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THE LORD BISHOP OF MONTREAL, And Metropolitan of Canada, ADDRESSED TO THE Biihopt uid Clergy of the TTnited Ohnroh of Bngland and Ireland in Canada, BY I. HELLMUTH, D.D., AUBKOKAOOtl OV HUBON, ASO itBt. UOOBaa, OW ST. PAUL'S OATBnDRAL, UMTOON, 0. V., TO WHICH IS APPENfrSD " THE THIRD LETTER" or VRB LORD BISHOP OF MONTREAL. QUEBEC: raiNTID BT MIDDLBTON AND DAWSON, SHAW's BUILDINOS, LOWER TOWN. " 1862. ■\. .1 .irx. r.^: ^x ^. .1 .if-X 1^ f .u]fiiiOi 10 loi^n mi m m urn t MXL .HT'lMJJail .] , w • .(T'Kfvor ^i*.jrcis!ir«o y.'.t..i" .•» *. axTrfr^vi .T*». «)*r«. ,«wi( -lo nwituirn**. c:in';rff«T^/ :?! HCi'HW OT 1 .;) '^aaTTSJ aiH""' -^"i .lALifiTWo.Ti ^lo «^roHaia av?o»i aHT 'io •.0333 up .sag I I ■*«» «■■•,'. iMifj •Ufti^n .'*! -ijifiq 11) ,r. jiyl L-i 1 «..'"" A THIRD REPLY. 1 T fji.n '"'rfgf'.T o iry.jai U'." .a ■ •< f J ' t'i •::\ni Mr Lord Bishop,— .*7«' QuRREO, Aag. 9, 1862. * Although I bare by incontestable proofs, nay, eren by Tonr Lordsblp's own unwitting admissions, cleared my character as a Christian and a Minister of the Gospel, from every charge and insinnation with which, from your exal- ted position as Metropolitan, you might fain have obscured It, you seem to be determined not to let the subject rest where it had Y ^<}n snooessfnlly and triumphantly placed on the issuec of my " replies." For a third time you have recurred to the same attack. But I am confident that for a third time I can satisfactorily dispose of all that is oontidned in Tour Lordship's third Pastoral. I shall on this occasion, as before, append your Pastoral to my answer, that the public, to which you have appealed, may be fully and fairly furnished with the controversy as it stands, and pronounce their verdict accordingly,.^ In my inmost heart, I deplore this controversy, but the onus rests upon Your Lordship, whose efforts to defame my fair name, and that of my respected father-in-law, Gen. Evans, both in private and in public, by all the means and influence in your power, and at all hazards, demanded our vindication. — And it will be easily conceived that it is not a little difficult to write calmly under such painful and aggravated circumstances, into which I am again forced in self-defence to enter by your Lordship's coDtinued attacks. •< As yet your Lordship has not even attempted to disprove the correctness of my remarks at the Islington meeting respecting (1) "^Ae teaching of Trinity College, Toronto," [which is the only institution I referred to in my speech,] and (2) " the paucity of Evangelical men in the British JVorth American Colonies generally." vtcnH'^'ni f»«rf-r:iUirjq-ai '■ i I roar Lordahip, la your third letter, oa page 8, admits that you uaderstaud the seose attached by me to the word " Evangelical ;" aad that such *' Evan- gelical men" are few in number in Canada, I have yoar Lordship's own au- thority, as I haVie coiclusively shown In my JW. 11. Reply, yages 6 and 7, in the following words : — • ' " '' But, My Lord, have you not said more as to ^ho paucity of *' Evangelical men" in Canada, than I have ever ventured to say ? As examples of en- coaragement held oat to '■ Evangelical men" in Canada, your Lordship has specified places in the Province, saying : " Evangelical men, as such, may not be as abundant as the Archdeacon wishep, yet be will allow they are to be fourd in many most important places. The Cathedral at Toronto and all tke churches at Kingston have long been so filled, that at London, three in Mon- treal, one in Quebec, one in Hamilton, all principal cities in the Province." t " You assign thus to the most populous protestunt city in Canada, viz,,* To- ronto, where there are 23 clergymen, 3 Evangelical men,— all on the Cathe- dral staff; to the city of Montreal, where there are 12 or 13 clergymen, you ns- Bign three ; to the city of Quebec, where there are 12 Clergymen, yoar TiOrdsbip assigns one, &c. &g. &c. This is yonr Lordship's own estimate." At any rate, to say the least, the two subjects — which we the questions at issue, viz. : (1) " The teaching of Trinity College, Toronto," and (2) " The paucity of Evangelical men in the Province," your Lordship professes com- parative igaorance of. Of the former, on page 5, of your first Pastoral, yoa say : " I am not suffi- ciently master of this subject in its present state to enter into a detailed re- view of It ;" and Of the latter, on page 8, of yonr third Pastoral, you toy . (exempting yOur own Diooeee,) " I am not in a condition to say if that is the case in Canada generally." .'«alsJ& ot ttHofi-i ssodw Md&hnaJ, Has it never occurred to your Lordship that these very two snbjects, of which you profess comparative igaorance, are yet those, on which you charge me with misrepresentation, and that it is on the ground of invalidating my testimony regarding them, that your Lordship justifies your attack upon my personal character T ^^,-.-». \~j,^ ,. — ^J ^. <„;.»...,,. ....;, „. ♦-i,;/iv>j Need I say that these two subjects are of vital importance fo the Church in Canada? ^' U ^ _.-_^..+.._ — ,^-.«.;,..>^.. ,^;4 And I shall show that your Lordship had ample time and opportunity of becoming master of bolh : — As early as the 21 st of July, 1860, the Lord Bishop of Huron issued a Pas- toral to the Clergy and Laity of his Diocese, which was re-published tn ear/en »o you understand it such <• Evan- lebip's own nu- geB6 and 7, fn *' Evangelical amplcB of en- Lordship has such, may not ley aro to be to and all the three in Mon- Province." , ada, viz,,- To- on the Cathe- jymen. you pis- rgymen, your »timate." t questions at and (2) " The professes oom- I amiii^sbfla- a detailed re- ral, you say . if that is the Bubjects, of h you charge alidating my aek npon ray ihe Chnreh in jportunity of ssued a Pas- eitnexten$o in the Toronto ** Eccleaiaattoal OaEttke," August 1st., 18i^., „, . The Bishop of Huron, however, whose experience in Canada extends over thirty yeara, oorroboratea my atatements made in England, and in bia Charge delivered to bis Clergy in Jnne last, be allndes thus to the subject : — v *»» < " Exception has been taken as to some statements made by the Archdeacon at a meeting in London. I have examined those stalementp, as explained by the Archdeacon, and so far as the part of Canada with which I have been inti- mately acquainted for nearly thirty years is concerned. I feel assured that his statements are strictly in accordance with facts. With many of the dio- ceses in British North America I have had very little or no acquaintance, therefore I cannot from my own knovjledge speak of them. But as Dr. Heli- mutb has acted for so many years as the representative of the Colonial and Continental Church Society in British North America, I should not be disposed to question his testimony as to the religious state of these dioceses. . ^ '• I think it due to Archdeacon Hellmuth to state here that my confidence la bia sincerity, his piety, and veracity is entirely unshaken, and that I shall continue thankfully to avail myself of his valuable services, in which he baa proved himself a talthtul and eflBcient laborer. ' «^ --boio * iw ijm o) noinw " I have no objectioa to your sending all my communioatlcnB to ibe Bishop of Montreal ; nay, I would rather you did so, and you had better send him also exact copies of your's to me, and that of the Bishop of Ontario on this matter.'' I also told him in the same letter, with regard to anything he marked />rioafei that**'that which aflfects the character of man cannot be cdnslderftd private/ and that if I made use of bis communications It would only be in self-defence." To this Intention on my part be never offered any objection. '^* *"* "**'"* '* Your Lordship has strangely withheld tbe letter of the Revd. Mr. addressed by him to tbe Bishop of Ontario as far back as the 2nd of December last, a copy of which was sent to you by him, prior to the issue of your last Pastoral, In which the following words occur as having proceeded from me : — " You have promised to leave unconditionally ; leave unconditionally," ^ This evidence, however strong, is further corroborated by circumstances about which there can be no mistake. The fact of my having upoken to the Bishop of Huron to receive him in his diocese, which Af course I would not have done had I not expected, that in compliance with my advice to him, be would " leave his mission unconditionally." IJ ifA As an additional proof that that was the nature of my advice to him, and that he was apparently willing to follow it, I give another quotation from his letter to me of the 8th of July last, which runs thus :— vn wiumao 7tfo^4«di * What is in italics is underlined in tbe original. ynfif (ft Iihlonen) It on wiikoui 1 woaldb* l».:-'That . • , _. :._/. M better to >pler In the 9 Biihop of ued a wlih ^oa ail mj . ■;■•'•! r^ r"-.?.' the Bishop id him also is matter.'' ed private^ d private, •defence." .Mr.— . December year last om me :— ices about le Bishop lave done d«leaTo him, and flpQiahia V ..ni utyi Kwjd ifiir. •t '• I sold and gave away some of my property, and pteked np a pari. I offered my serTices to the Rev. Mr. M., for board and lodging, without any earthly prospect. I applied for my ' bene deceisit.' " In another note he says :— '•I did my utmost to leave." ' " ini'P Most It not be then by the desire of his own Bishop that he remains where he still IsT. :.'■>;* . ii'i'iiiki iM<» ^ ni n «if«,T How I could have *■ told him to get up a petition from tome of hit eon- " S^fg**^^ *^^*^ ^^'^ ^' Ufouid be reappointed," and on the same day, and at " the same time, advise him as a friend uneonditionaity lo leave the mission *' urithoui any understanding between the people and hinuetf" and, *' under '• all the eircumstancer, that It would be better for him to leave without any " idea of returning^" I leave to the judgment of the reader t I trust I have effeotually disposed of this case. Although scarcely ezpectlug, even by the complete vindication of myself from every charge you brought against me, to remove your Lordship's preju- ^ dices — as every successful refutation of your attacks only increases the awk- wardness ot your position — yet befoie the tribunal of public opinion, to which ,^ your Lordship has appealed, I feel confident that my repliet must be both I satisfactory and convincing. The next point in your Lordship's last Pastoral is one which I amnnwiUingly forced to notice again.. jifou4 >t{i mt«« bm-^'^ 3. And now you refuse to believe General fivana. What further imputations may we expect at your Lordship's hands? , 5 j •• In my •* No. 2 Reply, " page 9, I gave the following message from Gen. Evans to your Lordship, at his request :— *' He *' [i. e. Gen. Evans] " begs me to remind your Lordship of two long interviews with him on the subject of the Church, instead of " one $hort one,^ This stctement from the General, because it does not agree with your Lord- ship's journal and memory, you characterize, in the most unqualified terme, ae ** an entire invention of eirevnutaneee.*' My Lord, it need hardly be said that we are not responsible for the defects or omissions of your journal. It may record some tbiugs and omit othern. And yet on the strength of such negative testimony as this, you would venture to charge us with untrutb, saying on page 6 of your third Pastoral : — - • -r' " Now, had this been true, I admit it would have, gone very far to have destroyed the whole credit of my evidence." t , -nv io » ah-ttv 1 shall now bring in a third witness to confirm the fact that the G leral bad an evening besides a morning interview with yon, on the subject o\ the Sberbrooke street qhurcb.^yj.; i^i^- i^fc'i j-f rriijfg&uM tuoz ni .'o.oq ixuci IT I have been unwilling to bring before the public the names of pri ite individuAls; but a letter lately received by Gen. Evans from his dau; ;er, Mrs, Crooks, is so pointedly and positively in accordance with the Gen« U's statement of the interviews referred to, that I have no alternative left V ' to publish an extract from it, in which the subject is alluded to in the following terms : — « I have just read the Metropolitan's third Pastoral, and must say I was surprised and grieved at his positive deuial of your statement that he spent an evening with us in Beaver Hall Terrace, for the purpose of discussing your project of building a church on Sherbrooko street. *'l remember distinctly his coming for that purpose, and the conversation occupying a considerable space of time ; atso a similar meeting for the same purpose one morning. I cannot tax my memory with the exact dates of the meetings in question, but that his Lord^ip had them I have no hentation in "• Moreover, on comparing the dates of the dlfi'ercnt interviews by your i i u lat the Qv teral 3 subject 01 the Lordship, diwurepauoies appear, which shew that there oonld not have bqen that haste with which yoar Lordship^would clothe the traoBaotioD, and ao difaw UD inference that General Evans and I were in baste to " take you io," — not to enter upon the well known fact that the General had in contemplauon the building of a Chnrch, prior to your Lordship's advent to this country. , Your Lordship admits two interviews with me on the 8th and 9tb of Jan- uary, 1852, and on the day of your last interview with me, (t. e., the 9th of January, 1852,^ the Germans presented you with an address. A kind friend seeing this, drew my attention to the " Montreal Gazette" of the 14th of January, 1852, where it is thus recorded: — '* The following address was presented to Bishop Fulford on New Year's Day,* (not the 9th), by a large number of the German residents ^f the city, members of the English Church." „..,.,*,..,•,' rf.>* .-,'.1 ''ij a t r tfiii*'-k ^* \ tfM^ax..^: «i*w''*.r Whatever Pastor Chiniquy may be now, (not that I know anything against him), our appeal for aid some three years ago, to help the movement of which he was the instrument, was not for htm personally, but for his suflbring colony of converts, consisting of several hundred families. ^, ', ^ ^^ °- olien fl»rel 9*rtio ',eia»i«ii: 12 Nl Th« fact that bandredB of these cooyerta from Rome were aaved froid aUr- Tfttlon by the meaoa that were obtained for tbeir relief, shows how anoalled for this aitpersioD is, that the aid eonght and obtained was an imposition npon "the credulous English pnblio." Alas ! if our exertions and sacrifices in the cause of Christ and of humanity are to be suspended until we are infallibly certified of the permanent worthi- ness ot the objects of them, we might at once set aside the lofty examples set before us by our Lord, and his immediate followers, and cease from every Christian and philanthropic enterprise I »•<" •'''"» fw But even, at the risk of beina: a little tedious, I will reiterate here all I have said on this subject in my first Reply : — .^••vtf! p^iiv («* miT ■ '' Your Lordship next (in page 7) sneers at the efforts made by me on behalf of Pastor Gbiniquy's French converts from Romanism, in Illinois, U.S. Like the rest of your Lordship's insinuations, they are beside the question at issue, and derive importance only from your Lordship's high oflQce and position. In these efforts I had the happiness of the support of the Bishop of Huron (who accompanied me to the field of labor) and of othet* Christian friends. The course taken is its own vindication. I only deeply regret that a movement which has been manifestly blessed, where there are now several Episcopal congregations under the Rev. Dr. Williamson, a clergyman well known to your Lordship, should have provoked in your mind a sentiment so different from what might have been expected, from the successful exertions resulting in the relief of a starving population. I give in the Appendix (B) a brief statement on this head. Fromapp. B: — *' The interest I took in the wonderful movement of several hundred French Canadian families leaving the Church of Rome, through the instrumentality of Pastor Chiaiquy, had no reference to the man himself. , ,- ,„ ^ "" ■' .ati.'>. vfnn •»«" "I felt, as a Protestant and a Christian minister, a deep and lively interest in the spiritual welfare of so large a body of French Roman Catholics, who had renounced the errors of the Church of Rome. I went several times from Quebec to Illindis, a distance of twelve hundred miles, with no other object than to afford them aid, when I heard of the persecutions they had suffered for the truth's lake, and of the famine which was reducing ihem to starvation. The Bishop of Huron accompanied me at my first visit to St. Ann's and Kankakee, when Pastor Cbiniquy was absent. We reached St. Ann's on a Tuesday, the afternoon of a cold December day, when the people had no expectations of our arrival. On entering the piace we heard the sound of a little liell, summoning the new converts te the Protestant faith, to their chapel ; and to our agreeabla surprise, although it was a week-day, and some of the people had to come a distance of five to ten miles, poorly clad and ill fed, there could not have been 13 ftved from uiu- iow anoalled for litioDopon "thtt ad of humanity laoent worthi- ly examples set Me from every lere all I baye me on behalf is, U.S. Like »tion at issue, I position. In Huron (who friends. The t a movement ral Episcopal rell known to t so different ions resulting (B) a brief ndred French umentality of ly interest in ics, who had from Quebec object than 2red for the ation. The 1 Kankakee, uesday, the ations of oar , summoning ur agreeable 1 to come a ot have been i fewer than from five hundred to six hundred devout worshippers in ths chapel. The Bishop of Huron and myself were privileged to preach to this interesting people, who listened with delight to the simple word of God, and we were both convinced that it was a movement owned of God. We also visited the schools and lound them well attended, and the teachers labouring to instruct the children in the truths of the gospel. Such a sight can never be forgotten by those who really feel an interest in the extension of the gospel ; nor could it fall to produce in them that sympathy and interest which are leading charac- teristics of the truth, of which St. John declares, " By this we know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." " After careful investigation by the Bishop and myself, both at St. Ann's and Kankakee, we were satisfied on the one hand that the movement whs genuine, and on the other that the people were suffering frightfully from the effects of the famine— a fact which has called forth the sympathy of Christians on both sides of the Atlantic. It would have been inhuman had not the Bishop and myself, who were eye-withesses, appealed to England on behalf of this suffering people ; and I am tliankful to say, that the appeal made in their behalf was not only responded to from England, but also from Canada. I subsequently spent several weeks in that colony, visiting most of the settlements ; and so deeply was I interested in their spiritual welfare, and so strongly did I feel the necessity of their baviug tried and experienced teachers of gospel truth, that I went to New York, and submitted to the excellent Dr. Tyng, and to other gentlemen connected with the American Church Society, the necessity of something being done for the permanent instruction of this people. Dr. Tyng took the trouble of visiting the colcsj in person, and returned to New York with the determination to exert himself on their behalf. I rejoice -reatly in the consciousness that by the blessing qf God my labours in this department have not been in vain. If your Lordship will take the trouble to enquire, yoa will find that the Rev. Dr. Williamson, who was formerly connected with the Sabrevois mission, is labouring most successfully among the French converts. Several Episcopal congregations have been gathered in through his instru- mentality. Sunday schools are also established ; and as he wants more clerioal help, be applied to me for such, previous to my leaving for England last autumn, making special mention of the Rev. A. A. Allen, his successor at Sabrevois, who he thought, would carry on with him this work of God." Your Lordship has devoted several pages in the third Pastoral to the subject of the Metropolitan Patent, and what passed in Quebec l^ben w^, met your Lordship at the residence of the Bishop of Quebec. In answer to this I would beg to direct your Lordship's attention to the subjoined letter from one of the Quebec Delegates to the Provincial Synod, which speaks for itself, and with sufficient clearness shews that I have given a correct version of the matter in my No. IF. Reply, on pages 4 and 6 :— ' '^"' u m f.rr-.viflf «fii (t: i«.fn}rici.ir<« Jm-'.':»t hitbttild Ztf. '■ <rfc,o«t, «..)J /io ?\'^fviir»0*. 7.'...^. frf.v-U :...„» r... ' "As a Delegate to the Diocesaa Synod of Quebec, present at the meeting Iield in April, 1861, at the residence of the Bishop of Quebec, to consider the Draft of Letters Patent appointing a Metropolitan, I think it right with refer- ence to that part of the subsequent correspondence between his Lordship the Metropolitan and yourself which relates to the Patent, including his recent Letter, to state that my recollection of the discussion which took place at the meeting in question coincides with the statement of it given upon the 4th and 6th pages of your reply to his Lordship-s second letter. My impression was at the time, shared I believe by most if not all the others present at the meeting, that bis Lordship's proceedings with respect to the draft of the Patent were entirely voluntary, and I was not aware until afterwards of the existence of the instructions from the Colonial Secretary to which you refer* t/s faou i S'n'mrvIlJ- lM I nu V (Signed,) " To the Venerable Archdeacon Hellmuth, D.D/' ■Jo v. Very sincerely yours, ~""- ' G. N. MOKTIZ^HBBRT.". V ,i60f> mi.is'Jti^'ji vmia There is another mistake into which your Lordship has been led by giving too ready an ear to mere hearsay reports. , . .. ■., . r . A/, . '^' "^C, On page 12 of your third Pastoral, yon say with regard to the sntgeot of the Patent at the Provincial Synod : -'t^ ". a a;vRn ."Ithad been intended that I should have played a more prominent part, and that I was entrusted by those who acted with me, with some Resolutions which I was to move. &c.. &o." Now, My Lord, there is not the slightest foundation for what yon Iwyis thus heard, and I appeal to all the Quebec Delegates as to the truth of what I here assert. To carry out the following Resolution which was unanimously passed at the Quebec Diocesan Synod in 1861 :— "Moved by Mr. H. S. Scott, seconded by the Revd. H. Roe:—'* That it be an inatruetion to the delegates of the Provincial Synod to endeavour to pro- cure such modification of the authority conferred upon the Metropolitan, by the * let tert patent,' as may be necessary to protect the rights atui privileges of the Diocesan Synods " — ■ J- .'t6 paised at the * The Quebec Delegates, tseveral weeks before the meeting of the ProvinciAl Synod, met and resolved to select, not me, bat the late lamented Dr. Fallooii to be the mover, and H. S. Scott, Esq., to be the seconder, in order to carry cot the Instrnctions embodied in the above ; and by eonsolting the •* Journal of the proceedings of the first Provincial Synod," your Lordship will find accordingly, on page 25, the following : **if* -' w »wiW « NOTICE OF MOTION. ,^; . ;ii m,., roq-i im-n " The Bev. Dr. Falloon gave notice that he would, at the earliest fitting opportunity, move a Besolution respecting the Letters Patent." <:' "iUb > ;>« The rest of the hearsay reports, and the assertions without proof of ill- dispoied persons, from whatever quarter, are of the same value. ; * I was ignorant until now, that I have been so closely watched by your Lordship for eleven years, in my various, and I may say active, responsible, and laborious duties, and that iu conspicuous fields ; and yet, although you have put the worst possible construction upon all my labours and motives, you have not been able to substantiate a single thing against me. To God alone be all the praise, whose grace is ever all-sufflcient, and who enabled me to Maud this fiery ordeal! For a third time I have completed the painful task of meeting every charge and insinuation of your Lordship, and it will be my duty, so long as you shall continue to assail me, to defend myself, and I am confident with similar success. I do not hide it, that I am jealous of anything and everytbing which would interfere with my privileges as a British subject or my legitimate liberty as a clergyman of the Reformed Church of England. ' ^*" '" *"" "" ■""'*" '- ' Will your Lordship permit me, in conclusion, for your own sake, and the Church's sake — though yoar inferior in office — to hope that I shall not unduly trench upon the deference due to Metropolitan authority, if suggesting for grave and humble enquiry, whether it is not possible for the highest ecclesias- tical functionary — being fallible — to err at times, in Pastorals or otherwise, by •flsupiing a position, and attributes of irresponsibility, incompatible with the recognized principles of our Protestant liberty ? Did we not live under British protection, might we not w^l tremble at ilie recent assumption of -such a power by your Lorcidiip f For whose standing or reputation would be safe that incnrrea your Lord- ship's displeasure t 1|6 :i ll ! 1 If -j'l May npt the ftsaumptioD of lueh a power la our Churob be but the germ of ! that abflolaUiiD, which, in iti fall developmeat, would reduce ue to the al^^t ooaditioa, where all power la oonceatrated in one poor mortal, aad In whioh ^ the several parts only perform their fuaoti<^08 ia absolute s^bordiaatioo to thn j supreme central will ? When such power is attempted to be exercised in this 19th Gentory bj an English Colonial Bishop, is it not high time to check so dangerous an encroach- ment upon our liberties T '^^ 'J^^ 301T0 I feel justified, my Lord, in saying that the more I thinic of year uegudt and nnpreoedented proceedings against me, the more am loonstraiiMd tongret that you ehould have assumed a spiritual jurisdipUon but little short of the most despotic that the Church of Rome arrogated to herself iu the moat ignoraat of the middle ages. .,.,:.,,„., ^ 5 >^ ^ .., If a Prelate has it in his power, wilhout evefi the semblance of a Court, a Commission, or a Syaod, to assail in private, ai^d officially to defame in public, without aa iota of evidence, the personal character of a clergyman of anoUier Diocese — who enjoys the full confidence and approval of his own Bishop>-simply because he has dared to give, utterance to opinions not agreeable to the Metrope- litaA, or from feelings of personal dislike, originating, perhs^ from prejndioe or party feeling, . the sooner such power is curtailed and its sphere of action more consonant with the Protestant principles of Our Church defined, the better for the Gospel ; the happier for the ^fety and liberty of the Clergy, and for the character and reputation of our beloved Reformed Church of England. " Resting in the'Lord and waitibg ^atienfly fCr hinii who shaU bring forth my righteousaess as the light, aad my judgment as the npondayJ' %hthisu iou ilBdn I tafiilremi^n, ^■' ^ ; - :.! •jt>o^ /iiu'<.ifiaMa'ii?Tftd;) 'i^lml^i'i^ thitt^ui 9d.t wl 'ITour LondBhip'a obt. servt.,:'ti3 eidtpjfd ins avwij^ '%tft diiv^ •>};(ii/iqmuMi ,'jfj'tnrt of tbe "»«J»9?MgW|CWt v» of a Goart, a •defame in pablic, ;yman of another a Bi8hop~Bimply ietotiieMetropo- s from prejodioe sre of action more 3d, the better for )rgy, and for the England. ihaU bring forth toJ 700^ iiiW i A THIRD LETTER /, ' ! .^.„/ TU THK BISHOPS AND CLERGY OF THB United ((U)ttrcl) of (Snglant axA ixtlani IN CANADA, FBOM FRANCIS FULFORD, D. D., LORD BI8H0F OF HONTBHAL AND MKrnOPOLITAM. '■■#. , <■>, iHontreal ; PRINTED BT JOHN LOVELL, 8T. NICHOLAS STREET. 1862. J t MTnu (fflniT A MH /U>ijKU> .i /y. ^'fOM^Ma Ji^n w ,h 6mhii Him 6mi]Qri^h ilnuil^ h^httf ./.a/.iaA'' /Si . ; ieoiri •/ .uiioHdiiu ^iOKATi'^r M.r*--{^(.'iTi.*K sA %^<»IA'» ,n«*»»>'i'.v i( t^ ii'vro ,f^-M< ' Sbs HoosM, Montreal, 16ih July, 1863. RiOBT Rbv. and Riv. Bbcthbbk, ~ ' — o- *-- — i--- -•:- Absence from bome, and some delay in the receipt of letter*, bat oauMd me to be later, than I ought to have been in noticing Bome of the ■tatementa in a second letter recently published by Archdeacon Hell- muth ; while it has given time to him and his friends in various ways to l^ve utterance to their indlgnaUoa and complaints against me for ven- turing to impugn the reliability of hie testimony. I think, however, when your attention is calmly directed to the real facts of the case, that unprejudiced minds will come to the conclusion that it was not witliout some reason I expressed myself, as I did, in my first letter to you. Looking at the report of his speieiA at Islington, which be acknow. ledged to be substantially correct, and which he allowed to go forth without correction or explanation, there can be do question that it was calculated, not to say intended, to convey an impression of unfaithful- aeMin the discharge of their duties, on the part of the great body of the Oanadian Clergy, and our Ecclesiastical Institutions ; and so it was understood and commented upon by *< The Record," English newspaper, the Advocate of the Archdeacoa's plans, and the organ of the party with which he identifies himself. These statements were made with the view of ezoiiing sympathy and raising money, in order to provide a remedy for the evil rtate of which he complained. Now it isoonsi- dered quite allowable and fair to make and encourage such sweeping obarges against the Cburob, as a body, but any attempt to show that the testimony of the person making those charges is not always to be relied on, is considered a most anohristian and harsh proceeding. The Archdeacon complains that I was trying to search oat grounds of accu- sation against him. Whatever inducement I might have had to do so, as a matter of fact I did nothing of the kind. As I stated in a former letter, I simply asked the Bishop of Quebec if he would give me in writing what he had freely given utterance to in the coarse of con- versation, tohieh he at once readily consented to do ; and as to the cir- cnmstances connected with the case of the clergyman, which I men- tioned, they were being so publicly talked of when 1 was at Kingston, and the Archdeacon's conduct was so much condemned, even by those who bad been acting with him, that I could not help being acquainted with them. Wishing to have one important fact verified, I wrote to the Rev. Mr. himself, the letter which the Archdeacon afterwards pab* lished, and to which he subjoined the following remark :— "' ^i^o^- " From the very man whom your Lordship unnecessarily brings before <^ the world, you seek in a most ingenious way io extract a testimony " against me— as h&ving played a doable part— I trust it will be satis- " factory to your Lordship to hear that your enquiry can be distinctly "answered in the negative. If you are not willing to receive my tetti- " many I refer you to the Mistionary." ,, .,- ^. , . ... ,^, Now as I have good reason to believe that my previoos information had some good foundation in fact, I was somewhat sarprised at tbia positive denial. Shortly, however, after the publication of the Arch- deacon's letter I received the following:— -j xilsUauinim «d ' w ' promised to reitgo be raant do ao, but Ibat he would advise him to ' get up a petition from some of his oongregatioa to have bim re-in- 'Htated, and then he would be reappointed, and ali would lie settled.' '* Mr. told me that he had sent jroar letter to Dr. Hellmath, and that Dr. H. had since written to bim to say that he intended to publish the letter, without asking leave. At the same time he said that Dr. Hellmutb had acted in the way you enquired abont, only that your Lord- ship's question had a slight verbal inaccuracy. It might give the idea that Dr. Hellmutb had advised Mr. not to leave his mission at all. What Dr. Hellmutb did do was this. He advised Mr to leave his mission for some two or three months. " Dr. Hellmath hns appealed to Mr. in bis ' Reply,' and this is his testimony since Dr. Hellmnth's letter has been pulblished : — " I may also say that some time last autumn Mr. told me of this, and said that Dr. Hellmath had been playing a double part. I am sure Mr. would confirm this, and at any rate it is what he has stated before myself and others more than once. " If Mr. can tell you the nnswer that Dr. Hellmutb sent on ■«i hearing of year Lordship's question, it might serve to confirm the truth of this. " Again hoping you will pardon the liberty I have taken, " I remain, my Lord, •« Yours faithfully, " John R. Cartwiuoht." 1 accordingly wrote to the Rev. Mr. , who sent me the following answer : — Kingston, 8th July, 1862. ^ " Mt Lord Bishop, — Your letter d^ted July 1st, only reached me last night. I cannot expreas to yoa my feelings. I did not answer your letter simply because I «lid not wish to injure Dr. Hellmutb. I thererore sent your letter to Quebec, that Dr. Hellmutb might answer the ques- tion, and give your Lordship the necessary information, never think- ing that your Lordship's letter to me would be published. « I can now only add that your question was ' substantially correct,' and "I remain, my Lord Bishop, <. Very sincerely yourp. This is the testimony of the Missionary, to whom the Archdeacon himself refers me for proof of the truth of his own statement, and it contains the very contrary. 1 certainly should not have expressed my- n«lf as 1 dill respecting tho Arohdeacon, if I litd not bttd very ilroug ve«aon to believe tbftt my Btatements were well founded ; and I tliink the above oaie bean out anything I have laid reipecting the manner of hi* oonduoting boainew, and the value of hit teitimony. As to the ohargt in connection with the proposal to erect a church for him io Montreal, if I had ever had the least doubt as to the correctness of my impressions, It would be entirely removed by finding that the only defence, or ex- planation, offered was a total misrepresentation of the facts in the Arch- deacon's first letter ; which however he has still further overdone in his second. In page 9 he says : •vi»->. w ki^^.w ii"i.T »i« ' " It Is very strange that your Lordship's memory should be so retentive in some tbinps as to quote with inverted commas or in italics, what was said eleven years ago, while you cannot recollect other circumstances — very important links in the chain of the particular transaction. " Genl. Evans Is in full possession of all his faculties with a strikingly clear memory, as all who know him can testify, and ho begs me to re- mind your Lordship of two long interviews with him on the subject of the Church, instead of ' one short one ;' he desires me to call to your recol- lection that Mrs. Fulford accompanied your Lordship to spend an even- ing at his residence, Beaver Hall Terrace, when your Lordship, the Oenl. and myself, during the evening, fully and freely conversed on the subject In question, and the second interview was on the morning yoa refer to." .. ,, ... Now had this been true, I admit it would have gone very far to have destroyed the whole credit of my evidence. And I own this assertion, " that I, the Genl. and the Archdeacon, during the evening, fully and freely conversed on the question, while the second Interview was on the morning referred to," did again very much surprise me, even as coming from the Archdeacon. I certainly remembered spending an evening with Mrs. Fulford at the General's ; but I was also quite sure there was not one word of truth in the statement respecting our having freely conversed on the subject in question. Now besides trusting to a reten- tive memory, I have for the last 30 years kept a daily journal,* and upon * In page 20 of his first letter, the Arohdeacon in alluBion to another matter says, " Happily, my Lord, I keep a journal with dates and par- ticulars." I am ready to submit my journal to the inspection of any individual agreed upon, who shall compare it with the Archdeacon's respecting the fyot of this evening party. bad verjr ilroug I ; and I think the he maaner of bin ▲• to the obarga him in Montreal, fxaj impreraloDs, J defence, or ex- 'acta in the Aroh- r overdone in his !tt;nrliMtf •»«> '*■ Id be 80 retentive talioB, what was sr oironmstanoea ansaction. with a Btrikinglj begs me to re* )n tbe Bubjeot of all to your reool- epend an even- ' Lordship, tbe onveraed on the lie morning yoa ^ery far to have i this assertion, ling, fully and lew was on the even as coming ng an evening aite sure there r having freely iog to a reten- nal,* and upon sion to another lates and par- pection of any Arohdeacon's I ■■■;*(;■ looking through this, 1 at lakt found an '•ntry on tbe 28tb July, ISfil, recording the fact that, « we drank tea at Gecral Evans', met beslden Mr. Hellmntb, Oommissary General Robinson •t.'l fnmily, and bad some music." The Archdeacon, I remember, bimielf joib( J in tbe sing- ing. This is the only occasion of our Litving speut an evenlog at tbe General's. But as the first proposal I heurd »bout this Gborob and the offer of tbe £3000 for its erection, was when tbe- i^rcbdeacon called at my bouse on the morning of Thursday, Jany. 8th, 1862, I leave you to Judge what is the value of the testimony, that the subject in queitl'^n was fireely discussed by us, at an evening party six months before. I find also by my journal, that, having had an interview with Mr. Hellmutb on the 8tb, I called on General Evans on tbe 9tb, which is the only in- terview I bad with him at that time, and was a very short one, because he was unwell, and not able to enter into details of business. And I again assert that it was not till tbo following day, after having again and again urged the Archdeacon and the General to give their proposi- tion in writing, that I was able to arrive at a true understanding of the case. Besides meeting my statements, at one time with a positive denial of their truth, to which his own witness, to whom he refers me, gives a direct contradiction { or at another time by an entire invention of circumstances, as in the conversation which be asserts I bad with him and General Evans, at an evening party at tbe General's bouse, the Archdeacon has, on several occasions, exhibited great tact and ingenuity in drawing off attention from the real point raised by me to some other matter connected with it. For instance, I alluded to the manner in which, some time since, such large sums were obtained by him ''from the credulous English public for Father Ohiniqay, for whom he vouched, much to the astonishment of many thoughtful people in Canada." Tbe Archdeacon, without any reference to Father Ghiniquy himself, to whom such large contributions from tbe members of our Church in England were paid over, goes off to speak of the labors of the Rev. Dr. Williamson, a clergyman well known to me, and the succets that is attending them. Singularly enough, as a comment upon my allusion to Father Chiniquy, notice appears this week in tbe newspapers that he has been deposed from the ministry by the authorities ot tbe Presbyterian Church at Chicago (with which he connected himself shortly after Dt. -'feTT 8 I f ■ ■ Bellmath'a advocacy of his cause in England), '' for unmiaisterial and unohriatiaa conduct." " T Again, the Archdeacon in his Islington speech asserted '* that Evange- lical men are at a very great discount in those colonies generally." In noticing this 1 instanced some of the most important posts in all our great cities, that were filled by clergymen whom I knew were con- sidered by him to be " Evangelical." He argues from this that I admit the truth of the allegation he made. I admit no such thing, for I am not in a condition to say if that is the case in Canada generally ; but I will asfiert that in my own diocese, the clergy as a body are faithfully Evangelical, several of them accepted by me from the Committee of the Colonial Church and School Society, — but not acting as members of a parly ; and that, not marked out by any adherence to party-action, on one side or the other, such as he might wish to encourage, it would not be easy for any one to class the clergy of this diocese generally, under distinctive heads, or otherwif^e than as " hard-working clergy," '' godly, good men," to use his own expressions, with whom any sincere church- man might gladly co-operate. But more than this, when quoting from my remarks on this subject, be cites my words : " But whether the clergy generally come up to the mark as ' Evaagelical men ' or not, I say it is a positive misrepresentation of the fact." And then he leaves off with a full stop. Now, ".rhat I asserted to be " a positive misrepre- sentation of the fact," is stated in the continuation of the sentence, which proceeds thus, " a positive misrepresentation of the fact, and can only be made either through ignorance or for some party purpose, and to create a sympathy in certain quarters, to assert that there is any general prevalence of what is termed Traetarianism." And I fearlessly challenge the Archdeacon or the Record to prove the charge " that several Canadian Dioceses are deeply tainted with the leaven of Tract- arianism, or that the local colleges at which the Canadian Clergy receive their training, are almost wholly under this baneful influence." When, however, the subject was brought forward at the Synod of the Diocese of Huron, the Archdeacon very much modified the force of his speech at Islington, from wliich tho only logical inference was that " godly, good, and hard-working," and " Evangelical" men, as he understands them, are identical. But at the Synod he acknowledges that there are " godly and good men, bard- working clergy," " though not what he callg s "4 1* » vnmiaiaterial and ^d " that Evange- i generally." In posts in all our knew were con- this that I admit thing, for I am i generally ; but dy are faithfully /ommittee of the as members of a party^actioo, on fe, it would not fcnerally, under lergy," '« godly, ^ sincere church- en quoting from 3ut whether the men ' or not, I 1 then he leaves sitive misrepre- )t the sentence, le fact, and can iy purpose, and at there is any ind I fearlessly ! charge " that eaven of Tract- nadlan Clergy sful influence." Synod of the he force of his is that "godly, le understands that there are t what be calla ^':i Evangelical," in Canada — *' men with whom he would not hesitate to work lovingly." It seems to me that this is a more satisfactory deflti- tion of what our clergy ought to be, than even to be " in his opinion Evangelical." And in this sense, we shall, I dare say, all agree that there are too few such men for the work before us. >~i :^v % One point upon which the Archdeacon insists strongly in his first letter is the approval of him, as testified in the vote of thanks given him on his resigning his Professorship at fiiRhop's College, and his subsequent appointment as a Trustee by myself and the Bishop of Quebec. As far as I was concerned in these acts I can only say that,, whatever might have been my own opinion of Dr. Hellmnth's conduct respecting the proposal to erect the Church in Montreal, yet my judgment of his general char- acter has not been formed from that incident alone, and I always under- stood his services as Hebrew Professor had been useful to the College, and would be difficult to replace, and deserved the thanks of the Cor- poration ; and I had never the least wish to act unjustly towards him. As to the appointment to the Trusteeship, which took place about the same time, March 15, 1854, the Trustees are nominated by the Bishop of Quebec and myself ; and it has always been understood, that we should each select the persons from our respective dioceses, who should receive our joint nomination. The Bishop of Quebec sent me a nomina- tion for Dr. Hellmuth, with a letter, hoping that I would unite in appointing him, which I did. But very soon after Dr. Hellmuth left Canada, having resigned all his ecclesiastical offices here, and by the rules of the Charter of the College, his appointment as Trustee became void, now about seven years ago. And I have never, from that day to this, heard the slightest intimation of any re-appointment. nf^>. One other matter I must notice, and I am the more anxious to.do so, because it more directly concerns the Province at large, and my conduct in connection with the discussions which took place respecting my Patent as Metropolitan. The Archdeacon in his first letter wished to make it appear that in bringing any charges against him for his attacks upon the Canadian Church, I was actuated by resentment, caused by the active part he took in opposing the powers proposed to be vested in me as Metropoli- tan ; and asserts that it was not true, as I stated in my second letter, that " 1 have always wished for free and open discussion, whether on 10 that or any other public measare ;" but that the uoiversal dissatifr' faction caused by the authority conveyed in the Patent induced me to alter my course, and concur in its alteration. I will give a plain state- ment of what I did in the matter, and my reasons for so acting. My first Patent, as you will remember, in consequence of certain omissions in the Preamble, required amendments, and I received from England, on the 2l8t January, 1861, a draft of a New Patent, with insfaructioos from the Duke of Newcastle to this eflfect : " His Grace has given directions that this draft shall be placed in your hands for the purpose of being submitted as well to your Lordship as to the other Bishops concerned, and also, to any person in whose legal knowledge and experience you may have confldence." I immediately caused printed copies to be forwarded to each of the Bishops ; and made arrangements for visiting each Diocese, in order to consult with them and any of their clergy and laity they might wish to be present. 1 went to Toronto the first week in April, and proceeded from thence to London ; and on the 17th of that month met a large party, including Archdeacon Hellmuth, and the Bishop of Huron, at the Biebop of Que- bec's. The Archdeacon took an active part in the conversation respect- ing the Patent. There were objections raised to so .lie of the powers given by the Patent ; and I remember being asked if I would consent to retain the draft, and submit it to the Provincial Synod, which was expected to meet in the course of the summer. I demurred to such a proposal, because I did not feel that it was according to my instructions — and as there was a party opposed to any appointment of a Metropoli- tan, and who questioned the authority of the Queen to make such an appointment, 1 did not like at once to pledge myself to any such pro- ceeding. Nothing, however, at all of an unpleasant character occurred either at Quebec or elsewhere ; nor was I then conscious of anything like violent opposition or general dissatisfaction. I never sought or expected the oflSce ; but having been selected for it, I felt deeply solici- tous that neither the authority or dignity of the Queen, nor the rights of the Church at large, should be compromised by any act of mine. When I returned home, and again, with the best advice I could obtain* considered the whole matter, I became convinced that whatever might be the prerogative of the Queen to appoint a Metropolitan, (which has since been acknowledged by the Synod, and by the opinion of the Law 'W-- 1 m m m 1 Office was what I the PI propJ into Bisbc tohaj bounJ appol remei Soi J.H. oircu I amen ident belie' I had there Syno ' the& I rep pursi the 1 men that of 0] the seen que ano pap Moi toll 1 ^^^ * ab^ H oiversal dissatis' t indaced me to ve a plain state- actioff. . ence of certain I received from w Patent, with "His Grace has r bands for the as to the other egal knowledge ediately caaeed >P8 -J and made isult with them be present. 1 from thence to ^rtj, including Blehop of Que- sation respect- ofthe powers raid consent to d, which was rred to such a 17 instructions i a Metropoli- make such an iny such Pro- cter occurred I of anything er sought or deeply solici- tor the rights act of mine, lould obtain I fttever might I, (which has D of the Law Officers oi the Grown, which has been given more recently,) yet that it was open to grave donbts, whether the powers conferred, no matter what they were, could be legally exercised, except by the antbority of the Provincial Synod ; and I at once decided to retnin the draft, and propose that a Committee of the Synod should be appointed to inquire into the bearings of the Synod Act!>, and the Patents of the several Bishopp, do. No one could be more interested than myself in wishing to have my position clearly defined an<1 legally established j and while bound to maintain the Royal prerogative as justly exercised in the appointment of a Metropolitan, it must be the great object of all to remedy any errors in the Patent making that appointment. v.^^'U ' Some time in the month of May, •! received from the Honorable J. H. Cameron, one of the printed copies of the Patent which I had circulated, with what bethought would be necessary to introduce as amendments, and of which I approved. And it was from this very identical copy that he moved the amendments, which were carried, I believe, in the very words he bad originally proposed to me. In June, I had a letter from the Bishop of Huron, informing me that he thought there might be some difficulty about sending Delegates from their Synod, because several of bis clergy and laity doubted whether the Metropolitan's Patent did not conflict with the Synod Acts. To this I replied at the time, informing him of the course I bad determined to pursue ; so that I thought there need be no difficulty on this subject, as the Provincial Synod might investigate this, and have it set right. I mention these facts, not to claim any credit for what I did, but to show that in the course I pursued, I was influenced by no fear or knowledge of opposition or dissatisfaction, but from a deliberate consideration of the matter, and a wish to act as became my duty to all parties. It seems, however, that there was a growing agitation at Quebec. The question was mooted at the Synod in July, and some violent, abusive, anonymous letters appeared, I was informed, in one of the Quebec papers in the month of August. And when the delegates assembled in Montreal, at the meeting of the Pynod on the 10th September, I was told that great opposition was intended by those from Quebec, and great success anticipated. What was to be the line of opposition, I did not know, nor did it influence me in the least in the coarse I was about to take, which 1 had decided upon many months previously, 12 M the right one. The whole proceedings of the Synod went off ro happily and saooerafully, and I knew so little of the storm that had been preparing, that I could not understand why the Archdeacon should thinlc I bad taken umbrage at him. I learnt, however, a few days ago, that, though I was not cognisant of it, it had been intended that be should have played a more prominent part, and that he was entrusted by thoee who acted with him with some resolutions which be was to move; but that when I came to that part of my address where I recommended that " a Committee of Synod should be appointed to con- sider the bearing of the Synod Acts upon the Patents," &e., he turned to a Delegate sitting next him, and exclaimed, " Ah 1 he has outgeneraled me again." I can only say, if I ha^done so, it was unwittingly, for I was not the least aware of bis intended movements ; and therefore, being ignorant of the extent of bis opposition, had no pretence for taking umbrage at it. I bad no wish that be should be kept in ignorance of what I proposed doing. I had written to the Bishop of Huron inform- ing him three months before, and spoke ot it to others, as no mystery. And after the Synod had adopted the amendments proposed to be inserted in the Patent, I forwarded them to England with a letter earnestly recommending their being confirmed ; and specially with respect to the Provincial Court of Appeal and Powers of the Metropoli- tan. I wrote as follows :— i ■ " Amendment No. 6 provides that the Jurisdiction and Powers of the " Metropolitan shall be defined and regulated by Canons and Laws of ** the Synod. I believe this to be absolutely necessary, in our circum- '* stances, to give them any validity ; and any Court of Appeal set " up by me, except under our Church Synod Act, would be without <' force in the Province. And as we have no authority to introduce the "ecclesiastical law of England into Canada,— as I cannot make laws " for myself— it seems that the only way to obtain any system is under the Church Synod Act, which will give it legal authority and force with all the Church. We have already decided, as part of our Con- stitution, to have two Houses, the House of Bishops, and the House of Clerical and Lay Delegates, which latter may at any time, on any question, call for a vote by orders. The Metropolitan is ex-oflSoio President ot the Synod, and Chairman of the Upper House. ** Provision " ne^ "be " issi On coul( or m mak( I am peat( attac ther from cont thei Arcl ougl ohai nor tos ac( moi of I bro I n ( the to ynod went off ho e storm that had the Arcbdeaoon however, a few teen iotended that t he wasentrasted which he was to address where I appointed to coa- &o.,he turned to outgeneraled me tingly, for I was therefore, being tence for taking in ignorance of f Huron inform- as no mystery, proposed to be i with a letter specially with f the Metropoli- 1 Powers of the DS and Laws of in our circum- of Appeal set lid be without > introduce the ot make laws ^stem is under rity and force rt of our Con- 1 the House of time, on any 1 is ex-officio e. ;* Provision ■'X.'' 13 " is thus made for the dne ooDsrat of the whole Church to any Canon " or Law. I consider this to have been the exact, and the legitimate " position of all Metropolitans in the early Church, who presided over " the Gbnroh, and exercised their jurisdiction, according to the Canons *' passed by their Provincial Synods ; the only restriction being, that the " Provincial Synod could pass no Canon in opposition to the Greneral " Canons of the Church Universal, or the Imperial laws. " With these observations I now beg to return the draft of the proposed " new Patent, and also a Memorial to Her Majesty from the Provincial " Synod, praying that the additions recommended by the Synod may " be ordered to be inserted in the new Patent, which it is proposed to "issue." '• On my reviewing my conduct in this matter, I am not aware that I could have adopted any course more honorable and fair to all concerned, or more advisable for the good of the Church. It is very easy to make accusations of tyranny and oppression, and to insinuate that I am seeking to exercise an oppressive authority, and this may be re- peated again and again by anonymous writers in newspapers. Such attacks will never trouble me at all. I appeal to all my conduct whe- ther as Bishop or Metropolitan, and ask for any proof of such a charge, from any known and credible witness. Even with respect to this very controversy, I have merely appealed on a subject which deeply interests the whole Church, to the judgment of the Church at large^ where the Archdeacon can meet me on the same ground. It has been stated that I ought rather to have cited him before me as Metropolitan, if I had any charge against him. In the first place, I have no court yet constituted : nor do I see how it would have been possible to have reduced this matter to such an issue, as would have brought it under the cognizance of such a court. And had I done so, I think such a course would then have been more loudly condemned as tyrannical, and that I was taking advantage of my ofiScial position. I considered it a question that could only be brought to the bar of public opinion of the Canadian Church, and there I must leave it ; and I think it will not have been mooted in vain. One word more and I have done. My Patent has been retnmed with the alterations made, exactly as we prayed ; and we are to meet shortly to carry out the powers now entrusted to us. We have onr Ecclesias- 14 ticftl orgaaisation uow oouplete, aud our in«ans ol cburoh gortrament within ooraelves ; aud I liope we ahall be, uuder the guidance of God 'a Spirit, enabled to carry throDgh MOh mcasuret as may be oeeeHary, with the general oogsent and a]H»^v<^^ of al'^* I ahould be very sorry that any of oar Dioeeses had any jaat reason to af^rehend that it* own legal rights would not be respected ; but it must be evident thai it would be placing itself altogether in a false position, to seek a separation from tne rest of tb^ Canadian Church. ,^,0 j mminifnniv wMi lijrW •• i.„,Mi;vxKti itili wtoii ' I remaiil * i'ii'fi.raoM h ('bIh bar. ,hsai.6*J 7«hi " t.rm 6..«vB mft vJ &.i;. j,^^^ your faithful Brother in Christ. '^^^ F. MONTREAL. . ,bnmmoo Ha *>? "Aid bm t>Iii;."K>jjb*t ;>'»(»<» ^k'Wjioa v/m fia^jobf,- -^fTjiif Jiua^ iiiAi '{.fjjfjjiifjuc. til Tfca .ii<)m'i-n:{qo )>ilA ^{m*;*'?^ I0 fiV.o^ieitao'Ui vl^^ii •*9t «? 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