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r THE SKRMON 
 
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 Preached in 
 
 St. Luke's Pro -Cathedral, Halifax, 
 
 A.UOU8T 13th, 1887. 
 
 (BeinfiT the Centenary of the Foundinsr of the Colonial Episcopate.) 
 
 BY 
 
 I THE MOST REV. JOHN MEDLEY, D. D., 
 
 Lord Bishop of Frederioton, and Metropolitan of Canada. 
 
 Sold by W. Gossip & Son, for the Cathedral Fund. 
 
(51) 
 
TO THE VENEUABLE 
 
 tDWIN GILPIN, D, D., 
 
 ARCHDEACON OF NOVA SCOTIA, 
 
 THIS SEIIMON, 
 
 i-REACHED AT THE CENTENARY OF THE COLONIAL EPISCOPATE* 
 
 AND PRINTED BY REQUEST, 
 
 IS DEDICATED, 
 
 IN RECOGNITION OF HIS WORTH, 
 
 HIS PIOUS CARE FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE CHURCH, 
 
 AND HIS DISINTERE8TFJ) FRIENDSHIP, 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN, Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of CANADA. 
 
 " In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and Us will direct thy pnths." 
 
SERMON. 
 
 Ephesians IV. 13 : — " Till we all cmtie, in the unity of the 
 faith, and of the knowledge of Ute Son of God, unto a j^erfect 
 man, unto thn measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.'' 
 
 I iDUst crave your indulgence, my brethren, in having un<ler- 
 taken, at very short notice and amidst many engagements, to 
 ad<lress you on this important occasion. I am, however, moved 
 to comply with the request by the consideration that this may 
 be one of the very few opportunities remaining which may be 
 allowed me at the close of a long Episcopate. There is, however, 
 a sense in which I need no apology. For I come to you with a 
 heart full of vsympathy for what is to me a deep sorrow, and with 
 a due regard to the difficulties of your position, in which a false 
 step may prove of lasting injury to the Church. England 
 expects you to do something worthy of a great deliberative 
 body, practically independent, yet by your own action morally 
 and religiously bound to her Creeds, her Articles, and her Ordi- 
 nal. Your position is one of great seriousness. It requires 
 great firmness, with a charitable feeling to every member of the 
 Church. It demands earnest prayer for the guidance of that 
 Divine Head, who will prosper His own handiwork if we only 
 act on Apostolical principles, with a strong sense of religious duty. 
 Ours is no scheming political party • it is for us to follow simply 
 the guidance of our Master, as far as we can trace His loving, 
 tender hand. 
 
 It would detain you far too long were' I to attempt to enter 
 into the details of the last hundred years, to which we look back 
 with thankfulness and wonder. This has been done fully by the 
 Secretary of the venerable Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel, and I hope all of us have read and pondered over that 
 most interesting statement of facts. 1 shall call your attention 
 chiefly to the following points : the extreme feebleness of the 
 Colonial Church at its beginning ; the marvellous success which 
 has attended its progress, notwithstanding many hindrances ; 
 and the anxieties and duties which press upon the present 
 generation of Churchmen. 
 
 Here we must cast a backward glance at that unhappy time, 
 when every effoit to furnish the Church with the integrity of 
 her divine constitution was made in vain. Again and again was 
 
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 the petition otTore<l : again and again was the request refused. 
 Scanty bands of Missionaries without Dioceses, without Confirm- 
 ations, with no power of organizing, no coherence, no drawing 
 towards a common centre of unity, no facility for Ordination ; — 
 all these evils were duly represented, but were thrown into the 
 waste-basket of official inditFerence ; and the Order which the 
 Divine Mc*ster founded, and His Apostles planted, was supposed 
 to bo a dangerous enemy to the Mother-State. Alas ! how blind 
 are worldly, scheming men to the State's real danger, and to those 
 spiritual interests which are intended for the safety, not the 
 destruction, of the commonwealth. The statesmen of England 
 slept till the loss of their magnificent colony aroused them 
 fiercely from their dreams. They came with the sword to subdue 
 a colony, and they left it a nation ; smarting under a sense of 
 injustice, burning with a desire of revenge. And when the noble- 
 hearted Seabury htuitened in person to press his petition on 
 behalf of the Church, how tardily and ungraciously was his 
 request admitted ! How sore and sick was that undaunted heart 
 with hope deferred and expectation thwarted, till at the last 
 that painful reproach was wrung from him, " This is the worst 
 place for doing any business that I have ever seen." 
 
 The same fate awaited that faithful soldier of the cross, 
 Charles Inglis. What a mockery of sound reason and sober 
 sense was his appointment to the Episcopate, when as the reward 
 of his loyalty to the Crown, one single Bishop was supposed 
 capable of presiding over all the Churchmen scattered over all 
 the possessions of British North America. That one strong man 
 was faithful in his day. When a hundred soldiers with muskets 
 loaded, and with bayonets fixed, came to disturb him at his 
 prayers, he only raised his voice the louder and beheld them 
 with no trembling glance, that every one might hear and see 
 that prayers are borne on angels' wings to the throne of the Most 
 High, anci that whoever else shook with fear, that man was not 
 Charles Inglis. That one strong man was left to guide the helm 
 alone, with duties assigned him which he could not possibly dis- 
 charge. Now dim tradition pictures him slowly sailing up the 
 River St. John, in a small schooner, baffled by winds, and camp- 
 ing out at night, till he could reach at length the central post. 
 With few confirmed here and there, a small band of Missionaries 
 planted, he returns without visiting the huge continent which 
 lay beyond his powers. Surely the system, not the man, was at 
 fault. 
 
 And now let me call to mind some of the hindrances as 
 well as the successes which have marked our path. I do not 
 
speak of the ditiiculties iiieident to travelling in those early 
 days, but of hindrances to spiritual growth. English statesmen 
 seem to have thought of a Bishop only as an officer of State, a 
 useful potentate to bo respected, not a primitive Bishop, mixing 
 with the people of his charge, assisted and supported by his 
 flock. This unprimitive method of dealing with the Episcopate 
 may account in some meastire for our want of success, and 
 the great progress of other religious bodies of Christians. 
 Not only did they dislike and misunderstand our Prayer-book, 
 and our services, but a Bishop was supposed to be a State 
 officer, foreign to their conceptions. Fifty years after ihe 
 original appointment, Bishop John Inglis perceived the necessity 
 of a general contribution of Church members to all Church 
 objects ; lest, if England should withdraw her aid, the Church 
 should fall to pieces for want of general support. His idea 
 was an excellent one, but it is not even now perfectly under- 
 stood and appreciated. There still lingers in men's minds 
 the old notion, of a Church paid by Government, and founded 
 by the State. Had the Church acted on the Apostolical principle, 
 that all who enjoy the privileges of the Gospel must contribute 
 according to their ability to support it, the Church would have 
 struck deeper root. 
 
 Again, it was thought fitting that those who had loyally 
 fought for the Crown should secure for themselves and their 
 families all the offices and pecuniary benefits which the State 
 had to bestow. Hence the Church became identified with a 
 party, and its original and Apostolical foundation was by many 
 entirely forgotten. Thus a certain narrowness of view proved 
 a considerable hindrance to spiritual life and progress. Dissent 
 was supposed to take the popular side, and the Church was 
 thought to be less wide, and more exclusive than her neighbours, 
 though when the case is fairly stated, it was far otherwise. 
 Yet in spite of these and other hindrances, God has blessed us 
 with success. The Episcopate is better understood, the Clergy 
 have multiplied, and our Missions are better supported. Above 
 all, spiritual life has increased in the hearts of our people, and 
 the value of our Services and our Sacraments is more fully 
 realized bv our members. Much has been lost, but 'not all. 
 Much has been gained, but not all that might have been won. 
 Success has not been commensurate with our privileges, but more 
 than our sins and our shortcomings deserved. 
 
 But I pass on to speak of our manifold duties to the Church, 
 and to each other. How solemn is it to stand, as at this time, 
 \r^ the grave of our honoured Bishop ! How tremendous is the 
 
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 responsibility of electing a successor ! How needful is it that all 
 should be controlled by a high sense of our religious duty when 
 the power of nomination and election is placed in our hands ! 
 For it is hard to come to a Synod with a sense of power, and 
 yet to feel inwardly constrained to exercise it " with meek- 
 ness and with fear." 
 
 Whether, as in my own case, and that of our departed father 
 in God, the nomination and election were made by the Archbishop 
 and the Chief Minister of the Crown, or whether thev were made 
 by the action of the Church at larj^e represented in Synod, we 
 must not forget that the Church alone consecrates to the office. 
 Through her Bishops she gives Mission and Jurisdiction. Through 
 her Bishops she gives letters of Institution. Through her Bisn- 
 ops she carries on the line, — the strand is joined by " three at the 
 least," — and in her Ordinal she plainly and fearlessly proclaims 
 that " it is evident unto all men, diligently reading the Holy 
 Scriptures and ancient authors, that from the Apostles' time 
 there have been three Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church : 
 Bishops, Priests, and Deacons ;" and in fulfilling this charge, we 
 believe that we are carrying out the order of the Apostles, as 
 well as following the common usage of the Church, when we say, 
 " Take thou authority to execute the office of a Deacon in the 
 Church of God ;" " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and 
 work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee 
 by the imposition of our hands ;" " Receive the Holy Ghost for 
 the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now com- 
 mitted unto thee by the imposition of our hands." Thus ever 
 since, as before the Reformation, the work has gone on, " from 
 deacon to deacon, from Priest to Priest, from Bishop to Bishop, 
 and this solemn ordinance has been given, taken and received." 
 
 While, then, we avoid and repudiate certain errors, whether 
 of excess or defect, which it is not necessary now to dwell upon, 
 we venture to join hands with a Clement, an Irenreus, a Cyprian, 
 an Augustine, a Leo in the West ; with an Ignatius, a Chrysostom, 
 a Basil in the East: and while we thankfully recognize our 
 English nationality, and our loyalty to the Queen, we embrace 
 with all our hearts our brethren across the border, and rejoice in 
 the true -brotherhood of an united Episcopate. 
 
 Here, then, we stand to-day, in the presence of Almighty God, 
 to encourage and strengthen each other, in the hope that our 
 work will not return unto us void, but that it shall prosper in 
 that for which God has sent it. If differences of opinion arise, 
 ^e believe that they will be overruled for good ; the clergy and 
 laity will join hand to hand in promoting the end which is bene- 
 
ficial to both. Como what will, our purpose is never to surrender 
 aught of our trust — never, for tlie sake of popularity or to gain 
 some temporal advantage, to mutilate or to abandon our Book of 
 Common Prayer, but rather to increase in love for it as age 
 increases, and to yield due obedience to its commands, as founded 
 on the inspired Word of God ; more and more conscious of our 
 infirmities and shortcomings, and humbly hoping for forgiveness 
 through the one perfect sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction of 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 And now that we may look back not fifty but a hundred 
 years, to the time when God mercifully overruled the passions 
 of men to the praise of His Holy Name, surely we may say, 
 " Glorious things are spoken of thee, thou city of (iod, and of 
 Zion it shall be said. This man was born in her, and the Most 
 High shall stablish her, all my fresh springs are in thee." We 
 lay the stone this day of a Cathedral Church as the centre of 
 our hopes, as the sign and symbol of that precious corner-stone 
 once and forever laid by the Ma»ter-Builder. But let us not 
 forget that not the material building only, but the Truth which 
 the material building represents and emphasises, is to be built 
 up by us and by our children afterwainls. 
 
 We build in UNITY which is our strong rock and house of 
 defence. We build in Peace, for the accomplishment of which 
 we daily pray. We build in Reverence, for His Name is holy. 
 We build in Love, or our efforts will be vain. We build, or 
 ought to build, in a wise, well-considered adaptation of the design 
 to our means to the needs of the Diocese, to the wishes of tne 
 Clergy, to the desires of our members at large. We build in the 
 concord of many hearts, by the liberality of large and abundant 
 gifts, according to the measure of the stature of the fulness 
 of Christ. 
 
 "Till we all come, happy, if far distant day, when in 
 the unity of the faith, in the knowledge of what we now see 
 dimly and in part, in the perfection of Christian manhood, in 
 the completion of growth to which the Lord himself submitted, 
 when nothing shall be wanting, nothing left undone, our work 
 shall be finished, and our warfare accomplished in the presence, 
 and everlasting glory of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 Now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy 
 Ghost, one undivided and glorious Trinity, he power, praise, and 
 glory now, henceforth and forever. Amen. 
 
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 earth can be consumed, the thief can steal them, and the moth cor-' 
 nipt and destroy. But Christian love and truth and hope, are all the 
 more precious for passing through the fire. Their lustre is ever 
 fresh, and their joy unutterable. 
 
 How can those be called possessions which the fire can rid us of, 
 which perish in the using ? How can those be called possessions, 
 which are accompanied with so many alloys, thorns, and inconveni- 
 ences ? If our speculations fail, wf: are pressed down by d<ibt ; if 
 we suddenly grow rich, we are besieged with a multitude of gjeedy, 
 importunate applicants ; if we have many children, they all exi)ect to 
 be maintained in idleness, and to begin life where their fathers ended 
 it ; if we have no family, we seem to be toiling for some distant heir, 
 who loves us not; if. our riches are unjustly gotten, our pillow is 
 strewn with thorns, and our conscience laden with reproaches ; and 
 if we have no solid and refined education, unmeaning luxury, and 
 vulgar waste, are neither a benefit to the mind, nor a comfort to the 
 body. 
 
 O ! the heavenly blessing of contentment in every station in which 
 God has placed us ; the blessing of imparting to the honest poor, 
 what is in our power to give; of not hasting to be rich, "by any 
 means, good or evil ; of being able to lie down in peace and say, 
 Thanks to my Heavenly Father, I owe no man anything but to love 
 him. I need never meet my creditor in the street, and run to the 
 opposite side, because I cannot discharge my just debts. If I had 
 all some men have, or are supposed to have, I might be no happier 
 than I may be now, and should have more to answer for. Soon 
 shall I have nothing left but a shroud, my coverlet will be a narrow 
 bed of earth ; therefore, O my God, make me satisfied with the portion 
 thou' allottest me ; give me a calm and thankful heart ; religious 
 and reasonable desires ; honesty, prudence, and simplicity ; a guile- 
 less soul ; a quiet, trusting spirit, that I may find all I need, desire, 
 and hope for, in Thee. 
 
 If these heavenly riches go with us out of the world, then shall we 
 be rich "beyond the dreams of avarice." No earthly pomp may 
 follow us to the grave, no laboured inscription may record our vir- 
 tues ; but those precious words, " To-day shalt thou be with me in 
 Paradise," will reveal our everlasting wealth. All that is pure and 
 lovely, kind and generous and noble, will be there : all the dear lost