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THE DEATH OF THK METROPOLITANT 
 
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 A SERMON 
 
 * ^' MONTREAL, 
 
 Sunday TVIorningI, October 4TH, 1868, 
 
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 BY THE 
 
 REV. PHILIP WOOD LOOSEMORE, M.A., 
 
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 THE DEATH OF THE METROPOLITIN, 
 
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 A SERMON 
 
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 MONTREAL, 
 
 ON 
 
 Sunday A/Lorning, pcroBER 4TH, 
 
 1868, 
 
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 A SERMON. 
 
 2 Kings ii. 3. , 
 
 Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy 
 master from thy head to-day? 
 
 ELISHA was the servant of a master who 
 throughout the whole of his career, appears to 
 have held converse rather with heaven than with 
 earth. Elijah, though in the varied scenes and inci- 
 dents of his history showing himself a man of Irke 
 passions with us, thoroughly human, with strono- 
 human sympathias, and tender regaid to human 
 friendships, appears, however, to our view, in full 
 manhood, in maturity of years, as the ambassador of 
 Heaven, as the representative of God's mighty 
 power in the world. With no notice of his ances- 
 tors, his home, education, father, mother, com- 
 panion, friend, he comes suddenly on the scene, a 
 solitary man, from whence no one knew, appearing 
 sometimes in peopled neighbourhoods, sometimes 
 m the desert and on the hill-top, recognized at 
 pnce by his desert clothing, the leathern girdle 
 and the hairy garment. " He comes in with a 
 tempest," remarks an old writer, "who went out 
 
with a whirlwind." Elijah's is a most instructive 
 biography. The glorious champion of truth and 
 righteousness, the bold reprover of Ahab, the 
 undaunted son of the desert, who apparently knew 
 no other fear than the fear of God, so indifferent to^ 
 human opinion, needs, with all his greatness, the 
 grace of God to uphold him under weaknesses and 
 failings, to bring back the man who, at one time, 
 could challenge single-handed a multitude of 
 idolatrous priests, from the despondency of spirit 
 which at another time shrunk from work and duty. 
 Like our own fluctuating selves in the changeful 
 moods of a kindred spiritual experience, conse- 
 quent on the varied circumstances of this mortal 
 life, Elijah was now elated, and now depressed. 
 In his strong character might be discerned the 
 elements of tenderness and the strength of will,' 
 the union of weakness and greatness, which, by 
 the power of God, becom.e to a whole generation a 
 mighty influence for good and an example to pos- 
 terity for all time. 
 
 The stormy life of the master in Israel had a 
 glorious close ; and a lofty recompense was visibly 
 vouchsafed. By life's chequered discipline, the 
 confused changing moods of his own spirit had 
 gradually, but surely subsided, and grown into calm 
 faith, holy obedience, and faithful trust, and, all 
 his graces being perfected, he was taken up to Para- 
 dise by a whirlwind in a chariot of fire witfe 
 horses of fire, borne upwards and heavenwards to 
 that abiding rest and refuge for the time-wearied 
 
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 mid storm-tossed, where the earthquake, and the 
 whirlwind, and the fire, the tumult, the tempest 
 and the alarm are known no more, hut where the 
 " still small voice" of comfort, and peace, and joy 
 is heard, until the voice of the archangel and the 
 trump of God shall sound to call the redeemed 
 from the rest of Paradise to sing the eternal son-- 
 of Heaven. 
 
 The memorable chapter from which the text is 
 taken sets before us the translation of Elijah. 
 The eventful time has arrived when he is to be 
 translated so that he shall not see death. There 
 is no change in the demeanour, so as to mark any- 
 thing marvellous impending. He is not over- 
 powered with the invisible glories which are so 
 soon to burst upon his view, as calmly he walks 
 with Elisha from Gilgal. None of all Israel are 
 summoned to the heighls of the Jordan valley to 
 witness his wondrous departure. To the faithful 
 and attached Elisha, he says, " Tarry here, I pray 
 thee, for the Lord hath sent me to Bethel." The 
 same is repeated at Bethel and yet again at 
 Jericho. But Elisha's constancy reveals to him 
 the closing scene. "As the Lord liveth and as 
 thy soul liveth I will not leave thee." Along 
 the mountain range on the eastern banks of the 
 Jordan Elijah had passed, making his farewell 
 visits at Gilgal, Bethel, and Jericho. In these 
 three favoured cities there is some unwonted stir 
 and excitement. The sons of the prophets had 
 received a divine intimation that Elijah was 
 
about to be taken from them, and we find tnem 
 gathered together in earnest and anxious groups. 
 Elisha in to succeed him in hi.4 prophetical office, 
 to catch the mantle which falls from him as he 
 ascends unto God. So he keeps near unto him ; 
 and as these two revered men of God are wel- 
 comed nmongst the company who attend the 
 schools of sacred truth and learning, Elisha is 
 summoned aside to hear the sad news, which with 
 trembling lips they whispered in his ear : " Know-. 
 es:", thou that the Lord will take away thy master 
 from thy head to-day ?" 
 
 Lest the composure of Elijah's mind should be 
 interruptp^d at this solemn moment by any lamen- 
 tations, or lest speaking of it publicly multitudes 
 should af^emble as idle spectators, or to counsel 
 them to be calm and not to be disquieted because 
 the Lord would make up their loss, Elisha replies, 
 " Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace ; be silent!" 
 
 The Spirit of God had made known to the peo- 
 ple most interested th&t a great man was about to 
 be taken up to his glorious reward. Sorrowing, 
 like the elders of Ephesus, when on the shore at 
 Miletus they bid St. Paul farewell, that they 
 should see his face no more, they confide to Elisha 
 the eager question : Knowest thou that the Lord 
 will take away thy Master ? Shall we never see 
 him again ? Is it indeed the case ? Yes, verily, I 
 know it. Hold ye your peace. In mute, expres- 
 sive, silence and thoughtful acquiescence, realise 
 the will of God. 
 
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 Now amid all our hopes and fears ; amid all the 
 counsels and blessings which may have been given 
 and withdrawn from here ; amid all the thoughts 
 and memories that may have been filling our 
 hearts as the recent event awoke a train of reflec- 
 tions, which will scarcely ever die out, I shall say 
 what 1 have to say by an appeal to listen to the 
 sacred philosophy of death contained in these 
 words of the sons of the prophets as we ponder the 
 loss of the Departed. " Knowest thou that the 
 Lord will take thy Master— thy Pastor— thy 
 Bishop— from thy head to-day?" "The Lord 
 gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the 
 name of the Lord." '^ Mark the perfect man and 
 behold the upright, for the end of that man is 
 peace."-—:., - ^,;. .,,/--■.;... ., ^& ^- .,.:;■,...':<•--; ';■.;. 
 
 Many thoughts have crowded into my mind, my 
 Brethren, since I last addressed you from this 
 place, and I will now take the first opportunity 
 of expressing them. Perhaps none of us havr 
 yet had time to realise the fulness of the event 
 which has happened ; but we can now look calmly 
 back, and if not able just yet to see the wisdom 
 of God's inscrutable deer- ^, at least attempt to 
 arrange our thoughts in s.me order, and learn 
 by degrees the intended lesson from Him who 
 doeth all things well, though moving amongst 
 us ever in a mysterious way. 
 
 Death at any time in a parish is a solemn event, 
 awakening feelings and thoughts which are apt 
 to slumber in the soul. The death of the Pastor 
 
8 
 
 of a parish is a special occasion for serious thought 
 and earnest prayer, striking a chord in the soul 
 by virtue of the spiritual tie and peculiar relation- 
 ship which have existed. But, above and beyond 
 all, in consequence of the extended connexion and 
 relationship, the death of the Chief Pasto?; of the 
 Church, of the Diocese, of the Province, is an 
 <^vent so important, so solemn, so searching, that 
 it calls for unusual meditation, thoughtfulness, and 
 prayer. Such an event, too, is the more solemn 
 when it has come suddenly — unexpectedly. Sud- 
 denly, unexpectedly^ to us, I say. Not so, in 
 God's eye. Not so to him who was called. In 
 this sense, nothing was untimely — nothing preci- 
 pitated — nothing premature. The Lord saw that 
 a faithful servant had done his work. That faith- 
 ful servant was ripe for eternity. 
 
 But still, we must speak practically, and with 
 the memory of our Bishop so fresh in our minds, 
 * with the spirit of our departed Father in God 
 I settling down upon us all as the mantle bequeath- 
 ed to a people to whom he gave 18 years of an 
 active Pastoral Episcopate, I desire, in my turn, 
 to avail myself of the higli prifilege of saying a 
 few words of counsel and exhortation, as my humble 
 testimony to the good Bishop's character and ser- 
 vice. The Lord has taken our master from our 
 head. I wish to utter some of the thoughts with 
 which my mind is full by leruinding you of ou7' 
 common loss, which is intended by Go^ to serve 
 as a warninff to draw us nearer to Christ and to 
 
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 •quicken us in His service, and bj setting forth the 
 Bisliop's gain. I wish to say something of his 
 Work, and something of Himself. And if all pul- 
 pit appoals, utterances, and expositions should be 
 begun, continued, and ended in dependence on 
 the help and operation of the Holy Ghost, 
 surely the present is one occasion in particular 
 when we should strive for a full measure of such 
 .sanctifying influence, that what is said may be 
 sober, sound, and true, and what is heard may be 
 in all respects profitable unto godliness. 
 
 First of all, then, Brethren, the Church mourns 
 her loss ! I mean the Church at large — yes, the 
 Mother Church— the Colonial Church— the Sister 
 Church near us and in doctrine one with us — the 
 Canadian Church — the Church in the Diocese of 
 Montreal. We who have had for long years the 
 personal presence, the immediate and direct per- 
 .sonal episcopal supervision of the late Metropolitan, 
 who can see that Face and hear that Voice no more, 
 can command to come to us here from across the 
 water, from across the boundary lines of the Do- 
 minion, from the uttermost parts of the earth 
 throughout all our Colonial heritage, a wide, true, 
 full wave of sympathy and condolence, which they 
 who would cavil at a belief in the reality of the 
 one Communion and Fellowship in the Church of 
 Christ our Lord can neither gainsay nor resist, and 
 which we who believe in the Communion of Saints 
 most heartily acknowledge and cordially recipro- 
 <)ate, upon the perpetually verified principle of Holy 
 
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 "Writ concerning the Body, that " if one member 
 suffer all the members suj0fer with it, and if one 
 member rejoice all the members rejoice with it." 
 You all, my brethren, can testify to this, as well 
 as I. You know the public work and the public 
 character of our lamented Bishop, There are 
 many, nay, I may say all, of the Bishops of the 
 Anglican Communion, who are ready to speak of 
 him as " the brother whose praise is in the Gospel 
 throughout all the churches." His great public 
 work for the last two years has undoubtedly been 
 the establishment of the Church in Canada, in the 
 present completeness of its organization. You 
 will agree with me, and the public will agree with 
 us, that in the transition state in which the Church 
 in Canada and in the Colonies has been placed 
 during the last few years, his was a character 
 which had power, weight, and influence ; his was 
 a mind which could grasp the details of the 
 Church's Work, and mould them together for the 
 Church's good ; his was a spirit which was pecu- 
 liarly qualified to adjust difficulties and remedy 
 discrepancies, to guide, lead, and direct others, and 
 to accomplish, by the wisdom of his counsel, the 
 soberness of his judgment, the impartiality of all 
 his dealings, and a remarkable foresight with 
 which he was gifted, those works for the Church 
 which have brought about a prosperous issue, and 
 left affairs en a permanent basis, so that correct- 
 ness of principle adopted by posterity, may carry 
 on the work of the Wise Master-builder who i» 
 gone. 
 
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 Time would fail to tell of all that has been 
 done so wisely and so well, under the judicious 
 care of this Overseer, or Bishop, of the Churches, 
 Why, the fact is tha t the actions and work of the 
 Bishop must remain on the page of history, and 
 occupy no small space in the abiding annals of 
 the Mother and the Colonial Church. What need 
 I more say now on this point ? Much more pro- 
 bably by-and-bye. But I should consider it a 
 grievous omission here if I were not to refer to 
 that great and arduous part which was taken by 
 the Metropolitan of Canada, in organizing, for- 
 warding, and consummating the meeting of the 
 Bishops at Lambeth, in Pan-Anglican Conference, 
 the goud effects and advantages of which will yet 
 more and more, as time rolls on, bear testimony 
 to the excellent spirit by which the assembled 
 Prelates ^^ere actuated and imbued, and testify to 
 the Church and to the world that the Holy Ghost 
 still operates to perpetuate Christ's promise, " Lo, 
 1 am with you alway, even unto the end of the 
 world.^^ 
 
 There is no doubt that, throughout the whole of 
 that great movement, the high-minded and godly 
 man who occupies with so much grace, dignity, and 
 excellence of spirit, the important post of Primate 
 of all England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 held close brotherly intercourse with the Metro- 
 politan of Canada, consulted his judgment, and set 
 a uigh value on his opinion. 
 
 The last two years, men and brethren, were busy 
 
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 years of public life ; arduous and anxious, though, 
 doubtless, enjoyable and inciting. The spirit rose 
 to meet the emergency. There was a long con- 
 stant routine, a busy round of Committee Meet- 
 ings, Public Missionary Meetings for the Societj^ 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel, many Addresses 
 at Ordinations and Confirmations, and earnest 
 Sermons in large Cathedrals to immense congre- 
 gations, and during the two years two voyages 
 across the Atlantic, with renewed labours in his 
 own Diocese. Well, Brethren, medical testimony 
 says that physical powers and niental powers were 
 thus put constantly on the stretch, overtaxed, ever 
 active ; and so the work was done. Of course we 
 -know that the respected Bearer of such medical 
 testimony will gladly hear from this place the in- 
 terpretation I presume to put upon the language; 
 it is this, the good Bishop had, at God's command, 
 stood to his post, fulfilled his mission, done his 
 work p.nd dischargod his duty, and went, at a call 
 from Heaven, to receive the reward implied in 
 the commendation : " Well done, good and faith- 
 ful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 
 But lastly, in this cons*^orated House of God, 
 which owes so much to him as another portion of 
 his public work, conjointly with one who shared, 
 all the time, city labours with the Bishop, and still 
 lives to carry them on, I desire reverently, faith- 
 fully, and affectionately to say something of the 
 personal character of the Departed. I thinly I 
 have a right to speak. I know I wish to speak 
 
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 aright. I was privileged to be intimately associa- 
 ted in pastoral intercourse with the Master whom 
 the Lord has taken from our head. It is due to 
 him, it is due tc you, it is due to my'self, it is due 
 to the God whom he served faithfully, and whom 
 we all try to serve, to tell you something of the 
 last days, and the last hours, of the late Bishop of 
 Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada. It is hal- 
 lowed ground, and I desire to speak and wish you 
 to hear as if he were a witness, as though he being 
 dead yet spake. 
 
 I know there is a conscious deep personal expe- 
 rience of the religious life in the soul of every one 
 of us, over which a veil is drawn, which can never 
 be revealed even to the nearest and the dearest, 
 penetrated only by the Holy Ghost, the Witness 
 of our own spirits, and Christ Himself, who, with 
 God the Father, takes up His abode within, consti- 
 tuting the true life of the soul. No words, no 
 thoughts, can communicate the assurance to a 
 friend. This is " the life that is hid with Christ 
 in God." 
 
 Nevertheless, God helping me, I have something 
 to say of the last days, and then something of the 
 last hours, of him whose memory we cherish ; and 
 then, with a brief exhortation, I shall have done 
 for the present. 
 
 The last days were spent, as you know, in 
 visiting several of the parishes of the Diocese 
 for Confirmation services ; and I have it on the 
 testimony of the Clergy of those parishes that 
 
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 there was a marked warmth and an earnestness 
 in the Bishop's manner, and a remarkable ener- 
 gy in the administration of the services, which 
 they remarked at the time, and have since re- 
 called with feelings of no ordinary pleasure and 
 affection. And as to the last five days of active 
 service I can myself speak. I observed, during 
 all those days of more than ordinary bodily exer- 
 tion and fatigue, over the roughest of roads, a 
 power of endurance at which I marvelled. There 
 was no murmur nor complaint, but at the place 
 and time appointed a readiness for every service 
 which went in advance of the clergy in attend- 
 ance ; and if there were no weariness of body 
 during the long journey, there was certainly no 
 weariness of spirit. In the social intercourse 
 which usually ended our day's labours the Bishop 
 was the life of us all. His spirit came out in quiet, 
 genial, I may say sacred, flow ; memory evoking 
 old associations of the early years of his life and 
 first years of his ministry, in descriptions of work 
 in parishes of the mother country, for the edifica- 
 tion of the younger clergy. But, above all, I be- 
 lieve none will forget the Ordination Charge ott 
 the Sunday, nor the Confirmation Addresses on 
 that day and others. I hear the words of the 
 Bishop's last text even now : " For this cause left 
 I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order 
 the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in 
 every city, as I had appointed thee." The thoughts 
 created by the words spoken still linger in the 
 
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 mind* Tied to no manuscript, there was an apt- 
 ness in the words uttered, and a flow in the utter- 
 ance, which told of the spirit keenly alive to the 
 requirements of the position. And I noticed, what 
 I shall call, this brilliance, wherever the Bishop 
 went. My Christian Brethren, this is my expla- 
 nation and conviction : the light of eternity, a 
 more direct ray from the eternal world, was dawn- 
 ing on the Bishop's soul, long before he died. It 
 fell on the spirit as he spake, and flashed from 
 those last words which we heard. He was then^ 
 so far as earthly things were concerned, a dying 
 man. The earthly was being eliminated, the iiea 
 venly was being more manifestly revealed. 
 
 These last words in public passed, and we re- 
 turned to the city. The sequel we know. The 
 Bishop's earthly career was closed. Exactly one 
 week from the hour of his reaching the city, his 
 spirit passed to " the city which hath foundations 
 whose builder and maker is God." Let me teli 
 you that eighteen years ago, on that very day, 
 the Bishop set foot on tne wharf of Montreal. 
 And, as all remarked, on the day of the meet- 
 ing of the Provincial Synod, he was called away 
 to a blessed place, where no sound of contro- 
 versy or wave of trouble could reach him. 
 
 During those last hours on earth there was a 
 quiet, peaceful, happy demeanour over the well- 
 known form. All that was of earth had faded 
 away from the mind. And if any one speak of 
 the mind being unconscious, let it be understood 
 
16 
 
 that such an expression does not rightly convey the 
 state of mind under which the good Bishop breath- 
 ed his last. No business question, requiring a train 
 of thought and the balflncing of the mental powers 
 to give an answer in the affirmative or the negative, 
 was wisely allowed to be put ; but I would have 
 you know, that the thoughts were running in a 
 holy channel to the last, and evidence of the soul's 
 consciousness and intelligence was abundantly 
 manifested by a recognition of words of prayer, 
 and an assent to spiritual truths expressed up to 
 the very last. 
 
 And so the silver cord was gently loosened 
 whilst we "were watching there. As in life, so in 
 death, the still water was running deep, the reli- 
 gious life WV.6 fed by deep internal founteins. The 
 Holy Ghost set his seal, and Christ granted a 
 guardianship, where the righteous lay dying. God 
 sent his beloved sleep, and laid it on the eyes of 
 the weary Christian warrior. The Divine Being 
 Himself stood at the bedside, freeing the soul from 
 the body. Death, with all its sad accompaniments, 
 was but joy. Faith knows that, according to the 
 dearest principles of our religion, that little cham- 
 ber was crov/^ded with glorious forms, that angels 
 were waiting there to take charge of the disembo- 
 died soul, and when, in mortal language, the eold 
 damp was on the forehead, and the eye fixed, and 
 the pulse too feeble to be felt, we were not stag- 
 gered at the spectacle, for we knew that a hand, 
 gentler than any human, was closing those eyes, 
 
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 ard a voice, sweeter than any human, was whis- 
 pering in those ears : ** I will come again and re-^ 
 ceive you unto Myself:" " To-day shalt tboi! be 
 with Me in Paradise." There was no sting in 
 that death : there is no victory by that grave ! 
 
 And thus the good Bishop fell asleep. A great 
 and ?i good man has been taken from the earth. 
 A faithful soldier of Christ has entered into his 
 rest. 
 
 May God grant that both the memory of any good 
 done by our dear Father in God in his generation, 
 may make us therein to follow his example ; and 
 also that the belief we have of his reception among 
 the blessed, may cause us to press the ihore earn- 
 estly towards the mark for the prize of the high 
 callingof God in Christ Jesus ! 
 
 And may the Great Judge of all men give us 
 grace so to fit and prepare ourselves for that great 
 account which we must one day give, that when 
 the time of our appointed change shall come, we 
 may look up to Him with joy and comfort, and 
 may at last be received into that place of rest and 
 peace, where all tears shall be wiped from our eyes^ 
 and all our troubles and sorrows shall have an end, 
 through the merits of Christ Jes^^s our Saviour. 
 Amen. 
 
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