop, and to tho statement of Mr. Cronyn of the present value of the Rectory, made at the late Vestry Meeting, for it is well known that the Rector is alone responsible for the affairs of the Rectory, as ho has strenuously resisted any interference with his management. The actions brought in the Courts of this Province to enforce payment of notes obtained for the Episcopal Fund, are well known, and furnish evidence of the broken fi^th with parties who had given notes. I would add that I never heard of Dr. Cronyn spending " time and travel '' to collect funds to establish the Bishopric, but I did of his labor to secure his election. , Yours truly, Henbt Landob, Esq. EDWARD ADAMS. 31 The Uou. Jas. Small, Judge of the County of Middlesex, &:c., has Bent me the following letter : London, Uh xVpril, 18tiU. Mv Dear Sir : At your request I have no objection to give yuu thu following state- ment of the crcumstances which led to the action against me Tipon my note for fifty pounds to the Church Society, previouatothe appointment of a BiHhop to this Diocese. Two Clergymen called upon me and stated that the Govemor- Oeneral would not recommend the appointment of one until he was satisfied there was a sufficient Fund secured, the interest of which should be solely applicable to the payment of his salary, that they were soliciting subscrip- tions, and wished to know what they should put my name down for, that I should not be called upon for more than the interest of the sum I might name. I told them, under these circumstances, they might put me down for £50, as all I could then afford, but thereafter I might give more. One of them then took out of his pocket a book of printed forms of promissory notes, and filled one up for me to sign, which I objected to, stating that I would not make myself liable to pay at once that amount, as it would be very inconvenient. They then assured me, that it should never be made use of further than to satisfy the Governor-General of the amount of principal that could be secured, upon which, considering the standing of the gentlemen I was dealing with, I signed the note. In about twelve months I received a letter from Messrs. H. and H., informing me my note was in their hands and must be paid immedi- ately with interest. At this I felt so disgusted that I determined not to pay a farthing unless compelled by law. The consequence was a suit, in which the jury gave a verdict in my favor, which was set aside by the Queen's Bench, and from failing to prove that the Plaintiffs, H. H., knew the circum- stances under which I gave the note. Both Bev. gentlemen, on their oath, in the witness ho^, failing to remember anything ahout it, and the book of printed forms, with the memoranda in the margin, having been loit or mislaid. Bather than have any more annoyance, I paid the amount, in my opinion most unjustly. In giving this statement I am bound to say, I find no fault with any one in the transactions but the two clergymen and the then churchwardens, who, I am well satisfied knew all the circumstances under which the note was given, and that it was a breach of good faith on their part in selling it as they did. I have not referred to dates as it would give me some trouble. Yours respectfully, JAS. E. SMALL. H. Landor, Esq. The italics in this letter are the Judge's own. There are people who imagine that the acts of the two clergymen and the church-wardens of St. Paul, were unknown to the then 32 Rector, now iho Bishop of Huron, and that he was in no wise im- plicated in the broken faith exhibited towards the givers of those notes, but these people are not to be found in the parish of London, 0. W. There are many other facts about the election of the Bishop and the establishment of this episcopate more extraordinary than any I have touched upon, and the strangers now in the parish can learn all those facts by a little careful inquiry, and become as fully acquainted as the Bishop wishes them to be, with all the antecedents of this marvellous history. I have not space to relate them, but private inquiry will readily reveal them all. I have said sufficient to show that his statements are wanting in veracity in some instances, but there runs through most, if not all, a mode of relation more odious to my mind than absolute want of veracity — that is, telling part of tbd truth so as to leave an impression on the hearers which the whole truth would dissipate. I refer the account in the Bishop's speech, of the two Bishops of Quebec and Michigan, to this class of half truths ; also the whole history of the alleged pledge of t&e diocese b^ore the separation from Toronto, to build a house, and other similar statements ; the assertion of the offer of the property to Mr. Wilson ; the teaching of the catechism in the school, iand the intention to hold the meeting before my application for the names of the pew-holders, are exam- ples of want of veracity, standing on undeniable evidence. The Bishop's attack on me for leaving the church before the sermon, compels me to give the following correspondence, which explains my reasons for my conduct, which cannot be distorted into an insult to the congregation. I might with equal correctness say, that the nnpunctuality of the congregation in arriving at church, is an insult to myself, as I am always present before the service com- mences, as my leaving before It closes, is to them. The reasons given in the correspondence make it a matter of indifference to me whether the Rector considers it an insult or not ; if it is, it is not to his person, but to his opinions. Before acting on my determination, I consulted a clergyman in England, who had known me from boy- hood, and I sent him a copy of the correspondence. I am glad to say I had his sanction for my a it, when he knew that it was not possible to attend another church where correct views prevailed, and that I must be compelled to listen to such teaching, or never sa go to church at all. In England I could easily have found a church where no such detestable views were held. Here it w impossible, and is likely always to continue impossible, until greater power overrides the power of this Bishop. My Lord, LoNDOM, July 13th, 1863. Your lordship was at church iMt Sunday evening, and it will be in jour recollection, that the preacher said that "adultery and murder when com- " mitted by n believer are met by God with a different punishment, from " adultery and murder committed by a sinner, no crime even so detestable as " adultery and murder, can deprive a believer of bis future salvation, for in his '< case Qod will only chasten him temporarily, and that his salvation in assured, " whereas the sinner can have no additional punishment, because in no case "can he attain heaven, his portion in hell. The believing adulterer and '< murderer will only have to wait for a fre$h application of the Blood of " Christ." I hare here quoted the preacher's expressions carefully noted at the time. Translated into common language, they mean that whatever crimes the elect commit, their salvation cannot be imperilled, or as a preacher expressed it a few Pnudays since in the same Church, " Christ died not for all mankind, but for the select few," another preacher in the same church a few mouths earlier, stated " God never listens to the prayers of the unconverted." I ask your Lordship whether these doctrines have the approbation of the Bishop of this Diocese and the Rector of this parish, I think I have a tight to ask this question for my own future guidance. I do not intend to give any publicity to this letter or to your answer. (April 4th, 1866. I think myself absolved from this promise by the gross attack *made upon my belief and conduct by the Bishop at the Vestry on the 2nd ult.) Therefore I will at once state what my future course will be if your Lordship expresses your approval of these doctrines so often uttered in the pulpit of St. Paul's. I shall continue to attend the prayers of the Church, because, thank God, no ulergjrman dare tamper with them, but I shall never remain to hear another sermon, and I shall never contribute another cent to any Church or Missionary purpose so long as I remain in this Diocese. I trus'. your Lordship will give me an explicitanswer and laddthat I shall consider no answer as equivalent to your Lordship's approval of these opinions. ver i remain your Lordship's, Obod't Servant, '1') HENRY LANDOR. To the LoRi> Bishop op Huron. 34 [THK bishop's answer] London, C.W., July 16th, 1803. My Diar Doctor, With reference to your note, yon object to the doctine prcochcdlost Sunday evening, in St. Paul's, but I thinlc you have not viewed the statomont made on that occasion with perfect fairness. Commenting on the sin and pardon of David, the preacher said that sin in a believer was as odious to Qod, as sin in an unbeliever, but that Qod on the renewed repentance of the believer, and on his humble application to the blood of Christ, freely pardoned tho transgression of his servant, whatevor these transgressions were, (does he not do the some with the sinner, "when the wiektd man turns from it," &o.,) while at the same time he vindicated the authority oi his own law by punishing the transgressor, thijg life in the sight of men. Now does not this 'view exactly correspond with what we read in the 12tb of 2nd Samuel. Davidsinned deeply and continued impenitent for several months, we cannot exactly say how long, he mokes no movement towards Ood whom he hod so grievously offended during that time ; but Ood who is so rich in mercy, sent Nathan to him and produced deep repentance in David, bo that he confessed his sin as we see in the &lst Psalm, the expression of his deep contrition of heart. Immediately Nathan pronounced the words of peace and pardon, but added that as David hod given the enemies of the Lord occasion to blaspheme, he should be punished in the sight of men. We believe that the declaration of Uiurcy made by Nathan was fulfilled, and that the Lord put away his sin so far as the eternal consequences of it were concerned. When the believer in the Lord Jesns Christ sins, and returns penitent and believing to the Ood he has offended he has Ood's promise that his sins and iniquities shall be remembered no more. If the unbeliever does the same ho will at onoe obtain the same blessing, but if he is impenitent his portion is with tho Devil and his Angels. This is the Doctrine which I know Mr. holds and desires to teach, and to this I give my most cordial and entire approval. I shall indeed regret that you should withdraw from the teaching in St. Paul's, but I cannot but uphold what I believe to be the truth of God, in strict conformity with the doctrines of the Church as set forth in her articles. You also mention an expression which you say was used by another preacher " that Christ only died for the select few." I cannot explain what I did not hear, but I should imagine that he would have explained the expression by referring to the word of our Lord. « I lay down my life for my sheep" and while showing that the sacrifice of Christ was full perfect and suflicient for the sins of the whole world, it was efiicient to salvation only in those who are the sheep of Christ. If this was his view I entirely agree with him. Tou object also to the expression used by another preacher " that Ood 35 never lintcn* to the prayer of the unconverted." If the rroacher ini jed to Mj that no man while ho continued impenitent could pray with acceptance he only exprcHHcd what our Lord no clearly stated. '* No man cometh unto the Father but by mo. So St. Jarnen, <* lot him ask faith nothing wavering," kc, St. JamoH, i ; 6, 7. So in Proterb*, " the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomina- tion/' &c. So David, in the 66th Psalm. I should conclude that the object of the preaclicr wriH to warn the congregation that nothing was to be regarded as prayer acceptable to Ood but the prayers of faith, for whatever i» not of faith is sin. I foc'l aHNurcd that you would not willingly deal unjustly with any man. Is there not a danger of this if we take isolated passages from a discourse, ami form our opinion on these without reference to the context or general tone of the preacher ? I would venture to council you to consider the points involved in the above quotation, in a spirit of prayer. I know that the truths of the gospel are not to bo apprehended by the natural intellect however cultivated it may be, but we must become as little children, before wo can fully apprehend the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Boliove me ever, Yours faithfully, BENJAMIN HURON. I sball not imperil that wisdom in theology which the Bishop attributes to mc by commenting on the theology of this reply, in that respect it may form a very fitting subject of discussion to his clerical brethren, especially it may give Provost Whittaker an opportunity of retorting the critical examination of religious teachings which the Bishop once displayed towards him. I avoided that discussion and scut the following reply : July 22nd, 1863. Mt Lobd, I am obliged to your lordship for your answer to my letter, and I thank ' you for its kfnd and courteous spirit. I must say that I think it leaves my letter altogether untouched, for you comment on what you believe the prachers meant or intended to say, not on the words they used. I have nothing to do with or remark upon their meaning, because as it was unspoken it cannot be known to me, I have only to judge of the plain obvious meaning of the terms they employed, which mem. to me both dangerous and erroneous and that they did use those terms, is not an assumption of mine or a misappre- hension, as your lordship suggests, but a fact which I have taken care to have verified by other members of the congregation. You do not seem to me clearly to apprehend that it is to the naked offensiveness of the phrases used that I object myself, and which I consider contrary to the truth of christi- 3« •nity. I h»v« nothing to mj to any kIonn thftt may l>e put n|)on them by otherM, or any after explanation that may be given, bocauae HUch glositfls or explanation* cannot do away with the eril effccta of the injudicioiiH oxproHnions nied dogmatically, m they are uaed ip Hermoni. Wo hear the pbraHes, but we dont hear the oxplanationn, and wo can judge only of the former, an they appear at the time of delivery, with Much explanatlonii ai are then given. I did not aak your Iord«hip what explanations you could put upon Buch phraHca yourself, but whether you could approve of them in the plain senHo in which you hoard them uttered, I can therefore only consider your comment on that episode on David's history as irrelevant, whatever may be its intrinsic merit, moreover, I believe that thoao phrases moan more, much more in the minds of the utterors, than they do as suggested by your lordship. I thinli it quite useless to say more. I will only add that I would give a great deal if I could put as harmlesH a construction npon them as you do, and that I am very far from being actuated by evil wishes or an evil spirit in Hpeaking or thinking an I do about such subjectH. 1 give full credit to others for the sincerity of their belief and the purity of their motives about these views which are so abhorrent to me, and I expect that the Kame credit for sincerity and purity will bo awarded to mo. Thanking your lordship, I Anally dose the subject and remain. Yours very Hinccroly, The Lord Bishop or Huron. HENRY LANDOR. I leave comment to others, 1 trust this corrcHpondcnco will be sufficient to justify my conduct and free mo from the accusation of irreligion. hurled at me by the fiishop. I have not I am sure heard a dozen sermons in this city since the date of these letters, and at one of those times I had the misfortune to hear the Bev'd A. Brookman, agent to the Upper Oanada Bible Society, utter the same doctrines and confirm his opinions by the odious expression I have named in my reply to the Bishop's attack. I must now draw attention to the most lamentable condition of all those christians in fins Diocese, who are shocked at the teaching, I have shown to be the only teaching accof^ftble to them. The Bishop's final reply to my question, (which is printed in the very words of the short-band reporter I took to the meeting,) tells us most plainly that he will allow only his views to be taught in his Diocese. Genevan principles maintained with Popish intolerance govern the Ohurcb community here, and there is no escape from them. The very men who raised such an outcry about the few Evangelical men in the Diocese of Montreal, declare their intention of having no differing opinions from theirs 4S^ at SS*' whore thoy are rutcri, uot a few who diifer from u», «ay they bnt iiono. It iH a warning to the few old Micumbentn in thiH Diocutse who flo not hold their views that no promotion or honourH will ever fall to their lot. It iu also a clear intimation to these who have been appointed under the present regime, thut no backsliding unto wider and more christiaa principles than thoHO held in Kpifcopa! haunts will be tolerated. Let them take heed. It is also an example in this century uf living men who like the Puritans and Quakers uf New England, have learnt none of the maxims of toleration they had so glibly at the ends of their tongues, when they felt themselves persecuted. 'I'hey wtnild fly from the fires of Rome with exclama- tions of horror and quench opposition to themselves in those that burned Bervelitn Intolerant themselves with an intolerance un- equalled in history, i\wy cry oiit at the shadow of opposition and level the deadliest darts at their opponents. They have appropriated to themselves a designation which has become a reproach, for the term Evangelical, in its party sense, has universally a meaning diametrically oppoHod to its gospel sense. Unfortunately we can only escape fiora their rule by the help of sympathizers and active friends elseAvhere. It is certain that wc can never expect the privilege the inhabitants of other Dioceses enjoy both in Canada and England. There the latitude allowed by the Ghurch is practised by their rulers. If High Ghurch or Low Ghurch require a building for their use they are at liberty to have it. Where the Bishop is a high Ghurchman, the Evangelical is ready to force him to induct one of their views when the patron has appointed one, as in the Gorham case ; and the Evangelical is equally ready to resist induction licre, should the patron appoint one opposed to his views. Wc appeal then to the Metropolitan and the Bishops of the other Ganadian Dioceses to exert themselves to obtain an alteration of that portion of the clause in the Ghurch temporalities &ct, which requires the Bishop's license, or at least to specify that here, as in England, the Bishqps shall not have power to refuse the license to build or prevent patron- age, or induction, solely because the clergyman holds views allowed by the Ghurch, but opposed to the Bishop's own. If, on obtaining proper legal opinion we find that the Bishop has no power now to refuse induction, except on fitting grounds, not dependent on diffe- rences of opinion, then we also appeal to our fellow christians to help us with their purses to fight the battle of toleration in our law Gourts II ■' i! If 38 against our intoleruut Evangelical Bitiliop. We arc not men of extreme opinions, we arc no High Churchmen in the usual if in any sense of that phrase; there ai'c no such men in Canada. Wehelongto that extensive class of men who are in neither extreme, and are only desirous of worshipping our God where our senses shall not be offen- ded by doctrines and sentiments like those I have described as prevalent in this Diocese. We wisli for an opportunity of worshipping according to the principles of the Church of England as exhibited in the majority of Churches in England and Canada. Without assis- tance from those who have power and influence to procure the amendment of the law our wishes can never be realized. And without the help of sympathising christians, in Canada and in England, our struggle against intolerance must be long and perse- vering before it can be successful. We arc not schismatic. We only desire that liberty and justice which the Church of England affords all her members, but which wo sue our Bishop for, in vain. '' Justitia est habitus animi suumcuique tribuens." A Ciccronean maxim of equity and toleration altogether unknown to his Lord- ■hip of Huron. This pamphlet would not have been published if the separation of the rectory of London, from the bishopric of Huron, had been its only, or even its chief object, for that victory was gained the day of the meeting of the Vestry, on the 2nd. The expression of the opinion and still more, the significant silence of that Vestry, must prevail against any opposition, and the pamphlet is hardly needed to complete the victory. The main object of the publication is to win another battle, that of toleration ; to enable Christians of a different stamp, from Huron Christians to build and endow churches of their own, where the doctrines of the Church of England can be heard according to her Prayer Book, after the manner the Church has permitted since the Reformation in every diocese in England. This battle we are determined to win, and the first step necessary is to show to the world the kind of man who rules over this diocese, and hinders us from obtaining our just rights — a man who scruples not to say whatever will advance his views, and hesitates not, as I have fully shown in this pamphlet, by irresistible evidence, to influence his hearers by any statement, however devoid of truth, which will, HS he thinks, gain a momentary advantage. I have no doubt that he thought nothing more would ever be heard of the statements at the Vestry Meeting, that the command he and his friends have of the press of this city, would prevent ika extension of the publication of the proceedings beyond the walls of the school- house, or at furthest, of the city itself. But. in order to gain the important object of those who entered into this warfare, these pro- ceedings must be known everywhere. We must expose the man for the gain of the Church. 39 Who can contemplatt;, without disgust, the present condition ot the Church of England in this diocese, under such a ruler, or its future without dismay, if he can only continue his ri;le a few years longer, until the system of teaching in this dio'^ese hccomes thoroughly grafted into the country, by the ordination of men trained in his views, educated at narrow sectarian seminaries, dignified with the title of Colleges, but intended to inculcate one sided notions of Church of England Christianity. Colleges which take pupils of mature age from the lower classes of the community, because the cheapness of the education tempts such men away from their proper sphere, into one for which by all their previous habits, and manners and ignorance, they are totally upfit. The clergy under such a system are degraded to the level of the masses ; not the masses raised to the level of the clergy which should be the object and aim of the training colleges ; and by their means the false and narrow views of Christianity now prevalent will be perpetuated. I do not suppose we can get rid of such a Bishop as easily as we can displace him fi'om an unjust position ; but we can by showing the world, what manner of man this is, obtain help from those who can give it, which will procure the alteration of the law, and compel that toleration which will never be otherwise obtained. I copy the paiagraph from the sermon of Mr. Verschoyle, preached at Lambeth, October, 28th, 1857, (which I could not obtain in time for the body of the pamphlet), which is alluded to in a former page. " There is one circumstance in the condition of this infant diocese to " which the attention and sympathy of the christian public is " earnestly invited ; it is that when the endowment had reached the " amount of cf 8,400, and there was every prospect of the proposed " .€lO,000 being realised, together with provision for building an "Episcopal residence, a sudden check was given to the effort by the " commercial crisis, which has befallen the Canadas, in consequence " of their contiguity to, and intercourse with the United States. " The result is that the Bishop having vacated the living of Loudon, " C.W.,with about ^£1200 per annum, with a suitable residence, has •' sacrificed ^£700 a year and a house, and steps into his more " responsible office, with the wholly inadequate income of c€504 per •' annum, without a resid'^nce. Even this proposed income, too, " however inadequate, if reduced, and a portion of the capital jeopar- ** dized, by the failure oi a gentleman in whose hands it was " placed." It is difficult to say which portion of this paragraph is most erroneous. The Bishop never vacated the residence for one day. He never resigned the living, unless it is intended that it became vacant by the effects of the resolution of the Toronto Synod ; but if that is meant, it never was really vacant, for it was well known L f I . 40 that the form of presenting the Bishop to what he was ready to accept, and had never really vacated, and to which the Ohurch Society never formally reappointed him, would be gone through by the Ohurch Society of Huron. He never for one moment possessed the Diocese without a residence, for he has ever refused to do so. Thd last sentence asserts that the Episcopal income was diminished , by somebody's failure ; but no old resident of London can tell me the name of the gentleman alluded to. The Bishop in his opening speech, alludes to the loss of Bkctorial income from failures. Is this a confusion of statement, or did both incomes su£Per from the same failure 1 If so, great misfortunes, unusual in the world, occurred to both incomes, or they suffered from great mismanage- ment. I may seem to have expressed myself too strongly and too harshly in this pamphlet, but it must not be forgotten, that there is mot osb STATEMENT OF THE BiSHOP's, STRICTLY AND ENTIRELY TRUE, and that it is therefore absolutely necessary, in dealing with one so ready tv s^Iin through facts, to speak most plainly. One must grip ane^^> witu a fist full of sand, or it will wriggle away. At the adjourned Vestry meeting on the 16th April, Mr. Maclean in the Chair, said that he had been requested by the Rector to withdraw the imputation that I did not believe the Athanasian Greed, I replied that I regretted the Rector did not uo me that justice on the evening of the last meeting after my repudiation of his imputation, for it was now too late for me to withhold the remarks I had made on that subject as they were already in print. I then moved a resolu- tion that the Vestry no longer pay $600 towards the salary of the Curate which should be paid by the Rector, as the Rectory funds were ample to meet the duties. The resolution was carried unanimously. The minutes of the meeting of the 2nd, were read, but I think it will hardly be credited that nothing appeared in them but Mr. Shaw's resolution. All that is related in this pan^hlet, so important to the Parish, does not appear in the minutes. I trust that this fact will not be forgotten, if the Vestry records should ever be put in evidence to prove any thing that has occurred in this Parish. No adverse statements, if this is an example of Vestry minutes, will be found in the Vestry Book ; and it is no wonder that it has been found quite impossible to dig any satisfactory crop of past transactions out of such unpromising, infertile ground. This pamphlet will accomplish one good object if it helps to con- vince mankind of one fact daily becoming more and more clear to all observant persons. THAT THE FRUIT OF EVANGELICAL , CONVERSION IS WANT OF TRUTH. Printed at the "Spkctator" Office, Prince's Square, Hamilton, C. W. APPENDIX I received the following letter too late to print it in its proper place (page 28). I am therefore obliged to append it to the pamphlet. It will be found to confirm all J have said res:ardinf>- the Bishop of Michigan, and completely convict the Bishop of Huron of one of those half-truths T have so strongly condemned. H.L Detiioit, April 18, 18G6, Dear Sir, I received your letter and give yon an answer, with great pleasure, to the que.stion presented to me. When I was elected as the Bishop of Midiigan there was no Episcopal Fnnd, and as St. Paul's Clnuch, Detroit, was the largest congregation, I was elected as the Rector of the Cluirch. This was done to give me a salary for my support. Whenever the Episcopal Fund was thought to he sufficient for that purpose, I resigned the llectorship and all the emoluments connected with it. A new Rector was called, and tlic whole salary which I had, and more, w.is given to and is now enjoyeil hy him. My only support is drawn froir the Episcopal Fund. I aUo gave up the Rectory, which is now and has h.'en, from the tivw of my resitrnation, in the possession of the Rector of the Church. With much respect, &c.. &c. SAMUEL A, McCOSKEY. Henry Landor, Esq.